Archives - November 2001
30 November 2001
- No Saturday Weblog
- Jonah Goldberg on the Euro diploweenies and academic Huns
- Unsurprisingly, the NY Times doesn't mention Lee Brown's "James Byrd" calls
- The National Post covers the Walk for Capitalism [via Recovering Liberal]
- English law versus European law
- RealVideo of last night's Houston mayoral debate [Related] [Related]
- Isn't this sort of thinking what spurred California's power troubles in the first place?
- Colbert King gets under Pat Robertson's skin [Related] [Related]
- Typically bland coverage of Houston's mayoral race from the Washington Post
- WOIFM was ahead of the print media on the Dems' confirmation stall [Related]
- Stephen Schwartz: How To Win The War On Wahhabism
- Robert Bork on prosecuting terrorists
- Andrew Sullivan on Steve Chapman's deterrence misconceptions
- Peter Beinart critiques "the crawl"
- Lawrence Kaplan notes Powell was wrong on Iraq ten years ago, and wrong now
- David Brooks: A stimulus package "too stupid to fail"
- James Webb: A New Doctrine For New Wars
- Daniel Henninger is tired of "civil-libertarian sanctimony"
- Peggy Noonan's flight
- Facts need not intrude when playing the race card
29 November 2001
- Lessons from the Enron collapse [via Ben Henick]
- Helen Thomas is one bitter shrew
- More Brownisms: "you have to make some decisive decisions"
- WSJ Denounces Brown's Politics of Racial Division
- Rich Lowry points out that nuclear deterrence requires a credible nuclear threat
- WOIFM sets the record straight on judicial confirmation politics
- Hard to believe, but I missed McPain's latest grandstanding [via InstaPundit]
- Michelle Branch, the anti-Britney
- Unbelievable: The Chron describes racial categories as "Negroid, Mongoloid and Caucasoid"
- Enron on verge of collapse [Related] [Related]
- The Failure of Evenhandedness
- Historian Shmuel Katz On (Powell's) Blunders and Distortions
- Edward Luttwak on the doves and hawks on Iraq
- George Will : THE Dems $oft $ellout
- Tony Blankley: Much Ado About Multilateralism
- Marc Levin criticizes Lee Brown's politics of racial division
- Lee Brown's politics of racial division gets national coverage (also in today's print WSJ)
- Gertrude Himmelfarb is thinking about Churchill
- The Green establishment goes after The Skeptical Environmentalist
- Turkmenistan's "Thug In A Rug"
- For you sentimental types: The Internet Archive Wayback Machine [via Wibbly Weblog]
28 November 2001
- Poll numbers looking good for Sanchez despite Mayor Pothole's negative campaign
- Don Feder thinks the Secretary of State needs an opthalmology exam
- The Rummy Show [via John Vaughn]
- Jonah Goldberg says, Cheer Up Conservatives!
- Lee Brown's America: City of the Inept
- I'm betting on the West in the Burka versus Bikini Grudge Match
- Robert Locke deconstructs deconstructionism [via Fredrik Norman] [Related] [Related]
- Despatches diagnoses Hoplophobia at the Washington Post
- As A&L Daily puts it, Tolkien is "Wagner without angst" [via ALD]
- President Bush endorses Sanchez; Terry McAuliffe endorses Mayor Pothole [Related]
- Sanchez candidacy threatens Houston's eternal taxing & spending "sports authority"
- Eric Margolis offers an alternative interpretation of Russia's recent behavior
- Michael Kelly considers the anti-war naysayers
- Ken Adelman on "Egypt's Hate Machine"
- On confusing cellular life with human life
- The academy and the Middle East [Related]
- President Daschle
- Readers of The Arabists would not be surprised by "Ned Walker's Wrong Turn" [Amazon]
27 November 2001
- Correction
- The WSJ's Battle of the Bulge
- Rawls, Dworkin, and their Dangerous Egalitarian Dreams [via ALD]
- Telegraph interview with Paul Wolfowitz [via John Vaughn]
- Great photography is as much mental as technical [via Ben Henick]
- Twofer: The Cows AND Mayor Lee Brown will soon be gone
- The EuroWeenies are being as helpful as ever
- ARI-Objectivist Edwin Locke on Stanley Fish and pomo broadly [via Recovering Liberal]
- Are We All Post-Culturalists Now? [via JH3K]
- Good news: Liberal Ken Bentsen will soon be out of Congress and can't win statewide
- Frank Gaffney contrasts President Bush with his Secretary of State
- Lee Brown's politics of racial division makes the Washington Times
- Equal Time: I really CAN blog a pro-Colin Powell piece (tepid as it may be)
- Thomas Friedman on the war against religious totalitarianism
- "We" Have Now Lost "The Battle Against Cloning?!"
- Rich Lowry gets so carried away on Saudi Arabia I thought I was reading a warblog :)
- Robert Kagan reviews Halberstam's War In A Time Of Peace [Related]
- Is Michelle Malkin The Other Coulter?
- Smoking Ordinances and Property Rights
- Personal Journal: Catching Up
26 November 2001
- Full Disclosure: I live IN Houston and donated
- The Chron neglects to mention Lee Brown's "James Byrd" phone calls [Related]
- Lee Brown's America
- O'Reilly: Waiting in the Bushes
- The emerging Latino factor in American politics
- Benin has its own terrorist problem
- Bookmark Natalie Solent (an excellent blog I stumbled upon over the weekend)
- Edward Luttwak ponders centralized versus anarchic aid for Afghanistan [via InstaPundit]
- Daniel Pipes urges the US to forego lecturing Muslims on Islam
- JFK Approach to Terror, or Logically Inconsistent, Poorly Written Mess?
- Trouble for Chavez and Venezuela
- Melissa Seckora continues to take apart Michael Bellesiles' gun "scholarship"
- Mission Impossible: OMB chief Mitchell Daniels tries to curb Congressional spending
- Back to normal: NY Times says don't take on Iraq because fighting is, well, hard
- Novak: Social Security privatization worries GOP elites
- Don Feder carves up the civil-libertarian Left (did he not get enough turkey?)
- Reason: Matt Welch examines the American Right after 11 September
- "What happens to the clown when the party hats are put aside for ... war?"
- Pan Am 103: Another case for military tribunals
25 November 2001
- The Art of Seduction [via Andrew]
- Rodham needs a good editor
- How a British Labor MP "sold out and became a hawk" [via John Vaughn]
- No doubt the State Department will condemn such "senseless violence"
- Powell CANNOT answer George Will's questions coherently (and therein lies the problem)
- Ressentiment as religion: A Nietzschean critique of Islam [Related]
- How NOT to treat a Navy hero
- NRO Weekend on the Painful Decline of Monday Night Football
24 November 2001
23 November 2001
- Nebraska gets caught looking ahead to (barring disaster) OU and is CrUshed
- Stellar defensive effort not enough to overcome A&M's pitiful offense, UT
- Flashback: LGF notes a June 2001 TNR article on Saddam and sanctions [InstaPundit]
- Russia and Norway likely to coordinate with OPEC on oil output [Related]
- Pat Buchanan's monthly "Blame the Jews" column [Related]
- Cal Thomas on Colon Bowel's blurred "vision"
- Peace Is Not Just The Absence Of War [Indirectly Related]
- It's damn hard to imagine prissy Michael Kinsley shopping at K-Mart
- If it took the UN 3 years to come to THIS conclusion, I can't wait for its anti-terror effort!
- Graduation statistics: My old grad school prof Jay Greene takes on "the blob"
- The Decline and Fall of the First Global Economy
- "Paul Krugman may be a smart economist, but he's a stupid columnist"
- Undersecretary of State Bolton is more impressive than his boss
- It will be strange when Bartlesville and Phillips Petroleum are no longer synonymous
22 November 2001
21 November 2001
- NBA competition is pitiful, and the league's answer is shorter shorts?!
- Perhaps the annoying term "asymmetric warfare" can now be retired
- Christiane Amanpour is the latest lefty to get her feelings hurt over mere CRITICISM
- National conservatives ignore Houston's mayoral race as lefties like Cisneros dive right in
- Robb Murphy reviews Trish Murphy's latest
- Dallas thumps Houston's indie music scene
- Richard Connelly's critique of Houston media is particularly good this week
- John Ashcroft's War on Terrorism extends to ... Houston's Art Car Museum?!
- Margaret Talbot distinguishes the study of culture from multiculturalism [via ALD]
- No Sarajevo: Understanding Afghanistan's ethnographic "fusion and fission"
- Andrew Card is much like Sherman Adams (for you Presidential organization buffs)
- Louisville Slugger: TNR skewers the disappointing Secretary's banal speech [Related]
- Beinart is provocative and insightful this week (as always), but is he right?
- The "softer" side of a murderous dictator
- ARI-Objectivist Edwin Locke condemns new UC admissions policy...
- ... but the Weekly Standard's Lee Bockhorn plays devil's advocate (sort of)
- Trouble in the Philippines [Related]
- Remembering H.W. Fowler (still one of my favorites)
- Liberty, Rationality, and ... Deer Hunting? (Yep!)
- Rhetorical Question: Does the Anti-Gun Crowd Think You're Stupid?
- The sentiment from a bunch of bikers says everything
20 November 2001
- Are opponents of Ashcroft assisted-suicide policy part of Cult of Calhoun?
- "How I learned to take inspiration from Thabo Mbeki and love incompetence"
- Former President Bush endorses Orlando Sanchez for Houston mayor [Related]
- The Race Card: Brown campaign compares Sanchez to James Byrd's killers (w/video)
- The Race Card: Brown campaign compares Sanchez to James Byrd's killers
- Frank Gaffney blasts Colin Powell's dangerous "vision" of the Middle East
- Text of Powell speech at Louisville
- On Colin Powell's "philosophy of moral equivalence"
- Eli Lake raises questions about Arab-Israeli peace-process "results"
- Bush defends military tribunals
- World War IV
19 November 2001
- Two really good questions for Colon Bowel
- A good analysis of Schroeder's no-confidence gambit (written BEFORE the vote)
- Thinking about deflation [Related]
- Teachers of the Taliban: The Deobandi movement
- In Search of (Islamic) Moderation
- Paul Johnson: The West is Best
- Laying the PR groundwork for war on Iraq? [Related]
- It is time for Helen Thomas to retire
- Eric Alterman pans David Halberstam's latest effort [via ALD]
- John Leo: Quagmire, RIP
- A good task to keep Shimon Peres busy (maybe Powell could join him?)
- The "surprise" is Colon Bowel's bizarre fixation on pressuring Israel as Arafat's terror continues
- Back to normal: Dershowitz opposes tribunals as a matter of policy, not law
- Daniel Pipes: Victory is the best policy against militant Islam
- The usual "dilemma": The Nobel Terrorist doesn't want to crack down on terrorism
- Memo to O'Reilly: Don't ease up on the Red Cross just yet [O'Reilly]
- What role for the national government in state-sanctioned mercy killing?
- To hell with yellow ribbons [Photo]
- Thomas Bray defends military tribunals [Related]
18 November 2001
- Brown campaign tries to manufacture controversy
- Baseball's executives: The last all-white men's club?
- Houston benefits, Bartlesville loses in Conoco/Phillips merger
- A collected hits CD from Lyle Lovett is WELL overdue
- Washington Times questions for Colon Bowel prior to "peace process" speech
- Unbelievable: Activists challenge plan to exterminate rats!
- Eight years of neglect can lead to problems like this
- Barr and McBride on Military Justice for Al Qaeda [Related]
- Dick Morris: While Clinton Slept (a terror network did not)
- GOP may reclaim Carnahan Senate seat on Ashcroft's coattails (bottom of column) [Related]
- Mark Steyn on certain LeftWingNuts and the war on terrorism
- (Natural) competition for Microsoft should benefit consumers
- Holman Jenkins echoes Joshua Micah Marshall on media coverage of Bin Laden [Related]
- Noted Russian historian Richard Pipes on the Bear's recent embrace of the West
- In Texas politics, Democrats LOVE racial profiling
- Houston's bumbling leftist mayor must go [Related]
- I hope the losers from UT enjoyed the ride home from Lubbock
17 November 2001
- (Hardly) Clueless: "Ideas and knowledge are the most dangerous thing ... to authoritarian regimes"
- Rockets FINALLY hit their shots, easily taking the Mavs at Compaq
- Sooner defense dominates again, as Oklahoma picks up a tough Big 12 road win
- Perhaps not relevant to this call-in show, but Wiccans DO consider themselves real
- North Korea
- Sooner legend Billy Vessels, RIP
- Compaq fight will make or break Carly Fiorina
- Rare bipartisan Senate agreement (on Israel)
- Jensen's Project
- Robert Kaplan argues the future and present vindication of Huntington's thesis [Related]
- The Crash of EgyptAir 990 [Interview]
- P.J. O'Rourke on Demonstrating Against Reality (in London and D.C.)
- P.J. O'Rourke: Zion's Vital Signs
- Fred Kaplan speculates on JFK's little-known nuclear first-strike planning
- How the World Bank and IMF harm third-world countries (in this case, Ethiopia)
- Peace is Hell (noted here in October, finally posted online) [Flashback]
- WOIFM on the bankruptcy of Democratic Senate "leadership" thus far
- LGF: War on terror not just right, but necessary
- An ARI Objectivist urges the U.S. to disband the coalition [via LGF]
- A (surprisingly) clever editorial from the usually dreadful Chron
- Serving notice on terrorists [via ALD]
- Postmodern Jihad: What Osama Bin Laden Learned From The Left
- Irwin Stelzer on the competitive importance of Enron [Related]
- Jonathan Chait notes the anti-war Left's sudden silence
- Great opening line: "Al Jazeera is not subtle television"
- Tunku Varadarajan on the liberation of Kabul [Related]
16 November 2001
- TNR with some nifty analysis and a flash map of Afghanistan
- Emmitt Smith, Michael Jordan, and a few others could learn from Mark McGwire
- Ariel Sharon deserves an apology
- Jonah Goldberg on military tribunals and the hysterical Safire crowd
- Kudos to Cross Canadian Ragweed (a fine band) for supporting our soldiers
- Jonah Goldberg on the psychology of the public, versus the people who inform them
- McPain will not be happy that Leahy's grabbing his media spotlight! [via John Vaughn]
- Israel's next PM slams Peres UN speech [Related] [Related]
- Ever vacuous, Blarianna Huff[and Puff]ington joins the war effort [Flashback]
- Joshua Micah Marshall on using Bin Laden's propaganda -- against him
- Austin Bay: "In war, the best diplomacy is victory"
- Text of Bush and Putin in Crawford, Texas school (worth reading)
- Rumsfeld lets North Korea know the United States is paying attention to them
- Thomas Friedman on Breaking the (radical Islamic) Circle [via John Vaughn]
- McPain: Grandstanding again, after at least two days out of the spotlight
- The other victims in Afghanistan
- Peggy Noonan: The President Within
- Improving Rockets not quite good enough to knock off undefeated champs
15 November 2001
- Corrupt: City officials target city contractors to raise money for Brown turnout effort
- Bell cares more about his future in politics than Houston [Related]
- Peter Beinart: The Soviets lost Afghanistan; Americans will not
- Lawrence Kaplan (rightly) praises the Pentagon and (rightly) chastises State [Related]
- Jonah Goldberg on voter apathy
- Larry Elder blasts recent media (non)coverage of Bubba and Rodham [Related]
- Runoff Worries for Mayor Brown [Related] [Related]
- Will Bell abandon (anti-Brown) principle and whore himself for Congressional race?
- A veiled woman is not necessarily oppressed
- We also noted local KPRC's stunt last week (now curiously missing from their site)
- Salon: Circling the Drain [via the smartly redesigned Despatches]
- Slate profiles Bernard Lewis, Middle East scholar extraordinaire [via TAM]
- Jeffrey Hart's latest takes up a favorite theme of Leo Strauss [via TAM]
- Shmuel Katz on friendships, interests, and the politics of Israel
- Laughably predictable: UN debate focuses on Israeli "terrorism"
- Turkey: Our ally in style and substance
- Objective Standards? UC don't need no stinkin' standards!
- Is Iraq Next? [Related]
- War, Religion, and Betrayal: Who's Who in the Northern Alliance
- Like him or not, Bill O'Reilly was one of the few holding the Red Cross accountable
- America: Idea or Nation?
- Shades of LBJ as Bush firmly (but politely) rebukes Congressional spenders
- Douglas Kmiec favors military tribunals
- William Safire opposes military tribunals
- The bad timing of violent American radicals
- 2001: A banner year for gun rights
14 November 2001
- Jerry Falwell will use any crisis to build his mailing list of potential donors
- Stratfor Staggers (as perceptions and reality collide?)
- Courts should NOT be in the business of drawing Congressional districts
- It would be a REAL Texas tour if Bush had an icechest full of beer in the back :)
- Bookmark Update: ZeroPolitics has gone BLUE
- Why machine counts and closure were preferable all along
- Jonah Goldberg's Profiles in Profiling
- Bob Stoops on Texas: "It was fairly obvious when we competed what was what...."
- News to make a Sooner football fan smile
- Mayor Brown learns a new term: RUNOFF
- Colbert King has been on to Robertson for a while [Flashback] [More] [More] [More]
- Spotted on TAM's radar screen: Radical Centrism
- Economic liberty: The neglected "civil right"
- Jack Kemp on the Fed's ongoing deflation
- Recovering 19th- Century Laissez-Faire ideas from historians [via ALD]
- Daniel Pipes: "We Are Going To Conquer America" [Related] [Related]
- When Charities Do Wrong
- A preview of Houston's upcoming mayoral runoff? [via Callie]
- Tony Blankley on the brewing Saudi storm
- Frank Gaffney warns against a Russian bait-and-switch on missile defense
- Trouble in Jordan
- Michael Kelly parodies NPR and the BBC
- Jim Hoagland on Bush's Week of (foreign-policy) Truth
- Are you ready for Brain Fingerprinting?
13 November 2001
- "I'm sick of Lee Brown's lies about Orlando Sanchez"
- Good news for Orlando Sanchez (and a quote from a grad school buddy Chris Hammons)
- Has Rodham always been so bitter and petty?
- A grad school prof of mine finds bad news on high school graduation rates [Related]
- Inured to Change [via BG]
- US will boost Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- Bad Assumption: Patrick Ruffini's astute observation on the Florida "re-re-recount"
- Den Beste: "Allah fights on the side who has air supremacy" (LOL)
- Selling Out Israel and Ourselves [via Fredrik Norman]
- The best Brown operatives can do is point out Orlando Sanchez is CUBAN-American?!
- Terrorism and the Peace Process
- Militants and Terrorists
- Martin Sherman on the "Oslovian tragedy"
- Loony Left Update: Robert Scheer says it really IS all our fault (*yawn*)
- Robert Hunter thinks "trust but verify" remains applicable counsel re: Russia
- Richard Cohen points out limitations on America's war against terror
- Stature of Hamas grows for Palestinians
- Frank Gaffney on the tests ahead for Bush, Putin
- James Pinkerton wants the US to "reach out" (huh?)
- Thinking about compulsory national "service"
- Whiny Longhorns can blame loss to Oklahoma and weak schedule, not "flawed" BCS
12 November 2001
- Airport Security Personnel
- Red Cross will now be forced to destroy "excess" blood
- Michael Medved on pathological anti-Americanism
- Why reward the Nobel Terrorist?
- Rethinking Egypt
- TNR on the ground in Afghanistan
- Has Mac Owens forgotten HE was also playing armchair general recently? [Flashback]
- I worry about Israel's security when the State Department sees "encouraging signs"
- Multilateralism? No, mutual self-interest
- Saffire on the Bin Laden-Prague-Iraq connection
- The REAL scandal in last year's Florida voting (must read!)
- Once a respected economist, Krugman has become a shallow (NY Times) ideological hack
- 2001 Nights: The Collapse of the "Orientalist Critique"
- Repression Breeds Terrorism
11 November 2001
- Mayor Brown abandons promise not to go negative as his campaign flounders
- The 2002 Index of Economic Freedom is now available
- Ronald Reagan's Anthrax "Encounter"
- "Apparently blenders and dishwashers don't have that much to say to each other"
- Personal Journal: Cafe Michael Burger Scare
- Toilet Bowl: The worst NFL game I have ever watched
- Does anyone take the ever-bitter junior senator from New York seriously?
- An interesting reshuffle in Myanmar
- Don't leave OPEC for dead just yet [Related] [Related]
- Claremonster Brian Kennedy on the enduring need for missile defense
- Will Miss Cleo join the anti-terror effort?
- The fractured Israeli Left [Flashback]
- Is this any way to fight a war?
- Bin Laden: Yes, I did it
- Michael Crowley on petulant Judiciary chair Patrick Leahy
- More Saudi hot air in Jim Hoagland conversation [Related] [Related]
- Text of Bush UN Address
- Can the most talented Cowboy QB so far this season (Ryan Leaf) rehabilitate himself?
10 November 2001
- Has fear of Netanyahu turned Sharon into a dove? [Flashback]
- Our Friends in the Academy: The Scandal of Middle East Studies
- Saddam Hussein's American Apologist
- Irwin Stelzer: Can We Do Without Saudi Oil? [Related] [Related] [Related]
- Sooner offense overcomes lackluster first half as defense handles Texas A&M
- Thinking About Downstream Oil -2
- Sources of Discord in the Academy
- Dynegy acquires Enron (or, How Quickly an Empire Collapsed)
- Houston landmark Drexler's BBQ anticipating new digs
- Hot AIR-afat
- Bush: "[T]he time of sympathy is over .... Now is the time for action [Related]
- The more Pat Robertson's spokesman spins, the worse it looks
- The UN effort at eradicating terrorism is up to its usual standards
- The major media have finally discovered Juma Namangani [Flashback] [Related]
- The Irony of Iran
- Killing Private Help for Public Lands
- James Glassman with the capitalist alternative to Enviro-Gloom
- Considering the Hero in Western drama
- Mark Lilla interviewed on Intellectuals and Tyranny [via Callie]
- Earth to Ivory Tower (highly recommended) [via John Alway]
9 November 2001
- As OpinionJournal points out, the Wash Times may have been too tough on Bubba's speech
- Senate Democrats need to be held accountable for such shenanigans
- I guess Mayor Brown lied when he promised not to go negative [Related]
- Now that Chelsea Clinton is an adult, I think it's fair to call her a moron [Related]
- Donate Your Blankets!
- Why can't Colon Bowel's State Department speak consistently on Israel?
- Condoleezza Rice has strong words for the Nobel Terrorist
- Bill Richardson points out that India (like Israel) is a democratic ally in an unlikely region
- Justice Department "focus on terrorism" [This is Focus?]
- Charles Krauthammer: War and the Polar Bear
- I think the term "whiny little pip" aptly describes Michael Kinsley
- The TV chitchat crowd is bored (boo hoo)
- The (State Department's) ongoing "rehabilitation" of Mommar Gadhafi
- Can anyone tell me why Bubba is not castigated like Falwell, Robertson, and Maher?
- Heads They Win, Tails We Lose
- Plenty of American journalists could stand to read Peter Beinart's latest
- Liberian strongman Charles Taylor's ties to Robertson, Jackson, AND Bin Laden? [Related]
- The workings of Daisy Cutter bombing (Flash)
- Matt Labash on America's WORST Cliche
- First Lady Laura Bush: The Foundation of America
- Surprising depth from Thomas Friedman (has he been reading Robert Kaplan?)
- Radio Free America, anyone?
- Peggy Noonan's impeccable columns help make up for Paul Gigot's move upstairs
- West Texas Waltz: The Tech and A&M idiots in this incident deserve each other
- This year's Rockets team has a great attitude
8 November 2001
- Great news for Palm shareholders (like me), but is it too late?
- Houston's Mayoral Election
- This "student" photography site blew me away [via David Hamby]
- Kemp versus Brooks (a Hobson's choice?)
- Debra Saunders exposes William Raspberry's irresponsible and lazy journalism
- Strategic Petroleum Reserve
- America's Bard: The Atlantic looks back at Walt Whitman
- Hard to say which is more silly, the report's atrocious writing or the stunt itself [via Callie]
- Ballot Hits and Bloopers in Houston
- Fiction often trumps fact (and Western knowledge of the same) in Palestine
- Hell Freezes: We concur 100% with an LA Times editorial (blasting Ashcroft)!
- Disconnect with Reality: IDF withdraws, and Powell hints at rewarding the Nobel Terrorist?
- George Will on the 9th Circuit's jurisprudence of penumbras
- The last paragraph nicely illustrates the nature of the Saudi problem
- Predictable: Note the first photo in the Washington Post's "America at War" photoessay
- Thomas Sowell is thinking about Life at the Bottom [Amazon]
- I guess Rich Lowry can calm down now [Related] [Related]
- Why did it take so long for Trent Lott to fashion a strategy to counter obstructionist Daschle?
- Beginnings of the information flow that will precede eventual attacks on Iraq?
- Thankfully this man is now entirely irrelevant to formation of American foreign policy
- Negative media or negative New York Times?
- The less than stimulating "Holiday Stimulus" talk
- What Republican Agenda?
- "I just knew then that I had been a lazy Democrat and I never looked back."
- Sixties peaceniks the only ones still fighting the Vietnam War
7 November 2001
- Powell: Get Ready, Iraq [via John Vaughn]
- Jonah Goldberg humorously weaves political philosophy, history, and nostalgia
- Good news for local pc maker Compaq; Bad news for Carly Fiorina
- A little archaeological/anthropological gem from Steven Den Beste
- Rumsfeld: "In the end, war is not about ... 24-hour news cycles" [via TAM]
- John Leo: The Left's speech-suppression efforts have backfired (on them) [via ALD]
- I never expected to see Barber's name again after passing Ph.D. exams :) [via ALD]
- Vomit: Cragg Hines may be the worst writer of any "major" daily (check out paragraph one)
- Thinking about Kashmir
- Realignment: Dick Morris on New York's new era
- Virginia's House results are much more important than the Governor's race
- Helle Bering: Beware Russians Expecting Gifts
- Michael Kelly on Removing the Loons from the Left
- The UN is great at remarks "fatuous, dangerous, irresponsible and idiotic" (but not short)
- Rosen's assessment of Bush v. Gore is interesting, but I do not ultimately agree
6 November 2001
- Runoff Time: A majority vote to fire Mayor Brown (Go Orlando!)
- Jordan's precarious position
- Nate Newton may give new meaning to the term Cowboy Lifer
- Debate (as Ewing contends) or Much About Nothing (as Butterworth contends)?
- Yesterday's Despatches are really entertaining
- Why some of us prefer Americana/No Depression/Alt-country [via ALD] [Related]
- Shmuel Katz: Curse of the Tongue-Tied [Amazon]
- Like some members of the American Left, Saudi elites don't like criticism
- Kudos to Mr. Ortega, for resisting the Al Gore dimpled-chad temptation [Related]
- I certainly hope President Musharraf is not deposed while away from Pakistan
- The ever astute Frank Gaffney on Bush's Coming Reykjavik Moment
- Grandstander McPain joins with likely Dem presidential candidate to promote Clintonism
- Proof that on (rare) occasion, Thomas Friedman can write an eminently sensible column
- Solid, if vanilla, advice from Henry Kissinger
- It is time for the U.S. to promote popular sovereignty in Iran
- Joe Ely at the Mucky Duck
5 November 2001
- Jonah Goldberg's "Corrections" columns are hilarious
- Nicaragua: Ronald Reagan would be SMILING [This idiot probably is not]
- Billy Tubbs (579-282) has never gotten the respect he deserves in NCAA basketball
- The Reductionist Impulse
- I missed this followup from Horowitz on the Coulter-NRO controversy
- I think this is a perfect challenge for Governor Ventura!
- Tracking the Spread of Wahhabism [Related] [Related] [Related]
- Texas' best sportswriter on Texas' worst major professional sports team
- Legendary Peter Drucker on The Next Society [via ALD]
- I wish I had known Benjamin Netanyahu was here yesterday [Comment]
- Sorry, but Kofi Annan's brand of arms control is worse than the current folly!
- Daniel Pipes: Getting It Wrong In The Middle East
- The Saudi Cancer
- Herbert London on postmodernism's great enemy (reality)
- Rethinking the Weinberger-Powell Doctrine
- Out of Sparta: The Face of the Pashtuns
- Charles Krauthammer: The Real New World Order
- Norman Podhoretz on America's purposely excluded anti-terror ally (Israel)
- 1001 Taliban Nights (what a great title!)
- Christopher Caldwell makes no apologies for his profiling
- Al Qaeda's "best and brightest" operating abroad [Flashback]
- Rapprochement with Iran? [Related] [Related]
- Engaging the enemy abroad (and neglecting the homefront?)
- Can Bush trim the Congressional spending orgy?
- Journalists look at themselves and see American impatience with the anti-terror effort
- Bob Bartley wishes for simple, honest tax policies (good luck!)
- Easterbrook: First Amendment does not ensure freedom from criticism
- D'Backs win Best World Series Hardly Anyone Watched
4 November 2001
- More Excerpts from The Age of Reagan
- Thoughts on West's review of Jaffa
- Jim Hart: The End of Prime Time TV As We Know It?
- Walter Williams on America's (taxpayer-supported) tenured radicals
- Peace in Israel might be better served if these two STAYED in Spain, permanently
- David Ignatius on Saudi Arabia
- Dissent Threatens Pakistani Leader [Flashback]
- Clueless (and humorless), CAIR targets Jonah Goldberg
- Nostalgic Kev: Did any of you ever have a Members Only jacket?
- Happy Birthday GreyMatter (Thank You, Noah)
- Jack Walsh on the ghost of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
- Wild: NRO points out a good new (to me) alt-country/southern rock band?! [MP3.com] [Band Site]
3 November 2001
- Will Houston's Next Mayor Be Orlando Sanchez? (Let's hope!) [Related]
- Blog.culture: JD Lasica's blog-related links
- Good journalism: the NY Times pieces together hijackers' strategy
- Playing Tulsa cures Oklahoma's offensive woes
- Blogging Reality Check
- A relic of the Cold War [via John Vaughn]
- To quote (country crooner) Tracy Lawrence, Time Marches On....
- Tom West on Harry Jaffa's Lincolnian Defense of the American Founding
- What an unbelievably tasteless, asinine opening line
- Salman Rushdie writes, It IS About Islam (I hope he's now gone into hiding!)
- Pat Robertson's Excellent (Liberian) Adventure [Related] [Related]
- Jonah Golberg: Are Journalists Americans?
- "Pompous Windbag": The media may love McPain, but his colleagues certainly do not!
- On America's Armchair Generals [Related] [Flashback]
- Kopel and Bast on Antitrust's Greatest Hits (or, rather, Misses)
- Robert Kaplan interviewed on Aghanistan
- I don't like Rich Lowry's rhetorical approach to ABM [Comment]
- It's good to see TNR debunking the Loony Left
- Peter Beinart on reforming the CIA [Comment]
- Neo-Con
2 November 2001
- Jonah Goldberg on Dual Disloyalties
- Fire Mayor Brown on November 6
- You non-Houstonians should be thankful the man on the right isn't YOUR mayor
- Mary Midgley is thinking about the philosophy of science [via ALD]
- It is a strange day when I largely agree with Alan Dershowitz
- Mark Heller: The Clash of Competing Values
- Rice: Pressure on Israel unrelated to coalition (making it related to WHAT exactly?)
- Happy Birthday Callie
- Jaffo's Perils of net.culture [More] [More] [More] [More] [More] [More]
- Rockets: 2 games, 2 overtimes, 2 good defensive performances, 2 victories
- Williams is a good fit, given the Astros' youth and occasional difficulty with fundamentals
- The team that let Bagwell go to the Astros has probably made another mistake
- Technical Difficulties
- Internet Celebrity
- Richard Connelly is keeping track of Houston's wacky (actually, pathetic) journalists
- Bayou City Body Snatchers?
- Robb Walsh investigates red snapper that isn't
- No wonder the potholes aren't getting fixed in Lee Brown's Amerika
1 November 2001
- Donald Rumsfeld: Official statement on the war effort [via Fredrik Norman]
- Donald Rumsfeld: Beyond This War on Terrorism
- Two-and-a-half months later, the Astros give me my wish! [Related]
- Peter Jennings is a jackass
- New Prejudices For Old: The Euro Press and the Intifada
- Credit Patrick Ruffini for scooping everyone with this [InstaPundit]
- The internet's leading rumor busters [via Andrew]
- When Malfunction and Error Meet [via ALD]
- Saddam's Death Labs
- Media Guide for Terrorist Beginners
- No doubt this successful operation has upset Colon Bowel's State Department
- War on terrorism overshadows fiscal problems of CA and Gray-out Davis
- George Will recalls Israel's 1981 version of Assertive Disarmament [Flashback]
- Tax bills that make the Washington Post apoplectic are worth supporting
- Donald Lambro on the impatience of America's armchair generals [Related]
- David Forte (Bush's advisor on Islam) responds to critics
- Fiddling While Rome Burns
- President of ABC News apologizes (for sounding like a contemporary social scientist) [Text]
- Militant Islam's Ambuscade
- President Bush's pitch of a lifetime
- Dennis Prager on Islamic Anti-Semitism
- (New York) Yankee Ingenuity Indeed
- Effects Based Operations (EBO)
- Judging the Anti-Terror Effort
