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2001-02-28

• If this is true, there may be enough TX-LBJ Asskicker in Bush to roll some LeftWingNuts
• Israel may take back Palestinian Authority territory
• I'll hang with a gun-toting Heston over this LeftWingNut (tm) any day!
• The Dems' boorish reaction to the notion some of "their" money might go back to taxpayers
• Jonah Goldberg sounds like me on the topic of Salon's Joe Conason
• Pith and Vinegar: A nifty blog I found via WOIFM
• Salon also has the good sense to run this column by a respected professor of political philosophy on the Right's latest assault on Darwin
• I would feel a lot safer around this guy than around most LeftWingNuts (tm)!
• If you object to the NPR censorship described in the next column, go here and let KUAR know
• N[ational]P[eople's]R[adio]: Where censorship is alive and well!!
• Use this Quicken Tax Estimator to see how much you will save under the Bush Tax Plan
• The Microsoft case is about political pull, not antitrust
• The New Fringe Left: Ayn Rand's Anti-Industrial Revolution II?
• Jack Kemp'soutstanding column on the Fed's misguided monetary policy
• Bush Doctrine: Rogue nations like Iraq will not acquire weapons of mass destruction
• Text of Bush Address to Joint Session of Congress
• Poll: Bush speech received very well
• Why Rodham looked so dour last night
• Good news for Microsoft in the appeals court
• I will credit Salon with the good sense to run Camille Paglia's stuff frequently
• TIME praises Bush's performance
• If tax cuts force less spending, all the better
• Museveni will win in Uganda

2001-02-27

• Ralph Nader: Bad political candidate, bad safety advocate
• 70s-era LeftWingNuts (tm)
• Denise Rich needs to update her "Press and Reviews" page to include all the investigations related to her and Bubba!
• Is this what "the American people hired [Bubba] to do?"
• A sighting of more LeftWingNuts(tm)!
• Sorry, but I'm not so sure I agree with colleagues and friends that oil derricks would spruce up this Alaskan wilderness!
• With stock that's already worthless, how long before Salon.com goes the route of E-toys?
• A real laugher: Salon's Joe Conason defends Bubba by... criticizing Bush Elder
• Is Kweisi Mfume distancing himself from the race-baiters?
• I will give Bill O'Reilly credit for being consistent (naively so, at times)
• Is technology eroding the Fourth Amendment?
• Where have the pro-Bubba feminists gone?
• John Podhoretz says, Way to go New York!
• Perhaps the industry could respond with internet delivery of CD singles instead of bitching about Napster's thievery!
• Austria's Minister of Women (no joke!) promotes "Men's Lib"
• 25 years of conflict over Western Sahara

2001-02-26

• Hugh Rodham has stolen Leonard Peikoff's hair!
• Okay, maybe Fry's is NOT such a great place
• Look beyonf learning to proofread
• Go check out The American Mind's new home
• Others are noticing: LeftWingNuts (tm) are making a comeback!
• Salon.com has finally figured out the obvious (but only after Bubba is out of office)
• The DaimlerChrysler experiment continues to be disastrous
• A black intellectual asks, "What's holding blacks back?"
• Breaking news: four months after the election, the mainstream media knows who won (sort of)
• Where is the media's Katherine Harris treatment of Denise Rich?
• Questions over Jesse Jacksoff's finances are long overdue

2001-02-25

• What direction for the Dems?
• The education establishment's fallback position on standards is revealing
• Bubba's insufferable ego led to pardon mess
• The final paragraph of this otherwise appealing article confuses Salon.com with good journalism
• Why Namibia is promoting the war in DRC

2001-02-24

• The Barney Fife of the K-9 division?
• The money can't be returned because Hugh Rodham has already spent part of it!
• I wonder if the Straussians will now be searching for hidden political meanings in porn sites!
• Rodham's future in national politics is now doubtful
• The ever-sensible Jim DeLong writes on intellectual property and Napster (link from The American Mind)
• Elizabeth deals with the question of semi-anonymous journalling
• For all you exhibitionists out there, one of my favorite news sites is auditioning for newscasters!

2001-02-23

• The wife of Russia's leader thinks he is a vampire (which is far nicer than what Rodham thinks of Bubba)
• LeftWingNut (n.): Species of statists, once thought extinct, but recently spotted at a press conference
• Are they paying Bore to teach Political Journalism or Left-wing Tree-Hugging Activism 101?
• The same media that jumps on Dubya's every mispronounced word missed the fact their darling Rodham said "You know" 63 times during yesterday's press conference
• Salon's Eric Boehlert keeps the faith regarding Bubba
• Hell almost freezes: Salon's Joan Walsh criticizes Bubba
• Carville says it's not his style to pile on, then does just that re: Bubba (NY Times)
• I've come to admire Kaycee's sense of life (and sense, for that matter)
• In our ongoing efforts at multicultural awareness, here's a little piece on Women and Power
• Krauthammer: Israel's unity coalition a "government of political convenience, a safety net for careerist politicians"
• Thomas Sowell: Back Door Quotas
• Latest Poll: Bubba further down, Dubya further up
• The morbid political item of the day
• Paul Gigot: Bubba and Rodham continue defining Dem morality down
• Peggy Noonan on Pardongate
• In Borneo, they're mad as hell and breaking out the... spears
• Civilians contributed to Navy debacle

2001-02-22

• The Capitol Hillbillies
• Would you trust anything that comes out of this bitter woman's pie hole?
• You just KNEW a "heartbroken" Rodham would play the victim again!
• Naked News: Literally, with NOTHING to hide (link courtesy of R)
• Thinking about sleep
• Was HG Wells a womanizer AND a plagiarist?
• Time to quit neglecting counterintelligence
• R. Emmett Tyrrell on the eco-hypochondriacs
• Larry Elder points out liberal hypocrisy on race
• The homeless are back!
• Thomas Sowell: Taxing the Living and the Dead
• Jonah Goldberg on Co-President (at least in his mind) John McPain
• California's Dim Bulbs
• Sprawl in America
• CA Gray Davis threatens to seize entire power grid!
• Ann Coulter figures out it's been a mistake to treat liberals like adults for so long
• Liberal Wackiness: Al Hunt urges Clinton to disappear while defending him
• Somali lesbians get death penalty for "exercising unnatural behaviour"
• First it was the journalists, now Mugabe is blaming his "white enemies"
• As punishment in jail, they have to wear these turbans
• Joanna has been poking around the FedEx website....
• Jonelin has some thoughts on local academic politics (blar!)
• Michelle has been updating like mad!
• WOIFM: "Bill Clinton has ripped a sucking chest wound into his possible future as a leader of the Democratic Party"
• TAM asks: "Why do reporters continue to care what celebrities have to say about politics?"

2001-02-21

• People like this help explain why elder Bush was a one-term Prez
• Tax-Free PC week in PA!
• The Dullness of Dowd
• Liberals should be pleased by the demise of the military-industrial "complex"
• The Reinvention of Privacy
• Does Eminem have more in common with his conservative critics than they think?
• Jimmy Carter calls Bubba's Rich pardon "disgraceful"
• They were the President
• Religion, politics, sex scandals: Peru is a LOT more interesting than Bubba and Rodham these days!
• I'm planning a holy dip during my Memorial Day canoeing expedition
• That's a damn scary photo
• Ehud Barak decides not to join unity government

2001-02-20

• Minnesotans should be very proud of their neanderthal governor
• Trouble at the BBC?
• Carter's former chief of staff calls Bubba and Rodham grifters!
• I'm unconvinced after this article that it's okay to steal the creative work of others
• The Uncivil Antirights Commission
• What the CA attempt to dump SAT scores really means
• Another of Bubba's former "enablers" piles on
• One of Bubba and Rodham's former "enablers" continues his vendetta
• Someone needs to tell CA Gov Gray Davis that price controls went out with disco
• Let's not forget the former President's "enablers"
• Why would anyone trust a known liar?
• The Russification of NATO?
• Destroying the train station will surely make the trains run on time!

2001-02-19

• A live bootleg version of my favorite Groobees' song (from the 2-17-01 Mucky Duck show)
• If your government is bankrupt, starting a war with Israel seems like a bad idea
• Yo Mama's Last Supper: At the Brooklyn Museum of Art (partial courtesy of taxpayers)
• Can Clarence Thomas (and like-minded folks) reclaims the civil rights movement?
• Novak on Clinton's "Peacemaker"
• The assessment of Reagan gets better and better as time passes
• You gotta love those kooky liberal law professors
• Crisis for Turkish PM: "The honourable president... levelled grave accusations against me, using impolite language"

2001-02-18

• A bad day for you Neck-Car fans
• Sometimes it's useful to look at the record of statist economists and politicians
• George Will points out the obvious (to everyone but the DC statists)
• *yawn* Bubba defends himself in the NY Times (for those who care)
• Notice Greenpeace wants NOTHING to do with the US Navy after that Japanese incident!
• Happy Birthday to Rune!

2001-02-17

• I really like the layout of Internity
• Dante endures
• The New Democratic Party: Negative politics trumps the old (misguided) idealism
• The New Democratic Party: Don't promote your own views, just smear the other parties
• One of the most lovely -- and dangerous -- spots in the world
• And the collapse of the Palestinian Authority should bother me for what reason?
• Pauline Hanson reminds me of Pat Buchanan
• The woes of third-world countries are always the fault of journalists and NOT the petty dictators
• The grownups are back in charge of American foreign policy
• In with standards, out with bad browsers (from Andrew)

2001-02-16

• Bubba's popularity plummets
• San Francisco is always on the edge
• This is an unusual and refreshing view on Clarence Thomas from a liberal African-American woman
• Want a pardon? Just flash the hooters (and cash)
• Dicky and Tommy: "It's ours, all ours, and you can't have it back. Ours!"
• Thomas Sowell rips Ruth Bader Dimsburg a new one
• How long before this government falls and Bibi Netanyahu is elected?
• Undoing the Clinton mess will take a while
• The jury is in: Daimler has been a disaster for Chrysler
• Podhoretz finds Bush more satisfying than I, at least after this week
• Paul Gigot blasts the DC Tax and Spend crowd (Dems and Repubs)
• What the hell is Indonesian President Wahid doing?!
• Does Lebanon really want to act as a Hizbollah staging ground?
• What an obviously sound policy!
• A John Blake sighting?
• Rune brought this odd little site to my attention

2001-02-15

• New photos of Kiwi posted on the site
• There's an opportunity for Republicans to steal these "Cato Democrats" -- if they don't succumb to the ways of DC
• Maureen Dowd is an idiot. Now let's move on
• Isn't National Review better than this?
• Thomas Sowell on the magic words of statists
• Larry Elder on Athletes and Role Models
• A former Prof of mine (Jay Greene) finds that school choice works
• Bill Gertz reports the Russians still preparing for war
• Same old DC: More Bush backtracking
• Did anyone notice that Bubba didn't define "any appropriate inquiry"
• Clarence Thomas: Be Not Afraid
• Why James Jeffords hasn't switched parties years ago is unclear to me
• Democratic Disintegration: Jesse Jacksoff's 2nd affair to go public
• Bad news at Cisco
• Tom Daschle's Politics of Envy
• Business as usual: Bush's backtracking has begun
• A Dem leader laments the party's Clinton Problem
• John Fund on the Pardon Precedent
• Harlem Deserves Better
• A collection of Solicitor-General Ted Olson's writings for the WSJ
• Civilians should NEVER set foot in active military equipment. Period.
• Here is some real "disenfranchisement" for Jesse Jacksoff and other Dems who like the word
• Does Bubba not realize the national embarrassment he's become?
• Am I the only one who finds a wry sense of humor in BBC headlines at times?
• Few of us document our emergency trips to the hospital. Noah Grey did, and it's kinda cool

2001-02-14

• I hadn't read Joanna's compelling defense of Microsoft until today
• Michael Barone on The Durable Reagan
• Occasionally, Jack Kemp (once my heir-apparent to Reagan) still makes sense
• Isn't it sacrilegious for Libertarians to think so seriously about weapons procurement?
• Walter Williams has some thoughts on taxes
• Ever the populist, O'Reilly offers a "fair" tax plan
• Although Conason is an idiot, the headline is dead on
• It's one thing renting out the Lincoln bedroom....
• What is an "unreconstructed Zionist?"
• Ashcroft quietly targets the INS
• Kucewicz: "California policymakers have tried to repeal the laws of economics -- and failed"
• George Will on Israel -- and the US -- after Barak
• The ultimate censorship
• It looks like I was WAY too critical of Hakeem recently

2001-02-13

• Richard Roberts: The Ultimate Twit For God (tm)
• The Bushies have sent the wrong signals on defense budgeting
• Krauthammer on the return of Ariel Sharon
• Bubba just can't live without attention -- good or bad
• Why is the National Transportation Safety Board investigating?
• A COLOSSAL slip of the tongue
• How long does a NASDAQ stock (namely Salon) have to stay below $1 before delisting?
• The most delusional, hallucinatory column in Salon.com's history?
• Rampant Apostasy in the Church of Bubba and Rodham
• Shouldn't the California education establishment's "agenda" be education?
• Interview with the editors of Reagan, In His Own Hand
• Mansfield interviewed about his new grading policy
• Wesley Pruden thinks the new Prez may have been underestimated
• Carter Redux: The real legacy of Bill Clinton's Administration
• Jesse Jacksoff is now seeking approval from a man he claimed "stole the election" and "disenfranchised blacks"
• 57% Approve of Dubya; 55% Glad Bubba is Gone
• Why Margaret Carlson is a celebrated political journalist is something I can't understand after reading crap like this
• Where was this level of concern when the sleazeball was President?
• Thomas Bray thinks the Dems will long remain Prisoners of Bill
• Mr. DiIulio needs to stop thinking and start promoting his President's priorities
• Intrigue: Did Sharon convince caretaker PM Barak to carry out this assassination as part of coalition negotiations?
• I guess this dolt thinks we care about his views on politics because he occasionally plays the part of President?

2001-02-12

• Sounds like a Doofus Convention to me
• Are Democrats NEVER happy?
• Is life really THAT bad for the ever dour Congressional Black Caucus?!
• A bad day for millions of Napster thieves
• Check out the random newspaper ads at Jaffo's site (hilarious)
• Straight talk on the Reagan tax cuts
• Altruism, selfishness, or WHAT?
• Kuztz on Taking Back the Academy (link courtesy of Mr. Vaughn)
• The Dems are disoriented
• Camille Paglia: "We�re Getting Clinton Now as He Really Is"
• Novak on the Bush administration's internal judicial politics
• The ABM Treaty must go
• Like me, John Fund wonders what the sleaziest living ex-President is hiding
• Emirate bans the use of poor grammar in advertisements
• Secret videos of presidential candidates are always fun!
• How often is the term "remonstrating" used in sports columns in the US?!

2001-02-11

• The freaks are getting damn mad in CA! (pilfered from Jaffo)
• Noah Grey's website is just as impressive as his GreyMatter software
• Dick Morris continues the vendetta against his old boss (but why?)
• A pretty good piece of political journalism (rare these days) on Tom DeLay
• The sleaziest President in modern history is still making news in court
• The dean of White House reporters finds Bush imitating Reagan
• George Will advises the dems, "pouting is not a program"
• It is time for Jesse to go
• Legacy: former President Clinton presided over the decline of the Dems
• VA republicans ready to abandon tax cuts in favor of spending like drunken sailors
• That moronic grin has returned to Ehud Barak
• The home of the Cowboys' chief rivals in the 70s is turned to rubble
• Can anyone tell me what motivates Timothy McVeigh?
• Check out Jonelin's ROCKING NEW DESIGN!

2001-02-10

• Here's a good use of government funds!
• The former President will have to settle for more modest offices
• The tree huggers won't be happy until all of CA is in the dark
• David Broder looks at Democratic Disarray
• Democrat Zell Miller explains why he supports a tax cut
• LeftWingNut (tm) Al Hunt engages in class warfare
• I just love this photo of Iranian President Khatami
• First the Czech state TV crisis, now the Bulgarian state radio crisis
• No doubt Moscow will get this caviar crisis straightened out
• US Navy declares war on Japanese fishermen!
• Just in case the court rules against napster, you thieves better get busy this weekend

2001-02-09

• Madeleine Not-At-Albright signs book deal (but what dimwits will read it?)
• A bigger moron than the person he's "lampooning"
• Check out the liberal assholes who didn't vote to wish former President Reagan a Happy 90th
• William Raspberry: The Incredible Shrinking Black Agenda
• Orenthal surrenders this time (unlike when he cut those people's heads off)
• Atlas Shrugged anyone? Judge orders utilities to supply CA with electricity
• Maverick defense intellectual could reshape Pentagon
• Krauthammer assesses Barak's "Legacy"
• AlGore should quit blaming the former President
• John Fund: Asking Everyone Tough Questions Doesn't Make a Network Conservative
• Paul Gigot on How to Enforce a Tax Cut
• Peggy Noonan: Three Presidents, One Lesson
• The Czechs finally have a new TV boss

2001-02-08

• What's missing here is Mr. Ashcroft slapping the cuffs on that evil man
• Harvey Mansfield succumbs to grade inflation (sort of)
• Sewage crisis under Lee Brown's administration (fitting, eh?)
• Add this to your bookmarks and click it next time you're considering fast food
• Larry Elder: Charity is not the government's job
• Thomas Sowell: Wise versus Smart II
• Milton Friedman ponders How to Cure Health Care
• John McPain apparently thinks he's the co-President
• For Californians, It's not so Green in the Dark
• The Gore-Columbia gag order
• Erzse goes private and I'm not invited *pout*
• I'm not the only one having a bad week

2001-02-07

• Lee Brown is an idiot
• Clinton�s rent jumps $100,000
• Gore doesn't connect with the electorate or with students
• Camille Paglia is in rare form with this one!
• While Saddam prepares for war with Israel. . .
• . . . new pal Syria continues its belligerent tone
• In terms of the military, the Clinton years look at lot like the Carter years
• How much longer before Salon goes the way of voter.com?
• Ted Olson's stellar performances in the Bush v. Gore SupCt battles may explain this Salon editor's raging against him
• Voter.com shuts down
• Jack Kemp on Reagan
• Rodham establishes what amounts to her 2004 Presidential campaign PAC
• Bibi Netanyahu on Israel's Vote for a Safe Peace
• Bill O'Reilly: How the Clintons Do It
• Do the LeftWingNuts (tm) really want to make this man their cause celebre?
• Why Sharon Won: Israelis rejected a policy of giving without getting
• Bitches like this have turned office parties most everywhere into lame affairs
• As per our 1 February prediction, it's Sharon in a landslide
• Remember how Dems called that business in FL a "riot?" Well, this is a real riot
• Demand inelasticity in the Cameroon beer market
• One of my neighbor's relatives?
• Mack Brown keeps having great recruiting classes and losing big football games
• It's time for Olajuwon to shut up and play (if he can)
• Could overvaccination in humans lead to similarly fatal disorders? (from Callie)
• From WOIFM: Netflix is forced by states to charge sales tax (and the proper relationship of the interstate commerce clause and 10th amendment is further distorted)
• The next commemorative postage stamp?
• This dude makes Gordon Stuber look like a choirboy (link from Jaffo)
• The Clinton-Gore pathology: it was always someone else's fault
• A collection of Reagan's speeches

2001-02-06

• Happy 90th Birthday, Mr. Reagan
• The real Reagan (book review of In His Own Hand)
• Broder: Reaganomics endures
• Frank Gaffney on the US and Sharon's Israel
• Eminent domain is evil
• Paul Wolfowitz is an outstanding choice for the #2 job at Defense
• John Fund: How Ronald Reagan Changed America
• Credit Crunch: The "Clinton Economy" deflates
• People supporting others becomes a "time bomb" when population growth declines
• The term "toxic lake" scares the hell out of me
• I may start dressing this way for work

2001-02-05

• Presidential thieves: some "gifts" not meant for the Clintons
• Fox news ratings continue to soar
• Gertz: China adding missiles aimed toward Taiwan
• Overlawyered & Overgoverned: Reason's annual review
• Cut spending? Given the campaign promises of Gush/Bore, this is a real laugher!
• Will Ariel Sharon be Israel's Churchill?
• Today's New York Times: All the news that's fit to distort
• Barak is right, but he's got things in reverse
• The Russian (and CA?) solution to all woes: fire the minister and pile on more regulations!
• Malaysia wins my "Coolest sounding capital" contest: Kuala Lumpur
• I didn't know anyone actually was charged with "plunder" these days
• Where you sit determines where you stand: Colin Powell begins to sound like a squish
• Xian "decline" in north Nigeria
• Bill O'Reilly: conservative, populist, or just popular?
• National energy "policy" is exactly what is NOT needed!
• An insider looks at the decline of Blogger

2001-02-04

• Are you Dems as ecstatic as Rodham over your party's new national chair (left)?
• The former President can get away with ANYTHING
• Jesse Jacksoff's affluent minority friends benefit the most from his racism
• I actually got an email from the purveyor of this nonsense asking me to add it to my links page
• Bill Bennett likes Bush's education proposals
• Maureen Dowd looks at the pathological victims (err... the Clintons)
• Barak used to be grinning in every photo, but not anymore
• The old Soviet military propaganda machine is alive and well
• Is that a gecko, or are you just happy to see me?
• Don't screw with the Malaysian Navy
• FARC holds all the cards in Colombia
• Has Shell misbehaved in Nigeria?

2001-02-03

• Review of last night's RK Fabulous Satellite Lounge show
• I'm a sucker for photos like this
• Peter Schramm: On Reclaiming Liberal Education In The University
• Ideas Should be the Teacher in a College Classroom
• Mac Owens reviews Jaffa's A New Birth of Freedom
• Pat Garrity on the foreign policy of Strength with Magnanimity
• You students of American political thought can win some cash if your essay on Madison is good enough
• Cato debunks some myths about "Big Oil"
• Francis Fukuyama reviews eco-doomsayer Paul Ehrlich's new book (and human nature)
• John McPain is a grandstanding a-hole
• Political intellectuals really ought not write about sports (aside from your friendly host, of course)
• More daily revelations of the former President's sleaze
• Who really benefits from school choice?
• George Melloan argues the Bush Tax Cut is way too small
• A Boston Globe reporter doesn't even attempt to substantiate this shamefully biased little gem: "Bush took several steps in the presidential campaign that seemed to condone bigotry"
• I love to hear academics defend perks (like not showing up at their place of employment!) that most people can't even comprehend

2001-02-02

• Is this from Boston Public?
• Olajuwon is a joke, and it's time to cut his whiny ass and move on
• Whole Math is flunking
• Commentary reviews Jaffa's A New Birth of Freedom
• Frank Gaffney: Bush, Missile Defense, and the Critics
• Coulter on CA electric mess: "whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it"
• An example of why Paul Gigot is one of the finest political journalists writing
• The junior idiotic Senator from MO gets back in step with Boxer, Rodham, Chap Kennedy, and other leftwing nuts
• Who paid for Jesse Jacksoff's mistress?
• More sleaze from former President Clinton
• John Ashcroft is no Janet Reno!
• Cal Thomas: Reagan's legacy wears well at 90
• The Presidential Corruption Index
• Lebanon is no place to be "missing"
• Barak is about to be crushed
• The folks at ColdBacon are working on an essay. Go help 'em out

2001-02-01

• It's the Capitalist v. Commie fashion show!
• Surely Senator Rodham will come to the defense of this elderly woman from her adopted state
• Maybe Wes Craven was filming that scary man Janet Reno
• What a pleasant change if this is the most "dirt" the media can dig up on the new administration
• The anti-Reno wins confirmation; eight Dems deserve praise
• The Libertarian in me LOVES members of parliament beating each other to death, and the ensuing gridlock
• Insight from writers' notebooks
• Postmodern Arkansas: Boy suspended for pointing a chicken finger!
• Larry Elder encourages ALL politicians to read the Constitution (I like this guy more and more)
• Novak on Alan Greenspan, political chameleon
• Social pyschologists agree with me: stereotypes are often useful
• Reagan's influence continues to grow
• Left-wing nuts advocate gridlock and obstruction
• The Washington Post looks back at Florida
• Hardball goes soft: Chris Matthews on good statesmanship and honoring the office of President
• Clueless When Convenient: Rodham ALWAYS has an opinion!
• Permanent minority: Chap Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Rodham, and Leahy lead the "old" Dems
• Belgian pedophile says his prison stay is uncomfortable!
• Surely Madeleine Not-At-Albright wouldn't have had caviar and wine with a terrorist?!
• Does this mean Chap Kennedy might one day be tried as an adult for killing that woman?
• Even Florida's electoral mess doesn't compare to this