Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2004

You will have seen the ad; Good milk comes from happy cows, says the ad. Implication being that the weather is gentler so the cows are happy and therefore…. You get the idea.  Here’s an example. Look around a bit;

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2004

The New York Post is reporting today:

“June 22, 2004 — Fake circulation reports by Newsday and the Chicago Sun-Times have sparked questions about the entire newspaper industry and the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the group responsible for monitoring the

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Eric Florack on June 22nd, 2004

I’m still annoyed in the extreme at Christopher Hitchens for his bit on Ronald Reagan. But when such a liberal as Hitchens goes after Rotundo Moore with both barrels, you know at least it’ll be a good read:

“To describe

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2004

AP Newswire is running along with everyone else the story of a private concern putting a space plane up, and getting it back safely:

“MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) – A rocket plane soared above Earth’s atmosphere Monday in the first privately

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Eric Florack on June 21st, 2004

Jeff Jacoby says:

“TO HEAR the media tell it, virtually nothing in Iraq is going right. Suicide terrorism, Abu Ghraib, sabotaged pipelines, swelling anti-American sentiment — the coverage has focused on almost all bad news, almost all the time.”

He

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2004

AP: Kerry Took Money From Arrested Korean:

“John Kerry’s campaign collected a maximum $2,000 check from the recently arrested son of South Korea’s disgraced former president, and some of its fund-raisers met several times with a South Korean government

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Eric Florack on June 20th, 2004

New York Post Online Edition is reporting:

“June 18, 2004 — Sen. Ted Kennedy, one of America’s most prominent Catholic politicians, has ripped into Pope John Paul II over threats to deny Communion to his close ally, Democratic nominee-to-be John

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Eric Florack on June 19th, 2004

The New York Times has decided to slam Clinton’s book. Well, someone had to, I suppose, but do they really think this way? Given the long, leftist history of the Times, we can’t assume that they do.

The tactic of

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Eric Florack on June 18th, 2004

Rochester’s Chronic Democrat here in my hometown, reports the local Democxrats are offering free beer as a bribe for votes.

“That’s the plan at today’s East End Festival. Monroe County Democrats have teamed up with High Falls Brewery to offer

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Eric Florack on June 18th, 2004

Yes, I know about Paul Johnson.
I don’t have anything factual to add to what everyone else has been saying, except, this will NOT cause the US to back down… so long as there’s a leader in the WH.

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Eric Florack on June 18th, 2004

NewsMax:

“Vice Chairman of the 9/11 Commission Lee Hamilton blasted the mainstream press yesterday for distorting the Commission’s findings on links between Iraq and al Qaida, saying those findings actually support Bush administration contentions.

‘The sharp differences that the

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Eric Florack on June 18th, 2004

James Joyner over at Outside the Beltway cites the BLS:


* Over the past year, the unemployment rate has fallen in 46 states.
* Non-farm payroll employment increased in 36 states in May.
* Over the past year, employment

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Eric Florack on June 18th, 2004

Ron Reagan Jr. apparently inherited not smart one from his father. Or, at least, one wonders if he’s still not grown out of the rebellious stage most kids go through.  In looking at him we have a practical example of

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Eric Florack on June 17th, 2004

The Guardian :

“The head of one of the world’s biggest oil companies has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him ‘really very worried for the planet’.
In an interview in today’s Guardian Life section, Ron Oxburgh, chairman

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The SanFran Chron:

“Filmmaker Michael Moore said Friday he wasn’t sure he did the right thing by saving footage of U.S. American soldiers’ cruelty toward Iraqis for his controversial documentary, ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,” instead of releasing the evidence earlier when

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