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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Eric Florack on June 16th, 2004

THe AP reports a poll that comes back with figures saying around 60% of Americans think we’re in bad economic times. Well, no wonder; it’s what the press is telling you. The news is all bad, or so the press

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2004

Citizen Smash reports:

“THE PURPORTED LETTER from Jordanian terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden that was recently posted on an Islamic web site is a virtual copy of the infamous “Zarqawi Memo” that

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Eric Florack on June 15th, 2004

Sign the Peta Petition

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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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