Eric Florack on June 4th, 2004

CNN MONEY says:

“The economy created 248,000 jobs outside the farm sector in May, the Labor Department reported, compared with a revised gain of 346,000 for April. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com forecast the May report would show a 225,000-job gain.

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Eric Florack on June 4th, 2004

Boortz points out the obvious, this morning:

“Do you realize that at this point the story of the abuse of some Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison has received more press coverage for a longer period of time

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2004

USATODAY.com says George Tenet has resigned as CIA director

I’m short on time and so can’t more fully comment, but I have had the impression for some time, that he was planing to resign come January anyway. we’ll see more

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2004

The Christian Science Monitoris reporting on an in newsroom poll, which tells us what we already knew; Newspeople are overwhelmingly liberal.

“In national news outlets, only 7 percent of journalists call themselves conservative. Does that deepen a trust gap?”

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Eric Florack on June 3rd, 2004

Sean, over at Everything I Know Is Wrong has some interesting thoughts this morning as regards what the leftist pres in the UK is calling Islamophobia. says the ironicly named “Independant”:

“Growing Islamophobia in Britain in the wake of the

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2004

NewsMax is a part of my daily reading because they run hard truths…. stuff nobody else will run. Imagie if you will, the New York Times covering THIS event:

“Ted Sampley, a former Green Beret who served two full tours

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2004

I was interested to see Billy Beck echo my reading of Sullivan.

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2004

The Smoking Gun has the good on Jose Padilla.

What the papers TSG has do not reveal however, is that Jose Padilla was recuited by a radical arm is Islam while in prison.

Do the math.

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2004

The United States Army Birthday is on June the 14th.

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2004

Cheney on the Patriot Act, day before yesterday:

“In a statement supporting the Patriot Act, Senator Kerry said the law would, ‘make it a lot more difficult for new terrorist organizations to develop.’ I won’t be saying this very often

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Victor Davis Hanson stating the obvious this morning:

” If the Spanish appeasement directs predators elsewhere for a time in search of similar easy meals, so in contrast do the defiance and deterrence of other, quite different potential victims,

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Eric Florack on June 1st, 2004

The National Post is reporting a poll that spells trouble for the current government in Canada:

“More than half of Canadians support a parallel private health care system that would let patients pay for speedier service, according to a new

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Eric Florack on June 1st, 2004

Jay Bryant wonders about our liberal press and it’s inability to tell the truth in domestic issues…

“Right now, there are a number of truly important news stories that are receiving vastly less coverage than they deserve, including the United

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Eric Florack on June 1st, 2004

Apparently things are not all sweetness and light at the left end of the spectrum. Who’d have guessed it, huh?Donald Lambro Identifies at least part of the problems:

“The argument apparently began when the DLC declared war on former

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Eric Florack on June 1st, 2004

I’ve been getting a lot of E-mail over the weekend… a lot of it directed at the idea I’m not saying much about Halliburton.

Neal Boortz : must be getting a lot as well. He’s written about it this morning.

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