Eric Florack on May 9th, 2005

Richard Nikoley has some thoughts on “Culturism”

Interesting he’s coming to the same conclusion I wrote up years ago.

BBC tip to Billy, who apparently is also (finally) starting to understand that argument.

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Eric Florack on May 8th, 2005

Here we go again:

“Just now on ABC’s ‘This Week’, Sam Donaldson sneered at George Bush for tagging FDR with his complicity at Yalta for the disaster that overwhelmed eastern Europe at the end of World War II. Donaldson

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Eric Florack on May 8th, 2005

Billy has some problems With Dale Franks suggesting that First, Socialism is an economic system, and is not particularly related to a particular tax system.”

I’m not sure, here, Billy. I’ve gotta tell ya that I’ve always considered that socialism

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Eric Florack on May 7th, 2005

Yeah, Billy… That Jetlag’s a BITCH.

I’ve only done West Coast time, never having traveled outside North America.  4 hours was anough to screw my clock up for a few days. The kind of time shifts you describe… well… thanks,

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

Lowry at NR’s Corner:

From almost any conservative angle, Britain’s election result is disappointing.

From the standpoint of a British conservative, the Tory party lost a third election and gained very little ground — less than 1 percent of the

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

NPR’s Jeffrey Dvorkin is in full butt-kissing mode, here:

First, it is essential to report on government documents. But in this case, publishing the unedited report (albeit unintentionally) could have — and could yet — threaten peoples’ lives. There are

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

Dennis Prager tosses one out,and likely ticks off the Randian sects among us:

In the Judeo-Christian value system, God is the source of moral values and therefore what is moral and immoral transcends personal or societal opinion. Without God, each

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

It’s with respect that I note the passing of Col. David H. Hackworth. Military.com has a nice obit.

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

Dutch national employed as a satellite-imagery analyst with UNMOVIC, the United Nations weapons inspections agency, has been detained, and was questioned. Apparently they’ve released him for the time being.

The New York police and the FBI said the man was

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

David Limbaugh speaks to a case I’ve been watching for some days now… it being just 90 miles down the road from me here, at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y…. the case of one Scott McConnell.

Scott McConnell’s apparent

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

Larry Kudlow expands on the debt going away post I put up yesterday…. well… OK, the topic, anyway…. and suggests the reason for it is simple….

… the real story behind the higher tax payment numbers is the successful supply-side

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Eric Florack on May 6th, 2005

The Scottsman… hardly a right-wing, war-mongering outlet, this… has decded to print the full text of a letter from Iraqi President
Jalal Talabani to English PM Tony Blair.

Here’s the link, but this is important enough, I think, that

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Eric Florack on May 5th, 2005

Dean’s World has a discussion going about Circumcision… The comments are coming fast and furious… and will likekly not be cut short.

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Apparently, these idiots never learn.

so peaceful, and open-minded, these Democrats.

And Cafe Pres should be ashamed of themselves.
But of course Dmeocrats are beyond shame, anyway.

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Eric Florack on May 5th, 2005

Continue reading about The Oil They Said Wasn’t There.