Eric Florack on May 24th, 2005

AP is moving a story I found on the ABC site that says in part:

WASHINGTON May 24, 2005 — The Senate voted Tuesday to end years of delaying tactics that blocked the nomination of Priscilla Owen to a federal

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Eric Florack on May 24th, 2005

Nice to see Rip Vap Musil waking from a long slumber. He’s got a great post on the Nuclear Senate deal today.

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Eric Florack on May 24th, 2005

Keith Thompson writes a really fine article in the SanFranChron today:

I’m leaving the left — more precisely, the American cultural left and what it has become during our time together.

I choose this day for my departure because I

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Eric Florack on May 24th, 2005

Boortz had some news this morning:

Back in the 2004 campaign, John Kerry released some of his Military records on his website…and promptly pretended that they were all there.  The truth was he selectively posted the records that made him

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Eric Florack on May 24th, 2005

Without looking below the surface, it’s kinda hard to call a specific winner, here. Seems clear to me the Democrats backed off to reach this agreement, when they really didn’t have to…  or at least that would be my read

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Eric Florack on May 24th, 2005

Channel 3 says:

“ROCHESTER, N.Y. President Bush is headed to a Rochester suburb this morning to discuss his ideas for reforming the nation’s Social Security system.”

Yep… my home town.
The President is appearing at a new Performing Arts

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The Radio Equalizer points up a “Talkers” article, which reports that Err America hasn’t been able to even beat the bottom feeders in talk radio.. He suggests this is indicative of more problems for leftist talkradio.

I concur.

By the

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Eric Florack on May 23rd, 2005

The Running Conservative hasn’t had a good deal of good vibe of late.

Last week, it was her grandmother.
This week, a couple of close freinds, by way of an auto accident.
All I can do is wish her better.

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Eric Florack on May 23rd, 2005

Chrenkoff has part 28 in his ongoing series.

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Eric Florack on May 23rd, 2005

Lonsberry points out that the pictures of Saddam in his BVD’s show us several things that are less then obvious:

They show a healthy man.

He doesn’t have any bruises. He doesn’t have any broken bones. He is being well

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Eric Florack on May 23rd, 2005

McQ At Q&O over the weekend, asks an interesting question. He cites the case of one Luis Posada Carriles, wanted in a 1976 Cuban airliner bombing.

So what have we snagged here? A terrorist plane bomber?

Well sorta. You see

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Eric Florack on May 22nd, 2005

You know your blog has made it when you ahve no less than 6 different mailed references to other poeple’s blogs.

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Eric Florack on May 21st, 2005

It’s a real problem if our press shows pics of Saddam in his FruitOfTheLooms.

But it’s OK to repeatedly show pics of victims being beheaded?

Perhaps it’s just me… but is something a little out of whack, here?

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2005

I have had problems With Telegraph writer Tom Utley in the past… and in fact I’m a little put off by his headline here… “How strange to find Christians who practise what they preach ”

However, read the story. In

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2005

FOXNews says:

WASHINGTON — A U.S. congressional committee has drafted a bill that threatens to withhold tens of millions of dollars in dues from the United Nations (search) unless the world body conducts wide-ranging reforms, possibly setting the stage for

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