Eric Florack on June 6th, 2005

I was reminded by a reader over the weekend that a year has passed since President Reagan’s death.

This week’s Bit’s Bit has some of my thoughts from that day, and some comments on it from today, as well.

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Eric Florack on June 6th, 2005

It was a year ago, today, that I wrote:


Today, we were greeted with the sad news, that The Gipper, the Greatest President of the 20th century, Ronald Reagan, is gone from us.

Today, we remember a man, whose mind

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Eric Florack on June 6th, 2005

Today, there’s two stories suggesting trouble in doggieland:

The Detroit Free Press is the first, this morning:

Democrats Joseph Biden and John Edwards say party chairman Howard Dean's rhetorical attacks on Republicans have gone too far.

Dean "doesn't speak for

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2005

This AP story exemplifies the duplicity in the press on the Iraqi WMD business rather well.

UNITED NATIONS - U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2005

From the “Whatever happned to ” file, we’ve heard form Melenie Safka, via Melanie’s News, which advises she’s got a new CD coming out on June the 28th. Apparently, this is the first since the August 2002 release of

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2005

Eject! Eject! Eject! goes long on, among other topics, why illegal comabtants are NOT prisoners of war, and why they are not, thereby covered under the Geneva Conventions. A worthy read.

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2005

Tomas Kohl looks at the EU’s defeat and has some potent comments.

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2005

Krispy Kreme is apparently celebrating Doughnut day by giving away one of your choice of doughnuts, (limit one per cust, apparently) all day, today.

Here’s the press release.

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2005

With apoligies to Vince Gill….Boortz today reaffirms what I said, yesterday.. that this Mark Felt press orgy is setting up an attack on President Bush.

We're already seeing rumblings of the Next Big Thing for the Democratic Party. It's

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2005

INDC Journal: INDC this morning, addresses the real situation at Gitmo…

Americans are very kind people," one English-challenged detainee said in the March 4 paper. "If people say there is mistreatment in Cuba with the detainees, those type speaking are

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2005

If all men were created equal, Smilin' Bob wouldn't be making a fortune for the makers of Enzite.

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2005

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE has a list up, of the “Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries”

And frankly, I’d shuffle tyem around a bit wihtin the list, but they’ve clearly picked the right books to put in

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2005

The WaTi is reporting today that the France and the Dutch voting against the EU constitution, is having an interesting effect on the US Dollar;

The euro dipped below $1.22 in New York trading yesterday, an eight-month low. The currency

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2005

Slant Point points up something going on down in Ithaca, NY… at the Wal-Mart… Apparently someone set up a home-made bomb in the place.

And yes, I’d call it Domestic Terrorism.

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2005

Peggy Noonan has a new one up this morning. She’s always worth a read, of course, but today she hits on a topic I’ve been thinking about the last few days:

Mark Felt. Was he the hero the press is

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