Eric Florack on April 29th, 2005

So says AP

Personally, I think we should be easy on him.
No, really.
I think we should release him…. in Iranian airspace… at around 25,000 feet.
And televise it.

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Eric Florack on April 29th, 2005

Yes, I saw it.
If you didn’t, here’s the text… and a vid link too, I think.

First complaint; I don’t think he hit the Democrat obstruction quite hard enough…. though that’s not a major bitch at the moment.

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Eric Florack on April 29th, 2005

Longtime readers will know well that I consider myself a cultural conservative… And, in turn that how successful someone is within a culture, and it’s society is proportional in large part to the degree to which the person, of whatever

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Eric Florack on April 29th, 2005

Seems clear to me by way of reading her site this morning that regardless what else she may have gone under with this recently diagnosed cancer.. that Laura’s not lost her
teeth
:

“I think I took a turn for

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2005

What happens to the Democrats, if as I suspect…. Even after this …they can’t prove any wrongdoing on the part of Delay?

It’s as I’ve said for years… Giving a Democrat what they say they want is often the best

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2005

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2005

DRUDGE is saying on his site that he’ll be appearing on C-Span on Friday April 28th, at 08:00.

Only problem is Friday is the 29th.

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2005

Stanley Kurtz notes an article in Harpers:

“One thing I didn’t mention in my piece is the remark that appears to caution liberals against playing by the “old, polite rules of democracy” when dealing with conservative Christians. If I’m reading

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2005

Power Line this morning notes the case of one Jim Merkel who has just been hired at Dartmouth for a position apparently created for him called a “sustainability director”.

To give you a picture of what that task entails is

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2005

Dean at Dean’s World debunks rather neatly, the argument about how we’re slipping toward this horrible Theocracy….

It’s a visual, so I won’t bother quoting it.

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Eric Florack on April 28th, 2005

Drezner last night decides to take on the task of reading and arguing Andrew Sullivan’s TNR peice. Glenn’s been commenting on this one too.

The two of them do a far enough job of trying to argue with him as

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Speaking of Jason, he notesa report in The Globe and Mail that Paul Martin has used taxpayer money to hold onto power.

Essentially it works like this:

In exchange for agreeing to the New Democratic Party’s demands for more

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

At Musing , Jason notes that the Canadian government thinks anyone earning over $51k (USD) /yr is rich.

Jason calls this claim pathetic, and he’s right.

But what this really is, is a Canadian government trying to make the citizens

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Outside The Beltway passes on some good news;

Laura’s breast cancer surgery yesterday “couldn’t have gone better,” in the words of her surgeon Dr. Katherine Alley. Initial sentinel node testing done during surgery showed no signs of cancer involvement in

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2005

Says C-Net;

Microsoft came under renewed criticism from gay- and lesbian-rights groups on Tuesday after an online report indicated that the company is using former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed’s lobbying firm.

Ah, yes… the politics of Personal Destruction,

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