Archives - December 2001
10 December 2001
- Apparently, Walter Mondale is still breathing (and as exciting as ever)
- Transcript of Russert interviews of Cheney and Rodham
- The Pac-10 "was arguably the toughest conference this year?" Umm... NO
- 20,000 pounds for The Lights Going On and Off
- Barbed-wire Bra Protest?!
- Myanmar supports democracy BUT...
- We may soon find out if Chavez is a democratic populist or a dictator
- Booze + Guns + Cars + Testosterone = Idiocy (close to my neighborhood, even)
- Quagmire Watch: Mallaby waits until the second paragraph before breaking out the Q word
- Morton Kondracke on the mess in Israel
- CEI's Jim DeLong on Airport Insecurity
- Steven Den Beste nailed this one before the "experts" [Owens]
- In defense of the '90s
- Isn't Geraldo's latest reminiscent of something Gail Wynand might have staged?
- Robert Bartley finds it hard to take seriously Ashcroft's critics from the Left
9 December 2001
- Enron Field as GalleryFurniture.com Field? (for the love of GAWD noooo!)
- The Assisted Suicide of the West
- Political Tidbits From The Week
- Andrew Sullivan: High Impact
- Mark Steyn on Arafat, terrorist forever
- Steven Den Beste has been thinking (meticulously, as he does) about climate change
- What can happen when great thinkers step outside their specialties [via Fredrik Norman]
- Energy markets still need companies like Dynegy, Reliant, and maybe even Enron
- Beltway Bunk: Has David Broder ever found a tax increase he didn't like?
- Cragg Hines wins my first weekly Cragg Hines Award for awful political writing
- Arafat's True Colors
- Cave Mythology (or, How Irrelevant Can The Ivory Tower Become?)
- The Democrats' Race Disgrace
- Michael Kinsley on the artistry of Ari Fleischer
- Daniel Pipes on an infrastructure that "exists for one reason: to make normal men want to die"
- I've been waiting for the right column on the Segway
- Thank goodness it's George O'Leary and not Bob Stoops at Notre Dame
- The softer side of Barry Switzer
8 December 2001
- Awesome Rocky: Oklahoma's Calmus named Best Linebacker
- The Economist on Wal-Mart [via Jerry Kindall via Dangerous Meta]
- Why Don't You Code For Netscape? *groan*
- Rich get Richer: Braves sign former Astro Vinny Castilla
- "Mr. Football" Mack Brown is such a squish
- Once a Cowboy, always a Criminal
- Atlee tackles encryption (a rather mundane birthday topic)
- Steven Den Beste has a question for October's humanitarian "anti-bombing" crowd
- I'm a fan of any writer whose critical reading skills are this good
- The Chron only likes "ad hominem" attacks when they come from Mayor Pothole's campaign
- Sweet bonuses for the elites who may actually keep their jobs at Enron
- Keith Landy on the UN's ongoing anti-Israel agenda
- "Berry is, frankly, a buffoon"
- I'm shocked that GOP Senators didn't just rull over on Dem spending
- General Ashcroft
- David Tell rebuts critics of Bush's proposed military tribunals
- Telecom Mischief: Tauzin-Dingell is the sort of bipartisanship we do NOT need
- Secretary Rumsfeld remembers Pearl Harbor
7 December 2001
- Noah Grey on "the art of lying to tell a deeper truth"
- SpyCam NYC
- Another good one: John Bedard's substance and style are impeccable
- The Rich get Richer: Throw in Giambi and Alou with Ventura, and the Yanks are set
- Shades of Spykman and Mackinder in Kissinger's case against Russian Nato membership
- Bill O'Reilly on The Black Challenge
- We're liking Andrew Hofer's new annex (not to mention the main site)
- Andrew Hofer knocks down pesky gnat Joel Achenbach's "musings" on Enron
- LGF notes the Protocols of the Elders of Zion hoax is alive and well
- TAM wonders about one pundit's attempts to break through the static
- The end of an Israeli (Labor) political era
- Waah
- Krauthammer: Sharon Flinches
- EJ Dionne thinks Pat Robertson's departure is good news (for conservatives)
- Heaven forbid anyone suggest Congress CUT spending (the horror)!
- RET on Patrick Leahy, "short-term exploiter of the Constitution"
- If Dems are going to call it Bush's recession, why not Bush's bull market?
- Andrew Sullivan discovers the longstanding tensions of American conservatism
- The air is getting cleaner (not that the gloom and doom media reports it that way)
- Virginia Postrel takes on CAFE standards
- Ashcroft beats up suddenly hapless liberal Senators [Related]
- Greenberg Turkeys (second paragraph) are truly amazing
- Not to be confused with Je$$e Jack$on's "Republican Hit Man" [Flashback]
- Readers and Writers and Purposes
6 December 2001
- Witchcraft IS real: Wiccan becomes chaplain at a Wisconsin state prison
- Claremonster John Eastman defends the constitutionality of military tribunals
- Larry Elder's War on Chutzpah
- Robb Walsh investigates Fabio's (accidental) Italian-South American fusion cuisine
- Houston politics: Analysis of the differing Sanchez and Berry approaches
- Mark Wickens links to an interesting morality quiz
- Unfortunately, Marshall's point better suits a political ad than InstaPundit's excellent rebuttal
- Daniel Doron critiques the anti-capitalist mentality in Israel
- A repeat of 1982 in Israel (but worse)?
- Ultimately, Peres decides against triggering a monumental Labor electoral loss
- Maybe Linda Tripp could sell "Monica" House on E-Bay?
- Richard Cohen: Ben-Gurion's Lesson for Arafat
- A much more interesting take on military tribunals than Tribe's most recent [Related] [Related]
- Unfortunately, this level of fiscal analysis doesn't make for good campaign commercials
- Neither major party has much incentive to pursue real electoral reform
- Thoughts on Laurence Tribe's latest
- Enron pays $55 million in bonuses before bankruptcy filing
- Cato analysts Taylor and VanDoren debunk the myth of the "oil weapon" [Related]
- So you think the US has property rights and capitalism? Hold on, says Lawrence Reed
- David Malpass: Dollarization is the right approach for Argentina
- Former ACDA director Ken Adelman on Iraq
- Global Warming: Too much politics, not enough science
- Greens Preparing a Kinder, Gentler Guilt Campaign
- Is this REALLY "how the apocalypse begins?"
- The contemporary U.S. steel industry resembles that of Atlas Shrugged
- Are Rodham and company interested in Afghanistan's real problems?
- Bob Stoops publicly ripped fans for booing his QB; Mack Brown ducks the press
5 December 2001
- I wonder if I'll get sued for what follows [KPMG] [Related]
- I'm no Buchanan fan, but his take on Palestinian demographics is interesting
- Jonah Goldberg on the anti-state/anti-liberal distinction
- GOP Senators are better at threats (even using Cheney this time) than results
- Limbaugh wonders why Palestinian "fundamentalist" terrorists didn't break for Ramadan
- Jaffo is back
- Russian cuts boost oil prices
- Three paragraphs that seem beyond Colin Powell's comprehension [via Fredrik Norman]
- Jonah Goldberg on Israel's "partner for peace" [Related]
- Will President Bush bat down Senator Tyrd's profligate spending?
- Jack Kemp's Straight Talk on Iraq
- The Left lays claim to Adam Smith [via ALD]
- Same old Friedman: The reference to "occupation" sounds familiar [Related]
- Paul Krugman uses Enron to take a (cheap) shot at social security privatization
- Why does the Chron keep cutting Cragg Hines a check for this terrible writing?
- Israel's Cycle of Absurdity [Related]
- Israel's Objective: Remove all trappings of statehood from Arafat's terror organization
- Michael Kelly on the histrionics of Senator Patrick Leahy (Self-Important Ass, VT)
- Civil rights crusader and former Houstonian Ed Blum on The Myth of Affirmative Access
- Will tough talk from GOP Senators be followed by the usual rolling over?
- FoxNews: "[MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield]'s the Anna Kournikova of TV news" [via MediaNews]
- Christina Hoff Sommers rankles the feminist establishment
- Missile Defense: Direct Hit
- The Left rediscovers the evils of fluoridation
- Seth Lipsky's critical reading skills make this article on Jewish fundamentalism compelling
4 December 2001
- Daniel Pipes: Arabs Have Never Accepted Israel
- If the rumors of Treasury Secretary O'Neill's departure are true, it's good news
- Richard Perle: Next Stop, Iraq [via LGF]
- Sooner offensive coordinator Mark Mangino takes top job at Kansas
- FT's Inside Al-Qaeda special report is excellent
- A real gem of an essay at Wickens.ca (a smart, Movable-Type-powered Objectivist blog)
- The bitter, cynical, mean Beltway view of the Rest of America [via Electrolite]
- Edward Said on the Jewish terrorist military occupation of Palestine [Related] [Related]
- Is the military tribunal order constitutional? Tribe: "I think it may well be"
- Feder goes too far, but there is some truth to his "Bush/Powell/Sharon as Enablers" thesis
- One for the "bizarre and disturbing" file
- Text of Ariel Sharon's address to Israel
- Nelson Mandela: The US and UK are "introducing chaos into intenational affairs"
- Scapegoating Netanyahu
- America's New Stockholm Syndrome
- Call me an a-hole, but perhaps Brady's next project should be a waiting period to buy cigs
- George Will's Plan for Arafat
- Jonah Goldberg defends John Ashcroft
- Frank Gaffney's Moment For Truth in the Middle East
- FoxNews offends the sensibilities of the New York Times (and other LeftWingNuts)
- I don't think the US State Department knows the term "Or else"
- Judges and Grudges: Democratic judicial politics in Michigan
3 December 2001
- Why no national coverage of Houston's election (aside from WSJ) when it mattered? [Related]
- Which clause of the Constitution authorizes Secret Service security for private events?
- Jonah Goldberg (now a member of CNN's leftwing conspiracy) on media bias
- Pipes and Schanzer: On to Baghdad
- Scary: Steven Den Beste has been reading the fine print at the LA Times
- Israel takes war to Arafat [Related] [Related] [Related]
- I can only guess he's running for President, since he's added the initial "F" to his name
- Israel's War, and America's [Related]
- Castro's internal security forces are armed with more than "just ideas"
- Why not write a book on perhaps the last truly profane English word? [via ALD] [Amazon]
- John McWhorter reviews The Atoms of Language [via ALD] [Amazon]
- The Middle Mind [via ALD]
- Causes of the Recession: High-tech Bubble or Tight Money?
- Racial preferences on trial in the Sixth Circuit
- John Fund on why Gilmore got the boot (NJ, VA, and Houston)
2 December 2001
- Journal: Final Thoughts on Houston's Mayoral Race
- Only in the Chron: Lee Brown's public-speaking disasters are now his "poker face"
- Lee Browns Legacy!? Try potholes and busted water mains
- Dallas handles Washington in the Bad Bowl
- The Economist Style Guide [via Frequent Ramblings and Inflatable Sheep]
- I really like the links/commentary ratio of Inflatable Sheep
- What happens when Costco meets a smart law&econ anarchocapitalist?
- Despatches' one-liner about Dowdy Maureen could have appeared here
- LGF offers another example of the decline of a once-great newspaper
- Nothing like a populist Marxist dictatorial loon running a key hemispheric oil producer!
- What constitutes Jewish Society?
- He's not my favorite, but is Tom Daschle really "despotic" (as WashTimes suggests)?
- Junk English reviewed [via ALD] [Amazon]
- The Decline of Literature (or, Why many of us await Jaffo's nicely styled fiction) [Jaffo]
- Kevin Hassett on the New Economy "Recession"
- Elitism for Everyone: Scott Stossel on two very different book clubs
- Brian Carney: Tolkien Runs Rings Around Potter
- Why Europe Hates Israel
- Al Hunt's ideological blinders sometimes produce really poor columns (like this one)
- The one episode of The Education of Max Bickford I have seen was horribly written
- Michael Lynch asks What's Bill Bennett Smoking?
- The Decline and Fall of Disneyland
- Rafe Colburn alerts me of his latest in a cross-blog judicial politics debate with WOIFM
1 December 2001
- Houston's Lesson for all Dems: Keep Going To The Race Card (because sadly, it works) [Related]
- Will the overrated UT whiners finally shut the hell up?