Eric Florack on April 22nd, 2005

Ah, yes that High-holy day of Anti-Americanism… “Earth day” is upon us.

I’m working today, but I plan to Celebrate Earth day tommrow.. by burning 40 gallons of gas in my Cross Country van. That’s about 800 miles of driving,

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Eric Florack on April 22nd, 2005

Captain’s Quarters has some of last night’s developments up north. The Captain’s been keeping as good an eye on things up there as anyone on the web. Go read it and then come back.

–Read it? OK….

OK, like I

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

Man Without Qualities Robert Musil, who really HAS to get his permalinks fixed in the CSS, writes today regarding the 9th Circus Circuit Court of Appeals, and how they have a tendency to get overturned 9 to nothing quite a

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

BLACKFIVE: Citizens of Maine Greet Returning Heroes

Good for these folks.
A good read.

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

You Big Mouth, You! has their final “Stingy” list update. A slap on the back for Chuck Simmons for a job well done.

By the way, stop by there and wish him well as he celebrates 4 years of blogging

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

Rep. J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) tells his district in the Sun-Times this morning what I’ve been saying for years; The Democrats are the cause of at pump prices.  A MUST READ.

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

“LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) –: An aspiring physicist was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Monday and ordered to pay $3.5 million for his role in a spree of arson and vandalism that targeted gas-guzzling Hummers

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

BBC NEWS (alog with everyone else… it just happened to be on the top of the search engine) is saying this morning that

The 67-year-old actress was in Kansas City as part of a book-signing tour for her new autobiography

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Patrick at OxBlog is apparently a bit more unbalanced than I’d noted previously. He’s planning a trip, he says.

in summer of 2006 I’m planning to celebrate long-overdue completion of my D.Phil. and a numerologically significant birthday by driving the

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Republican ad for 2006:

(Video and audio fade in, tape of Howard Dean, doing his “I have a scream speech”)

(Tape runs a few seconds.)

Voice over: ” Do you really want this guy telling you what is and is

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Chrenkoff comments on the irony involved in the left wailing about…..

….a “missed opportunity” to elect a representative of the developing world (most likely a Latin American) who would have a better understanding and better outreach to the world’s poor.

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Jason Hayes suggested last night that

He’s Catholic, he’s conservative and he’s German.

Throw in the fact that he’s pro-life and I give it a week before someone in the MSM or the Democratic Party calls him a Nazi.

Of

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Orin Kerr seems to think it amusing that Tom Delay doens’t think much of Justice Kennedy’s use of international law to decide cases.

I’ve got a new flash for you, Orin… MOST people don’t like his doing that, either. Do

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Yes, I’ve seen it.
As to what I tihnk, it was a bad move. THe Republicans let themselves get suckered, here, by the left… These ‘accusations’ come from a political activist against W…. Gee… ya think she might have political

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election.

Which

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