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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