Eric Florack on January 11th, 2005

Let me say this up front for those who don’t know, since I don’t talk about railfanning very much; I’m a railfan. I certainly don’t know nearly what people who work in that industry know about the trade, but I

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2005

Ann Coulter, today…takes up the point I made the other day about writing checks being the only part of disaster recovery that the left understands… but of course that is not the whole story.

“The U.S. did not merely

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2005

Good to see the Rightpoint blog is back.

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2005

IN case you guys didn’t see Hindrocket on Hume’s show last night…(the boy’s been practicing, by the way, I can see why Britt wants him on… he’s good) he’s got a breakout of the CBS Rathergate report, over at Power

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2005

ABC is running an AP news report that says in part:

“WASHINGTON Jan 11, 2005 – President Bush has chosen federal appeals court judge Michael Chertoff to be his new Homeland Security chief, turning to a former federal prosecutor who

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2005

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Eric Florack on January 11th, 2005

Remember Sandy “Lumpy Pants” Berger? The New York Post, does…

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Eric Florack on January 10th, 2005

John Hawkins at RWN has scored another interview with Victor Davis Hanson. Among other things, we note VDH is still feeling OK about Iraq.

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Eric Florack on January 10th, 2005

Captain’s Quarters has a link up that describes the long-awaited report from CBS on Rathergate, thusly:

It appears that the full report will give the blogosphere material for much rumination and discussion over the next few days. Whatever else, it

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Eric Florack on January 9th, 2005

The latest nonsense argument being brought up is that Armstrong Williams got paid for expressing opinions in support of the ‘No Child Left Behind act’. This, we’re being told by the left, is somewhere between blasphemy and treason.

Well, before

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Eric Florack on January 7th, 2005

Not much to report in this week’s Bit’s Bit, called Settling in for the long haul. Then again, this time of year around here, that’s the point.

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Eric Florack on January 7th, 2005

Good to see Improved Clinch back up and running on new (Spam proof?) software.

** Landed a laptop recently, and have been spending a great deal of time geting it working right. It’s not a new one; I managed to

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Eric Florack on January 7th, 2005

I think that I shall never see
a sight more forlorn than an old Christmas tree
Sitting on the curb… not green, but brown
waiting to be picked up by the town.

Well, that’s the holiday season. Kill the lights,

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Eric Florack on January 7th, 2005

Jonah Goldberg, today:

“When it was still just a rumor that Gonzales would replace John Ashcroft as attorney general, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos opined that ‘even that kind of a cosmetic change’ – appointing the first Hispanic attorney general –

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Eric Florack on January 7th, 2005

Staples has apparently backed off it’s pullout of ads on Sinclair Broadcasting stations.

Amazing how these things happen when the real public has a say in things, not just a few far left nutbags.

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