Archives - September 2001
30 September 2001
- Daniel Pipes: War, not "Crimes"
- Review: Susan Gibson at the Mucky Duck
- Anti-Brown candidates are nearly even with the mayor despite virtually NO spending to this point
- Robert Kaplan continues to write the best analysis of Pakistan [Comment]
- It's no shocker when Sharpton, Falwell, or Robertson act like themselves (idiots)
- It's nice to see Rodney King's windfall (reparations?) has transformed him
- So much for Shimon Peres' "ceasefire" with the Nobel Terrorist
- Mark Steyn on Powell's appeal to the naive (Or, Wrong Ten Years Ago, Wrong Now)
- The Philippine Connection
- Great personal narrative from Diana
29 September 2001
- Martin Wolf on Islam vs Modernity (in the form of capitalism)
- A past review of Islamic Fundamentalism by noted scholar Walter Laqueur
- Glenn Reynolds reels off a great one-liner
- My top spots: Tulsa OK, St George UT, Greenville SC, Clarksville TN [via Fredrik Norman]
- Inside Al-Qaeda (and the militant-Islamic mind)
- Q: Has Je$$e no shame? A: Of course not! [Related]
- The Dems' Foreign-Policy Problem
- Straussian political theorist Steve Forde on Understanding Islam
- Sometimes the world really IS as simple as Bill O'Reilly suggests
- In Berlusconi's Defense
- Laurence Tribe: Freedom and Security [Comment]
- Oklahoma holds off #9 Kansas State in a nailbiter
28 September 2001
- Jonah Goldberg: Civilization Envy
- Jonah Goldberg: Why Politically Incorrect Should Go [Related]
- A Cato Fellow on The Latest Totalitarians
- Tom Utley's reflection and choice [via John Vaughn]
- David Pryce-Jones' The Closed Circle is every bit as good as Nordlinger claims
- Kudos to the Dems on Missile Defense bipartisanship
- RIP: James Jeffords' socialist dairy price supports
- Barry Rubin: Ten Ways to Fight Terrorism
- The importance of myth, symbol, and lore in national history
- One of the best op-eds David Horowitz has ever penned
- The worst economic proposal I've seen thus far
- Donald Rumsfeld: the hyper-capable, slightly quirky Secretary of Defense
- Benjamin Netanyahu, Prophet
- The ever thoughtful Charles Krauthammer advocates regime change
- On rare occasions, Oliver North is spot on; this is one of them
- Byron York puts the Spin War in perspective
- David Pryce-Jones on Islam's Moment of Truth [Related]
- Islam: A Beginner's Guide
- I like Dan Henninger's idea for a national cemetery/memorial
- Razor [Robert Earl] Keen [Amazon]
27 September 2001
- Meet Javid Naghani, Moron
- Are Scottie Pippen and Osama bin Laden the same?
- Putin Steers Russia West? [Analysis]
- How to Think About International Politics - 2
- Bin Laden Liquors - The Game [via John Vaughn]
- Nobel economist James Tobin on the controversial "Tobin Tax" [Related]
- How China deals with Islamic militants
- I wonder if some of these parents take as much interest in education as "Pledge" politics
- It's heartening to see the Left denounce Je$$e (much as the Right denounced Falwell)
- Peter Beinart: The U.S. didn't create Osama bin Laden OR the Taliban [Comment]
- Lawrence Kaplan says the US can do it all, and must
- Osama Bin Laden's web of impostors
- Andy Rooney has lost his mind
- Rich Lowry: Powell's diplomacy must be tethered to strategic vision
- Colin Powell's coalition or self-deception?
- Business as usual in Dogpatch (err... Arkansas)
- "Bush can succeed, like Reagan, if he shows confidence in capitalism"
- Thomas Sowell on the "Trickle-Down Economics" straw man
- Paul Johnson, one of our time's eminent historians, on Islam and Terror
- It always comes down to Israel for [Adolph?] Buchanan [Comment]
- George Will grows restive
- Bernard Lewis: Jihad vs. Crusade
- A coherent post-Cold-War foreign policy?
- The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky [via ZeroPolitics]
- Gingrich: Reopen Reagan National Airport [via InstaPundit]
26 September 2001
- Osama bin Laden would have more influence on the U.S. if he just bought Disney!
- Bubba's self-absorption is almost pathological
- Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Meet Reality
- Mark Steyn is all wound up [via John Vaughn]
- After days of bad PR, the Nobel Terrorist closes Suicide Bomber exhibit (one day early)
- Review of Steve Hayward's Age of Reagan, Vol I [Amazon]
- Michelle Malkin on Rodham in Crisis [Comment]
- Telling: "I just came down from Boston to be a part of whatever protest I could find"
- Bush's behind-the-scenes managerial leadership is underappreciated
- "Pacifists are not serious people"
- Bush's Lessons Learned
- On the NY Times' perpetual, "palpable snottiness"
- The Coalition Delusion (or, How Not to Understand the Enemy)
- Paul Wolfowitz is a significant foreign policy player on a deep Bush bench
- An eminently sensible op-ed on Israel
- Rich Lowry: End Iraq
- A Realignment in International Politics?
- Holman Jenkins: "Broadly speaking, only one model for the future survived the 20th century...."
- Dorothy Rabinowitz: What Does Not Change
- The right kind of National ID card is an excellent idea [via Fredrik Norman]
- Did the U.S. indirectly declare war on the IRA?
- Shades of Polemarchus in Blarianna Huff[and Puff]ington's latest [Comment]
25 September 2001
- What is an American? [via InstaPundit]
- Some thoughts on Limbaugh
- Bubba's new role should be OUT of the spotlight
- Jonah Goldberg's followup to Who Are We to Judge
- Bush corrects his subordinate (Colin Powell) again
- Coup put down in the anarchocapitalist isles of Comoros
- Report: Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will host U.S. ground forces [Related]
- Time for new leadership at CIA
- "[O]ur mistakes have never become our mission" [Related]
- I'm not the only one who has noticed Powell's disregard for his boss
- Smart man that he is, Mac Owens looks to Clausewitz for advice
- Rapprochement with Iran?
- Gerald Posner admits: "I was wrong about Bush" [via John Vaughn]
- GlobalSecurity takes a closer look at Afghanistan
- Salon gets back to normal [via InstaPundit]
24 September 2001
- Friends of Terrorism: Netanyahu showed a photo of this "museum" on FoxNews tonight
- List of 27 terrorist entities named in today's Executive Order
- Lights, Camera, Reason
- The EuroWeenie Left Blames America (what else is new?)
- Another Clinton Tale?
- Left Victorious In Poland [Comment]
- No Room for the UN
- Thomas Sowell on pacifism, root causes, and alienation [Related]
- Feder: "Patriotism is a love of country expressed as a set of attitudes and ideals"
- Credit for Consistency: Novak never misses an opportunity to advocate tax cuts
- Al Qaeda "capable of relentless, selfless efficiency and, at the same time, amateurish dysfunction"
- Howard Kurtz subtly deconstructs the journalistic epistemology
- Has America Finally Learned The Lessons Of A Decade Of Terrorism?
- Robert Bartley on the death of isolationism
23 September 2001
- Report: U.S. Warplanes land in Uzbekistan [Analysis]
- Is there nothing that will knock Creepy Condit out of the news?!
- Peres threatens to leave Israeli coalition (with Netanyahu patiently waiting) [Flashback]
- Texas A&M fans fill Kyle Field with red, white, and blue
- TIME reports on the cropduster threat
- The Bush Presidency Redefined
- David Broder hears Echoes of Lincoln
- Bush has made a political career of exceeding expectations
22 September 2001
- Somebody point Glenn Reynolds' idiotic interlocutor to LiveJournal!
- Bubba and Big Aviation: Where were all the media members who now cry "Big Oil!?"
- The Lovely Evelynne, Patriot [Comment]
- "It's like they think they're in the Sixties or something"
- Partisan politics returns, as Dems led by Jo[k]e Lieberman oppose possible tax cuts
- A President defined by purpose, not polls and focus groups
- Thomas Sowell: The Pacifist Delusion
- Jonah Goldberg takes on the Blame-America fringe
- I like the Churchill quote
- Smug Cynicism is Suddenly Out of Style (the Maher show and LJ notwithstanding)
- Christians, Conservatives, and all decent Americans should denounce Pat Robertson
- No more Hyphenated-Americans?
21 September 2001
- Jonah Goldberg: Who Are We To Judge?
- Menachim Begin's Example [Comment]
- The World's Most Dangerous Places: An invaluable reference
- World Tribune: Egypt Rejects U.S. Coalition [Comment]
- Taking on Terror, and Fear
- Jane's on the Plight of Pakistan [Related]
- Kagan notes that the Anti-American/Declinist thesis is alive and well in the academy
- Note the remarks of Strobe Talbott, a key Clinton foreign policy architect [Comment]
- Journalist Michael Rubin probably has better first-hand intell on Afghanistan than CIA
- The ever-reliable Bill Gertz is now reporting the Iraq connection
- Larry Elder conjures a GREAT term: Arab Islamic Terrorist-Victicrats
- Brent Bozell on the Above-America Lobby
- Violence ratchets up in Pakistan [Related]
- Krauthammer on the Voices of Moral Obtuseness
- Noting American Friends: "Today We Are All Americans"
- Ordinary People v. anti-American Elites [Related]
- Remembering the anti-American "New Left"
- OpinionJournal on Language and Truth [Related]
- Rave Reviews for Bush Address
20 September 2001
- "Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom"
- TNR editor Peter Beinart on the Lunatic Left (and indirectly, their strange bedfellows)
- Anarchy, State and Afghanistan (outstanding)
- Rich Lowry on Vacuous Powell and Vacuous Dowd
- Careful readers of this site already know the name Juma Namangani [Related]
- Glenn Reynolds contrasts the tolerance of Knoxville with the People's Republic of Berkeley
- Intolerance apparently extends well beyond the flag in the People's Republic of Berkeley
- Arafat's Press
- Myths
- Banning the Flag in the People's Republic of Berkeley
- Does Creepy Condit actually MISS all the media coverage?
- Text of General Musharraf address to Pakistan
- Strange Bedfellows: Harry Browne, Pat Buchanan, and the Che Guevera Communist Left
- Where are the Voice of America and RFE/RL?
- Prime Minister Blair thanks New York
- Gigot, Bartley, and other WSJ editorial board members on CNBC tonight
- Israel Is Not The Issue
- My results: Aristotle, Aquinas, Mill, Rand (in that order) [via Jim Hart]
- Robert Tracinski: We Are All Israelis Now [via Fredrik Norman]
- TAM on Richard Dawkins
- Maher's "apology" was no more convincing than Falwell's
19 September 2001
- Why the blue?
- Joseph Farah on Knowing the Enemy [Analysis]
- Jonah Goldberg: Language and Truth both make comebacks
- Read Leo's first paragraph. Comprehend. Re-read if necessary.
- On Blaming the United States
- More wisdom (on Globalization and Multiculturalism) from Glenn Reynolds
- Dan Patrick, Houston's "conservative" idiot, often drops context and misses the point [Comment]
- Good stuff at the Ashbrook Center (or Claremont East)
- The Strategy Page (the substance MORE than compensates for the site's design)
- General Musharraf ominously addresses Pakistan [Related]
- Clinton's "Legacy"
- Costs of the Cold War "Peace Dividend": No active defense of domestic airspace
- Jane's suggests Iraqi sponsorship, involvement of Bin Laden network
- Jack Kemp on the war challenge
- Jonah Goldberg takes on the "Blame America" fringe
- America's Home-Grown Suicide Cult
- Podhoretz on the American-Haters Within
- Holman Jenkins makes the case against rebuilding WTC (not sure that I agree)
- Noting American friends: Turkey, India, and yes, ISRAEL
- Aldrich on the foreign policy of "girly-men" liberals [via ZeroPolitics]
- Outstanding interactive timeline of WTC events [via Sean]
- Janet Daley takes on the British (and U.S. indirectly) Left [via Patrick Ruffini]
- Fredrik Norman is not impressed with the anarchocrapitalist fringe
18 September 2001
- Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Terrorism Chic at the NY Times
- "This makes me feel even more proud to be an American"
- Robert Kaplan on The Lawless Frontier of Afghanistan (outstanding)
- February 2001 interview with terrorism expert Christopher Harmon
- I'm inclined towards any journalist who can credibly paraphrase Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Putting the Moral Equivalence 70s behind us
- Frank Gaffney on missile defense and alliances with terrorists
- Dick Morris is fairly accurate in assessing Bush, although typically snide
- Strange "anti-imperial" bedfellows: Buchanan sounds like the isolationist Left/Libertarian fringe
- Larry Kudlow looks for Monday's financial silver lining
- Essay: A Preface to Political Punditry
- A Thatcherite's take on the current crisis
- Kalifornia statists will manipulate any crisis to restrict liberty (2nd Amendment anyone?)
- Patrick Ruffini's 9-17 observations on McCainiacs and the Media are insightful
- Nostradamus, tea leaves, tarot, Satan: Crisis always produces alternative explanations
- Text of Jerry Falwell's "apology" for his hatred and bigotry
- Erroneous Headline: Falwell Apologizes for TIMING of remarks, NOT substance!
17 September 2001
- Jonah Goldberg notes where civil liberties are under attack (Hint: "Palestinian" territories)
- More compelling "Impromptus" from Jay Nordlinger
- Terrorism expert and personal acquaintance Chris Harmon on Making Sense of the Attack
- W: "I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt"
- The Queen's Tears
- Appeasement Follies
- Bernard Lewis: The Roots of Muslim Rage (1990 Atlantic Monthly article, outstanding)
- Terrorists keep trying to acquire, and probably already have, nuclear capabilities
- Once again, Bush rises far above his critics' low expectations (or, When will they learn?)
- Daniel Pipes is a Middle East expert whose work I have long relied upon
- When The Choice is National Suicide (must-read, but chilling)
- Surprising, if grudging, praise for Bush from the NY Times
- No Apologies for Western Greatness
- Newspaper Front Pages from 11 September 2001 (via TBH)
- Dude, Where's My Car? (via Sean)
- A fun design for the new World Trade Center
- What "we" means to media elites
- Freedom is not free (via Fredrik Norman)
- Larry Johnson and the NY Times blew their assessment of terrorism 2 months ago
16 September 2001
- Do not demonize Muslims
- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (UMI)
- Text of Cheney interview on Meet the Press
- Maybe this Journalism Prof is compelling in his own area of expertise (I)
- Maybe this Journalism Prof is compelling in his own area of expertise (II)
- Unlike the journalism profs and LJ spewers, Bernard Lewis is an expert on the chosen subject
- A free press? Not in areas (Gaza) administered by the Palestinian Authority
- Zero-Tolerance Anti-Americanism
- More sense in Nordlinger's few comments on Israel than any of the spewing on LJ
- The NY Times just couldn't resist one more dig at Bush's "legitimacy"
- Remember the Barbary Pirates?
- Noting American Friends: No such warnings came from the Palestinian Authority
- A blip in the slow integration of the Muslim and Western worlds?
- I thought I was reading LiveJournal for a moment
- A former DIA analyst urges use of tactical nuclear weapons
- "Palestinian" celebrations continue in Gaza, and journalists continue to be harrassed
- Cheney looms large behind the scenes
- The fallacy of preventing harm by becoming harmless
- America's Fire Power
15 September 2001
- One of the best available texts on terrorism (by a Claremonster, of course!)
- List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations as designated by US State Department
- These people are not so much Anti-Bush as longtime members of the Anti-American Left
- Despite overly strong language, Frisa is right about certain left-leaning media
- Sober thoughts on the chattering class
- Meeting Force with Force
- The sole voter AGAINST condemnation resolution (couldn't she just have abstained?)
- Fear on the 86th Floor
- Thoughts of former CIA Director Woolsey (the best we've had in a while)
- No Surrender: Hang Tough, New York
- A distinguished former defense policymaker on the coming war (requires registration)
- Why They Hate Us
14 September 2001
- Buckley declares war on Hussein
- The Torch Burns: WSJ offices decimated, but journalism's bastion of liberty publishes nonetheless
- Taking note of the domestic enemies of liberty
- Thank You, Prime Minister Blair (realaudio)
- Pax Americana
- Netanyahu: "we've just received, all of us, a wake-up call from Hell"
- America shines brightly for (extra)Ordinary People worldwide
- The noble side of public leadership
- Rebuild It -- Bigger and Better
- Take note of the heroes among you
- Thank You, United Kingdom
- Thank You to the decent people of the civilized world (slow to load, but worth it)
13 September 2001
- In assessing American friends and enemies, we should not look exclusively outside US borders
- Thoughts of David Pryce-Jones, author of The Closed Circle (a fine read)
- The US should note the allies of terror as well as the allies of liberal democracy
- Safire: Inside the Bunker
- Heroes
12 September 2001
- Paleoconservatives and Anarchist Libertarians are indistinguishable on foreign affairs
- While known terrorists issue predictable denials, we should take note of our friends
- It's telling that one of the best op-eds comes from the Jerusalem Post
- Ruddy goes a little overboard, but he's right that it's time to assess and rebuild the CIA
- Krauthammer: It's time to view all terrorism as war, not crime
- A Wall Street Journal writer's first-hand account
- "We're f***ing dying"
- Do we even HAVE a significant inventory of tactical nukes?
- Jonah Goldberg on terrorism, NPR, and the Pendleton, OR rodeo (good stuff)
- Daniel Pipes on US blindness
- Reaganite defense intellectual Frank Gaffney sums it up
11 September 2001
10 September 2001
- Jonah Goldberg is back from his honeymoon
- Nice job Chron: The alternative Houston Press scooped you by nearly a week!
- Lee Brown's Amerika: Where people are beginning to fall INTO crumbling infrastructure!
- Colin Tudge on criticism of evolutionary psychology
- It really is nice that Senator Jeffords is someone else's problem now
- It's September 2001, and Newsweek is reliving the 2000 Presidential election
- Mainstream pundits are discovering that educational empowerment beats quotas
- Soviet Reunion
- Glenn Reynolds beat all the traditional (non-web) pundits with this analysis
9 September 2001
- Sorry Quincy, but Elway and Montana NEVER "had games like this" (34 net yards passing!)
- A rigged election in Belarus is not news
- NEVER accept a position in the Tajik Cabinet
- Is Bobby Fischer playing anonymous net chess (and is it news)?
- Nothing agitates the Chron like opponents of rail transit
- I wonder if the REAL signature boosted self-esteem (thereby compensating for the delay)?
- Bob Stoops: Sooners "not very good" right now
8 September 2001
- The most compelling game today was not college football
- More good stuff from Glenn Reynolds (on law and intellectual property)
- The high cost (to taxpayers) of self-esteem
- Former associates carve up one of the nation's premiere trial lawyers (John O'Quinn)
- Rosie O'Disgusting
- Bill O'Reilly has found himself a new crusade
- Thomas Sowell thinks the race card has finally been overplayed
- Lukashenko is going to "win" but change is brewing in Belarus
- The best I can do for the many search referrers I get on "Condoleeza Rice Nude"
- On speaking ill of the dead
- Glenn Reynolds has Paul Gigot-like insight on the Bush political/fiscal strategy
7 September 2001
- Serena Williams administers a Hingis ass-kicking
- George Smith's new e-zine reviews Rand's Art of Nonfiction (link via Andrew)
- The Celebrity CEO's destruction of HP
- Paul Craig Roberts: "Academic constructs have delegitimized the West"
- Remember what Bork and Starr said about Microsoft (which will NOT now be dismantled)?
- A political opportunity for Bush (to knock down the "Big Drug" companies)
- Republicrat Domenici has never seen a surplus he didn't want to spend
- Je$$e Jack$off can smell the money
- Mark Steyn on the World Conference Against Whitey
- A creative way to protest surveillance cameras
- When did Economic Czar Greenspan become a Keynesian?
6 September 2001
- The 19-year-old Evelynne: "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"
- Napster meets Smart Tags: Stealing music AND Hijacking web content
- King or Klansman?
- How journalistic websites can survive (link via Jim Hart)
- Drew Pearson DOES deserve better
- Radney Foster is alive and well
- War on Drugs or Cash Cow?
- For the Chron, an eternal Sports Authority is now a given
- The "dean" of DC columnists needs to retire
- The Lovely Ann Coulter is particularly hyper today
- Obstructing Justice
- US farm policy grows more absurd
- The case against home ownership
- So much for all that populist campaign BS about "the people's House"
5 September 2001
- Maybe Jo[k]e can call some of the Sore-Loserman donors to testify!
- Injury saves Jerry [Clower] Jones from himself
- "I ran the postal service; it should be privatized" (link via ZeroPolitics)
- Jennifer Aniston is well qualified to judge an idiot
- A non-advertisement for Northwest (before I was reading Jonah Goldberg regularly)
- The Israeli Left is in disarray
- Imagine if a non-Leftist had penned this phrase: "a photogenic Hispanic who doesn't drool"
- Mark Steyn: Death by Entourage
- Have You Heard of the Tobin Tax?
- LeftWingNuts are united in their hatred of missile defense
- Grade Inflation, Standardized Testing, and Racism
- Phil Gramm was/is the heavy lifter of the Reagan agenda
- A Claremonster reflects on Phil Gramm's political career
- A more realistic headline would be "How Powell's Decision Was Made By Others"
- Did That Scary Man Janet Reno PAY this delusional columnist to write this?
- Dematerial Economics
- Republicans should denounce this as a raid on the (mythical) social security "trust fund"
- The (overly) optimistic Seth Lipsky on Israel and the world
4 September 2001
- Lose to Rice consistently, and your AD is wise to find a new job (before getting fired)
- With Jerry [Clower] Jones as GM, it only gets worse for Dallas
- The day LiveJournal became a gated community
- The IFES Election Guide is a handy resource
- Bill Buckley always looks drunk off his ass
- I had completely forgotten about that jackass Charley Pride's "copy-proof" cd
- Some nations have greater worries than sharks at their beaches
- The best book review I've read in ages (though I'm not necessarily endorsing the view)
- Moral Equivalence and Israel
- The end of discretionary federal spending?
- An article that could serve as the extended definition of "EuroWeenies"
- Judges and the Constitution
- Plans for public Presidential leadership this fall?
- The Economic Czar's deflationary policies have decimated the "New Economy"
- Kudos to Bush for effectively boycotting the UN "Racism" Conference
- I learned the term "defenestration" (used here) in a Scottish pub last week
- Hewlett-Packard & Compaq rock the industry
3 September 2001
- Americans work the most hours in the world
- Republican state dinners sound BORING compared to Bubba's
- Russia engages Israel (an interesting turn of events)
- Libyan Realpolitique
- Bill O'Reilly is just a bundle of joy and happiness today
- Congress decrees that spending is not spending
- Politicians just can't resist the power of running other people's lives
- Powell has NEVER been a foreign policy visionary (and still isn't)
- The most interesting legal/moral questions are being raised in the tech world (link via Atlee)
- Glenn Reynolds on That Scary Man's FL gubernatorial campaign
2 September 2001
- Dumbsbury falls for known Presidential IQ internet hoax
- (Delusional) Hope springs eternal at UT
- Rachmaninoff revised
- How so-so actresses capture publicity
- How could "chemicals" from a MILK FACTORY kill anyone?
- Chron readers get a two-week break!
- Socialist Party is a more descriptive term
- Old media versus the web
- The Feds aren't the only ones after your wallet
1 September 2001
- Sooners imperfect, but roll 44-3
- Whether it's Tripp or this woman, nobody likes a snitch
- What Beijing Can Learn From Moscow
- Most petty dictators and terrorists find more in common with Je$$e Jack$off
- Losers 2004
- The new White House web site is MUCH improved
- 5:45 a.m. postings are NOT taking the weekend off! :)
- Staving off the inevitable
