Archives - October 2001
31 October 2001
- Saudi Arabia
- Thinking About Downstream Oil
- How To Think About International Politics - 3
- "Mommy, mommy, my new friend Achmed sent me some Iraqi pop rocks!"
- OPEC's dilemma remains, a month later
- Toronto got about what Houston got from Olajuwon last year (next to nothing)
- Others are beginning to notice McPain's grandstanding
- The fresh, new Almanac of American Politics 2002
- InstaPundit corrects Thomas Friedman (which could be a full-time job!)
- Fredrik Norman is one of my favorite people (not just for great sentiments like these!) [More]
- Defend your home? Not in the UK! (good to see Despatches running again, btw)
- The Biological Weapons Convention: A case study in the folly of arms control
- From Balfour to Blair (or, What a difference four score and four years make)
- When will Ariel Sharon's shaky coalition fall apart?
- We're all social scientists now: Journalists faithfully adhere to the fact-value distinction
- Al Dullton and the Nobel Terrorist deserve each other
- Michael Fumento with a dose of Anthrax reality
- It's always bad news for liberty when Congress remains in session longer than usual
- A proposal for Saudi Prince Alwaleed: Let's make Saudi Arabia your Palestinian State!
- Seth Lipsky: The Press Takes On Muslim anti-Semitism
30 October 2001
- The Red Cross is blowing this one, and Bill O'Reilly is nailing them
- Rockets Win Season Opener [Comment]
- Bob Stoops is SUCH a no-nonsense coach [Related]
- I wish Kofi Annan were as concerned about eliminating terrorism!
- The one Arab state moving towards democracy backs the US effort [Related] [Related]
- Civilization, Thermodynamics, and 7-Eleven
- Kudos to Golden Corral restaurants
- Sri Lanka Election Opens With Blast (love those Brit headlines!)
- Steve Forbes: Israel Shouldn't Pay For Bin Laden's Sins [via Fredrik Norman]
- A new Israeli Hizbullah strategy?
- Richard Cohen on doubletalk in the Arab world
- Larry Eagleburger: Red Cross Doublecross
- Is Putin's crackdown anti-corruption or anti-democratic?
- Paul Rahe on the "feckless legalism" pervading the anti-terror effort
- Government posts $127 billion surplus
- Ford CEO Jac Nasser will be dumped
- Phil Gramm would be a great Treasury Secretary
- Andrew Sullivan: The Anti-Semitism of the Islamo-Fascists
- Krauthammer: "Half-measures are for ... wars like Vietnam" [Related]
- The House of Saud at a crossroads
29 October 2001
- Fredrik Norman notes the impending visit of the Nobel Terrorist
- Nebraska #1, Oklahoma #2 in latest BCS rankings [Comment]
- Jonah Goldberg's sixteenth paragraph looks like my earlier link to McKinney's nonsense!
- Like Strobe Talbott, Mort Halperin has made a career of being wrong [Strobe Lite]
- McKinsey: Improved management, not IT, drove US economic boom in 90s?
- Steven Plaut's astute observations on Israel's anti-Israeli Left
- Question for readers: Whom should I contact about this likely plagiarism?
- Steven Den Beste beat all the "experts" to this anthrax conclusion (on 10-27) [InstaPundit]
- Walter Williams gives education schools an F
- Understanding Afghanistan: A collection from the Atlantic
- Stephen Schwartz corrects Colon Bowel on Saudi Wahhabism
- America's most surprising ally
- David Brooks: The Organization Kid at war
- The Professors and Bush v. Gore [Related]
- Hank Cooper on the ABCs of ABM
- Note how McPain has edged back into the limelight as Bush Critic #1 [Related]
- After her "performance" during Bush's speech, Rodham got EXACTLY what she deserved
- Despicable: Cynthia McKinney plays the "speech-martyr" AND "race" cards
- Joseph A. Kechichian foresees little change in the House of Saud
- Recasting the Huntington-Fukuyama worldviews
- Robert Bartley makes the (anthrax) case against Iraq
- Rodham, Yankee fan [Related]
28 October 2001
- Pax Ataturk [via Fredrik Norman] [Related] [Related]
- Claremonster Timothy Wheeler on The Best Security of a Free State
- Claremonster John Eastman on the "forgotten" newest amendment
- Gladchuk strives to bring Navy football the "success" he brought to Houston [Related]
- Houston's (inept) establishment paper endorses the (inept) establishment mayor [Comment]
- Ariel Sharon's zig-zags will not preserve his (inherently) unstable coalition much longer
- Thomas Friedman never changes
- The NY Post echoes yesterday's comment that Biden was better as a plagiarist
- Civilian Casualties and the Air War
- Thomas Friedman is all alone
- Unrealpolitique
- The inept Robert McNamara offers his "insights" [Related] [Related]
- Mr. Gorbachev's (unsurprisingly Marxist) "roots of today's extremism" [Flashback]
- Holman Jenkins: Of Germs and Geopolitics
27 October 2001
- The counterterrorism bureaucracy
- President Bush's marginal Secretary of State [via Joachim Klehe]
- "The 93 men reported having 1,225 sexual partners and could identify only 8 percent...."
- Classic: A great defensive team (Oklahoma) loses to a great overall team (Nebraska) [Comment]
- Now Woodward is pushing the fashionable "domestic extremists" story [Ledeen on Woodward]
- A question for "living constitution" proponents
- Do Lefties still want the UN to head the anti-terror effort (II)? [via USS Clueless] [I]
- Houston moves a step closer to showcasing its traffic jams and potholes to the world
- Dr. Strangelove's Diary (review of Edward Teller's memoirs)
- Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul on Islam
- What a tangled Saudi/Wahhabi/Syrian/Iraqi web
- Bernadine Healy sounds like my kind of leader
- Nobles (Frist) and Knaves (Senator Plagiarist)
- Noting American friends: Philippines President Arroyo
- NRO Weekend on the Game of Games (OU-Nebraska, 1971)
- The FBI and CIA are either lying (to prevent "panic"), or EXTREMELY unconvincing [Related]
- Mess: Why Congress shouldn't regulate OR provide corporate welfare to airlines
- Biden was MUCH more sensible when he plagiarized his speech
- "What is needed is a critique of Islam as an existential reality"
26 October 2001
- Jonah Goldberg: It's the culture, stupid
- Victor Davis Hanson on America's influential, vocal 10% minority
- Tommy Thompson is inept; Perhaps Rudolph Giuiliani would make a nice replacement?
- I'll take the Wolfowitz/Feith/Crouch/Rodman understanding of foreign policy over Friedman's
- On the elegance and efficacy of Federalism [via InstaPundit]
- War op-eds are (thankfully) the only way John McPain can get attention these days
- Terrorism and Postmodern Art [via Fredrik Norman]
- Fredrik Norman notes the irony of violent pacifism
- Post-September 11 restaurant blues
- How to start (and quell) a bio-panic
- Rumsfeld and freedom of information
- Jonah Goldberg defends profiling of terrorists
- Paul Greenberg: Welcome to After
- Bill O'Reilly searches for courage in celebrity
- Pax Americana or Pax Ataturk?
- Automatic tax increases during recession are HORRIBLE fiscal policy
- Local politics (and who is mayor) matters
- American (sans the State Department) support for Israel at all-time high
- Kudlow on the markets' positive response to Republican tax-cut bill
- John Podhoretz on the Anthrax ATTACK (as opposed to "scare")
- Former friend: Je$$e Jack$on is "using African-Americans to enrich himself"
- A great idea for Richard Gere!
- Orlando Sanchez may just defeat Houston's inept Mayor Lee Brown
- I'm a Bush supporter, but this reminds me of Madeleine Not-At-Albright
- "Secure Web" is an oxymoron
- Maybe the State Department should be renamed House of Saud - Foggy Bottom
- Halting Radicalization
- Byron York on "the Senate's newly pumped-up majority leader"
- Technology will trump low-tech caves
- Paul Begala, delusional partisan hack
- Peter Beinart: Out of Egypt
- Dan Henninger: After years of phony scares, America (finally) finds a real worry
- It keeps getting worse for the hapless Cowboys
25 October 2001
- Lifted Text?
- Recalling "Sooner Magic"
- Hope to see you Houstonians at P.J. O'Rourke's booksigning tonight
- Houston's mayor must be getting desperate, pulling out the race card THIS early
- The Texas Democratic crackup continues apace
- Fredrik Norman agrees with Gore, sort of (lots of other good commentary there as well)
- Jane's analyzes the IRA's decomissioning move
- "The US owes no apologies for its friendship with Israel"
- Colon Bowel's Israel "policy": Straight from the Washington Post
- Most mainstream media are still ignoring Tom Daschle's renewed partisanship
- Mr. Greenspan's ongoing deflation
- Senator Joe (Plagiarist) Biden, yesterday's Buffoon of the Day [via John Vaughn] [Related] [Flashback]
- Terrorist Rights?
- The Panic Gap
- Sacha Zimmerman revisits the free-speech "martyrs" (who seem to be doing quite well)
- Tracing the spores
- William Safire on Colon Bowel's "diplomacy by deflection"
- George Will on noted Middle Eastern scholar Bernard Lewis
- The "root causes" of Middle Eastern/North African poverty [Related]
- Exporting Turkey (the country, that is)
- Richard Epstein urges respect for Bayer's patent [Related] [Related]
24 October 2001
- McNamara's "Signals" (from The Age of Reagan)
- "A new history of the British Empire elevates expediency to principle"
- The (unlikely) New Counterculture
- The Life and Death of The American Spectator
- Terrorism's Failure
- Jonah Goldberg: Ramadan-a-Ding-Dong
- Don Feder on Israel's "ally"
- Rumsfeld Rocks
- Long-lasting memories (half-lives?) of the Soviet "paradise"
- Fredrik Norman ponders a connection between the radical left and radical Islam
- The Philanthropist
- Polaroid represented an era as much as a technology
- The Crusaders' Giant Footprints
- America's Double Standard
- Dissecting the meaning of the metal-free bra
- Ceremony of Squishes: Colon Bowel greets Shimon Peres
- Someone else points out the Myth of Abandoned Unilateralism [Flashback]
- The losers need a better catch phrase than "We have this anthrax"
- Rearden Metal?
- Field Guide to Fanatics [Amazon]
- Sanitize the mail
- All this "message" and "signal" sending reminds me of Robert McNamara [Related] [Related]
- Is the Nobel Terrorist's Game Finally Up?
- Michael Kelly on America's Second Chance
- "Racial Profiling" and Terrorism
- Kevin Willis is a nice addition to the Rockets
23 October 2001
- A Public Service Announcment from the Website that Cares (tm): Don't Toke and Drive
- Andrew Stuttaford on "moderately" confused Secretary of State Colon Bowel [Flashback]
- West Bank Delusions
- I wonder if Lefties still want the UN to head the anti-terror effort? [via ZeroPolitics]
- Daniel Johnson wonders why Tony Blair is playing kissy face with the Nobel Terrorist
- Yossi Olmert's op-ed critique of Colon Bowel's "coalition building" is the best I've seen
- Serious cracks in Israel's "unity" government [Flashback]
- A fitting end to a Hamas terror "engineer"
- I love the Jerusalem Post's term "mysterious explosion"
- Colon Bowel's State Department issues stern command to Israel
- Robert Reich's latest class-warfare daydreams [Comment]
- New York's likely new mayor is David Dinkins redux
- Frank Gaffney urges the U.S. to get Israel's history (and future) right
- Democratic foreign-policy unilateralism
- Osama TV should take its place beside Falwell's "Gospel Hour" and Robertson's "700 Club"
- Rumsfeld considers global anti-terror command
- I think the press may give poor Rumsfeld a stroke pretty soon [Related]
- Everybody's lining up at the federal trough
- Rodham takes a battering
- The Bushies need to resist Newsday/Clintonian "poll-boosting" quick fixes
- I HATE columns like this (or, Friedman's typical delusions of grandeur)
- Israel's Doves on Brink of Extinction
- John Podhoretz's theory why America is unprepared for anthrax
22 October 2001
- The Zen of Creating Communities [via Andrew]
- Ten years later, Madeleine Not-At-Albright is a born-again hawk (or just confused)!
- Jonah Goldberg on media criticism
- Daniel Pipes responds to David Forte on Islamic fundamentalism
- A retreat from the "federalization" of crime?
- Salon's latest is so pitiful I don't even want to comment, but here's InstaPundit's critique
- On Osama bin Laden's cultural ignorance [via InstaPundit]
- The Arabs' Democratic Deficit
- Dr. Germ: The woman behind Iraq's biochemical weapons program
- Schizophrenia: The Washington Post favors Senate gridlock
- Schizophrenia: The Washington Post opposes Senate gridlock
- Israel's crucial week, and other impromptus from Jay Nordlinger
- Creative (mis)Reporting
- Last week's (same old) financial story: Liquidity (or lack thereof), not anthrax
- Claremonster Steven Hayward on Fighting Fanaticism
- "Almost as scary as anthrax was the incompetence in Washington"
- Terry Eastland on Taking Justice Thomas Seriously [Related]
- Daniel Pipes wonders if Osama bin Laden is indeed a fringe figure
- Michael Barone: The Second Front
- Is Cincinnati "the future of the American city?"
- Bartley: Why didn't arms control stop biological (and chemical) warfare?
21 October 2001
- Noah Grey has quietly begun blogging again
- Lieberman: "so long as Saddam Hussein is in power in Iraq, the United States is in danger"
- The latest effort from noted Soviet/Russian historian Richard Pipes
- Will's just finished a sharp site redesign for Cross Canadian Ragweed (a damn fine band)
- My Launch.com station (for those with eclectic musical taste)
- Schoenberg's music has never appealed to me (or, apparently, the masses)
- I hereby nominate Gorbachev as Earth's ambassador to the United Federation of Planets
- Americans overwhelmingly support Israel
- Peggy Noonan on the flag
- Jeff Jacoby on "the moral emptiness of relativism"
- Mark Steyn on the House of Saud
20 October 2001
- And Afghanistan was SUCH a paradise BEFORE the bombing!
- Sooners survive homecoming tuneup for Nebraska
- Despatches from Flyover Country: A sharp, Movable-Type powered blog
- The final (defeatist) paragraph is indicative of Thomas Friedman's longtime worldview
- Is anyone else offended that redistricting has effectively become a judicial function?
- The U.S. House of Representatives could learn from Lisa Beamer
- The U.S. House of Representatives could use some NY Post attitude [Related]
- Pat Robertson, "Christian" gold-digger
- Unsettling news from Pakistan
- Bush's advisor on Islam (David Forte) responds to critics
- Andrew Sullivan reports on Loony Lefties David Talbot and Susan Sontag
- The Bush Administration prepares to play hardball with Otto Reich's nomination
- Maybe Bill O'Reilly should take charge of the State Department?
- Colin Powell's State Department is more of a joke than Madeleine Not-At-Albright's
- The culture of resentment
- Holman Jenkins: The Arab World Needs a Liberal Elite
19 October 2001
- If this is how airport security has been "enhanced," it's an abject (and moronic) failure
- I kinda like the Uzbeks
- The Economist learns what some of us have long known about Rumsfeld [via John Vaughn]
- I would call the actions of these anti-scientific mystics child abuse [via Callie]
- Can radical Islam make peace with modernity?
- Eulogizing Rehavam Ze'evi [Comment]
- "What a difference a billion people makes"
- Syrian defense minister uncovers the latest Jewish conspiracy! [Related]
- Bush's (just) war, and Sharon's (just) war
- The squishy U.S. House of Representatives should take note of the heroic Lisa Beamer
- John Derbyshire on the psychopathology of "lost territories"
- Peter Beinart makes a realist case for "nation-building"
- I'm no McCain fan (McCainiac), but this speech is worth reading
- Consistency: Every time the Economic Czar speaks lately, the markets tank
- We e-commerce enthusiasts better hold on to our wallets
- Diplomacy Is Now The Problem
- A halloween scare courtesy of Syria (right here in Texas)
- Charles Krauthammer's Clear Thinking On Coalitions
- Peggy Noonan on profiling and war
- For Muslic zealots, little change since the seventh century
- Somehow I suspect the private Biggio is much more delighted than the "public" Biggio
- Biggio & co have chased two managers. Is the best GM in baseball next to go?
- "The era of Arafat is over"
18 October 2001
- The era of Dierker is over
- What a great Halloween costume!
- "Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill is manifestly unsuited to the job"
- Israel After the Assassination
- Oklahoma becomes 22nd "right-to-work" state
- Lee Brown is an inept mayor and incredibly insensitive man
- Can someone explain to me why Blarianna Huff[and Puff]ington is paid to "write?"
- John Podhoretz on the less than impressive (even inept?) Tommy Thompson
- The Bush Administration's increasingly absurd approach to Israel
- A state for the Nobel Terrorist?
- Yasser Arafat, Nobel Terrorist and Welfare Queen
- Public Enemy No. 2
- Richard Butler: Who Made the Anthrax?
- James Woolsey on the decision about Iraq
17 October 2001
- China no longer invites Arabs over for flying lessons [Related]
- David Pryce-Jones on the world's new organizing principle
- Wonderful: "their applications are approved by the State Department"
- Seymour Hersch on the tenuous Saudi regime
- I presume the Palestinian murder of Rehavam Ze'evi counts as a "last-minute" surprise
- I wish more of these citizens were as concerned about education as the pledge
- Jack Kemp is naively optimistic with regard to Iraq
- Bush's subtle warning to Iraq (and Syria) [Flashback]
- I thought the US State Department insisted that Arafat had lowered the violence level?
- Keeping an eye on Iraq [RFE/RL Iraq Report]
- Suggestions for the loony left on coping with patriotism resurgent
- John Podhoretz sounds very much like Jeanne Kirkpatrick
- The (Economic) Emperor Hath No Clothes
- Michael Kelly: Still No Time To Go Wobbly
- Robert Kagan on effective multilateralism and paralytic multilateralism [Related]
- Kristol's appropriation of Leo Strauss for religious neocons is bizarre and misguided [Comment]
- Clarity
16 October 2001
- Unilateral Strawman [via John Vaughn] [Related]
- A War of Rational Self Defence (as the Brits spell it) [via John Vaughn]
- Chef! [via Callie]
- Steven Den Beste's observations on the air campaign and use of AC-130s
- Ken Layne has found the Stupidest Post-Attack Column (at Salon, of course!)
- Shooting To the End [via Ken Layne]
- "In times of upheaval, trouble, or tragedy, people always turn to ... terrible music"
- Mark Halpern savages Two Bad Papers on Language Usage
- I laughed out loud when I read Ken Bentsen considers himself "moderate"
- An Israeli liberal questions long-held views
- Noted Middle East scholar Louis Rene Beres on The Risks of a Palestinian State
- We should all be SO relieved now that a neo-Marxist sociologist has "explained" the world
- John Podhoretz on The Other Blowback
- The Rodney King Watch
- Not only is he a plagiarist, but Senator Biden is also weird
- A site to bookmark: MEMRI (The Middle East Media & Research Institute)
- Larry Kudlow analyzes the post-attack market rally
- Frank Gaffney wonders why arms control hasn't saved us (as promised)
- Osama bin Laden's oratory reminds Paul Greenberg of a more proximate fanaticism
- Piecing together 11 September via radio communications
- New York Dems just can't help acting like... New York Dems
- John O'Sullivan: Cave men are already extinct
- Fouad Ajami: "Bin Laden heads a frustrated and failed generation"
15 October 2001
- Complete collapse of public works sums up Lee Brown's America
- Jonah Goldberg on The Terrorist Mind
- Is it too harsh to describe Representative McKinney as whoring herself for Arab riches?
- Will U.S. pressures lead to a second Netanyahu government? [Flashback]
- Partisan Politics Returns
- Matt Welch critiques more nonsense (from Barbara Kingsolver)
- Jane Kirtley, typical academic, is "chilled" the media has spiked FL recount interpretation
- Wouldn't it be fun to drop Stanley Fish in a NY firestation and ask him to lecture?
- Meet Isanu Dyson, Muslim-American (in that order, he says)
- Reflecting on Justice Clarence Thomas, on the tenth anniversary of his confirmation
- Apparently the new airport security rules do not apply to Rodham and other elites
- Why Bush's "Palestinian state" announcement is a colossal error in judgment [Related]
- It's really just too easy to make fun of the left-libertarian anti-interventionist fringe
- Andrew Stuttaford on "fools who would run a world, but cannot operate a PC"
- Thinking about Sudan
- Mainstream publications are discovering Uzbekistan [Flashback]
- Charles Krauthammer dissects radical Islam's will to power
- Shooting Snakes While Supporting Snake Farms
- Why aren't the media decrying partisan legislative obstruction by Dems?
- Ben Stein on the meaning of the flag
- Gingrich on civilization versus terror [via John Vaughn]
- WSJ: Is Iraq behind the Anthrax scare?
- Bartley: Saudi Arabia the epicenter of Middle East turbulence
- The hysterical anthrax crowd (NewsMax?) should read Michael Fumento
14 October 2001
- Sometimes the NewsMax people really need to consider decaffeinated coffee
- The enemy we face
- Iraq behind anthrax outbreaks?
- Walter Mossberg: The flag "belongs to all of us, even journalists" [via John Vaughn]
- When Daschle is partisan the NY Times prefers the term "maneuvering"
- Only in the NY Times warped worldview can killing terrorists endanger "peace"
- The Deep Intellectual Roots of Islamic Terror
- Sharon's Valid Analogy
- Robert Kaplan: Removing the Taliban is easy, but then what?
- The Big Lie in the Middle East
- Robert Kaplan cautions against Wilsonian democratic internationalism in the Middle East
- Texas' best sportswriter on Jerry Jones' delusional reality
13 October 2001
- Wahhabi cleric warns Saudi ruling family not to support U.S.
- The US & UK fight terror while the European Parliament fights... something
- A family of Jackals?
- U.S. military pact with Uzbekistan just a formality at this point [Flashback]
- No problems with profiling in China
- Sooners win ugly
- Damn that Jewish conspiracy! [via USS Clueless] [Related]
- Praise from Anthony Lewis is worse (and less honest) than criticism [Comment]
- The Battle for America's (Middle Eastern) Soul
- Edwin Feulner revisits the topic of Yasser Arafat, Nobel Terrorist
- Nobel Idiocy: Tainted Prize, Absurd Winner
- Andrea Peyser on Kofi Annan and the laughable United Nations
- Morton Kondracke thinks (for good reason) that Iraq is next
- Sometimes the world really IS as simple as Bill O'Reilly sees it
- Joshua Teitelbaum reports why Riyadh Stiffs America
- David Pryce-Jones on victory over Osama bin Laden
12 October 2001
- Will history prove Sharon's Czechoslovakia comments wholly prescient?
- Astros 2001: Different year, same results [Comment]
- The world according to Jonah
- The Cato case that foreign oil dependence is not a big deal
- Jim Hoagland on the Iraq connection
- Can Musharraf remake Pakistan?
- Prospects for a post-Taliban Afghanistan
- Larry Kudlow looks to Russia as oil czar and ally
- Peter Beinart exposes the Left's free-speech credibility problem
- Why we should listen critically to Osama bin Laden (despite White House requests)
- Lawrence Kaplan: When to Coddle Bad Regimes [Related]
- Is Bush's advisor on Islam reliable?
- Charles Krauthammer opposes War as Humanitarianism
- Jonah Goldberg's tongue-in-cheek case for American colonialism
- Not many lame-duck mayors pack as much punch as Giuliani
- Dollars Can't Disguise Hate
- The immoral death tax
- Dan Henninger on the return of the melting pot
- Peggy Noonan welcomes back the "manly virtues"
11 October 2001
- Is Iraq Next?
- Joe Ely has updated his webpage
- The lovely and talented Laura Ingraham is now online
- Richard Lowry critiques the latest nonsense from Edward Said
- Colin Powell (and other "Palestinian centrality" theorists) could learn from Rudy Giuliani's example
- Interesting stuff at Matt Welch's warblog (are we all warbloggers now?)
- James Woolsey is quietly asked to consider Iraqi involvement
- Robb Walsh visits Frenchy's (a Houston third-ward icon)
- Finally, a group (the Taliban) that has outdone the Democrats on absurd taxes!
- Houston's primary alternative weekly considers Texas redistricting
- Thinking about H.W. Fowler (of Fowler's Modern English Usage fame)
- Podhoretz: NO, they won't have won
- Thomas Sowell on free speech and bad judgment
- Why isn't the press calling out Daschle's partisanship?
- Dierker gets babysitters for Game 2 press conference [Related]
10 October 2001
- Osama bin Laden: "a boozer-hypocrite who consorts with gay muppets" [Image]
- Peace is (was?) Hell
- Jonah Goldberg (indirectly) on dictatorships and double standards [Related]
- Why do the Saudis have such influence over the US State Department?
- John McWhorter contends the U.S. is already paying slavery reparations
- Glenn Reynolds notes the appearance of Bert (sans Ernie) in Osama bin Laden photos
- Strong language from usually squishy American diplomats
- Richard Butler warns on Pakistan (as we have been for weeks) [Flashback]
- Thinking nobody is watching, the House fattens farm subsidies and other pork
- "Israel is part of the solution, not part of the problem"
- Steve Den Beste reminds us always to read the news critically
- On "good" Islamist fascist terrorists and "bad" Islamist fascist terrorists
- Jonah Goldberg debunks the myth of Israel's centrality
- The life and times of Osama bin Laden
- Blair bats down the British Anti-American Left
- Bubba just cannot resist the spotlight
- The Map of Europe is Being Redrafted [via John Vaughn]
- The US State Department is trying to prove Sharon correct re his Czech comments
- 2000 Summary of chemical/biological/nuclear terrorism incidents
- The substance of Sharon's Czech comments, if not the timing, deserves consideration
- What was Dierker thinking (I)? [Related]
- What was Dierker thinking (II)? [Related]
9 October 2001
- Buckley thinks there is enough evidence regarding Iraq
- One question for Dierker (after the latest collapse): WHERE WAS DOTEL?!? [Comment]
- Disenchanted advocates further deregulation, and less bailout, for the airlines
- A relevant historical article, despite the conclusions in the final few paragraphs
- An interesting history of Claremont McKenna College and affiliated "Claremonsters"
- John Podhoretz wonders, Who's Next?
- Reason interviews Christopher Hitchens [via TAM]
- Only the U.N. can be oblivious to the idea a radio tower is a military target [Related]
- Won't it be interesting if UN Security Council member Syria is among the next targets?
- Conspiratorial Arnold Beichman warns against neglecting state sponsors of terror
- Paul Greenberg on Blair's finest hour
- Victor Davis Hanson looks to the ancient (Greek) past for answers about war
- The nature of the enemy [Related]
- Florida anthrax outbreak "a mystery that has only begun to be unraveled"
- The most influential vice-president in U.S. history
- Colonel John Warden on waging systematic war against terror
- Washington Can Count On London
8 October 2001
- Personal Journal: Airport Security and Other Catching Up
- In the "I'm so sorry" category: Protester burning flag catches fire
- Texas redistricting should ensure GOP control of Congress [via WOIFM]
- Texas redistricting could spell end of Ken Bentsen [via WOIFM]
- Jonah Goldberg: Remembering the Obvious
- More on the "Blowback" Myth [Related]
- Counting the ways Bush is wrong on Palestinian statehood
- Rod Dreher is sick of the overly simplistic "Islam is a religion of peace" bromide
- John Keegan: This Is a Cultural War [via John Vaughn]
- Andrew Sullivan: This Is a Religious War
- In Defense of C. S. Lewis
- College: The End of the Golden Age
- How to think about international politics? Listen to the principals, for starters
- John Podhoretz on Osama bin Laden's "statement"
- Daniel Pipes on the civilization gap
- Vanquishing Spengler's (and Huntington's?) ghost
- How the Wall Street Journal published on 12 September
7 October 2001
- Foreign troops to deploy on U.S. soil
- The L.A. Times on patriotism resurgent
- James Q. Wilson: Freedoms Not In Jeopardy
- Ariel Sharon's "Arafat Problem"
- Fitting: A state sponsor of terrorism set to join U.N. Security Council
- Sharon "clarifies" Czechoslovakia comments
- Israel Forgotten (or Israel Betrayed)?
- Pakistan's Peril [Related]
- Mark Steyn on the Pacifist Left's tiresome cliches
- What is wrong with a Palestinian state
- Jerry Jones should just name himself coach and formalize the Cowboy idiocy
- I like Steve Spurrier's name for Mack Brown ("Mr. Football") better than "Mr. February"
- FORMER Heisman candidate Chris Simms says the silliest things
- "The myth of Mack [Mr. Football] Brown is busted"
6 October 2001
- "Mack [Mr. Football] Brown is still searching for his first big win"
- Texas enters spin mode
- Oklahoma defense denies Texas, 14-3
- Dierker is an ass (and will no doubt preside over a first-round playoff loss AGAIN)
- Barry Bonds Sets, Resets Home Run Record
- Laughing all the way to his Swiss bank account
- Competing "militias" in the anarchocrapitalist republic of Kenya
- NY Post editors place Sharon's "Czechoslovakia" comments in context
- Who is Sami Al-Arian, II?
- Podhoretz makes the case against Sharon's "Czechoslovakia" comments
- A new League of Nations Mandate system for terrorist strongholds?
5 October 2001
- Astros avert total collapse (but not pitching to Bonds is still gutless)
- Like Morgan, I hope Dierker's gutless Astros lose the rest of their games
- Cognitive Dissonance
- "We act as though common sense is an offense"
- Why Ariel Sharon has fired Colin Powell as Israeli Foreign Minister
- Bonds ties record with 70th HR; Astros' collapse continues apace
- Considering "the philotyrannical mind"
- Peter Beinart: Is Russia a legimate ally in a principled war against terrorism?
- Not all of the Left is orgasmic over Colin Powell's "restraint" [Related]
- Bruce Herschensohn: What Proof? Terrorism Alone is Cause for Action [Related]
- Sharon: We Won't Be Another Czechoslovakia
- Oslo is Dead: Time to Move On
- John O'Sullivan on The Song of the "Counter-Tribalists"
- Charles Krauthammer: A War on Many Fronts
- Fukuyama defends the End of History [Related]
- Peggy Noonan: The 21st Century's First War Heroes
4 October 2001
- Zero-tolerance airport-security lunacy strikes Canada [via InstaPundit]
- Dershowitz: Make the Case Against Bin Laden [Comment]
- Noted strategist Edward Luttwak contends the CIA has become a paper tiger
- Why Uzbekistan could turn out to be America's best ally [Related]
- Untimely reward for the Nobel Terrorist
- So much for the ceasefire with the Nobel Terrorist
- Who is Ayman Al-Zawahiri?
- Jonah Goldberg offers a primer on "cernsorship"
- RET: Bubba continues to build on his "legacy"
- Donald Rumsfeld's Blueprint
- William Safire on the High Cost of Coalition
- Lean Times for Fringe Activists
- Andrew Sullivan on the Agony of the Left
3 October 2001
- Jonah Goldberg: Government Makes a Comeback?
- Jonah Goldberg on NRO and Ann Coulter [Related]
- Justice is served, Robb Walsh-style
- Part III of Robb Walsh's American Steak series [Part I] [Part II]
- The ongoing saga of how the previous U.S. foreign policy team handled Osama bin Laden
- Sober thoughts from a local (Houston) gay activist
- Why has it taken me so long to discover this fine, pro-liberty, GreyMatter-powered blog?
- On protesting, versus living, life
- Cal Thomas: "The secular West does not understand the Bible, much less radical Islam...."
- On Maher's bad taste [and Coulter's]
- Greenberg: "Why do they hate us? Because that is what haters do"
- Walter Williams offers Paul Krugman some remedial reading (namely, Bastiat)
- Don Feder on Israel's war with terror (and U.S. "peace" makers)
- Frank Gaffney wonders if "A Time to Choose" is just empty rhetorical posturing
- Colin Powell bakes a cake for Palestinian statehood
- Sami Al-Arian's interesting friends
- Slanted Reporting: Kagan on "journalism" and the Powell/Wolfowitz debate
- Michael Kelly: The Immorality of Pacifism, II
- TNR bats down a couple of gnats (Maher and Sontag)
- I love the line "Vanity is never fair"
- A crisis is always a good excuse for Congress to spend money like drunken sailors
- Mark Helprin pens an Afghan Strategy
- The long-run danger is still state-sponsored terrorism
- Nguyen Van Thieu, RIP
- Between The Seat and the Dinner Tray
2 October 2001
- The Multicultural Moment
- The EuroWeenie Court of Human rights fiddles while... well, you get the idea
- Clinton does have more of a legacy than Monica [Related]
- One of many reasons to topple the Taliban
- Rich Lowry is right on Scowcroft (and Bush I "realism" more broadly) [Related]
- Oh Those Cowboys
- Poverty not the root cause of militant Islam [Comment]
- Postmodern Pooh
- Don't rewrite NY term limits -- Appoint Giuliani as US Ambassador to the UN
- I'm going to have to start using the term "Fax-a-Despot" Left
- I'm a Coulter fan, but writing so outrageously can have consequences [via ReneePelagie] [Comment]
- Inside Pakistan Redux: The last paragraph is chilling (and familiar) [Related]
- Noted historian Paul Rahe argues for Iraqi centrality [Related]
- Shaky Pakistan [Related]
- There are still forces in the State Department advocating a "Palestinian" state [Related]
1 October 2001
- Peikoff on O'Reilly
- Pakistan, Democracy, and Bhutto
- Jonah Goldberg on radical Islam, Fukuyama, and the End of History [Comment]
- David Duke joins Pat Buchanan and the Blame-Israel crowd [via InstaPundit]
- Another Liberty Blogger discovers the magic of GreyMatter [GreyMatter]
- Shades of The Fountainhead: Why can't this book find an English publisher?
- What can be said about a culture that celebrates destruction and death?
- Deconstructing Bill Maher [Related]
- Deconstructing Edward Said [Related]
- Saudi Friends, Saudi Foes?
- The Enemy Isn't Us
- The Bush War Cabinet
- Bill Bennett on America's Moment (of moral clarity)
- Debunking the "Blame Israel" crowd
- Robert Conquest: Where Ignorance Isn't Bliss
- Christopher Dodd, partisan (foreign-policy) hack
- Paybax [via Jim Hart]
