Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Pravda West, otherwise known as the WaPo is amazingly reporting something positive about President Bush. Only reason I can think of that they’d do such a thing is that they don’t consider that it’s all that positive a thing…. (Actually

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

AP- WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday rejected compromise offers that would allow minority Democrats to continue to block judicial nominees, saying all of President Bush’s past and future court choices deserve confirmation votes from the GOP-controlled

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Captain’s Quarters note this morning that there’s a rather large hole in the report we were all fed yesterday about there being no weapons sent to Syria.  As I noted on OTB yesterday… seems to me they’d forgotten about that

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2005

Austin Bay Blog notes a report at the CBC which pases on some quotes from Canadian ambassador to Denmark Alfonso Gagliano, who says in part:

“The separation of Quebec from Canada is not stoppable,’ Alfonso Gagliano told Radio-Canada. “He’s going

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2005

Tim from Portland west, reminds me of another cancer survivor…Tony Snow is back on the radio… this being his second day. Says he’s feeling fine.

That pleases me no end… I’ve always rather liked that chap.

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2005

I’m seeing (thusfar unconfirmed) rumblings that Voinovich will now vote for Bolton and that the ads against him have been pulled.

Speculation: This is beginning to sound like he wanted some stroking.

More as I find.

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2005

KJL has sad news to pass along:

I’m keeping Laura Ingraham in my prayers and I know a lot of you will want to too. She found out Friday that she has breast cancer and will be operated on today.

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2005

INteresting comments from Michial Novak this morning on The Corner:

“If God is dead,” a brother Karamazov said, “everything is permitted.” Well, obviously there are atheists who have a strongly reasoned, and as they see it “objective” moral code

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2005

Jon over at Q & O has (correctly) decided there is a war for the hearts and minds of America.. Then he tries to identify who is fighting for what, puts his uniquely keen mind to the task and leaps

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Eric Florack on April 26th, 2005

The Astute Blogger lives up to his name, this morning.

“I betchya that IRAQ – rife with neojihadist and neobaathist terror and nagged by lingering ethnic divisions (between Sunni Arabs, Sunni Kurdish, Shia and the Turkmen), and trying democracy for

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2005

John Leo argues that “Justice Sunday” will only add to polarization. Frankly, given the majority we now have, I fail to see how that is a problem. Such polarization would only reinforce how far out of the mainstream the ACLU

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2005

I’ve always found Chris Dodd’s seemingly going to bat for the Turtle Bay Crime Family, (TM) otherwise laughingly known as the “United Nations” amusing. But I’d like to make note of something that Novak mentions, almost in passing, in his

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WASHINGTON(Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans have the votes to ban any more Democratic procedural roadblocks against President Bush’s judicial nominees, a top Republican said on Sunday.

Interesting.
Reid put out a statement before the message died trying to put

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2005

Andrew Stuttaford makes note of the BBC doing what state run Broadcasters do best… Leaning left in it’s reportage.

“The BBC was last night plunged into a damaging general election row after it admitted equipping three hecklers with microphones and

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2005

Outside The Beltway notes that Rummy showed up at the Opry last night. Apparently, he got a good reception from the gathering.

This one oughta be a clue for the Democrats;

Country music is demographically, the biggest thing in the

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