Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

To my delight, Bainbridge gets in Conason’s face on Yalta and confirms portions of my previous posts on topic: (emph is mine)

As for Conason’s claim that only someone like “noted fabulist Ann Coulter” could have come up with President

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

Paul over at Power Line takes on Ed Whelan at NRO

In general, the Supreme Court has been getting more mileage than it deserves out of its decision in Brown. To its credit, the Supreme Court got on the right

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

JunkYardBlog slices up Josh Marshell for a double standard applied.

Two years ago Marshall believed that the US decision to leave eastern Europe in the USSR’s hands was a “great betrayal,” and that it was “shameful.” “Inevitable,” yes, but still

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

Slant Point says Ed Cox will run against Hillary Clinton in ’06.

Given my earlier post on Hillary, he may have an easier time of it than most.

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

AOL news (As in Time Warner, of all people) passes on some interesting news on the PETA front: Peta Kills Animals.

Between 1998 and 2003, PETA put to death over 10,000 dogs, cats, and other creatures that the group publicly

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FOXNews.com is saying, from Zion Ill:

The man charged with stabbing his young daughter and her best friend to death was denied bond Wednesday during a court hearing. Authorities said he confessed to the crimes in videotaped interviews.

Jerry Hobbs,

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution notes United Airlines dropping it’s union pension plan… and with it about 134,000 workers… and muses;

Now, let’s review.  A large organization counts on its younger workers and continuing high revenues to fund the pensions

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

Dick Morris in the NY Post, this morning:

Rosen has been indicted for deliberately reporting that the cost of an August 2000 Hollywood fund-raising gala was only $400,000 when the actual tab was $1.2 million — a step that let

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Eric Florack on May 11th, 2005

WASHINGTON —( AP )Congress has approved an additional $82 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan and to combat terrorism worldwide, boosting the cost of the global effort since 2001 to more than $300 billion.

The Senate approved the measure

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