Eric Florack on November 10th, 2004

The thing is, Billy…… that we aren’t LIKE any other nation in world history.

Oh, and it took far longer than a decade.It took over 100 years and one civil war! (along with a number of riots, if you

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Eric Florack on November 10th, 2004

Jonah Goldberg is on fire again, and though he’s spot on for the most part just like yesterday’s column I linked…. well, this time, I have a few problems with a few points.

Go read the link and come back.

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Eric Florack on November 10th, 2004

AP FILED THIS STORY last night, saying President Bush is considering going after drilling within the ANWR again.

I say; Good. It’s about time.
I’ve had quite enough of the enviro-wacko left, who never liked the west having any economic

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2004

I made a rather interesting discovery on my van, otherwise known as Bit’s Box, this morning.

It turns out that the rearview mirror on it, which has a highly accurate compass display, and real-time outside temp display which is

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2004

The Man Without Qualities has an interesting note up. He links a WaPo article, which in turn quotes the Folically challanged one, sayng:

“”We have to treat the disease, not the symptom,” [James] Carville said. “The purpose of a political

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2004

Jonah Goldberg’s Goldberg has a real gem up today, you should read.  Here’s a bit of it:

“One might ask if the Democrats really want to place so much emphasis on ‘ignorance’ of the base as a defining difference between

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2004

What if THIS had come out before 11/2?

Tell me again, how the press hasn’t been running blocker for John Kerry.

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2004

Boortz, today:

“So anyway, a study was done at Harvard (of all places,) and guess what? A study by Associate Professor of Public Policy Alberto Abadie at the John F. Kennedy School of Government found that terrorist violence wasn’t caused

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Eric Florack on November 9th, 2004

The WaTi this morning has an article all about DemoPundit and all-around snake James Carville, who, among other things, had this to say:

” ‘The underlying problem here is, there is no call to arms that the Democratic Party is

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Eric Florack on November 8th, 2004

Anyone doubting the concept of a life after death should simply look at Yassir Arafat. Personally, I’m rather thinking the best tribute we could build over him would be an outhouse. But we can’t… they’re still back and forth over

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Eric Florack on November 8th, 2004

A friend asked me the question that I’d heard people ask Limbaugh after other elections: “Well, now that the election’s over and Bush won,, what in the world do you plan to talk about?” … Not understanding, apparently, that I

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Eric Florack on November 8th, 2004

* Well, it’s snowed last night, here in Rochester. Bit’sBox had some annoyng white trim on it… mostly, on the windsheild. It took a few extra minute to clear and to get things up to normal operating range. I am

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Eric Florack on November 8th, 2004

Over at US News, John Leo posts an interesting, somewhat distorted echo of my own long form writeup, of yesterday:

“Doors were slamming in the Democratic Party. Almost all dissent from elite opinion on social issues grad-ually became positioned

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Eric Florack on November 6th, 2004

Is it time for the Democrats to disband their party? I address that in this week’s Bits Bit: Is it time for the Democrats go out of business?

“The Democratic Party in years past had much to commend it. That

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Eric Florack on November 5th, 2004

CNN says in their headline: “Americans Flock to Canada’s Immigration Web Site”

Oh, bull.
The fact is that it’s in response to a number of leftie bloggers posting the link on their sites. Another mass exodus that will never

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