Archives - December 2001
31 December 2001
- Nine things Bill Simmons learned about the GalleryFurniture.com Bowl [via Dave]
- Eric Mauro is not far from Jack Kemp on the impact of deflation on Argentina [Related]
- Will Pakistan arrest mollify India?
- Jihad: From Betterment to Battle
- Lloyd Cutler reflects on 1942 tribunals
- Dubious Distinction: Texas leads nation in murky "taxing districts"
- The Jerusalem Post worries the US State Department is about to resurrect the Nobel Terrorist
- Bin Laden's Fading Star
- Daniel Pipes on the world war on terror
- I'm certainly glad federal involvement has resulted in top-notch security screeners
- Vomit: Tom Daschle's obstructionism now dictated by the Founding Fathers!
- Don Feder: "Can mythology, or fairy tales, lead us to faith?"
- Don Rumsfeld, Rock Star [Related]
30 December 2001
- Who's next in Argentina?
- A better answer would be, "The Greater Houston Partnership determines our endorsements"
- Cowboys victory puts them past my 14 August prediction of four wins [Flashback]
- The legacy of a foreign policy guided by Clinton's heat-seeking penis
- Minimal Forces, Maximal Bach
- Bill O'Reilly slams the liberal welfare state
- John O'Leary contrasts Chile and Argentina
- Jeff Jacoby on liberal hate speech in 2001
- Israel's Labor Party in Disarray
- The NY Post on the entitlement mentality of some WTC victims
- George Will on Euro-Utopianism
- Thomas Sowell on the New Era in American foreign policy
- On Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Revolution
- Should Bush use recess appointments, or apply more public pressure to the Senate?
- Short Review: RK at the Mucky Duck
29 December 2001
- Mark Steyn replies to Charles Johnson
- Chan Gailey is a good fit for Georgia Tech
- Has a well-known pundit been "borrowing" from Charles Johnson?
- US Military: Information Warriors
- Will the Philippines be next?
- Some synergy: pitiful Helen Thomas in the pitiful Chron
- Andrew Hofer critiques The Sum of our Discontent
- Crayons and a coloring book are better suited to Helen Thomas than a keyboard [via MTZb]
- Charles Johnson has more thoughts on profiling [Related]
- Thedore Dalrymple: Why Islam Appeals to Prisoners
- NY Times: Try Al Qaeda leaders as criminals, not soldiers (blech)
- Since "quagmire" won't work, the NY Times has a new critique (paragraph five)
- Colbert King won't be flying American Airlines (and neither will I)
- They went looking for a legacy and could only find a heat-seeking penis
- Stories You Won't See Next Year
- The Chron has been "borrowing" a lot from the Press lately [Related]
- What if Mack "Mr. Football" Brown had played Major Applewhite all year? [Related]
- Thinking About Blogger [Related]
28 December 2001
- First-hand account of Richard Reid's bombing attempt (by a fellow web-journaller) [via Kottke]
- Thomas B. Silver, RIP
- Warrior Politics: Robert Kaplan's latest is now available
- Time for introspection on the Left [via John Vaughn]
- The attacks on Satcher (who is often silly) are becoming absurd
- Richard Perle on Attacking Iraq (sure to displease Joshua Micah Marshall)
- Will boozer Chelsea interest the mainstream media as much as boozer Jenna? (doubtful)
- Patrick Ruffini outlines his sensible fusion of libertarianism and conservatism
- Allison knocks out a Houston landmark (the Allen Park Inn) [Photo Flashback]
- Ross Baker doesn't much care for the ongoing Clinton spin operation
- Anti-Semitism on the rise?
- Most people are wholly ignorant of Arab exploitation of Palestinians
- California always seems to have a new tax plan for social engineering projects
- Even the LA Times thinks we finally have some peacemaking for Colin Powell!
- Mark Steyn on air security, 99.9% ritual, 0.1% common sense
- Rich Lowry on the liberal case for attacking Iraq
- Stephen Schwartz: Terror Recruiters
- For Marshall of all people to equate Perle & crew with "think-tank amateurism" is funny
- Pipes and Schanzer: On to Baghdad
- "Renewable" energy won't power the world
- RET: Geraldo "is to journalism what a freak show is to entertainment"
- Lessons from the failed anti-terror efforts of the Clinton Administration
- Good stuff from Nick Schulz's Friday Fodder column
- James Glassman on the problem with "tech" funds
- Listless
- Christie Whitman's EPA embraces Al Gore's agenda
- Westerners Who Praise Al Jazeera Have Bought a Bill of Goods
- A Polish political theorist takes on democracy's internal enemies [via John Vaughn]
27 December 2001
- Somehow I've become a Pat Green fan
- Mark Steyn: War Between America and Europe [via LGF]
- Sunshine for (corporate welfare) farm subsidy recipients [via Den Beste]
- Jack Kemp is one of the few to get Argentina right
- Why is Novak such a Powell fan?
- You Houstonians should catch Willis Alan Ramsey at the Duck tonight
- Robb Walsh on Dong Ting's decline
- Richard Connelly on the Houston Chronicle's humor attack
- When did Texas Monthly writers become such cynics?
- The story of The Photo
- TAS interview with T.J. Rodgers (liberty-loving CEO of Cypress Semiconductor)
- Daniel Pipes: The Curious Case of Jamil al-Amin
- Has USA Today become a real newspaper? [via MediaNews]
- Truth and Fiction on Enron's 401(k) Practices
- Flashback: Another example of the fiasco that was Clinton's foreign policy team
- Worth Noting: NYC crime dropped AFTER Lee Brown was long gone as police commissioner
- Counterterrorism Before September 11
26 December 2001
- Why do Mack Brown's great recruiting classes always underachieve?
- Journal: Xmas Wrapup (with 3 photos of Osage County, OK -- woo hoo)
- Blogger's been hacked :(
- Cohen: Clinton's foreign-policy failures caused by GOP (and not his heat-seeking penis)!
- What if Harvard were run more like a corporation?
- Robert Tracinski on India's harsh lesson in US (State Department) foreign policy
- Perhaps Colin Powell should spend less time on "Palestine" and more on India-Pakistan
- Jeannie Marshall profiles us "anxious readers" [via ALD]
- Edward Rothstein on Destructive Innovation [via ALD]
- Bush DoD debates new bombers versus fighters
- Cal Thomas on Anthony Lewis, diehard LeftWingNut
- Novak on Daschle's recent defeats
- John Leo on the campaign to "humanize" John Walker
- Sorry, Bob Ray (?!), but Paul Krugman beat you to this (misguided) op-ed [Flashback]
- Why expect a Robert Scheer (Sneer?) xmas column to be any less venomous or shrill?
- I love the LeftWingNut who talks about "forces" that "are anti-clean air"
- Deroy Murdock on Giuliani's lessons for conservatives and libertarians
- Gordon and O'Hanlon point out the obvious (Iraq is "a tougher target")
- Dick Armey: All Hat and Lots of Cattle
- Shouldn't the food supply be as safe as the mail?
- Daniel Pipes: Johnny Walker Green
- Charles Dickens's Triumph
22 December 2001
21 December 2001
- Bill Clinton's legacy? ME ME ME ME ME ME
- Jonah Goldberg hopes Geraldo's idiocy doesn't discredit Fox's overall coverage
- Brent Bozell: "Liberalism is never having to say you're sorry"
- Joseph Farah: Why Palestinians Support Terror [via LGF]
- Ken Layne highlights the view from the Ivory Tower versus elsewhere
- Gerald Steinberg: Spare Us (Israel) Your Sympathy
- Once upon time, Paul Krugman wrote about economics (sometimes even sensibly)
- Whatever
- Gilder and Rhodes: No stimulus is better than what was posing as "stimulus"
- John Podhoretz on the Nobel Terrorist's pathological affinity for Jewish blood
- Funny how liberals like Dionne are always advocating more taxes (and more spending)
- Robert Kagan on cheesy Europeans
- Cheesy Europeans
- Internecine liberal warfare: The Nation goes after TNR [Flashback] [via MediaNews]
- Claremonster John Pitney on Gifts for College Students
- Mumia Abu-Jamal, Intellectual Illiterate
- Has Daschle overreached? Larry Kudlow thinks so
- Poor Jim Jeffords: Switching parties hasn't turned out as he expected (waah)
- Peter Beinart on American journalism, post-September 11
- IMF-sponsored disaster in Argentina
- Too much academic freedom (apparently) at Orange Coast College
- Racial preferences at Texas A&M
20 December 2001
- What comes after the riots and resignations in Argentina?
- Winer: Homonym or Synonym (also check out How to Kill the USPS....)
- Sarah Goldhagen: "Why ... is contemporary American architecture so bad?" [via ALD]
- Texas' best sportswriter contrasts winner Woodson with whiner Emmitt
- Uri Dan on European anti-Semitism
- French diplomacy may prove as incompetent as French warfighting
- Robert McElvaine is fighting The Man (the holy man, that is)
- I think Bob Herbert should invite homeless people to sleep on HIS property
- The Senate's soft-spoken obstructionist hack strikes again [Related]
- David Skinner on Lewis Lapham, latest loudmouth from the Know-Nothing Left
- The Power of (War) Propaganda [Related]
19 December 2001
- Mayor Pothole's political whore Chris Bell moves on to Congressional campaign
- Robb Walsh investigates nearby Udupi (vegetarian AND kosher Indian food)
- Richard Connelly on the pitiful Chron and the pitiful Tulsa World
- Houston police manpower shortage: Just another day in Mayor Pothole's America
- Does Microsoft plan more than games for the Xbox?
- Helen "Someone Should Tell This Bitter Senile Fool To Retire" Thomas's regular nonsense
- Oil and Politics in Russia
- How quaint: Jonah Goldberg suggests Ashcroft's critics at least READ his comments
- Andrew Hofer's deconstruction project
- Revolutionary Book [via JH3K]
- The US State Department never gets enough of "envoys"
- Michael Kelly on one relativistic Organization Kid
- The Washington Post gloss on the disaster known as Clinton Foreign Policy
- Ramesh Ponnuru on the vindication of conservative foreign policy
- Brian Doherty on the World Health Organization's agenda
- Memo to Houston Firefighters: Better back the winning mayoral candidate next time
18 December 2001
- Jonah Goldberg's latest is guaranteed to send libertarians to pound their keyboards
- Colin Powell could learn from Undersecretary Bolton
- Fifty-Two Things They (We) Do Better In America [via Ken Layne]
- Unbelievable: "I'm sure he wasn't intoxicated to the point he couldn't drive his car"
- WHAT is Colin Powell smoking (because it MUST be a foggy bottom high)?
- While liberals fret over ABM, tensions simmer between two other nuclear powers
- Frank Gaffney: Two steps forward, one step back on missile defense
- Ken Adelman on the war against American drivers ... err, terrorism
- Democracy and Islam
17 December 2001
- Chavez: "There is no going back from here"
- Nordlinger's Impromptus would be better as a daily weblog
- Surprising wisdom from 23-year-old Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant
- The limits of arms control inspections (in Iraq and more broadly)
- An Axe To The Root Of (English) Culture [via Recovering Liberal]
- In the West, jail tends not to be a place where bombs are manufactured [via TAM]
- The Clash: Fukuyama and Huntington [via ALD]
- Uzbekistan: Strategic partner, human-rights disaster [via ALD]
- Mayor Pothole defeated Sanchez at the grassroots level
- Shmuel Katz defends the legality of Israeli settlement in Gaza and the West Bank
- Daniel Pipes: Israel May Be Winning
- Prepping to run for Prez, Lieberman claims the "New Democrat" high ground on stimulus
- These conservation officials should have been fired, not "counseled"
- Claremonster Mac Owens likes the Machiavellian signal represented by Afghanistan
- Seymour Hersh on a potential battle plan for Iraq (for what it's worth)
- James Morrow on the opportunistic, big-government Left
- Caroline Glick takes a peek at Arafat's likely replacement(s)
- Alter Dishonesty: The Right DID criticize Falwell (immediately and vigorously) [via Den Beste]
- Larry Coker and Miami are about to win a national title, and tiny Okemah, OK is excited
16 December 2001
- Retiring LeftWingNut Anthony Lewis lumps together Ashcroft and Bin Laden in interview
- The Rockets remind me of Oklahoma's football dorm rooms under Barry Switzer!
- The latest from Bob Knight, buffoon and a-hole
- About what I expect from The Village Voice [via Den Beste]
- Colin Powell's major "peace" initiative ends in abject failure
- Mark Steyn targets a broad array of LeftWingNuts today
- Mary Frances Berry: Queen of the Cranks
- Arafat doesnt need another ultimatum; he needs his terror apparatus destroyed
- Some pro-gun (nay, pro-truth) blogger needs to take apart this misleading editorial
- Has France EVER been able to defend itself?
- It's time for a little assertive disarmament in Iraq [Related]
15 December 2001
- Journal: Multicultural Saturday
- Bad Deeds, Bad Dudes, Bad Choices
- Flashback: Robert Nozick on intellectuals and capitalism [via Will Wilkinson and InstaPundit]
- Steve Forbes on the Human Events Man of the Year
- Richard Posner reviews John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court [via ALD]
- Flavors of Foreign Policy Realism
- Why is this article on income inequality tucked away on the NY Times arts page?
- US vetoes latest UN Palestinian nonsense (note the yes votes and abstentions)
- Obesity: The latest excuse for government to raise taxes and regulate conduct
- Saudi Schism
- Power Player: Forbes profiles Dynegy's Chuck Watston
- Fred Barnes on Tom Daschle's obstructionism
14 December 2001
- Chilling [via Yaysoft]
- Reagan National Security Advisor Richard Allen on Oliver Stone's latest [Related]
- Notes From the Road (amazing travelogue site) [via Jerry Kindall]
- Enron's Ship of Fools
- Buckley reviews Claremonster Angelo Codevilla's thoughts on terrorism [Related]
- I wonder if Notre Dame actually had second thoughts about a subpar hire? [Related]
- Bennett (or his ghostwriter?): US Must Stand With Israel
- Charles Krauthammer on Bush's unilateralism
- The End of the Affair: The War that Oslo Fought
- Peanut quotas should be terminated WITHOUT the bribe Zell Miller advocates
- Lawrence Kaplan on the U.S. Department of Saudi, err, State
- The Phillips Curve lives on at the Fed
- Claremonster John Pitney on Khaki Socialism
- Seth Lipsky: Some Israelis saw through Arafat all along
- Flashback: I just ran across Tom West's old review of The Closing of the American Mind
13 December 2001
- The local perspective on Pacifica, LeftWingNuts, Texas Music, and even Mary Frances Berry
- Robb Walsh: Under $5
- Some of the nation's biggest jackals (Houston trial lawyers) begin circling Enron
- Typical NY Times: Powell/squishiness good, Rumsfeld/conservatives bad [via Callie]
- An excerpt from Jaffo's fiction
- The Race Card will not go away (because it works) [Related] [Related]
- Bush formally announces withdrawal from ABM Treaty
- On Baudrillard's latest contribution to pomo's "nihilistic celebration of paradox and fetish"
- Temperament: Solving music's greatest riddle [via ALD]
- Now the Chron editorial board runs with a Houston Press article [Related] [Flashback]
- RadicalLeftWingNuts win battle against LeftWingNuts over control of Pacifica
- New Texas A&M admission plan seems unconstitutional under Hopwood
- One of many reasons the US is prosecuting a war against terror
- Telling the Real, Real Truth
- Is Paul Gigot's WSJ editorial page kinder or gentler?
- Rethinking teacher certification
- Cowboy lifer (literally) Nate Newton thinks of cuffs as just another fashion accessory
12 December 2001
- Oklahoma beats Texas (in something other than college football)
- Notre Dame could have done SO much better than O'Leary
- Jonah Goldberg on John Walker, Andrew Sulivan, and libertarianism
- Lowry imagines Hunt, Apple, and Powell in a more honest world
- What DeWayne Wickham (whose op-ed we blogged yesterday) forgot to mention
- McPain's comments on Enron and Armey are curious
- Like all good Cowboys fans, I miss Jimmy Johnson
- Long Overdue: Switzer joins College Football Hall of Fame
- An Xbox webserver? Maybe....
- Hofer nails Schlesinger (game, set, match)
- Tired of Amazon's clutter? Bookmark this minimalist Amazon page [via John Bedard]
- Ken Layne reminisces about NYC
- Fredrik Norman connects the dots on Argentina
- The pitiful Chron discovers a month-old Houston Press article [Flashback]
- Why would anyone take this doltish "prince" seriously on any topic?
- David Limbaugh suggests Newsweek be renamed Opinionweek
- Thomas Sowell on the academy's Phony Victims
- National security or homeland pork?
- Helle Bering on Bush's foreign policy
- Jacob Weisberg reflects on (bad) predictions about the Afghanistan war
- Bush v. Gore, one year later
- Donald Rumsfeld, Sex Symbol?
- Trent Lott would be comical if his bumbling weren't so harmful to GOP Senators
- The Libertarian Party turned 30 yesterday, and Nick Schultz has some thoughts
- Ronald Bailey on Right-Wing Biological Dread
- John Fund is probably right on voter reform (though I do like voting early in Texas)
11 December 2001
- Philadelphia Inquirer profile of Daniel Pipes
- Is Chuckie Schumer On Crack?
- See ya later, ABM Treaty *wave* [via John Vaughn] [Related]
- Losers: First Walter Mondale, now Thomas Eagleton?! [via Nordlinger] [Mondale]
- The "democratic" approach to "protecting" neighborhoods in Houston
- Roy Williams (arguably college football's most dominant player) wins Nagurski
- Mayor Pothole's "high-tech" vision for Houston is online ticket payment?! [via Callie]
- Stanley Kaplan and the SAT
- Natalie Solent's thoughts on Edward Said [Related] [Related]
- NPR's "Fresh Air" does blogs (badly)
- Unfortunate
- Don Feder traces the origins of Treason Chic
- John Podhoretz thinks Ashcroft Was Right
- Now that the EU has weighed in, I'm sure Middle East peace will soon break out
- Question for the LA Times: Why is Condit so much different than Clinton?
- Scheer is more of a venomous conspiratorial snake than usual today
- Lessons in (perpetrating) terror for Palestinian children [Related] [Related Image]
- Daily Humor: DeWayne Wickham blames the Civil Rights Commission idiocy on Bush!
- Is E.J. Dionne's last line smug enough?
- Chuckie Schumer returns to partisan (big-government liberal) form
- Frank Gaffney asks (Bush and Bowel), Is The Cold War Over?
- Another of many reasons to can the "Civil Rights" Commission [Related]
- Jonah Goldberg dismisses Michael Lind
- Why Don't Liberals Want To Stop Voter Fraud?
- A new Potomac Watch column from Paul Gigot (on Armey's likely retirement)
10 December 2001
