Eric Florack on January 29th, 2004

I leveled two blasts at Kerry in two days, both or which are maming the rounds of the net.
Ann Coulter makes a better one::

“But if Bush can’t talk to Kerry about the horrors of war, then Kerry

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Eric Florack on January 28th, 2004

BitsBlog has been added to TOP BLOGS, and BLOGWISE. If you like what you see, please tell those places about us.
Thanks, as always.

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Eric Florack on January 28th, 2004

Dan DeVise writes in the Miami Herald:

The state Attorney General’s Office rebuked a Palm Beach County prosecutor Wednesday for allegedly misrepresenting conversations between the two agencies to make it appear the AG had endorsed releasing sensitive plea-bargain documents

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Eric Florack on January 28th, 2004

The Chicago Trib is reporting:

“The Bush administration, deeply concerned about recent assassination attempts against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and a resurgence of Taliban forces in neighboring Afghanistan (news – web sites), is preparing a U.S. military offensive that

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Awwww.
The poor unions in the UK are all bent out of shape that one of their members, one Andrew Gilligan, got called on the carpet by Hutton for tilting the news, and possibly causing the death of at least

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Eric Florack on January 28th, 2004

Well, my guess is that we’ll see a Kerry/Edwards run.  Kerry’s too strong for Dean, and Edwards will be needed for the “Southern Strategy.” In any event, Kerry will want no part of Dean who has demonstrated himself to be

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

I predicted :

Dean,(but not by much)
Kerry,
Edwards.

It came out

Kerry
Dean
Edwards

(Shrug)
Of course, I also predicted, it wouldn’t matter.
I hold to that.

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

AP reports:

“BERLIN (Reuters) – An Iranian defector, preparing to testify in Germany’s second major Sept. 11 trial, said on Tuesday that a son of Osama bin Laden had personally told Iranian leaders of the planned attacks on U.S.

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

New York Post Online Edition reports:

“January 27, 2004 — EXETER, N.H. – Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean. “

So much for an

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

WHAS11.com : over in Louisville is reporting taht Jack Parr has died at 85.

Much as I liked Carson, I rather liked Parr a bit more. I still remember seing him with then relative newcomer Bob Newhart. Sad we didn’t

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Government wins fees vote, majority five

I mentioned earlier today about how many of my predictions for 2004 had already come true. This is but one more.

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

BBC NEWS | Europe | Ex-minister denies Iraq oil claim:

“Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua has denied claims that he received gifts from Saddam Hussein in return for supporting his regime.

Mr Pasqua rubbished recent reports in Iraqi

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

In my Predictions for 2004 column of the beggining of this month, I suggested:

“Given court rulings allowing any two persons to “marry” we’ll see the ACLU come out in support of the legalization and normalization of all kinds of

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Eric Florack on January 27th, 2004

I’ve been thinking quite a bit on the numbers from that BET polling about ‘the most segregated Cities in America, I posted the other day.

Because of some of the conversational dynamics, it seemed appropriate to spring it into

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Eric Florack on January 26th, 2004

Reuters is repoting some good news tonight:

“LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) – An al Qaeda operative with close ties to the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was captured last week in Iraq, President George W. Bush said

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