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2000-11-30

• More Orenthal
• Doesn't he have the appearance of a deflated clown?
• Orenthal urges a revote in Miami-Dade. I'm not kidding.
• Ted Turner likes periodically to confirm for us that he's an idiot
• Robert Alt explains how the FL Supreme Court's decision was not a de facto defeat for the Bushies
• RealClearPolitics on Moral Equivalency and Florida
• Salon drops below $1, becomes a penny stock!
• Fighting for civil rights (yeah right): Jesse Jacksoff and Al Dull-ton square off
• Only a WHIFF of desperation?! More like a hurricane
• Another day in Lee Brown's America
• Delusional Algore: "The reason the Bush campaign turned that [statewide recount] down is that they know that would probably give me an even larger of margin of victory"
• OJ redux: The Vote Convoy!
• Dennis Prager's open letter to leftists
• Ouch: "thousands of Floridians are very, very, very stupid. They are so stupid, in fact, that they think being stupid is something to be proud of"
• A (really) frivolous lawsuit in Seminole County, FL
• Proposed electoral college reforms may produce surprising results
• The judicial-activist culture
• Seven election blessings
• Florida's country judge
• Unlike Podhoretz, Roll Call suggests Democratic Congressional support for AlGore is waning
• Podhoretz: "Republicans should stop expecting Democratic deliverance from this Florida dinner-theater version of Jean-Paul Sartre's 'No Exit'."
• Novak on Gore's chances before the Supreme Court
• George Will on the Whine firm of Boies, Gore, & Lieberman
• Michael Barone criticizes Gore's attempted election theft in the hardly conservative US News and World Report
• Stagecraft: Iraq tells Russia no on arms inspections
• What if your "Can't Miss!" merger did?
• First congress of elected gypsies
• New tune for wooing whales
• Korean sex slave case proves there are at least tort limits in Japan
• Efforts to oust Estrada intensify
• Indonesian military show of force in Irian Jaya
• The Physics of Traffic Jams
• I wonder why the military would need to be reminded not to express contempt for civilian leaders?
• Let me speculate on the theme of this book: "I wasn't about to get a divorce over that b!tch while I had a senate race looming!"

2000-11-29

• I don't think I'll go see this movie
• AlGore's residence when he moves out of Dick Cheney's house on 20 January
• Regarding the first paragraph: how will it be a surprise now that it's widely reported?
• Ehud Barak, the Desert Chamberlain
• (Useful?) Idiots hard at work in Houston
• An example of why most academics are absolutely useless to anything that matters
• Republican Babe Laura Ingraham reverses the Florida situation
• The man is hip and happening
• Fox looks at Renaissance festivals
• Ledeen on Cohen's shameful behavior as SecDef
• Lazy inmates lose their Oprah -- which upsets some liberals
• The Dems are abandoning ship
• Al Dull-ton is not to be undone when it comes to racebaiting
• What if Jesse Jacksoff held a protest and only journalists showed up? Like yesterday?
• Everything is Selma to Jesse Jacksoff (suggesting he is either a racebaiter or metaphysically confused)
• A question for Jesse Jacksoff: If Blacks were targeted in FL, why was their percentage of the electorate in FL 50% higher than in 1996?
• Let's tour the White House with Rodham!
• Just in time for Xmas: The Ayn Rand tshirt
• Katherine Harris easily overshadows the governor
• Drudge reproduces email asking NBC affiliates NOT to cut to Bush acceptance speech
• AlGore's disinformation campaign
• Larry Kudlow never gives up on supply-side tax cuts!
• Kubach on Al's Supreme Doom
• The Orlando Sentinel urgers AlGore to shut it down in a quite sensible editorial
• Michael Kelly: Burn that Village
• Mona Charen calls on AlGore to concede
• Pete DuPont: The end does not justify the means
• Peggy Noonan with an "Inside Al" exclusive
• Nepal greens save ten rhinos
• Indian Assam Tiger Force on machete killing spree
• While America fusses over dimples, Iraq presses on to end sanctions
• The rhetoric heats up in Romanian elections
• Greek sunken ferry case gets weird
• The noose tightens for Estrada
• NASDAQ continues to take a pounding

2000-11-28

• The truth, from CBS news?!?
• New York Times falls back in line
• Is AlGore mentally stable?
• Paul Begala is some piece of work: he plays the victim, insults his readers' intelligence, and blasts his critics all at once!
• Lowry: "The only rule that the Gore campaign has any interest in applying in a uniform and consistent way is: What Gore wants, he should get"
• Eastman: Saving the Legal Services Corporation from Itself
• Gotta love the Animal Rights Crowd: Serving burgers constitutes "child abuse"
• Banana Republic: Chief Judge tried to change election-contest judge selection process in early-morning, private meeting
• Voter incompetence invalidated 2 million ballots nationwide
• Andrew Sullivan of The New Republic criticizes Gore
• More on Democratic assault of a 13-year-old
• I didn't think I could find such a thing, but here's an unfair attack on Jo[k]e Lieberman from that dean of left wing nuts, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
• Kellyanne Fitzpatrick is much more delightful on television
• The man is creepy
• I wonder why the Democratic Messenger from God, Jo[k]e Lieberman, didn't criticize this "intimidation" of a 13-year-old?
• Network News: The Fox Factor
• Derbyshire on AlGore's fractured grammar
• Weird Al's Obsessive-Compulsive behavior
• Lowry: Simply Disingenuous
• AlGore's address (warning: this is a notch or so below, say, Lincoln's House Divided speech!)
• The media begins to tear into the Democratic Messenger from God, Jo[k]e Lieberman
• Albert of Arc
• George Will: "The final manic flurry of Gore-Lieberman lawsuits underscores how little Lieberman understands how right he is in saying that what is at issue in Florida is indeed the integrity of self-government."
• Get ready for Mayor Clinton
• Will Janet (pick between "The Incinerator" or "The Child Snatcher") Reno involve himself in AlGore's mess?
• Saudi Big Macs to help Palestinians
• Barak tries to rally support
• Socialist and Nationalists gain in Romania; Runoff for President
• This headline made me think of animal rights activists initially
• Idiocy is alive and well in European politics also
• Two pronged battle: Suu Kyi fights for democracy and home in Myanmar!
• Separatist groups in Irian Jaya call for independence
• Trouble between Colombia and Venezuela
• Canada shows the world how to conduct an election
• Anti-rebel bombing in Sudan
• Congo peace pledge?
• Congo peace pledge?
• These guys must have REALLY been drunk!

2000-11-27

• Oh those Democrats
• AlGore and his bitch Jo[k]e Lieberman don't look well
• Democratic Senator Bob Kerrey couldn't see the dimples himself!
• Aaron Burr + 200 Years = AlGore
• They sure don't look very comfortable during their staged conference call!
• Look back at the 6th question in this column and ask: Does Katherine Harris read NR? Hmm....
• Novak with an interesting look at Greenspan, the Fed, and the next President
• RealClear Politics analysis of Meet the Press Sunday
• A harsh little graphic from Newsmax.com. Ouch!
• John Fund on Democratic Myths of Miami-Dade (another novel for Chris Matthews?)
• WSJ: "Florida's horror show probably means that virtually every voting precinct in America is going to be subjected to a national effort to clean up voter fraud, inefficiency and abuse. Guess which party is least likely to benefit from that reform"
• James Baker, Franchise Player
• What's going on in the world as we fuss over dimpled chads
• Gore adopts Clinton linguistics on electors
• Bush's "bipartisanship as a bludgeon"
• Bob Dole: It is Time for Gore to Concede
• Novak on the creative vote-manufacturing in Florida
• Germond: certification carries great moral weight
• RealClearPolitics: Turning point came with James Baker's manly statement
• Rebel attacks in India
• Bomb attacks in Pakistan
• Politicians always have someone to blame
• Greenpeace shuts down oil facility in Australia
• FARC rebels killed in Colombia
• Results are actually expected in Haiti elections
• Nigerian oil workers go on strike

2000-11-26

• Photos like this of the President-elect make me wonder...
• President-elect Bush in the standard 3R (Red-Republican-Reagan) tie
• Katherine Harris looked SHARP tonight in her red and black
• Gadhafi (!?!) advises US power sharing
• Salon believes in a fair mix of liberal hysteria and NASTINESS: Check out this front-page feature
• Another hysterical liberal completely separated from reality: Cuban-Americans caused the "riots" that forced Miami-Dade not to count!
• Liberals grow more hysterical and sanctimonious!
• How surprising: Palm Beach elections supervisor Theresa LePore failed to remove felons from voting rolls, thus violating state law
• Democrats get hysterical when the government trough is about to be taken away
• I wonder if Jo[k]e Lieberman will apologize now that David Leahy says he was NOT intimidated by protests that were peaceful, not moblike?
• The Telegraph rips Gore
• Rotunda: Why not use the psychic hotline to determine a winner?
• They're mad as hell and not going to take it any more
• Bangladesh is either flooding or burning
• Lesson: Send sympathy cards to ailing Arab sheikhs!
• Proof for AlGore that political life doesn't end if one is unsuccessful at election theft
• Beach Volleyball seeks to surpass Dying in Front of Tanks as Tiananmen's #1 Sport!
• Peru purges generals

2000-11-25

• The New Republic: Gore recount effort put in place before the election
• Would you trust this moron to judge YOUR intent absent any objective standard?
• Banana Republic: Drudge reproduces actual TRANSCRIPTS of Broward County Gore-vote "hunting"
• Banana Republic: Broward County "finds" 500 absentee ballots with one day left to count!
• Democratic Demagoguery: Hand Recounts are NOT standard in Texas
• Margaret Carlson's Femin(liberal)ism
• Thompson: "Gore is in deep trouble this moment. Whereas Florida's Supremes are an activist court for partisan reasons . . . the U.S. Supreme Court has been activist for the purpose, in their minds, of reining in states not compliant with the U.S. Constitution."
• Statistician alleges mischief in Palm Beach (I'll warn that I think it is a mistake to draw his conclusions from the real statistical anomalies he finds)
• Perkins knocks my HS football team out of the playoffs
• A canvassing board member on divining voter intent: "You have to feel it in your heart"
• Podhoretz: "Now Jo[k]e's a Liar Too"
• Could someone tell me again why David Gergen is allegedly a big deal?
• More hysterical liberals: Republicans don't hate Gore because he's tried to steal an election dishonorably, they hate him as a surrogate for Bill Clinton!
• Bangladesh's third sex (you may not want to check this out)
• Eleven Syrian children trampled to death in rush to leave school
• Look what Iraq is up to while the US interprets chads in Florida
• Justice, Nigerian style
• South Africans march against rape
• We should send the Palm Beach County canvassing board to observe

2000-11-24

• Hysterical liberals are FUNNY
• I wonder if Jo[k]e Lieberman, the Democratic Messenger from God, will denounce this latest attempt to discredit Katherine Harris?
• Gore "campaign" trots out the spokesman for God, Jo[k]e Lieberman, to condemn Republican protestors (but not Jesse Jacksoff or Alan Dipshitwitz)
• Are Republicans man enough to back up the law (and Katherine Harris)?
• Liberals are shocked to find out Republicans can adopt Democratic tactics!
• Senator Bob Dole strikes an impressive pose
• John McCain, MIA
• Washington Post: Most States Don't Count Dimples
• Peyser: "OH, HOW I WISH THAT I'D NEVER VOTED FOR GORE"
• It's time to fire Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader
• John Derbyshire loses his usual English restraint
• Kevin Blackistone's alliteration is a bit over the top!
• Horowitz: "One indisputable result of the unconcluded presidential race is the confirmation that Al Gore is Bill Clinton's authentic heir"
• Unbelievable: The Democrats try to steal an election, and liberal columnists rail at Republican judgment and Type-A rage?!
• Shameful: Electoral fraud is occurring in Florida, and the media are trying to manufacture a Bush "coverup" of Cheney's health?!
• This official photo should be replaced with this one
• Check out this weblog
• Jack Thompson on Florida's vote-fraud tradition
• WSJ: "the American people are getting an up close look at a country run by trial lawyers and judges; it's a hellhole that average citizens and businesses disappear into every day of the week"
• John Fund with more observations on Grand Theft Democracy
• Paul Gigot reports firsthand on the arbitrary counting of "dimples" in Florida (with his usual subtle wit)
• Peggy Noonan's most powerful column on the election to date
• Supremely Ill-Judged: Why Did the Court Ignore Rules Everyone Agrees Are Constitutional?
• Gore's supporters are turning on him
• Will Gore and his band of thugs push us to the precipice? This columnist hopes not
• Democratic behavior says everything: Solicit the criminal vote, exclude the military vote
• AlGore and the "little people"
• George Will has also discovered Federalist 47
• Indian mafia boss makes dramatic escape
• Peru begins to put together a new government
• Elian in Reverse
• The US election battle seems silly in comparison: in some places, the battle is over water (and therefore survival)
• Absolutely do NOT ride buses in developing nations!
• Doesn't the bright red hat sort of defeat the purpose of the camouflage?

2000-11-23

• I wasn't going to blog anything else today, but I found this searching for restaurants where I might get a Thanksgiving steak, and I can't really describe how good it is. Just go.
• Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

2000-11-22

• I don't believe in God, but I would wager if there is One, It probably isn't impressed with this photo-op
• Hypocrisy watch
• Even hard-core liberals are starting to abandon Gore
• Pro-dimple, pro-Gore thief previously OPPOSED counting dimples
• Al Gore's litigious America
• Alt: Like Thieves in the Night
• Highway robbery
• Chaos: an interview with a hand-count "observer"
• The most egregious case of judicial activism by a high court since Roe v. Wade
• Stealing votes in Florida is minor compared to the census fraud that is being planned by Gore-Daley
• Pressuring local election board officials is unethical and probably illegal
• Time to Encrypt: Carnivore Can Read Everything
• Suck.com weighs in on the political mess
• Rich Lowry adopts my Socratic method!
• Activist court decision sure to escalate political fireworks
• Michael Kelly: "Send in the thugs"
• James Baker testimony on FL judicial activism
• ETA knocks off former minister; will we soon be witnessing politics of this sort here?
• What a moron (no, nothing to do with canvassers or justices in Florida)
• Peruvian Congress sacks Fujimori

2000-11-21

• Fun Orenthal (OJ) smack!
• Every time Madeleine Not-At-Albright opens her pie hole, stupid comments spew out
• Read this book and tell me Gore won't steal this election in Dade county if hand "recounts" are allowed contrary to statute
• More allegations of fraud (from Hannity radio show)
• Will someone -- anyone -- put an end to this attemped larceny?
• It's tough when Boise State's coach turns down your job offer
• I like Hunter S. Thompson's term "The New Dumb"
• The original version of that county-by-county electoral map, with ability to examine individual counties
• Certainly well-meaning, but more certainly absurd
• Two can play Paul Begala's game: A look at those "Blue" areas on that well-reproduced county-by-country electoral map
• Kucewicz on the political crime of US history (for you Objectivist types: he even uses the term "sanction!")
• With regard to last night's journal entry, here is another potential "special master!"
• Pontynen: To "escape the cultural catastrophe of postmodernism . . . we must break the narcissistic habit of equating feeling with thinking"
• A critical, reasoned analysis of Bush campaign strategy
• Palm Beach Bingo!
• Why are these accounts only being reported in non-mainstream press?
• Excerpt from Gingrich appearance on Hannity and Colmes
• Dem lawyer who led Gore's effort to disqualify military ballots was recruited on election night
• However it's being spun now by Jo[k]e Lieberman or Bob Butterworth, the reality is that the Gore trial lawyer team engaged in a systematic, widespread effort to disqualify military overseas ballots
• Transcript of FL Supreme Court questioning
• Podhoretz writes about the same distinctions I made in my 9 November (subject of email criticism) and 17 November journal entries
• Thomas Sowell on what any other Justice Department in our history would consider Conspiracy to Commit Electoral Fraud
• The milder WSJ version of what I wrote Saturday
• Bronars: "Imagine if we ran our criminal law [like the hand recounts] and let prosecutors determine the rules of evidence as a case progresses"
• Ho Chi Bill
• Maybe they should deploy to Florida
• Child abductee escapes Karamojong 15 years later
• Sudan cracks down in a big way on grocery theft!
• Difference between this General and Al Gore? The people threw the General out when he tried to steal an election

2000-11-20

• You saw it here first: if the FL Supreme Court crafts a far-reaching judicial remedy, the Bush trump card is this Federal Statute (cited in the case brief and in oral argument by Mr. Carvin)
• Thompson: the Florida Supreme Court's Six Options
• Bushies finally awake to the PR battle
• O'Beirne: judges seem inclined to MAKE law
• Hadley Arkes speculates the worst about Florida Supreme Court activism
• Transcript of Jo[k]e Lieberman appearance on NBC Sunday, and RCP analysis
• Cowboys lose 7th starter (article is wrong because it doesn't include the punter) and continue to look pitiful
• Pawhuska HS football team marches on
• Reason collection of "Presidential" posing
• Vets proclaim "Jail to the Thief!" outside Gore home!
• Secretary Cohen may be the only member of the Clinton-Gore cabinet with integrity (note: he's a Republican)
• Federal law on postmarking of military ballots should trump Florida state law (via the supremacy clause)
• Democratic behavior is all about aggrandizing power via courts at the expense of self-government
• The political divide revisited
• Transcript of Bill Bennett appearance on CNN Sunday
• Drudge reproduces memo instructing Dems how to challenge military ballots
• An insider explains how Democrats think
• Broward County not manufacturing enough votes for Gore? No problem, they'll just change the standards midway!
• WSJ: "The court's [Friday] injunction also achieved the rare trifecta of overruling all three branches of Florida government at once."
• The "Sanaa Ripper" gets death penalty
• While the American presidency is in limbo, look what Iraq is up to
• Estrada impeachment trial begins

2000-11-19

• A sanctimonious hypocrite (D-CT)
• This sounds remarkably like my "hardline" journal entry for Saturday
• Things will probably get worse than this if hand recounts continue
• Copy of FL Secretary of State's quite excellent brief filed with FL Supreme Court (pdf)
• Telegraph blasts Gore thuggery
• George Will: Two grievances you've not heard reported
• Podhoretz: "Has Al No Decency?"
• What is a good name for this guy? GroceryBomber? VeggieBomber?
• Texas' best sportswriter on ongoing Cowboys woes
• Pawhuska beats Cascia Hall in key high school playoff game
• Clinton snubbed by Vietnam Communist Party Chief
• Fujimori will step down

2000-11-18

• Dan Frisa on the hypocritical Gore crusade to disqualify military absentee votes
• Sooners survive at home to remain undefeated, clinch Big 12 South
• I guess the "intent" of military voters didn't interest "I'll Do Anything" Gore: Memo issued by Dems to help in disqualification of military ballots
• Warren Christopher and company have behaved unethically (big surprise) if not illegally
• This quote from one of the Florida recount idiots is unbelievable, considering games are EXACTLY what they have been playing: ``We're sitting here wasting our time going through all these objectionables,'' Burton said. ``We will all be here until Christmas if this continues. I'm not going to play games anymore.''
• A Reaganesque photograph of W
• These are not "irregularities" but attempted electoral fraud
• Jack Thompson: "What Did the Gore People Know, When Did They Know It?"
• 39 Felons -- mostly Democrats -- voted illegally in Florida (and one is a poll worker!)
• The Al Gore translator
• Surely the Gore people wouldn't attempt to intimidate/blackmail a public official, II
• I feel comfortable that democracy is in good hands, don't you?
• Byron York on Florida's fishy figures
• Jack Thompson: Supreme Court Ruling Is Not "Pro-Gore"
• It should be worrisome to a nation when elephants threaten national security
• Boy compensated for being born (and lawyers continue to find new ways to amaze me)
• The Chinese believe in discipline in the classroom
• Thai beauty queen winner is really a man!
• Ever heard of an Argentine Telo (hint: it's not food)?
• And this is news for what reason?
• Paul Gigot shows the Republicans how to play hardball
• I thought Democrats wanted "all votes to count" and could bend the rules? Oh wait -- that's only when it's in their favor!
• Hanoi Rodham!

2000-11-17

• Equal Time: Bob Butterworth, Florida's Corrupt Attorney General
• The media's transvaluation of moral values
• Are the Gore people trying to intimidate and blackmail a public official in Florida? Disgraceful
• Even the leftist New Republic disagrees with Gore
• A "Claremont dude" gives (what I think is bad) advice to the Bushies
• A once honorable and honest Senator (Lieberman) couldn't help but be infected with the Clinton-Gore virus -- it's just too powerful
• Is there media bias, or are republicans (post-Reagan and post-Atwater) just bad at stagecraft?
• Whatever one's opinions on the man, this is a remarkably well-done photograph
• Full Text of Judge Lewis's opinion on Secretary of State's actions and authority
• Krauthammer: Hand counts neither accurate nor fair
• David Broder with an insightful column on what could happen if Florida's electors are in dispute on Dec 18
• What is interesting about this article is that, buried in it, is the indication that Gore is arguing First Amendment grounds in Federal Court (which is a weak constitutional argument)
• WSJ: Trial lawyers try to litigate their man into the White House
• Peggy Noonan with her weekly brilliance
• WSJ portal to all sorts of Presidential resources
• Maoist rebel activity in Nepal
• Foreigners targeted in Saudi blast
• Starvation warning in Tajikistan
• I love a country that has its priorities in order: Dance and Sport (but what about steak and beautiful women?)
• Blog "journalist" that I am, Colombia is the one country I hope never to visit through work!
• UNITA ambushes Angola troops
• Micah and I were far more careful in our college dorm-room microbrewery!

2000-11-16

• I'll have that head medium well, thank you
• Imagine the media coverage if the election results were reversed (no need, just go here!)
• Linda Chavez: Gore flunks character test
• It's nice to see the President golfing in Asia when a crisis looms at home
• The Electoral College requires an ABSOLUTE majority; otherwise, the election moves to the House
• Thomas Sowell: Desperate and Ugly in Florida
• An honest liberal points out that democracy is approximate
• Wolfson: No controlling election authority
• Bevan: Paul Begala and company are out of control
• Electoral vote tampering? (SC)
• Electoral vote tampering? (CO)
• I hope the Republicans are ready to go after this corrupt bitch even harder than the Democrats have tried to smear a Secretary of State doing her job
• We've heard the self-righteous media's outcry as Katherine Harris followed the law; where is their outcry that Democratic officials have not?
• Scholars rank the Presidents
• Rosett: "The notion that the decisive votes might currently be in the care of the U.S. Postal Service is, frankly, not one that a world looking to America for leadership should find reassuring"
• Bob Dole on media's pro-Gore bias (which raises a question: Why aren't feminists defending a courageous, strong, FEMALE Secretary of State in FL as she is smeared?)
• Whatever one thinks of the lawyers in Florida, at least it's a step above this
• This was no Indian tea party!
• Mystery surrounds the release of film star by Indian Ragnar Danneskjold
• Doesn't the EU parliament have better things to do?
• So what is the Chinese equivalent of the Boston tea party? The Fujian banana party just doesn't seem quite right
• Weird: Myanmar pro-democracy activist sued by her brother for half their home (where she is currently under house arrest)
• Bill Clinton's somewhat historic return to Vietnam is buried in the news
• Why is nobody asking about South African "hate crimes" legislation?

2000-11-15

• Herschensohn on the "Chad Crisis" (and no, nothing to do with Deby's 1990 coup in the African nation)
• Meet Robert Lee: A contemporary victim of Al Gore's prescient 1999 warning, "I'll do anything."
• The terms "highway chase" and "wheelchair" ought not be in the same sentence!
• Outstanding, hardcore quantitative analysis of the election results from FL (incidentally, casting doubt on extent of Palm Beach "irregularities")
• The case for application of the 14th Amendment (more from me on this topic in the journal this weekend)
• Al Gore in 1999: �If he wins or loses, life goes on. I�ll do anything to win.�
• Obligatory Ayn Rand reference: A is A, or to quote this article, "Simply put, a vote cannot be a vote and not be a vote at the same time"
• If Katherine Harris doesn't pass the self-righteous media's "smell" test, then why hasn't said media noticed this?
• Lesson: "Intellectuals look like asses when they attempt to make group pronouncements"
• Those Floridians are mucking up college football too! :)
• Perhaps Mssrs McCain and Feingold could advocate full disclosure of THESE contributions instead of unconstitutional limits on ALL campaign contributions
• Kev goes bipartisan: WHO CARES if Clinton signs are coming down?!
• Since I've mentioned the meaning of "is" today why not also blog something on Heidegger?
• Yet another one (this from Reason) for my email interlocutors on "Gore's Villains"
• Why does this headline make me think "proctology exam?"
• How long before Janet (take your pick between "the Incinerator" or "the Child Snatcher") Reno gets himself involved?
• The scary thing is, idiots like this (with no regard for party affiliation) oversee voting with antique machines ALL ACROSS THIS COUNTRY!
• Paglia editorial offers an interesting opinion on damn near everything today
• Just what Florida needs: more Gore lawyers!
• Kelly on Gore's stomach-turning piety
• Blankley: "The streams of relativism, irony, ignorance, ridicule, ahistoricism, media fatuity, excessive lawyering, hyper-partisanship and power-lust have formed a mighty river of deconstruction that . . . is washing away, at a frightening pace, 200 years of American self-government"
• Podhoretz: "Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris has become the new Kenneth Starr"
• The meaning of the term "is" came under assault first by Democratic nihilists; up next, "arbitrary"
• The first three paragraphs are interesting
• Francis Fukuyama with another opinion on America's "divide"
• Indian Ragnar Dannsekjold releases film star
• Belarus doesn't screw around with the opposition!
• Should the UN or US be criticizing the substance, rather than the process, of Bosnia's vote?
• Gravy Train Williams goes one better than Tiger Woods' dad!
• Liberian conspiracy theorist

2000-11-14

• Gillespie: "This presidential race . . . is not so much a political crisis as an epistemological one"
• I can't decide if Jesse Jacksoff and surrounding cast are funny or sad
• More for my email interlocutors: this one could have been penned by me
• I wonder if the Gore team came up with this one?
• FL Democratic Attorney General, like his allies, can't seem to follow the law either; he issued an advisory opinion CONTRARY to the election board even though his website states: "questions arising under the Florida Election Code should be directed to the Division of Elections in the Department of State"
• These people should be embarrassing Democrats everywhere, if there are any honest ones left
• This is a bad option, but depending upon the court wrangle, perhaps the best one left
• George Will: Slow-motion larceny
• NY Post: "How in good God's name can this [IDIOT] hold the destiny of our country in the palm of her hands?"
• Another challenge to my email interlocutors: Tell me assessments of this op-ed with which you disagree, and WHY
• I love the British sense of humor
• John Fund: "The Gore campaign suffers a setback--and threatens a lawsuit"
• I dare ANY of you who have emailed me on the election to read this honestly and tell me I am wrong in criticizing what is going on!
• Daily Telegraph rips Gore
• Reason reviews new Robert Conquest book
• I'll just reproduce this headline, unaltered: Nigeria eats its shoe leather
• Mass transit should be avoided in developing nations
• Is anything ever blamed on "softliners?"
• Do you think the timing of this (during a US election mess) is coincidental?
• Sex scandal (what else?) divides Cyprus Church
• No surprise: Azerbaijan ruling party wins parliamentary polls
• Estrada in trouble
• Fujimori in trouble
• Kenyan "rape raid"
• Make that 6 Cowboys starters out for the rest of the season

2000-11-13

• How appropriate: Legal dispute slows Clinton library plans
• Cato economist Bill Niskanen: "The only alternatives . . . are to reject the results of this selective hand recount or to conduct a time-consuming hand recount for the entire state"
• Don't bet against Rodham... on anything
• Is Gore reckless, or slightly imbalanced as well?
• Welcome to statism, Clinton/Gore/Rodham/"Third Way" style
• Labash: "When mass hysteria collides with the Constitution, the results are not pretty"
• The age of political parity (or should that be parody?)
• Progressive progeny finally have destroyed what these authors call "constitutional formalism"
• Are there ANY wise men left in the Democratic Party?
• Even I hadn't thought of this one: Elect George Bush Speaker and let him assume the Presidency if the courts tie up the electoral college!
• My friend Atlee sent me this rather "priceless" link
• For those who think a hand recount is somehow "just" or "more accurate" check this out
• Here's a novel idea: let's look at the relevant statutes and the Constitution!
• What the relevant Florida law says in terms of deadlines
• Exit polls reveal the divide in America some of us have been writing about
• Martin Sheen is an idiot
• Some jpegs of the beautiful Ouachita Mountains
• A county-by-county graphical representation of the Presidential election
• Apologies in advance to you religious types out there, but the pope comes off as an IDIOT when he speaks on biotechnology
• Lowry is probably right, and it turns my stomach
• Claremont Prof Charles Kesler defends the electoral college and blasts Rodham
• The Boston Globe blasts Gore shenanigans
• Podhoretz: Bush the younger is beginning the resemble Bush the elder in ineptitude
• Borger is wrong; the Democrats were moving in this direction before Clinton
• WSJ: Al Gore is attempting to manufacture enough votes to move ahead, then call on Bush to concede
• Bartley: A Supreme Court decision could bring legitimacy to this mess
• Varadarajan: Al Gore, unfit leader or no leader at all?
• Elhauge: "Florida voted by the book"
• Don't ride the buses in Pakistan!
• This will probably discourage Labor from running her dead husband as Prime Minister (a la the Dems in Missouri)
• Bosnia has a Palm Beach county too!
• Revolutionary group bombs Athens
• The Zambian president probably DOES need the help of a priest with miraculous powers
• At least things in Florida have not come to this

2000-11-12

• Meanwhile, the US military needs a real president
• What Fund says would be true if the Democrats were a party that believed in the rule of law
• Advice for the Bush people on how to fight this high-stakes battle
• The 2000 election winner: hypocrisy in a squeaker over absurdity!
• Jacob Sullum: "Why [do] election authorities continue to rely on a voting method that was introduced in 1964, based on a technology that predates IBM"
• Are there no grownups left in the Democratic Party to tell Gore to end this?
• RealClearPolitics: Stop the Insanity
• NYPost: "Former Secretary of State James A. Baker went to federal court yesterday to stop a burglary in progress"
• RealClearPolitics on "Broken Hearted" Republicans
• For all you math and physics fans out there: an update on the Riemann hypothesis
• So you wanna win a Nobel?
• While a crisis looms over the election, the current president talks about global warming!
• Sooners survive A&M, crazy Kyle Field
• Texas' best sportswriter on the OU-Texas A&M game

2000-11-11

• More perils of hand recounts
• I agree with Lowry: Stop the inane press conferences!
• Oklahoma's fine education system
• The perils of hand counting
• *sigh* The health of the regime depends upon "hanging chads?"
• Here is one of those idiots who "misvoted"
• Horowitz: "Al Gore's reckless attempt to subvert the election shows he is not fit to be president"
• 1970 testimony in defense of the electoral college (reproduced by the Claremont Institute)
• WSJ: "Senator John Ashcroft conceded - and the governor who beat him was dead"
• George Will: "[The Gore campaign's] actions demolish the presidential pretensions of the dangerous man for whom they do their reckless work."
• Bob Dole urges Gore to step back
• Malkin: "Who are the real frauds here?"
• Kuwait foils alleged Bin Laden plot
• Some Kenyan women object to equal rights amendment
• Regional war continues in Congo

2000-11-10

• Review of Harvey Mansfield's new translation of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
• How interesting that Democratic effort on "confusing" ballots mobilized before polls even closed!
• Where was Jesse Jacksoff after these races?
• Is Gore a champion of the "people's will" or special (i.e. his own) interests? Read this
• Lowry: "Al Gore, locked indefinitely in an embrace with his own, and his father's, ambition"
• Does Gore realize now that Nixon beats him in the honor category?
• William F. Buckley weighs in
• It has begun: The Democrats, like they did after Reagan beat them, are now attempting to rule by judical fiat
• "If the old ladies from Palm Beach who were screaming on MSNBC last night are in fact incapable of reading a ballot properly, they are definitely too infirm to be driving to the polls or anywhere else in the Sunshine State"
• "Gore - the man who would be king [but] who could not even win his own state of Tennessee - now appears ready to seize power through a court order
• Krauthammer with an excellent op-ed, Democracy and Legitimacy
• Podhoretz: you're getting a glimpse of a Gore Presidency
• Boston Globe: Gore should concede
• John Fund with a particularly astute analysis of the election mess
• Peggy Noonan on Rodham's win and Presidential plans
• Pete DuPont on America's divide
• Banana republic: Gore attempts a coup d'etat
• Surely the BBC can't be intimating that the Russians hadn't ALREADY cut their defense budget significantly? Surely
• Austria as victim (whatever)
• Someone needs to tell Jesse Jackson to go home and do something productive (for the first time!)
• Which is the bigger idiot: the terrorist group, or the crack U.S. foreign policy team?
• Another example of what academic political scientists do and why I do not wish to be one! (pdf file)

2000-11-09

• The Gore campaign has NOT ended with the election, and this does not speak well for the regime
• Gore campaign's behavior thus far is beginning to confirm everything Bush said about Gore's character
• Regardless of one's party affiliation, can't we all agree it's time to do something about ballot integrity and antiquated machinery?
• Senator-elect Clinton waits one day to say something stupid, then advocates killing Ralph Nader
• 1997 testimony from Walter Berns on the electoral college
• A sober, reflective editorial from the Washington Post
• Look who is relying on special interests in an effort to block the people's will. Hint: It's not Bush
• "I guess this beats sending them out to play in traffic?" -- My mom
• Continually updated Florida recount results
• Possible recounts in other states?
• Dick Morris has no conceptual understanding of American constitutionalism, and apparently has NEVER READ the Declaration of Independence!
• Turnout lackluster again, experts say
• Senate Democrats are already beginning to whine
• A non-political problem in Florida
• While I agree with this rant, blogging it rather than writing my own keeps me from sounding like a sore loser! :)
• Will: "Tuesday the nation elected its third consecutive president with less than a popular vote majority. Whoever he is, he earned the job"
• RealClear Politics does what I will do in a few days: explain our horrible Presidential predictions!
• Moment for leadership
• Gigot: Tuesday's results show a profoundly divided nation
• How exactly does a bicycle bomb work?
• Clintonspeak in the Philippines: Estrada hasn't spent "bribes" (yet)!
• It's nice that Rodham isn't planning on moving in four years
• Fashion is controversial in Niger

2000-11-08

• Even in its last days, the Clinton Administration pursues politically correct justice
• A "rational choice" defense of the electoral college
• A defense of the electoral college
• What a mess
• If Bush eventually loses, Republicans can take heart that he cut into the Democratic coalition significantly during good times
• A Claremont prof talks about the mess
• Keystone cops fiasco is a good description of the election
• I'm embarrassed for my old state: MO elects a dead man
• The networks blew this one big time -- and probably sent more people to gather news from the internet, unfiltered, next time
• Steyn: So much for the big Bush blowout (and my prediction!)
• Another premature condemnation of Gore
• RealClear Politics - Senate Races
• RealClear Politics - Gubernatorial Races
• Fund: Whatever the outcome, the rule of law must be upheld
• I think Peggy Noonan is premature to criticize Gore
• Equal opportunity: female head of terrorist group arrested
• Chavez given dictatorial powers in Venezuela
• Nigerian women appeal for... husbands!
• The US is not the only place to have just held controversial elections

2000-11-07

• Is Clinton the first anti-American US President?
• Coincidence? Some military personnel will be denied the right to vote absentee
• No confidence: Lieberman plans Senate (not Veep) victory party
• Jonelin gets to call an idiot a "misogynist sycophant!" Blar!
• Final Voter.com poll: Bush 45, Gore 40
• Lowry: snobs for Gore
• Pakistan's approach to media bias
• The BBC just loves Indian Ragnar Danneskjold
• Ehud Barak is the biggest joke Israel has had as prime minister
• China will have a tough time censoring the internet
• Do not ride buses in the mountains in Latin America
• The fighting never ends in Congo-Kinshasa
• Cote d'Ivoire prepares for parliamentary elections
• Not-so-lofty goals: OSU athletic director aims for 4th-6th place!
• A good man isn't able to get a bad football program turned around

2000-11-06

• Add Rosie O'Blob to the list of people who should join Alec Baldwin in promising to leave after election day!
• Dick Morris: DUI story backfired, crowded Gore out of news coverage at a crucial time
• In Praise of the Electoral College
• I'm not the only one frustrated constantly by idiots at work
• RealClear Politics: Democratic death throes
• It's really hard to have sympathy for this whiny-ass
• 8 More Miles gets a new host and better code
• Here's a third scenario for this idiot: Gore THE CANDIDATE is being judged by voters, not the "Clinton economy" and not the "Clinton scandals"
• Where is the outcry when Gore plays the race card, II
• Rodham's pro-terrorist contributors
• Barnes: Why there is no Clinton legacy
• Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 46, Gore 37
• The Clinton-Gore stench has even infected the previously honorable Bob Kerrey this campaign season
• Kondracke's presidential prediction is pretty solid, but I disagree with his individual Senate picks
• My prediction is closest to that of Tony Snow
• If MSNBC believes this headline, they're in for a shock Tuesday night
• Novak on those who disclosed Bush DUI
• George Will: Hearing With Your Third Ear
• Podhoretz on Gore arrogance
• I wonder if Jesse Jackson called these people "Democratic hitmen?"
• An extra column by Peggy Noonan today
• A shrewd move by Iraq
• This headline brings to mind strange images of Miss Lewinsky
• The most effective way to clear a roadblock?

2000-11-05

• And Al Gore thinks the Texas death penalty is bad!
• Liberal hypocrisy: Gore buys votes from homeless with cigarettes
• Memo to Gore: Many of us have an "ingrained hostility" to government!
• The lefties keep trying to create a story out of nothing
• Look which candidate is playing the race card
• The biased left-wing nuts all pick Al Gore to win (remember their credibility after Election Night)
• The liberals are deciding whom to blame
• Review of Reckless Kelly's new CD, The Day
• RealClearPolitics analysis of Senate races
• Gore's ever-evolving positions on the Second Amendment
• If Tubber and Al are going to trumpet their parenting for political gain, isn't this a fair issue?
• It's time for bitchy Jack Germond to retire
• The Gore theme (to the extent such a thing exists): anti-prosperity
• BBC profile on Islamic Jihad
• The saga of a wild Greek man comes to an end
• Aliyev's party will win this one
• Evading reality doesn't pay for this archaeologist
• Married women can travel now in Egypt

2000-11-04

• I'm often hard on the media, but they handled this one right
• I can't wait for Bush to win so this idiot can fulfill his promise to leave the country
• Some expert: what this story doesn't report is Bob Erikson's silly economic models that say Gore should have 55% of the vote or so!
• Podhoretz on the positives of the DUI story for Bush
• "Bill Clinton will be recalled as a Nobody for the Ages -- a man whose narcissism devoured his talents"
• Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 46, Gore 37
• Richard Lowry on the campaign trail
• Isn't it telling that the media missed this one?
• Media bias, past and present
• That this idiot knows nothing of the constitution but writes about it professionally makes me fear for the regime
• Poll: DUI a Non-Issue
• Peggy Noonan's weekly column (somehow I missed blogging it yesterday)
• I love Drudge's attitude
• Somebody get this Greek man a tranquilizer
• The headline sounds like a rugby update

2000-11-03

• The arrogance of academics is amazing: it couldn't be that their precious MODELS are WRONG could it?!
• Limbaugh reproduces an 11-02-80 Washington Post article showing Carter would win!
• A better question is this: Is Bill Raspberry smart enough to write a coherent column?
• The lefties are getting so worked up they're almost caricatures!
• Rodham's Islamic extremist friends
• Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 46, Gore 39
• I don't know if some endorsements are worth having
• If turnout is indeed low, Bush wins easily
• Dick Morris on the DUI
• Check out the last paragraph: WHY does the author claim the numbers favor Gore when they clearly do not?
• Krauthammer calls the election
• Are all Kennedys idiots?
• Nightmare: how a Democratic House might look
• More detail on the social security plans
• Lowry: Will a 24-year-old incident hurt Bush?
• Paul Gigot on the Clinton-Gore schism
• This unsigned death threat is comical
• Obasanjo tells of political life under Abacha
• Cote d'Ivoire attempts to return to its prior status as an African success story

2000-11-02

• How did the plane wind up on the wrong runway?!
• Stevie Wonder is the latest in the parade of idiots (Cher, Streisand, Baldwin, et al)
• Bush's response to this non-issue contrasts sharply with "I didn't inhale" & "No controlling legal authority"
• Memo to Ralph Nader: Here's the logical outcome of your green communist machinations
• I think this judge should let Clinton-Gore know their next destination!
• Here's an alternative solution to the "problem" of Israel
• I wish Cher would join Alec Baldwin in leaving the country when Bush wins!
• Would Gore be the first Heidegerian President? Rosenbaum on Gore's intellectual vapidity
• Check out BrainLog
• "What does Alan Greenspan have in common with the escaped murderer who ruined the French economy nearly 300 years ago?"
• Another alarmist scenario that just isn't going to happen
• What about the "passionate environmentalist with the zinc-mining royalties?"
• Ponnuru on Clinton's trivial pursuits
• Gore a fiscal conservative?! This is proof that the WSJ opinion page gives equal time, despite its conservatism
• Novak with inside poop on the ongoing Clinton-Gore personal schism
• Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 45, Gore 40
• Clinton reminds gays, lesbians "everything I did for this community"
• Will with an outstanding commentary on the electoral college
• Clinton can't STAND being out of the limelight!
• A sometime liberal has the guts to blast Gore on social security scare tactics
• Rodham has been a lefist central planner all of her adult life
• Liberal vocabulary does not include "accountability"
• It's sad to see fluff like this in the Wall Street Journal
• Peggy Noonan makes the case for Bush
• I just like the term "Maoist Rebels in Nepal"
• Another fun headline from the Brits
• How in the hell does a captain accidentally run into the Great Barrier Reef?!

2000-11-01

• Gore's daughters versus Bush's daughters (Peter originally blogged this one)
• Susan on the CA Senate race
• O'Reilly's ratings top Larry King's
• Why I have not ventured out of my apartment on Halloween the last two years
• I could have penned this article (especially the part on abortion)
• How is this a dirty trick when Nader did the principled thing?
• Israel's situation is grave
• My presidential election prediction
• Israel one front in a world war?
• Gaffney on American foreign policy humiliation under Clinton-Gore
• The penultimate paragraph raises interesting questions
• Michael Kelly on the Big Four of Democratic Self-Delusion
• I don't think this will come to pass, but if it does the Bushies need to get a grip
• Pat Buchanan has finally rendered himself irrelevant
• Atlantic roundtable on the election, part one
• Memo to Miss Not-At-Albright: A competent Secretary of State is NEVER "ambushed"
• "The difference between prosperity and poverty is liberty"
• This is great: Russian parliament considers whether to send election monitors to US!
• I just liked this headline
• Nobel Nonsense: the martyr, the babykiller, and the traitor
• Why do I always see photos of Palestinians throwing rocks and Israelis with tanks?
• Euros love any excuse to organize a protest
• The comments say something interesting about the inheritance of political affiliation
• Fujimori will make these people pay
• Angola rejects UNITA proposals
• Soviet-era passenger aircraft are scary!
• Latest Voter.com poll: Bush 45, Gore 38