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2001-04-14

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2001-04-13

• The Peoples' State of Kalifornia fights for gender justice
• A bad day for the WellBelowAMillionLeftWingGunNuts
• Another bug bomb explosion in the Peoples' State of Kalifornia
• The Astros have reason to smile
• I find it hard to believe the LeftWingNuts at 60 Minutes are going to nail Je$$e Jack$off
• Black America's Love Affair with Bubba
• I can't think of a good headline (suggestions?) but felt like blogging this one anyway
• Unbalanced Budget Coverage
• Wesley Pruden disputes the Chinese economics-politics freedom nexus
• The great presidential historian Stephen Hess has noticed Bush's leadership style
• Kagan & Kristol: Like chimpanzees in a zoo screeching and gyrating for attention
• Bill O'Reilly on the Fleecing of America
• A new study on Jefferson and Hemings (I tend to agree with Rahe)
• Tauzin is wrong on the baby Bells (and grown men should not use the name "Billy")
• Refreshing: Strategic (rather than semantic) thoughts on China
• Bush would do well to heed Paul Gigot's advice
• Hawaii is a great argument for private education
• Yellow ribbon "tends to reflect national impotence rather than national resolve"
• Modernist buildings under fire
• The freak who was stalking Martina Hingis
• What in the hell is up with dude's hair?
• Not to be morbid or anything, but if the Pope can't participate in procession, might it be time for him to move aside?
• This left me in awe (link via WOIFM)
• Is YOUR ISP this good? (link from the American Mind)
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-12

• Rush has also noticed those mindless "suburban women"
• Introducing... ZeroPolitics.org // an ongoing argument for less government
• Thomas Sowell: Facts don't matter to McPain and other First Amendment Foes
• The best US airline flying scores some great free publicity
• Sean on gender equity
• Proof that the LeftWingNuts don't have a monopoly on foolish foreign policy writings
• Let's hold LeftWingNuts accountable by publicizing their nonsense
• Krauthammer: China Lost
• I'll just bet Slobodan the Butcher is having chest pains!
• Great publicity for Continental's little-flown Guam services
• George Will on liberalism's appeal
• Racism Watch: Quotas are addictive
• Bush Behind the Scenes: A new presidential leadership style
• Arsenic Levels: The rest of the story
• It's a shame we won't have a chance to try the lovely Ann Coulter's recommendations!
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-11

• Junior Griffey? Sorry, but I'll take Bagwell
• The RightWingNuts at NewsMax are hysterical on China
• The Lovely (and "very nice") Evelynne wants you lurkers to introduce yourselves
• Bubba's Legacy
• Racism watch: Any non-Black who wrote that Hispanics "multiply like rabbits" would be crucified!
• Unsurprisingly, Professor Bore lives up to his nickname
• If Bubba were homeless and afflicted with AIDS, he might have gotten that expensive real estate he wanted!
• Will Lester and the AP: We Report, WE decide!
• Remember Je$$e's trip to play nice with Slobodan the Butcher?
• The words have a certain synergy: Costner, Castro, Cuba
• Coogs beat A&M, win their 14th of the last 16 games
• Maybe giving Shas the Interior Ministry WASN'T such a good idea
• More reading for Cragg Hines and his mindless suburban women
• Happy 10th Anniversary, [Bloa]Ted
• Lee Brown's typically LeftWingNut answer to city problems: Raise Taxes!
• Rice Poli Sci Prof Bob Stein on Mayor Lee Brown: "He doesn't seem to get the water mains fixed" (no shit!)
• 20 years ago, Craig Roberts wrote and thought coherently
• Cragg Hines and his mindless suburban women should read this article
• Je$$e Jack$off's cheap publicity stunt won't get a chance
• Cragg Hines is an idiot (and his caricature of mindless "suburban women" is indicative)
• Bad news for the Dems
• Will we all be socialists in 20 years?
• The LeftWingNuts turn increasingly apoplectic
• Pete DuPont: The latest "affirmative action" plan abolishes merit altogether
• A real crisis in Turkey
• The China "crisis" comes to an end
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-10

• New York: Still the "City of the Damned"
• Why does John Derbyshire refer to THE Jews (and not just Jews, if at all)?
• 1999 thoughts on China, from one of my favorite writers on international politics
• O'Reilly is wound up today!
• I'm drawing blanks on a good nickname for Arianna Huffington (shown here admiring Al Dullton, an intellectual equal to be sure)
• Just when you think Arianna Huffington can't seem any dumber.... she goes and writes another column!
• Paul O'Neill has been dreadful so far (unlike the Yankees slugger of the same name)
• Why is Ruth Bader Dimsburg advocating public policy positions from the bench?!
• Dear Gawd: "When she opened her mouth, smoke came out"
• Lee Brown's America: Police Chief apologizes over idiotic use of fire hydrants as traffic control devices (I'm not making this up)
• The Gravy Trainers at the Ayn Rand Institute aren't going to like this review
• Could we do a 24-for-1 trade with China instead?!
• YOUR taxes are higher than ever
• Toledo will win the runoff in Peru
• Young King Abdullah should shave and get himself a nice, dark blue wool suit
• Former Nigerian military ruler eyes comeback
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-09

• Should the Weekly Standard be retitled the Whiny Standard?
• Kagan & Kristol are hallucinating about our "humiliation" but are right on the need to contain China
• Forever a Cowboy
• Krauthammer: "There is nothing to compare with centuries of state-sponsored slavery followed by a century of state-sponsored discrimination"
• This is some of the day's critical news?
• What the LeftWingEducationNuts are doing to mathematics
• Does Jesus tell you to do things?
• Salon.com executive editor Gary Kamiya, spewing the company line till the very end
• How far away can the end be?
• I don't agree that David Egowitz is a racist, but I LOVE this editorial response!
• Moron: 30 foggers in an 800 square-foot home?!
• Bubba has a pathological craving for attention and adulation
• Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (more on this later)
• Lee Brown's America: Where fire hydrants serve as traffic control devices
• A good "green" cabinet staff pick
• What if China misreads America?
• A surprisingly good economics piece from the L[eftist] A[sinine] Times
• Chicago Tribune feature on Bush strategist Karl Rove
• Novak on Bush's Chinese foreign-policy decisionmaking
• Jeffords, Chafee, and Nelson: Republicrats who want to keep YOUR money
• President Bush: "I understand civility doesn't make good copy"
• On China, the L[eftist] A[sinine] Times is out of touch with reality
• The NY Times is only 90% out of touch with reality
• Bully (for) Bush’s foreign policy
• Yellow Davis, Mr. Thompson, or soon-to-be ex-governor?
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-08

• I guess the writers who said Tiger was "in a slump" can shut the hell up now
• UH Freshman fires complete-game one-hitter
• The first paragraph of this Washington Post piece is dreadful (and the rest is nearly as bad)
• Relativism prevails at the L[eftist] A[sinine] Times
• Vomit: This "journalist" should be Tommy Daschle's press secretary!
• Why would anyone elect Frank Keating's wife to ANYTHING?!
• Je$$e Jack$off helps "his people"
• Blar: Suburban yuppies are moving to the inner city, driving up real estate prices
• Houston's Earth Day celebrants seem to be trampling the grass rather badly!
• How do you cut taxes for non-taxpayers?!
• L[eftist] A[sinine] Times nonsense: Since when is support for vouchers and accountability through testing "a more centrist position" that is close to Dem preferences?
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-07

• Coogs' freshman pitching shows lots of promise
• The Chronicle's cheerleading notwithstanding, Drayton McLane is a cheap, meddling, sad excuse of an owner
• Glossary of Frequently Used Terms on this website
• Re the last sentence: "It takes a village" to lose weight
• Dietary science is getting somewhere -- now it's time to examine the quality (or glycemic index) of carbs (link via Jaffo)
• Weatherbug: I just downloaded this great little utility yesterday
• Jesse Helms will ROLL Erskine Bowles!
• Don't apologize, Jonah!
• William Blake responded instinctively to Dante; Botticelli did not
• Moving closer to Bush's tax-cut numbers
• Largest utility in the Peoples' State of California files for bankruptcy
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-06

• The thin air must explain this
• Zero-Tolerance: Educating a generation of snitches
• Perhaps the first successful "drunken frostbite" worker's comp claim in history
• Rodham KNOWS it's much easier for a LeftWingNut to be a Senator for Life than a President (ever)
• What a dumbass
• I LOVED Johnny Carson (link via Jaffo)
• Dan Blather is a (liberal) hypocritical windbag. Next topic?
• Time's hysterically bad science
• Olson confirmation: "The legal arguments at the hearing tended to be brief because, truth be told, there wasn't a member of the Judiciary Committee on either side of the aisle who could argue the law with Olson."
• Paul Gigot: The Tao of Bush
• Peggy Noonan praises Dan Blather's pre-apology Coming Out
• WTF: "Stormy weather ahead - for the protocol and for the planet"
• Isn't it fitting that Russia is the only place Ted Turner is relevant these days?
• Mysticism is doing quite well in Ghana
• A post-biker-rally Day of Mourning
• Who needs rail?! We'll just build more (polluting and congesting) lanes!
• Bob's Quick Guide to the Apostrophe (via Pith and Vinegar)
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-05

• Celebrated by academia and media, Paul Krugman is the most dangerous kind of (misguided) economist
• Sometimes, Salon's other stuff makes up for their political nonsense
• Sorry, Rush, I've been calling him Co-President McPain longer than your "President in Exile"
• Limbaugh on Dan Blather
• Zero-Tolerance LeftWingEducationNuts have gone mad!
• One of many reasons I refer to him as Al Dullton
• Salon doesn't find Jonah Goldberg nearly as funny as I do
• Salon doesn't find its stock value nearly as funny as I do
• In Joe Conason's world, Ted Olson's past is fair game, but don't mention Monica, or Whitewater, or Rose Law Firm, or Travelgate....
• Turner & AOL: "He's been gone for a while. It's nice to hear he's finally admitting it"
• Maybe a fire station is needed downtown in America's 4th largest city after all
• Claremonster Charles Kesler defends Lincoln
• Pacifica: I love to watch various LeftWingSects battle it out!
• Cal Thomas: None Dare Call It Censorship
• An interesting point or two is lurking somewhere in this woman's dreadful writing (maybe)
• Thomas Sowell on "Feel Good" Laws
• RET: Liberals are desperate, oblivious, angry, and out of touch (*whew*)
• Taiwan SHOULD get weapons, but the decision should NOT be linked to the plane downing
• NY Times idiocy: What is described in the third paragraph is NOT supply-side economics, but the Keynesian multiplier effect!
• A Rather unconvincing apology
• George Will buys into the "Economics will eventually make them like us" argument (but is he right?)
• [Bloa]Ted[DrunkenPhilanderer] doesn't much like Bush's budget plan
• Larry Elder reflects on the Peoples' State of California
• Goldberg has saved me having to write this: "The Chinese are testing George W. Bush and flexing some nationalist muscles; it's a very old story"
• Conservatives need new tactics on McPain-Feingold
• Remember the Keating Five (hint: McPain was one)?
• I wonder just how long it took the diplomats to work out the statement of "regret"
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-04

• A typical day in Lee Brown's America
• This rivals Derbyshire's earlier attack on Chelsea Clinton in terms of sheer idiocy
• Sorry, but Russia has LONG tried to isolate the US from a greater Europe (with Russia as ringleader, of course)
• Greenberg: "Diversity" is this decade's functional equivalent of "separate but equal"
• Jack Kemp on internet privacy
• Goldberg on the McCainiacal assault on the first amendment
• China's Gorby: Remember Cold War reporting that always mentioned Soviet "hardliners" as opposed to nice guys like Gorby (and Brezhnev, and Kruschev, and...)?
• Walter Williams BLASTS the cult of black victimology
• Blankley is right on McPain-Feingold, wrong on the People's State of CA
• As NRO points out, the LA Times captures the spirit of the bill: "Foes will claim [McPain-Feingold] is a massive affront to the 1st Amendment's guardianship of free speech as well. Don't listen to them."
• Frank Gaffney fashions an aggressive policy towards China (and other anti-liberty nations)
• The Celebrity as Citizen (even Political Philosopher)
• As an institution, the State Department remains consistently silly
• Kudlow: Is this a liberal moment?
• The chief beneficiary of McCain-Feingold: President Bush's re-election war chest
• Bill Gertz reports on the China mess
• Closet Democrat? Rather's been out of the closet his whole career!
• Funny: the dirtiest team in the NBA is whining about the Lakers' "rough play"
• In this gawdawful paper, it's news when relatives of the managing editor die
• Lee Brown's America: Council sends the mayor a warning on his past budget assumptions
• How one man reacted to his oppressive work environment (via Pith and Vinegar)
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-03

• Roger Clemens is a badass
• Limbaugh's observations are pretty sharp
• Going to tennis tourneys is now stalking? I wonder when Reckless Kelly is gonna have ME thrown in jail?!
• We like the site redesign at Internity
• I've always disliked government offices using the term "minority" or any racial identifier for that matter
• Flight From Hell: She Fell Over in a Toilet and Suffered a Head Injury?!
• Introducing. . . Fredrik K.R. Norman
• Limbaugh misses a bigger point: Why shouldn't an AM station that broadcasts "free" over the air be able to stream the same signal over the internet?
• Interview with Bill Gertz, one of the best journalists on international affairs
• Despite her denials, Doris Kearns Goodwin remains a typical LeftWingAcademicNut (distinguished from the rather tasty Macadamia)
• Mansfield on grade inflation
• Bill O'Reilly has many of the right sentiments, even if he's simplistic
• Surely a political sophisticate like Dick Morris isn't REALLY surprised at Tommy Daschle's dishonesty
• The OECD's war against "tax havens" (or what I call liberty)
• NRO: I am Woman, Hear me Whine
• Is "medicinal need" the wrong strategy for drug legalization?
• Taiwan Was Right All Along
• The political philosopher speaks
• The EuroWeenies are tackling some tough issues
• Lee Brown's America: Houston will again run budget deficits that are illegal under city charter
• Comments on these articles?

2001-04-02

• Goofy LeftWingTreeHuggers: Wouldn't the fire elevate CO2 and pollutant levels?
• (Chinese) Ghosts Who Refuse to Rest
• "Special" Justice
• The Babs Political Manifesto (pdf link)
• Look who's wanted by the Justice Department!
• Zero tolerance is just another name for LeftWingFascism
• Improper arrest and incarceration (not to mention the fifth amendment)?
• Bubba and Not-at-Albright's "Strategic Partners"
• Of COURSE he won't run for Prez again -- he'd lose and we'd be done with him!
• Of COURSE the Dems will nominate McPain to conference committee: His agenda is theirs, not the Republicans'
• Children and the Gender Wars
• Making large buildings disappear is tiring
• Someone should tell the NY Times they are WAY behind the curve on this one
• You can blame Co-President McPain when you start getting more political junk mail and phone calls
• When did USA Today become serious?
• Donald Lambro blasts the McPain assault on the First Amendment
• Cato analyst: "Kyoto was probably the dumbest international instrument signed by an American chief executive."
• Why national education achievement tests are no panacea
• May "Land for Peace" Rest in Peace
• Kuwaiti Tony Orlando?
• Botswana is a BAD place to commit a love-triangle murder
• Answering machine message: Charley Pride or my friend R?

2001-04-01

• Babs, Political Philosopher
• The Museum as Fun House
• Rich Lowry shares my attitude towards Co-President McPain and the First Amendment foes
• Is Yellow Davis in trouble in CA?
• After eight years of neglect, the military continues to suffer one mishap after another
• Venus makes an incredible comeback and ESPN.com runs a photo of Capriati?!