Eric Florack on January 24th, 2004

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times is reporting :

Black Hawk helicopters destined for Iraq began arriving Friday at the Port of Corpus Christi. Truckloads of heavy Army equipment also arrived this week, according to port officials.  The equipment will be loaded

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2004

FOXNews is reporting

“FREEPORT, Texas A security guard at a BASF Corp. (search) chemical plant was shot in the shoulder Saturday after he approached a suspicious truck and talked to a man who said he had been taking pictures, authorities

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2004

Yu saw some footage on the Fox network when the President stopped for lunch in New Mexico the other day.
What you didn’t know about was the text. Here ’tis….

Remarks by the President to the Press Pool
Nothin’ Fancy

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2004

012504183137– Rochester, NY
  With all of the attention being turned on  John Kerry, perhaps it’s time we examined him in some detail… and I don’t mean his $90 plastic-looking haircuts. It’s no secret that the majority of support

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2004

In FrontPage magazine Chuck Noe examines Kerry. ‘Bout time someone did.

Some snippets:

He became a celebrated organizer for one of America’s most extreme appeasement groups, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He consorted with the likes of “Hanoi” Jane Fonda

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Eric Florack on January 24th, 2004

For those who were asking, it’s a ratings system for Blogs that looked interesting. There’s a MESS of Blogs using it.
Blogwise has me at above the 50% line of the blogs they’ve listed, so I figured the results would

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Insight has some interesting ideas about what Soros is up to:


“‘Soros believes that if he can force the market down, he will have an effect in the real world,’ Luskin says. ‘If it happens on Oct. 31, people might

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Power Line dismantles the article inn today’s Washington Post in fine style. :

“The Washington Post’s election-year advocacy continues this morning with a news article–not an opinion piece–by staunch Democrats Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus. The article is an attack

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

I’ve decided to join BITSBLOG to the MILBLOGS webring for a while. 

I want to make something clear to my readers up front; I’m not military, nor was I.  My brother’s a 20 year man, but even exclusive of that

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

AP is reporting:

“PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – NASA received data from the Spirit rover Friday morning for the first time in two days, easing scientists’ anxiety that the Mars mission had come to a calamitous halt.

The six-wheeled rover

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

I’m suddenly, within the last hour, getting outright clobbered with links about Bob Keeshan, the gent who played Captain Kangaroo, having died. (sigh)

Ya know, it’s too bad that so much of what he did on air was live, and

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

New York Post in today’s Online Edition says: :

“January 22, 2004 — WASHINGTON – The large number of Muslim deaths caused by al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Iraq has created p.r. problems for Osama bin Laden, who now appears

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Transcript: Democratic Presidential Debate in N.H. (washingtonpost.com)

The line of the night comes from Lieberman:

“They can’t say I flip-flop because I don’t. They can’t say I’m weak on defense because I’m not. They can’t say I’m weak on values

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Byron York suggests that Kerry is not the moderate he claims:

“Kerry’s liberalism, when he is present for votes, matches or even exceeds Kennedy’s and those of other liberal icons in the Senate. For example, Kerry has earned a

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Eric Florack on January 23rd, 2004

Am I the only one starting to wonder about this guy?

Sorry, gang, but the more I read him, the more I’ve got to wonder if it all isn’t just getting to be a bit much for Sullivan. He’s

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