Eric Florack on April 2nd, 2004

Jeff Jacoby: What has gone right in Iraq:

“With all the news coming out of the Middle East, here is a detail you might have missed: A few weeks ago, the United Nations shut down the Ashrafi refugee camp

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Eric Florack on April 2nd, 2004

Neal Boortz: Kofi’s Internet

A subject I’ve posted about in the past several times.

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(Washington, DC)— In what can only be described as a stunning move, President George W. Bush today announced he will not seek a re-election in November, and endorsed John F Kerry for the office.

“Hey”, said Mr. Bush, “He’s got

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Radio Free USA is reporting that:

“A previously unknown group has claimed responsibility for the the gruesome killing of four US contractors in Fallujah, western Iraq.

It said the action was in revenge for Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Sheik

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:: Xinhuanet – English :: is running a “report” hat says, in part:

“WASHINGTON, April 1 (Xinhuanet) — The White House had promoted missile defense, instead of combating terrorism, as the cornerstone of a new national security strategy before the

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2004

Baloon Juice reports:

“The Observer has learned that former Vice President Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt, an entrepreneur and Democratic fund-raiser, will close the deal to pay around $70 million to French-owned Vivendi Universal this week, making them

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2004

Bill Hobbs points out this morning that ANWR’s going to be opened anyway.

Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski’s office says:

The new areas to be offered for lease, exploration, and development are 670,000 acres of land off the coast of

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2004

Have you noticed that every time Kerry’s numbers are down, he goes to the ski slopes for a week, or goes to the hospital?
Emmett Tyrrell has.

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Eric Florack on April 1st, 2004

Larry Elder has an interesting article up about the likability issues of John Kerry.

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2004

Yes, the right column is becoming a bit of a mess.
The first thing I need to clean up is the “Others are saying” section. When I first started it, I had in it in mind as a way of

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2004

Little Green Footballs is running at article I found of interest.

“EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Tens of thousands of euro of EU funds may have been diverted to people linked with Palestinian terrorism, according to a report from the European

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2004

Of all places, PRAVDA is where I’ll link you to today:

“Famous financier and philanthropist George Soros was poured with glue and water at the conference ‘Human Rights at Elections’ in Kiev. 
Two young people came into the conference room

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Eric Florack on March 31st, 2004

James at Outside the Beltway notes the start of AIR AMERICA, the liberal mouthpeice.

I have but two words for this attempt: Mario Cuomo.

For those who don’t recall the context, Cuomo had a highly touted radio show and was

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2004

Hindrocket over at Power Line seems to think Tom Daschle is history. Can’t say I’ll be sorry to see it, but I’ll wait for some more solid polling data to come in.

Bob Musil seems to agree with Hindrocket.

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Eric Florack on March 30th, 2004

The Washington Times: reports from London that:

“Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on

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