Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2005

DETROIT (AP) – With his city teetering above a financial abyss, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick went before television viewers this month and delivered some grave news: He had no choice but to lay off nearly 700 city workers and cut services.

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2005

Mona Charen apparently agrees with my take on President Bush’s speech on Thursday.:

Impossibly grandiose? Impractical? Wilsonian? Perhaps. And yet, the president made clear in a speech that was also an argument that his is no ivory-tower idealism. “America’s vital

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2005

TBTN reports that former Late Night TalkShow host Johnny Carson died this morning, at age 79.

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2005

The Globe and Mail says:

Durham Regional Police are refusing to say much about a 31-year-old Pickering woman who alleges that well-known entertainer Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her at his home near Philadelphia almost one year ago.

At a press

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2005

  • Cats are creatures of extremes. How is it that something so cute and cuddly… a soft creature, so very willing to keep you warm at night, will leave such an ungodly hairball-driven mess under the bed once you fall asleep?
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    Eric Florack on January 22nd, 2005

    I finally got the background graphics working, though I need to touch up the 1200 pxl screens. At the moment everything at 1024 and below is where it wants to be.

    Since I’ve added the title on the side, I

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    Eric Florack on January 21st, 2005

    James at Outside The Beltway was at the Inauguration.  Took pictures, too.

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    Eric Florack on January 21st, 2005

    I note this morning that this blog has managed to gather quite a bit of steam in the reletive rankings of late, in the TTLB Ecosystem.  We’re now up around 800 slots from where we were just a few weeks

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    Eric Florack on January 21st, 2005

    My thoughts and reactions about President Bush’s Inauguration speech never really came into focus until such time as I read Peg Noonan’s column of today. This is as rare a happening as I think you’ll find, but I think Peg

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    Eric Florack on January 21st, 2005

    It’s cold.
    Cold enough that it’s some 25 degrees warmer inside my freezer. Cold enough that in a drive to work, my van heater doesn’t come on until I’m almost there. Cold enough that road salt, so much the staple

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    Eric Florack on January 20th, 2005

    Uh-oh… looks like Mr. Peanut is linked to the oil for food scandal.

    Says WorldNetDaily:

    Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.’s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict

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    John Hawkins and Right Wing News has taken a vote of a pile of bloggers asking the question who would be the most desireable candidates for the Republican nomination of 2008.

    Yes, I was asked to participate. Thanks, John for

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    John Hawkins and Right Wing News has taken a vote of a pile of bloggers asking the question who would be the most desireable candidates for the Republican nomination of 2008.

    Yes, I was asked to participate. Thanks, John for

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    John Hawkins and Right Wing News has taken a vote of a pile of bloggers asking the question who would be the most desireable candidates for the Republican nomination of 2008.

    Yes, I was asked to participate. Thanks, John for

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    John Hawkins and Right Wing News has taken a vote of a pile of bloggers asking the question who would be the most desireable candidates for the Republican nomination of 2008.

    Yes, I was asked to participate. Thanks, John for

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