Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2007

The Washington Post is saying, this morning:

As they prepare to take control of Congress this week and face up to campaign pledges to restore bipartisanship and openness, Democrats are planning to largely sideline Republicans from the first burst of

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2007

go and read this.

And if that isn’t the impression they were trying to leave, the error that ABC made in this case is reprehensible.

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2007

If we’re to take the reports from AP at face value, it would appear that Jamil Hussein, That mysterious, erstwhile “informed source” over in Iraq …. the one who fed the Associated Press (by their claim, at least) a long

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2007

Perhaps, Billy.

look, this isn’t fully thought through, so if this comes out a little sideways, forgive…

But as somebody who comes from a sales background, as an adjunct to my broadcast career, (what is broadcasting, but sales, after all?

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davidl on January 1st, 2007

Who owns American English?

In the morning fish wrapper, I read a version of this article suggesting the banning of several words.  I was tempted to give the LSSU professors the esteemed BB award.  Yet the perfessors at LSSU

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2007

Once again, we see the only language the extremists within Islam understand: Power.

KISMAYO, Somalia -AP- Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian tanks and fighter jets captured the last major stronghold of a militant Islamic movement Monday, while hundreds of

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2007

Andy McCarthy…

The Times is flat dishonest in its campaign against subjecting enemy combatants to military proceedings, which the Grey Lady passes off as a page-one news article.  Correspondent Tim Golden writes:

Under a law passed by Congress and

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2007

Some added pictures from the New Years Day celebrations over Niagara Falls, last night.

Sorry I was so brief in my description last night, as you can imagine I was rather tired.  I should make mention that these were taken

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davidl on January 1st, 2007

Eliot SpitzerShortly after midnight (EST) the zenith of Eliot Spitzer’s tenure as governor of New York State was attained.  Spitzer was sworn into office.   It is all down hill from here. Joe Mahoney of the New York Daily News has story

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Eric Florack on January 1st, 2007

We’ve been doing this every year, now for many years… going off on a near-midnight ramble to Niagara Falls to watch the fireworks display.

This year, unlike previous years, it rained.  50° outside.

Foreigner was playing in queen Victoria park,

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