Eric Florack on July 25th, 2004

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It is, perhaps, fitting that this first column I’ve written directly to this new website, is being written as the Democrats are spinning up all systems in Boston for their coronation…. Errr… convention. The event, after all, provides

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2004

Instapundit gives us the lowdown on his Ketchup Taste testing results.

Amusing, Glenn, but who has to actually BUY the stuff? I’m still working on the 16,387 half-an-ounce foil packets I’ve been collecting over the last two years from various

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2004

WaPo: Millicent Kondracke Dies:

“Millicent Martinez Kondracke, 64, a psychotherapist whose struggle with Parkinson’s disease was chronicled in a book by her journalist husband, died July 22 at her home in Washington of complications due to her illness. ”

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2004

NY Sun today comes up with a rather interesting read of a part of the 9/11 commission report that doesn’t show in the summary:

” In August of 2000, Mr. Berger was presented with another possible plan for attacking Mr.

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2004

Mona Charen: Democrats fight dirty

Mona’s worth your time always, but particularly today.

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2004

As fair a microcosm for environmental arguments as you’d want, is up over at Dan Drezner’s, with my comments to that thread posted here.

The topic s policy to reverse global warming.
I’m skeptical, to say the least,

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2004

For a long time, now, I’ve used as a part of my header, and my tagline, a saying:

Remember; those who tolerate everything, stand for nothing. What do YOU stand for?

Apparently a corollary of this is ‘Bipastisan stands for

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Eric Florack on July 23rd, 2004

An interesting thought by way of E-mail. (I do get them, you know… in amongst all the hate mail, the spam, and so on, occasionally comes an interesting idea…)

Says my reader, calling himself GC:

“Let’s try a quote from

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2004

Then, there’s the story about the poor guy in Boston, one Mark F. Pasquale, whose Pizza shop… HalfTime Pizza, which is across from the Fleet Center, who kinda figured on making Pizza for the Donkey convention hand over fist. No

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2004

McQ over at QandO quotes an AP article on the 9/11 commission report:

“The highly anticipated report provided new details on contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida, noting that Osama bin Laden began exploring a possible alliance in the early 1990s.

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2004

Instapundit notes just now that he…

” got an email from a journalist asking me to assess Bill Keller’s Times so far. I’d say the answer is — not really any better than under Howell Raines.”

Big freakin shock, Glenn.

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2004

Instapundit suggests”

If I were Karl Rove, I’d encourage Republicans to counter this by prefacing all comments on the report with something like this: “In light of the ongoing criminal investigation involving charges that former Kerry foreign policy adviser Sandy

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2004

AP has an interesting report about it.
I’ll comment as I get a chance to digest it all.

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2004

Martin Peretz over at TNR:

The tale spun by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that Iraq did not ever try to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger is now in the process of unraveling. And, of course, the phalanx of anti-war journalists

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Eric Florack on July 22nd, 2004

Thanks to a suggestion from Q&O’s Jon Henke, (and some quick coding work from yours, truly…) Trackback is now online.

Thanks, Jon.

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