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2000-10-31
Isn't Jonelin cute? :)
New Reckless Kelly CD
The Day
now available!
Mayor Lee Brown has successfully demolished downtown Houston, moves on to the universities!
Why are there so many media idiots like Greenfield who think the electoral college is based on distrust rather than federalism?
Thankfully, the Philanderer in Chief only has a few more weeks to pull stunts like this
Carville described conceptually in 1994 why Gore is going to lose
Even worse than tormenting the cat, they wasted the cannabis!
Yet another children's Darwin Awards nominee
Al Gore's pandering to opposed interest groups gets him in trouble (again)
Mr. Clinton, of all people, should not be upset about liars!
New photo added to the apartment section
Does this signal Clinton's pre-election attack?
Madeleine Not-at-Albright becomes latest Clinton cabinet member to obstruct a legal inquiry
Lazio is pulling ahead of Rodham
Liberal schizophrenia on vouchers
Joseph Lieberman should be ashamed
Al Gore is the unfit leader
Kudlow: The great social security scare
Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 44, Gore 39
Reagan casts a shadow over 2000 election
Michael Barone on the changing electoral landscape
Dionne on West Virginia and a fractious (soon to be fractured?) Democratic coalition
Dick Morris: Why is Gore losing?
A review of the Bush campaign
John Fund on the idiot widow from Missouri
What ever happened to the Gingrich revolution?
Amidst the chaos, do not be surprised to see Benjamin Netanyahu re-emerge
Galloway on rebuilding the disastrous Cowboys
2000-10-30
TAS Enemy of the Week
A busy day for the Darwin Awards judges (and what the hell kind of name is Tommy Thomas?)
Add this nominee for the Children's Darwin Awards!
Why does Al Gore endorse this gravy-training idiot for Senate, yet question Bush's qualifications to be President?
John Fund: Rodham is going to lose
I wish B(arbara)S(treisand) would promise to leave the country if Bush wins, a la Mr. Baldwin!
An example of why I am not an ARI-Objectivist, poor grammar and all (Jaffo linked this earlier today)
Paul Gigot wrote what Fred Barnes says here months ago
RealClearPolitics Analysis of Electoral Battleground
Declining political participation? Gillespie reminds us "the most important events on Election Day don’t necessarily take place at the polls"
Horowitz: Hate crime legislation undermines democracy
Another nominee for this year's Darwin Awards
Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 43, Gore 40
Podhoretz on the Democratic panic
Missouri Democrats and Al Gore are about to create a constitutional crisis
Sam Donaldson tries to beat up Ralph Nader, but instead gets pummeled
Transcripts of Bush and Gore strategists on CNN
Does character matter in this election?
Some people are truly opposed to public prayer!
Dubai launches "Internet City"
ETA targets spanish Supreme Court judge
2000-10-29
I think rock DJs can absolve sins as well as any hypocritical Xian priest!
Another leftist who could benefit from studying the Founding
Will: look where the presidential candidates are spending money
How a Gore Administration might look
Lazio is just ahead of Rodham
Rodham plays victim (again)
Indonesian Muslims tell Americans to leave
Is the coup beginning in Peru?
Can Africa have successful elections?
This election may yet become interesting
2000-10-28
Sooners fall behind early, then blow #1 Nebraska off the field
I think I'll stick with Continental over US Airways
Why wasn't Ross Perot demonized like Ralph Nader by leftists?
Shouldn't this idiot be grieving her dead husband?
Podhoretz says Lazio dominates Rodham (conjuring up images of whips and chains in my warped mind)
How curious: Rand education study authors are ALL democrats!
Scary versus serious on Social Security
Harnden: Democrats were wrong to write off George Bush
Don't count out Wahid
Christians are not the only hypocrites, II
Sudan retakes rebel-held town
Tanzania election info
My high school football team keeps on winning
2000-10-27
Speaking of tasteless ads, Nike finally pulls one and apologizes
Sue Weber is an idiot
This independent anti-Gore ad is also despicable (and also condemned by official Bush campaign officials)
Delusional liberals actually believe their statism is the way of the future! Amazing!
Profile on Mike Murphy, Lazio's disastrous campaign strategist
Mary Richards (with a little help from Rush Limbaugh) responds to Ed Asner (requires Windows MediaPlayer)
My Amazon.com wishlist
Salon.com lead article today backs Bush on social security?! Wow
If New Jersey is truly in play, this race is hardly the dead heat described by mainstream media
Rodham could be the Dems only good news on election day
Unlike Raspberry, I am SALIVATING at the thought of a court composed of justices like Thomas and Scalia!
Former Publius Fellow Laura Ingraham on Gore's Clinton Gamble
Vennochi: Gore effort has "a distinctly Michael Dukakis feel to it"
Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 45, Gore 40
More on the Rand study of Texas education
Peggy Noonan's weekly column
Who is Vladimiro Montesinos?
More bad news for Gore: the economy is slowing
Gbagbo takes power in Cote d'Ivoire
2000-10-26
Gore gets down with "new democrat" Queen Latifah
A despicable Democratic targeted phone ad that attempts to scare senior citizens (realaudio)
Sad (that this happened), but also uplifting (that so many volunteers responded)
Excellent commentary on Presidential polling, objectivity, and the media
I guess Gore is only against racial profiling when it doesn't involve the President calling black voters?
This columnist calls Condoleeza Rice the "Clarence Thomas of Foreign Policy" which would be a compliment from me, but has nasty racist overtones in this instance
Postrel: Gore is the devil (Jaffo blogged this one first, and I'm reproducing it because it's good)
Could someone please tell me how this differs conceptually from Iran-Contra?
Safire: How Gore, Bush administrations might look
"Palestinians have never been more organized to fight Israel with real weapons than now"
The First Fundraiser hauls in Hollywood
Will is wrong: Most liberal elites, not just Gore, are condescending
Clinton-Gore foreign policy typified by the "the loss of a warship to a rubber dinghy"
Liberal journalists continue to panic; I love the last line
Sowell: Gore gets desperate, ugly
Last gasp for true liberals in America
I wrote a post-Gore-convention-speech journal that sounds just like Kudlow
Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 44, Gore 40
Who is Harold Ickes?
John Fund on poor Gallup polling methodology
The truth behind the Ramallah lynching doesn't really fit popular, but inaccurate, accounts of the Arab-Israeli issue
The Myanmar border is
not
a good place to stumble upon
Isn't it great how "independents" in nominal democracies like Egypt manage to join the ruling party?
Israel unfortunately must defend itself as the US expresses "concern"
Surprise, surprise: Arafat's Fatah is now coordinating with Hamas
It seems Xianity does not have a monopoly on hypocrisy
Fujimori confines military to barracks as Peru spy chief disappears; is a coup imminent?
Does Obasanjo really think his decree will end ethnic violence in Nigeria?!
Kenya is strange: Women are punished for wearing trousers by stripping them naked?!
Now Ouattara's followers are causing trouble in Cote d'Ivoire
2000-10-25
If the polls are truly tightening, why this level of panic?
Gore's daughter is still an idiot
I thought Al Gore was smart?
Another disgraceful example of Clinton-Gore foreign policy
Eastman: Frenzied Spending and the "General Welfare"
Another foreign policy grownup for Miss Paglia (and Miss Not-at-Albright) to study on the Middle East
Let's add Codevilla to Miss Paglia's reading list on the Middle East
More for the libertarian feminist to consider
A view of the Middle East slightly more informed than the specialist on libertarian feminism
The woman who would play Dagny plans to vote for Gore (but still would prefer to sleep with Bubba, I'd wager)
Uneducated ramblings on the Middle East from someone whose specialty is libertarian feminism
Tom West: "Allan Bloom, America, and Education"
A new analysis of Texas education that has curiously received no media coverage, by a former grad school prof of mine
Early puberty is on the rise
Political barometer: shareholders are breaking for Bush
Moderation versus abstinence
Ralph Nader makes the case for altruism/collectivism/statism
Harry Browne makes the Libertarian case
An alternative view of Ariel Sharon
Wall Street Journal refutes Ed Asner's invocation of the WSJ in defense of Gore Social Security approach
Bill Clinton keeps trying to establish a legacy other than Monica
Horror stories from another African dictator's reign
Democracy may actually beat the dictator in Cote d'Ivoire
2000-10-24
A foreign policy grownup blasts Not-at-Albright's visit to Korea
Mark Helprin gets at the real goals of Palestinian Arabs
Excellent new translation of Tocqueville's
Democracy in America
Which recent Jesse Jackass phrase is better: "Republican hitman" or "Africa, AIDS, and Appalachia?"
Here's a new one: Post-traumatic slavery syndrome
Even the femin(left)ists are starting to panic
Why is Gore behind? He's not liberal enough according to.... liberals, of course!
Liberals get especially nasty when it looks like the "electorate" does not share their enlightened view of the world
Disarray: The Gore camp brings out "old democrat" Ed Asner, freezes out Bill Clinton
Reason
blasts drug czar
Lowry: Granny Winnie is now a symbol of the stupidity of the "average" American
Nice Bush quote at the end about the "Obstacle-in-chief"
Kicking a dead man: Mel Carnahan's leftist legacy in my old home
Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 46, Gore 38
It's not going to matter, but why pick Mel Carnahan's
wife
in the the first place?
John Fund: Look who's endorsing Bush
The new battleground states
Time to break out the Big Cigar
The leadup to Bill Clinton's pre-election bombing?
Why in the hell is the US government paying these people?
Sometimes I just love BBC headlines
Renewed fears of a coup in Peru
When state television shows a soap opera instead of scheduled election results, prospects for democracy aren't good!
2000-10-23
Despite its unabashed conservativism, this site is a great politics portal
North Korea: the latest illustration that it's time to let grownups run foreign policy
Following up on something I said weeks ago: Gore's base is not solid
House impeachment managers paved way for Republican success
Gore's dilemma
Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 44, Gore 39
Gore blasting Hollywood is laughable
This strategy is not going to be a winner for Gore
Bartley on presidential leadership styles
Animal rights people would love the fact so many people died to save a donkey
Karachi is a scary place
Iraq attempts further to destabilize the Arab-Israeli situation
What are the odds Clinton retaliates just prior to the presidential election?
Career redirection: Indonesian military leader cuts CD
Canada sets early elections
2000-10-22
Gore furious at Clinton (when he should probably be utilizing him more)
Who will go to hell, Barak or the baby killer?
Here's a twist: Israel may declare statehood for "Palestine"
A more common example of today's political "journalism"
Big surprise: New York Times endorses Rodham
I didn't think political journalism of this quality existed today
Irving Kristol: The feminization of social policy
And we think our long census form is intrusive
Madeleine Not-At-Albright celebrates her last (thankfully) days in office
I like a presidential candidate who "alarms" the Euroweenies
2000-10-21
The Clinton Administration gets tough with fairness doctrine enforcement!
The Ayn Rand Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval
Christian hypocrisy: another preacher busted for internet porn
Of course art car enthusiasts would be Naderites!
Rice University administrators are no different than any others
I'm glad the DOT bureaucrats cleared this up for us
Surreal
Is Bill Clinton our most narcissistic President?
What explains Clinton's popularity?
Commentary
reviews
Bobos in Paradise
George Gilder assesses potential Gore impact on internet economy
I think it's great that Democrats have been forced to run away from their "gun" issue
Lieberman turns into Democratic Pat Robertson, claims God favors
his
party
This is one argument for school vouchers I hadn't considered
French man sentenced for raping 11-year old
2000-10-20
Schizophrenic Al: Doesn't he keep saying Texas is worse than a third world state?
Gore lies on taxes
Frank Gaffney on Gore foreign policy lies
The penultimate paragraph could have been penned by an Objectivist
Did Beethoven suffer lead poisoning?
Cool interactive electoral map from CNN
What about
Earth in the Balance
?
Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 44, Gore 40
Paul Gigot: Bush is winning on personality AND issues
Funny how killings and gunfire do tend to threaten truces
Another reason to stick with backpacking over mountain biking
Hamas is building hospitals, and Hizbollah probably funds breast cancer research... yeah, whatever
I thought Iraq wanted to sell more oil because it didn't have enough food & medicine?
Big surprise: ruling party ahead in Egyptian polls
The kidnappings were certainly political, government claims notwithstanding
Photos like this suggest W is still taking drugs
FARC takes out a Black Hawk: another reason Bush is right to push skipping a generation in armed forces modernization
Good profile on troubled Cote d'Ivoire
Isn't it great that we (westerners) take for granted that losers will leave office?
After a decade without, Somalia now has a government
2000-10-19
"He's the kind of person you'd like as a next-door neighbor until you find out about him"
During the primaries, Paul Gigot noted social security could decide the whole election. Now others are.
Al Gore: Fighting, First Acts, and other bizarre behavior
The first Nietzschean President compares his impeachment to plight of blacks, gays. Seriously
Outstanding profile of Dick Cheney
Madeleine Not-At-Albright's state department engages in damage control
Portrait of America state-by-state Presidential polls, electoral projections
The American Spectator's Enemy of the Week
Ponnuru: when liberals are whining about media bias, things aren't going well
Gore's potential webcam (and some stuff about Clinton)
*groan* Barbara Bush thought Gore was going to hit W
Drudge Report parody is funny (if a little over the top)
Safire on the debates
Gore should debate. . . himself
Noonan on Gore's bizarre debate behavior
So far, Indian Ragnar Danneskjold has occupied the time of government, cable operators, and the Supreme Court! Not Bad
"Mistakes were made" seems an understatement!
You gotta love the Brits' use of "crashing finale"
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is delusional
2000-10-18
The ever sensible Bruce Herschensohn on Israel's "War Process"
Countdown: Only two more months of Madeleine Not-At-Albright!
Maybe these monks were reading Augustine's Confessions?
Lynch on the debates
Hillary is a liar, but won't be prosecuted
Why the surprise? Joe Lieberman has BEEN a politician virtually all of his life!
Hillary might as well join Bill & Al as liars
Gore's going to fight, and fight, and fight some more
Guinea-Liberia hostilities
2000-10-17
Zycher: It's not a good idea to pay off the federal debt
Horowitz obituary on Gus Hall, longtime CPUSA chair
Fred Barnes on political temperament
To follow up on a recent Jaffo blog: the Veep really
isn't
all that bright
Frank Gaffney will surely be part of a potential Bush foreign policy team
Non-PC op-ed on racial profiling
Serbia's Moment
Pakistan doesn't need to go to war with India, just encourage them to keep flying their planes!
Indian Ragnar Danneskjold is holding firm!
The Middle East: another reason to turn out Clinton/Gore foreign policy ineptitude
This probably spells the end for Estrada
Implications of this horrible tragedy: battleground Missouri could swing for Bush
One should always be a little suspicious when the Kenyan opposition "dies" in traffic accidents
Lagos is a mess
All sorts of stupids (link from Kari's website)
2000-10-15
Kev's Back: Journals from 10-5 to 10-15
2000-10-04
Michael Lynch, like most of us who lean libertarian, was bored with the debate
A new Gore lie!
Does Al Gore have asthma or some other breathing disorder?
Grizzled Israeli warrior sounds off
Saddam is like the energizer bunny
Quincy would have put OJ in jail
Everyone finds oil offshore Angola!
The ongoing soap opera of Cote d'Ivoire
2000-10-03
Defense and foreign policy issues loom large
Ken Masugi's review of
Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Regime
Now available: Harry Jaffa's
A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War
John Eastman on Publius' "Very Definition of Tyranny"
Sullum: Political power and technocratic hubris are a dangerous combination
Salon.com hatchet job on George Bush (Bias? Naaahhh)
I wish vice-presidential candidates would make an effort not to sound like idiots
Pre-debate Voter.com poll: Bush 41, Gore 41
Does political good sense correlate with
anything
?
Al Gore's 164% marginal tax rate
Mark Helprin on the U.S. tax burden
Couldn't they do something better than rice porridge?!
Namibia's enlightened leaders
The terms Human Rights and Democratic Republic of Congo just don't mesh
2000-10-02
Do not believe common media reports of "spontaneous" Arab violence
Cowboys win ugly
Lynne Cheney: Feminist Intellectual?
Cultural conservatives annoy me
US tax dollars directed to anti-opium fungus (no doubt Al Gore invented it)
2000-10-01
For those who don't get enough commercials
They should have used the priest in the next headline for this photo!
A priest with an ax to grind?
Milton Friedman on school vouchers
Another sinking in Greece
Sooner win Big 12 opener
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