Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

“LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) –: An aspiring physicist was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Monday and ordered to pay $3.5 million for his role in a spree of arson and vandalism that targeted gas-guzzling Hummers

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Eric Florack on April 21st, 2005

BBC NEWS (alog with everyone else… it just happened to be on the top of the search engine) is saying this morning that

The 67-year-old actress was in Kansas City as part of a book-signing tour for her new autobiography

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Patrick at OxBlog is apparently a bit more unbalanced than I’d noted previously. He’s planning a trip, he says.

in summer of 2006 I’m planning to celebrate long-overdue completion of my D.Phil. and a numerologically significant birthday by driving the

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Republican ad for 2006:

(Video and audio fade in, tape of Howard Dean, doing his “I have a scream speech”)

(Tape runs a few seconds.)

Voice over: ” Do you really want this guy telling you what is and is

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Chrenkoff comments on the irony involved in the left wailing about…..

….a “missed opportunity” to elect a representative of the developing world (most likely a Latin American) who would have a better understanding and better outreach to the world’s poor.

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Jason Hayes suggested last night that

He’s Catholic, he’s conservative and he’s German.

Throw in the fact that he’s pro-life and I give it a week before someone in the MSM or the Democratic Party calls him a Nazi.

Of

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Orin Kerr seems to think it amusing that Tom Delay doens’t think much of Justice Kennedy’s use of international law to decide cases.

I’ve got a new flash for you, Orin… MOST people don’t like his doing that, either. Do

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Eric Florack on April 20th, 2005

Yes, I’ve seen it.
As to what I tihnk, it was a bad move. THe Republicans let themselves get suckered, here, by the left… These ‘accusations’ come from a political activist against W…. Gee… ya think she might have political

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election.

Which

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

The Register is reporting:

A statement from NHS Connecting for Health said: “David Kwo, regional implementation director for the NHS Connecting for Health London cluster, was suspended from duty on Thursday, 14 April to enable an investigation into certain allegations

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

Chrenkoff notes that Canada wasn’t the only one directing illegal money toward leftist political parties. Seems France was into it at about the same time. Perhaps now we better understand what motivated Chirac…. Errr… Chrétien, oui?

Captain Ed… Take note…..

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

Engadget has the ultimate in shopping carts designed for the residency challanged. Rush Limbaugh, are you paying attention? This deserves a homeless update.

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

Brian Anderson in today’s LA Times:

Wait a second, you say, didn’t I read that Air America has expanded to more than 50 markets? That’s true, but let’s put things in perspective: Conservative pundit and former Reagan official William J.

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

Right Wing Balance has a top-notch article up today you want to read about the CBC. Not unlike our own PBS/NPR, the CBC operates as a government paid for leftist cheering section.

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Eric Florack on April 19th, 2005

Jeffrey Bell, in next Monday’s issue of the WEEKLY STANDARD makes the case for Tom DeLay;

DeLay is the most important of a small but growing group of conservative leaders who are willing and able to operate without permission or

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