Eric Florack on June 15th, 2004

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Eric Florack on June 14th, 2004

The AP says the Army is redesigning it’s uniform.

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Eric Florack on June 14th, 2004

Billy Beck notes:

“She had an intellectual side that was fairly well hidden from us because we were all looking at what kind of clothes shes was wearing.’
(Evan Thomas of Newsweek, just now on Imus In The Morning

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Eric Florack on June 14th, 2004

W’s right in his stem cell policy.
and invoking RWR’s name in this gets us nowhere.

The Gipper knew as should we all; you don’t take innocent life so as to make someone else’s longer or better.

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Boortz this morning brings up a parallel to my thoughts about the Reagan funeral, last week:

” Last week we honored a president, a Republican, who earned and deserves the credit for ending the Cold War.  Ronald Reagan also

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Eric Florack on June 13th, 2004

OK, Gang; here it is;
I’m completely out of space on my Rochester.rr website, which hosts half of this website… that’s the side that hosts this system’s home page, and the long-form write-ups I call BitsBits, my newsroom and all

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WorldTribune.com says that The UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission briefed the UN’s Security Council.  And guess what?

Saddam Hussein shipped weapons of mass destruction components as well as medium-range ballistic missiles before, during and after the U.S.-led war against

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Eric Florack on June 11th, 2004

I will not be blogging today, in respect for Mr. Reagan, though I may have some comments tonight.

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“When Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, The New York Times wrote, “Men will thank God a hundred years from now that Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the White House.”

It will not take a hundred years to thank God for

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Eric Florack on June 11th, 2004

In the spring of 1987 President Reagan and I were driven into a large hangar at the Ottawa Airport, to await the arrival of Mrs. Reagan and my wife, Mila, prior to departure ceremonies for their return to Washington. We

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Eric Florack on June 11th, 2004

“Mrs. Reagan, Patti, Michael and Ron, members of the Reagan family, distinguished guests, including our presidents and first ladies, Reverend Danforth, fellow citizens, we lost Ronald Reagan only days ago but we have missed him for a long time.  We

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Eric Florack on June 11th, 2004

“Mrs. Reagan, members of the President’s family, colleagues, distinguished guests, members of the diplomatic corps, fellow citizens:

Knowing that this moment would come has not made it any easier to see the honor guard, and the flag draped before us,

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Eric Florack on June 11th, 2004

We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man. And I have lost a dear friend.

In his lifetime Ronald Reagan was such a cheerful and invigorating presence that it was easy to forget what daunting

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2004

The Genius is gone.

I just watched him the other night with Travis Tritt… what a show that was, and what an entertainer he was.

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Eric Florack on June 10th, 2004

Slings And Arrows posts part of a NYT article which seems to answer the questions about saddam and WMD;

“Mr. Perricos accompanied his briefing with a report showing satellite photos of a fully built-up missile site near Baghdad in May

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