Eric Florack on November 16th, 2004

There’s a few problems with your conclusions, here, BillyFirst, how the hell you got that conclusion out of the topic you started with is amazing to me. Granted that situation certainly didn’t call for trying to talk that particular

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Eric Florack on July 16th, 2009

This morning, James Joyner speaks to… and quotes… a Ezra Klien article:

Since obesity has somehow become our unofficial theme this morning, I’d be remiss not to mention Ezra Klein‘s observations about trying to eat healthy at Cheesecake

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Eric Florack on September 16th, 2012

Back along about the end of 2006, during a Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are

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Eric Florack on June 2nd, 2009

There’s much to discuss in terms of implication, as regards the shooting of abortionist George Tiller, none of them particularly complimentary to those claiming to take up Tiller’s side.

Even from the outset, my instinct was that the reaction to

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Eric Florack on December 18th, 2008

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Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly readanywhere on the ‘sphere…Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble

I said if Obama got elected, we’d have no shortage of things to write about. The hard part now is where to start.  let’s

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  • I’d say, Billy, that there’s a major difference in the perception of justice when you involve the religious freedom component. To put that into the same context as OJ Simpson, however, …which in my view is a connection that

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Eric Florack on August 28th, 2008

Yeah, I saw some of it last night. I turned it n last night just in time to see that thing under Bubba’s big red WC Feilds nose, say to the country what a great president he’d been.

My reaction:

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Eric Florack on August 3rd, 2008

Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are

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Eric Florack on July 7th, 2008

I commented earlier tonight on Billy’s comments on voting. We pick up the conversation…. Me at Samzidata just now:

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We’re both 50, you and I. Whatever happens, in terms of future direction for this country, and by extension, western

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  • It amazes me, the amount of grave dancing going on with Jesse Helms. I won’t even bother linking it, but I note LGF already has. You’d think the left would recall that the Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter are waiting

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Eric Florack on May 28th, 2008

Ramesh Ponnuru points out yesterday that in a Libertarian fantasy world the Cato institute’s platform would win in a landslide. I would hasten to add that the only reason that the whole thing is a fantasy is because nobody’s bothered

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Eric Florack on May 17th, 2008

In all honesty, it doesn’t surprise me very much to see the California State Supreme Court ruling the way it did on homosexual marriage, the other day. While correct in terms of the legal precedent involved over the last several

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Eric Florack on February 14th, 2008

An amusing article at Captain’s Quarters, today….

Susan Estrich either wants to build credibility as a satirist, or her latest column provides a long-overdue look in the mirror for Democrats. Detecting more a whiff of the so-called Bradley Effect

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Eric Florack on January 25th, 2008

Word on the street is that the slugs at the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka are planning to picket the Heath Ledger funeral.

Look, you morons, I understand full well what your positions on Homosexuality are.  I also know that

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Eric Florack on January 18th, 2008

I find myself in a bad situation. This is a hard thing to write.. and likely one of the hardest things to post in this blog that I’ll ever do.  I’ll set this up this way:

I said, back when

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