Eric Florack on April 1st, 2005

Another example of the kind of lies coming from the Canadian government of late:

Stockholm — Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was savagely beaten, tortured and raped while in Iranian custody in 2003, according to an emergency-room doctor who examined her

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2005

NY TIMES; WASHINGTON, March 31 – Samuel R. Berger, a national security adviser to President Bill Clinton, has agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge and give up his security clearance for three years for removing classified material from

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2005

Hitachi has the 500 gig drive… and the details…. (PDF)

At a buck a gig, it’s a little rich, but then again, the leading edge generally is.
I’ll tell ya this; if I’m going THAT being, I’m going for the

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2005

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2005

James Ridgeway argues that the Shaivo case may not be the political negative the Democrats were hoping. He notes that…

…Daniel Henninger wrote in Friday’s Wall Street Journal: “Democrats and others have accused Republicans and President Bush of playing politics

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2005

Mark Noonan at GOP Bloggers

According to this news report, the human race has used up 2/3 of the world’s natural resources.  The prescription offered, of course, is greater environmental controls, yadda, yadda, yadda…whatever.  If we’ve really used up

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2005

Ann Coulter: :

“On the bright side, after two weeks of TV coverage of the Terri Schiavo case, I think we have almost all liberals in America on record saying we can pull the plug on them. Of course, if

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2005

As a PC support professional, I find stories of reactions to breakdowns interesting… such as this one from MSNBC

The Ontrack study results parallel a study conducted recently by the University of Maryland’s Laboratory for Automation Psychology and Decision Processes.

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2005

Left Behind says there’s a huge story going on in the middle east you’re not being told about.

Scores of Muslims are converting to evangelical Christianity and will be celebrating their first Easter this year, even amidst widespread persecution and

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2005

I have recieved many, many notes in E-mail, passing along sympathies over the passing of my mother-in-law from BitsBlog readers.

For both Donna and myself, I thank you.  Your support means a great deal to us.

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2005

Jane Ann Galt over at Asymmetrical Information notes a post over at Crooked TImber which advocates a European-style paid parental leave system CT defends this nonsense by making light of the percentage of the financial impact:

The experience of parental

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Eric Florack on March 28th, 2005

Sorry, guys. Events in my personal life, have pushed blogging off the map for Monday and most of Tuesday, though I expect I’ll have comments on the day’s events on Tuesday afternoon and evening.

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Eric Florack on March 27th, 2005

I’m sorry to say, I have some sad news for my readers, today.

My mother in law has passed on, on Friday night.

Even while she was dying, we were forced by events to watch the situation in Florida unfold,

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Eric Florack on March 25th, 2005

Long time readers to this site will have noticed that I’ve been somewhat more … how do I say this… In pain, I guess is the best way to say it.  This last week has been particularly painful for my

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Eric Florack on March 25th, 2005

Thoughtful stuff from Thomas Sowell this morning.

Unfortunate, isn’t it, that thoughtful doesn’t matter in our judicial system, hmm?

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