Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2003

In case you’ve not heard from our usual news suspects, there’s a revolution going on in Liberia.  Our president, George W. Bush has been asking Charles Taylor, the President there to step down. Thus far, the request has been refused.

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Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2003

Salon is in debt… bigtime. Here’s the figures

— By way of Drudge…

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Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2003

You’ll recall I promised to keep you up to date on the outrage at Oxford.
Here’s an update on that.

Isn’t it amazing how a New York Times writer, Diana Jean Schemo has to go outside the Times to get

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Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2003

Jeff Rosen in The New Republic this morning, makes an excellent case against the Lawrence case in Texas; one of the better ones I’ve seen. Interestingly, he makes the same comments as regards judicial activism as I did a few

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Eric Florack on July 2nd, 2003

An interesting article this mornng from the Telegraph.  Among other things, the writer, Janet Daley, points up the prevailing attitude at the BBC:

What is most disturbing about encounters with BBC current affairs people is not that one has disagreements

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An interesting take from Mona Charen today.

There’s a number of people who think (As usual) that it’s all the Bush administration’s fault. Charen, though takes a different view, and, unlike the usual idiots in the Bush Bashing camp, what

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2003

The 9th Circus court has come up with a ruling I’m not convnced is a fully GOOD thing.
I have to think about this one a bit.

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2003

I commented the other day that Andrew Sullivan has it part-right, but tends to get bogged down in homosexual politics, as regards little things like, well, logic, for example. An understandable situation, but none the less one that skews his

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2003

Stephen Moore… a far smarter gent than his grossly overweight and underbrained leftist namesake, has come up with an excellent way to both solve a chuck of our fiscal problems and our legal problems as well.. Soak the hell

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Eric Florack on July 1st, 2003

In last Saturday’s BITHEAD’S BIT, I suggested:

*Such an interest is by no means a constitutional argument, but rather, a political argument… and a short-term political argument at that.  Even the key vote in this case, Justice Sandra Day

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2003

RICHARD SPERTZEL who was head of the biological-weapons section of Unscom from 1994-99, writes essentially; Of course Iraq had banned weapons, lots of them, and of course the UN wasn’t going to find them.

Despite the recent discovery of plans

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2003

From the opinion Journal today:

Karl Rove must be jumping for joy. Apart from the Sharptonkucinichmoseleybraun also-rans, Dean is the best opponent the Republicans could possibly hope for. Can anyone imagine such an intemperate lefty winning a single “red” state?

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2003

A reader in Florida just forwarded me a note, telling me about how Ann Coulter was being asked on “the View” if she had ever seen two women having sex.  Says our Annie: “Not since I saw Katie Couric interview

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2003

Andrew Sullivan has it part-right…(He usually does have it at least part right)… when he speaks of Judge Scalia. He says, in part:

JUDICIAL TEMPERAMENT: It’s odd, isn’t it, that in Supreme Court debates, we always hear an enormous amount

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Eric Florack on June 30th, 2003

Mona Charen’s new column is up on JWR. It’s almost a perfect follow on to my comments of the other day regarding illegal immigration. It’s well written, and cuts right to the heart of the matter.

With California reporting it’s

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