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2000-12-31

• An outstanding article that renders nuclear fusion compelling even to non-science types!
• Interview with Dinesh D'Souza on technology and prosperity
• Gore will preside over his own defeat in Senate
• The presidential ambitions of CA Governor Gray Davis may just have to be shelved
• The Pentagon mess
• George Will: In America, misery is relative
• British group latest to break Iraqi sanctions
• Happy New Year

2000-12-30

• 19th century American individualist anarchism
• The French health-nutrition paradox
• Every few years, libertarians take a glance at international affairs (and then go back into their cocoons)
• Libertarians "do not like Green Eggs & Pork" (from Micah)
• Predictable: Clintonites spin yesterday's executive order repealing lobbying restrictions
• Reports of ballot fraud in Florida should not shock anyone who follows American politics
• Census "sampling" controversy is about to return
• NASDAQ's rough year
• Alan Keyes' equating separation of church and state with separation of state and morality is dangerous
• Who are the Abu Sayyaf?
• Killings increase in Colombia
• Sudan president wins sham poll
• Ghanaian challenger wins presidency

2000-12-29

• Why am I so critical of the mainstream press? I don't need to explain, just go read these quotes from their "stars"
• 1998 Report of Rumsfeld Commission on Ballistic Missile Threat
• So much for ethics: Clinton executive order repeals his 1993 executive order, which limited lobbying efforts of former executive branch officials, among other things
• THIS allegedly swayed female voters?!
• Larry McMurtry on the enduring nature of printed books
• "Pedophilia Chic" Reconsidered
• Bad news for welfare felons (possibly including a very distant relative or two)
• On Xmas and Kwanzaa
• This was an election, not the death of a lover or close family member; get over it people!
• A map of party control of state governments, handy as reapportionment looms
• Does correlation imply causation? Census reveals Americans moving to lower tax, lower regulation states
• There's plenty fo Bush's Treasury pick to do - but perhaps not at Treasury
• Bibi Netanyahu on why he is sitting out Barak's "pointless election"
• It's not just the US: Gunmen attack Sri Lankan beach resort
• It's not just the US: 8 settlers gunned down in Assam
• It's not just the US: Saudi man shoots 11
• Belgians kidnap Jesus to protest immigration policies
• Philippine priest shot dead
• Every 3 Hours in Colombia, Another Kidnapping
• When the Peruvians depose a leader, they really like to pile on
• UNITA rebels attack Benguela airport (repeat that ten times quickly!)
• This is news about Chad that I can read
• All you BA fliers might consider Virgin Atlantic now?

2000-12-28

• Salon.com really goes in the toilet, drops to below $0.50/share
• Novak on the Democrats' sickening attack on John Ashcroft, one of the few political men of character in the nation
• Bevan critiques the President's delusional spinning
• Slander is fine - if you're a leftist
• California: the state with the most economically unsound policies in the union?

2000-12-26

• An inspiring young lady
• No spin: O'Reilly assesses the Bubba Presidency
• There's never a conflict of interest when your last name is Kennedy
• The New Republic rings in the new year with... what else but liberal revisionism
• Bill Bennett advises a leftist twit not to "cosmologize his own deficiencies"
• Novak on Bush's dreadful treasury choice
• WSJ: "Colin Powell and Condi Rice succeeded on merit. That's what upsets Democrats like Jesse Jackson."
• Bray: Bush has appointed an environmental idiot to head EPA
• WSJ: "John Ashcroft is a man of integrity. He couldn't be more unlike his predecessor."

2000-12-23

• Happy Holidays

2000-12-22

• Pierre Salinger is keeping his promise to leave; What about Alec Baldwin and others?
• My former Senator (John Ashcroft) and Governor will be an EXCELLENT Attorney General
• Blog Texas: a beautifully designed blog and journal
• Blog international: a fun little blog from Sweden
• The Hassle Factor: Welfare reform turns check recipients into job seekers
• Reason interviews "Americas Most Dangerous Politician"
• Why in the hell is it controversial to have a "shoot to kill" policy against guerrillas at war with one's nation?
• During the Reagan Administration, bigfoot sightings declined to nonexistence; now, Bigfoot is back! I don't know what this means
• The Voter News Service reminds me of something that could be in Atlas Shrugged
• Michael Kinsley gets really deep. Or something gets really deep.
• Krauthammer on Bipartisan Blather
• A liberal columnist has some questions for Jesse Jacksoff
• Where has Joe Biden's (now unneeded) foreign policy advice been during the last 8 years of Not-At-Albright, et al?
• Bartley on Bush's choice at Treasury
• Peggy Noonan: Mr. Bush goes to DC
• Police work in Nepal is hazardous duty
• A leadership race as uninspiring as our own, in Israel
• I wonder what Saint Ayn would say about this?
• How a Thai prime ministerial candidacy went into the toilet
• Military leaders involved in failed 1987 coup promoted in Argentina
• President of Niger makes War on Starvation his top priority
• The UN actually had to investigate to figure this out?

2000-12-21

• Why isn't the IRS investigating Reverend Al Dull-ton?
• What an inspiring place to work (*DRIPPING HEAVY SARCASM*)
• Clinton and Barak: Equally shameless lame ducks
• W gets ready to take on those feisty dems
• There were many microwave experiments performed in Hammons 312, but we never used Pudding as a subject
• Memo to Clinton aides critical of Bush for "talking down" economy: Take a look at ANY economic indicator!
• What happens when Foreign Policy is neglected for 8 years: Iraq claims it can, will destroy Israel if provoked
• Here comes winter
• Sarah Jessica Parker, Political Philosopher, err.... Political Dolt
• Bad economic news continues
• Blog Universe: Check out Trudy's Bitchin' Hats
• Vote fraud, anyone?
• If you travel, you must be rich: Government raises cost of travel 41%
• Conservatives who think "abortion" is THE only question that matters in law annoy me
• Racicot Refuses Attorney General Job; Keating Likely to be Nominated
• Bush makes his first dubious appointment (at Treasury, no less)
• Doubts flatten Nasdaq
• Despite the effort here, Bill Daley is still not a sympathetic figure
• George Will: Beware the "Bipartisanship"
• Bereuter: Clinton should not go to Korea
• Larry Elder: Jesse Disses Black Achievers
• Mac Owens makes the case for missile defense
• Peres and Barak told to decide among themselves who should run
• Maybe I won't fly to Greece this summer
• Brits in trek for rare orchids discover paramilitary rebels instead

2000-12-20

• Salon.com will lay off 20% of its workforce
• Freedom in the World 2000-2001
• I thought that chili tasted peculiar!
• Tom Ridge's graceless exits
• Florida probe finding no evidence of black disenfranchisement
• Clinton's real legacy: American foreign policy in shambles
• Daniel Pipes on the drumbeat of war in the Middle East
• Egypt resumes flights to Baghdad
• Should Mbeki be comforted - say during an assassination attempt - that his own marksmen hit him by mistake in target practice?

2000-12-19

• Liberal Reindeer, courtesy of Limbaugh
• Even major accounting firms are shying away from Florida mess
• Nobel Economists Robert Mundell and Milton Friedman debate
• Former libertarian Presidential candidate blocks Medical ID numbers -- for now
• Fed keeps money supply tight
• Iraq military goes high tech with Playstation 2s
• Russia Resurgent: Putin pushes Canadians to oppose US missile defense plan
• Common statistical sense
• Begone Not-At-Albright: Bush foreign policy team sends strong message to Brits, French
• The ongoing media spin operation
• Model for Florida: The Recount in Michigan
• Charged with "unwanted sex," a Brandeis student gets an expensive education
• Netanyahu quits Israeli election race
• Ghanaian serial killer on the loose (includes a cool graphic!)
• Somalia is a mess

2000-12-18

• Blar!
• The Supreme Court Justices' dueling conceptions of Federalism
• Rodham, a true woman of the people, considers buying $4 million mansion
• The answer to media idiots who found the Supreme Court "activism against "state's rights" so perplexing
• My friend Lindsey goes to Moscow
• Dr. Strangelunch: by Ronald Bailey, or Why we should learn to stop worrying and love genetically modified food
• Russian rebuilds itself strategically
• PAC targets Florida Kangaroo
• I can't bear to watch the Cowboys this season either
• This sounds all too familiar: "But I'm stuck in a system that won't take me seriously unless I sit through classes with morons and hear some professor summarize what some smarter professor told him ten years ago."
• Vintage: Jaffo's new phrase, "benevolent stalking" (and deep introspection on online journaling and more)
• More disturbing indications that Israel is planning for war with Syria
• McGinnis: "The moral here is simple: government, unlike the market, lacks the information to provide good products and we should limit it to providing products that other processes cannot. The thought of the likes of the hapless Teresa Lepore designing our health-care delivery systems or investing our pensions should make the blood run cold."
• Whining from the dreadful mainstream political press
• PMSNBC pulls plug on Begala and North program "Equal Time"
• Novak on Bush and Delay
• Beschloss is like most American Historians: Rambling and Disjointed
• Where are the Reaganites on the Bush defense team?
• Bartley: Ideas matter in the cabinet
• Might Clinton have made the difference in AlGore's campaign?
• Fred Barnes suggests Bill Bradley for Treasury Secretary
• Circus mass?
• I'm sure there is a joke here. Positive.
• Guatemala considers dollarization
• Massacres by Islamic militants in Algeria
• Images of South African president used for Army target practice?

2000-12-17

• Israel braces for war with Syria
• Inside the Bush legal strategy
• Steyn: "The US Constitution withstood Al Gore's assault far better than Britain's has withstood Tony Blair's."
• Bush is Time's Person of the Year
• AlGore's release
• Japanese teen arrested for multiple assaults with baseball bat
• Time is running out on Madeleine Not-At-Albright's tenure!
• Ukrainian President suspected in disappearance of journalist critical of government
• Funny how racists become apologetic AFTER they are thrown out of power
• Peace talks prove way too confusing for Senegal
• Katherine Harris letter

2000-12-16

• More proof that "French military" is an oxymoron
• A Salon.com editorial meeting?
• Inside the AlGore war room
• Staffers Quit Beckel Firm Over Attempt to Switch Electors
• Man Lived in Teen Girl's Closet
• Getting ready to run for President: Rodham ally to head DNC
• George Will on Bush's Brief Moment
• McIntyre on John McCain's idiocy
• Chinese police shoot dissenters
• Market tanks on Microsoft earnings news
• 'Sperm smugglers' charged
• Peace talks in Senegal

2000-12-15

• Late heave gives Rudy Tomjanovich 400th Win
• Brokaw's leftist bias
• Thomas Sowell: Election Facts versus Myths
• Tony Snow debunks notion "The Supreme Court made Bush President"
• Screw ballistic missile defense; Chicagoans need falling ice defense
• Memo to ALL the FL Idiots: Go away! We don't want to hear from you ever again!
• Bush headache: long-range Iranian missile
• Clegg: "To be sure, parsing what [Jesse Jacksoff] has to say may strike some as a silly exercise - rather like looking for grammatical errors on the Jerry Springer show"
• Conservatives are too NICE
• Larry Summers?!?!
• Kudlow on the enduring center-right center
• The Gore legal strategy (NYTimes, requires registration)
• Krauthammer: "Democratic partisans are complaining that the presidential election has been settled not by the people but by judges. This is amusing"
• Steyn on Jesse Jacksoff: "It seems an odd way of 'empowering' someone to insist that he or she chant along with your latest moronic jingle"
• Bush must press education agenda: "In Florida, the strongest correlation of counties with large numbers of discarded ballots wasn't race or voting technology; the biggest snafus were in counties where 25% or more of voters function at below-fourth-grade reading levels."
• Paul Gigot: Liberals Discover the Tyranny of the Courts
• Peggy Noonan: "Bush needs to develop stagecraft to match his statecraft"
• What country would cheat at the Special Olympics?! Spain
• Last Chernobyl reactor shut down
• Party chairman killed in Baku when headquarters collapse
• Filipino cultists hacked to death
• Together again: Cuba and Russia pucker up
• When I first read this headline, I missed the term "Investigation" somewhat changing the meaning!
• Really? Human rights group warns of "increasingly desperate" situation in DR Congo

2000-12-14

• The Boies *ahem* Supreme Fashion Sense
• I'm Larry: Tribe, that is, with a meager web effort
• Michael Lynch on Jesse Jacksoff's politics of hate
• Reason: the Gore team's ambiguities proved their undoing
• Wha't's next for AlGore? Here's a sneak peek
• Moron attacked by shark in landlocked pub!
• An election concludes, but the litigious society endures
• Novak on the sad legacy of AlGore
• Coulter on the TV "legal experts" who got things so wrong
• Michael Kelly: "the Supreme Court rescued democracy--not by stopping Gore but by stopping the example of Gore"
• WSJ: Bush v. Gore was William Rehnquist's Finest Hour
• Eugene OR: How the city manager stole Xmas
• This headline on EU fish quotas just reads strangely
• China dynamites churches!
• Ecuador pipeline blast
• Circumcision of two female Kenyan teenagers blocked by court
• Surprise: Opposition displeased after Cote d'Ivoire "election"

2000-12-13

• Text of Bush acceptance speech
• Text of Gore concession speech
• Peggy Noonan advises AlGore
• Alt: "Given the short timeframe and the contentious nature of the issues, the surprise is not that the court was split, but that it was as unified as it ultimately was - an outcome, which is no small testament of the skill of the chief."
• NRO: "Can you imagine {Ginsburg and Stevens] saying, as they did in their dissents, that literacy tests were 'flawed' but that state courts in the Jim Crow South were in the best position to resolve those issues?"
• Boortz: "In short, the Democrats - and this includes the Democrats on the Florida Supreme Court - overreached"
• Hadley Arkes: "The nation has rarely been treated to a spectacle more delicious: an army of talking heads on television, reporting on the decision of the Supreme Court, providing their instant punditry - and getting it laughably wrong."
• GSA will turn over transition resources to Bush shortly
• Richard Epstein's analysis of the decision
• Reading Stevens: His dissent is ACTUALLY referring to undermining the STATE court's legitimacy, NOT the Supreme's
• Looking to Lincoln for guidance
• Wilcox: "Rather than maintaining his 'viability' by litigating his loss, Gore wrote his political obituary"
• NRO: Kangaroos Smacked Down
• John Fund: Time to Move On
• WSJ: It's Over
• U.S. Supreme Court decision ending Kangaroo Recounts in FL (pdf)

2000-12-12

• George: Don't let liberal propagandists paint conservative justices as hypocrites
• Limbaugh also has some questions about AlGore's dumping of Tribe
• A brand new photo of the Florida Kangaroos!
• How can the obviously PMSing editor of Salon News write vitriolic editorials like this and claim any objectivity for the news coverage?
• Rosie O'Donnell IS a loudmouth; while I'm at it, she's also a slob.
• Jesse Jacksoff's act is tired
• Daschle blocks bill on military voting
• Supreme Court ponders "the cleanup of Al Gore's election equivalent of a Superfund site "
• Novak: "With no sense of hypocrisy, liberals now condemn. . . judicial activism"
• Linda Chavez: "for the Democrats, fairness is an elusive standard"
• Boies: Single-malt scotch or moonshine?
• Bray: "law" versus "fairness" in the media's simple world
• Isn't it funny how liberal judicial activists have discovered "restraint" all of a sudden?
• Asian elephants suffer from sex imbalance
• Some Turk was pissed about his parking ticket!
• Given the location, this headline may be true literally and figuratively
• Moron is shot by his dog
• Why hold a "mock" tribunal for this?
• Brutal Tanzanian violence over cattle. Yes, cattle.
• Moroccan dissenters take message to the net

2000-12-11

• Interesting gossip on AlGore's dumping of Tribe
• The National Archives: Florida's electors are NOT in doubt
• Here is the chaotic mess the Supreme Court stayed on Saturday
• Lund dissects the Kangaroo Activism
• Barone: Judicial Activism Exposed
• Blatant hypocrisy: Leftist media loved the Kangaroo Kourt decision, but now the US Supreme Court is partisan?!
• Transcript of Supreme Court oral question period
• Law: poetry or philosophy?
• Ding Ding: A winner in the dimwitted punditry category!
• Time for dude to retire
• An EXCELLENT primer on analysis of SupCt oral arguments that also debunks the leftist/media notion that the Court's "conservatives" have abandoned belief in deference to states
• Do cat pathogens cause schizophrenia? Maybe
• Quantum theory nears its 100th birthday
• Horowitz: Dems "a party without a conscience"
• Chances are a person who can't even spell the Chief Justice's name probably doesn't know shit about American constitutionalism
• Hochman on the robed Kangaroos
• McIntyre: We Are Not Meant To Be Ruled Solely By Courts
• Ruining the Media's Upside-down Cake
• AlGore's habitual lying continues
• NY Post: Time to End the Fiasco
• Steyn: Life in AlGore's Alternate Universe
• Rodham in the Lion's Den
• Domenech: Pundit Armageddon
• Bartley: Blame the divide on the welfare state
• WSJ: "The mess in Florida is a logical outgrowth of the left's court-based legislation."
• Richard Epstein on Florida's lawless Kangaroos
• AlGore's scorched-earth tactics damage all branches of government
• Ledeen: The Clinton-Gore counterrevolution
• Liberal Dionne whines (for the first time?) about Supreme Court activism!
• Liberal Oliphant whines (for the first time?) about Supreme Court activism!
• Anger over Sharif release in Pakistan
• MPs begin to sort out Netanyahu bid for premiership
• Putin will pardon US "spy"
• Iliescu wins Romanian Presidential election

2000-12-10

• The genius of JS Bach
• Leon Kass looks at sex, courtship, marriage, and more
• A scathing critique of Clinton, Gore, and Rodham
• If those undervotes have "never been counted" how is it that we know how many there are?!
• Widely misreported: 11th Circuit severely constrained the FL Kangaroos despite not granting Bush stay request (pdf)
• John Fund: Saved From Rule of Trial Lawyers
• Mac Owens on AlGore's constitutional assault
• Virtually Unreported: Federal Court rules Florida MUST include those military absentee ballots targeted by Gore lawyers and illegally thrown out
• John Fund on the vindication of the FL legislature
• Forbes: How Bush can confound the pundits
• 60% of married Bangladeshi men beat the hell out of their wives
• New effort to track down Indian Ragnar Danneskjold
• Army kills 25 Islamist rebels in western Algeria
• I thought the Iraqi people were penniless and starving?
• Netanyahu's comeback attempt officially begins
• Opposition wins in Ghana
• Cote d'Ivoire decides to outdo Florida in electoral idiocy

2000-12-09

• Kangaroo Wells' dissent defends Judge Sauls' from the Kangaroo Majority
• Ponnuru: "The polls suggest that Democrats are more likely to regard Bush as a legitimate president than Republicans are to regard Gore that way -- perhaps because Bush would, in fact, be a more legitimate president."
• Hadley Arkes on the Brazenness of the Four Kangaroos
• US Supreme Court decision to stay the Kangaroo Kourt's mandate (pdf)
• Callie: "What a dipshit"
• These lawyerly Times
• The esteemed Richard Epstein on the Kangaroos' butchering of administrative law
• Senior Gore's political pet, err, son
• Lowry on the Kangaroos' Broad and Equitable Power II
• RealClearPolitics: Time for adult judges to rein in Kangaroos
• York: Language has no objective meaning to Kangaroos
• ARI on the divide in America
• ARI: The Democrats� �World of Non-A�
• Reports on possible Democratic vote fraud? Not on the mainstream news
• When the Kangaroos come up on the Judicial Retention Ballot next time, I hope the GOP saves this photo!
• Dennis Hastert as Interim President? Anything is possible at this point
• Podhoretz on the Kangaroo Nonsense
• Jack Kemp calls Kangaroo effort a "judicial coup d'etat"
• Russert on potential "political civil war"
• Peyser: "Until 4 pm yesterday, REASON seemed to be on a winning streak"
• Washington Times: Florida's renegade Kangaroo Kourt
• Dunleavy: Florida kangaroos blind, deaf, and dumb
• New York Post on the Kangaroo Kourt
• Chicago Tribune rips the Kangaroo Kourt
• Bill Kristol: A President by Judicial Fiat
• Kobach: An unconstitutional judicial power play
• George Will: Truth Optional
• Wayne Angell would be an OUTSTANDING pick as Treasury Secretary (and Greenspan's eventual replacement)
• The Gang of Four Kangaroos
• John Fund: "The Florida decision is not merely artificial and arbitrary law, it threatens to corrode institutions that have served us well for over 200 years"
• Iraq-Kuwait tensions
• FARC attack leaves 19 dead
• Let me get this right: Perhaps our worst President in foreign policy wants to be an international mediator!?

2000-12-08

• The Kangaroo Kourt's Imperial Activism
• Kangaroo Kourt changes the law -- again -- and thumbs its nose at the Supreme Court
• Lowry: "this particular frisson of excitement is one we generally shouldn't have to feel in a nation of laws"
• Bevan: The scandal is not the Kangaroos' partisanship, but activism
• Kangaroo Kourt sends market into tailspin
• I like Chief Kangaroo better
• Proof the NY Times can still do good journalism: A piece on Judge Sanders Sauls and the FL Kangaroo Kourt's hatred of him (requires registration)
• Lowry on the Democrats' ad hominem style
• Look who's funding that "independent" Seminole county contest lawsuit
• Hanoi Jane, Stephen King, Houston's notable ambulance chaser John Quinn among those funding AlGore legal effort
• Here's the most compelling case: Algore v. Markets of the United States
• York on Florida's Kangaroo Kourt
• In defense of the Florida legislature
• Paul Gigot: Bush's senate strategy crucial
• Peggy Noonan praises Slade Gorton
• Screenplay: AlGore meets Tricky Dick
• Carter II: More on that Russian flyover of the USS Kitty Hawk
• Estrada is more delusional than AlGore
• Kenyan MP seeks end of political parties as country disintegrates along "tribal" lines
• Sudan cracks down on "seditious" opposition
• Unlike in Cote d'Ivoire, no top Bush or Gore aides have been killed (I'm witholding judgment on which system is better, however!)
• Opposition gains in Ghana
• Count the military vote

2000-12-07

• Perhaps Al Dull-ton should think before spewing his vicious nonsense next time
• New book by Robert Kaplan: Eastward to Tartary : Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus
• The Chief Kangaroo in action
• Florida: God Save this (Dis)Honorable Court
• Rodham Care II
• Fox news kicks ass (specifically CNN's)
• Presidential gossip: Clinton pressures Gore to concede, and Bush pardons Clinton to set "bipartisan" tone
• Who are the real racists?
• Even Gore's electors are getting tired
• Text of today's oral argument before FL Kangaroo Kourt
• The Gore team calls Nikki Clark (of the Seminole County case) "one of our judges"
• Meanwhile, as a constitutional mess looms, the husband of Senator Rodham pontificates on pot smoking
• Here are some of "the folks" in FL whose reputations are getting battered
• The objective legal reasons why those Seminole and Martin county cases should be decided for Bush
• House Democrats siding with Bush
• Funny how all of these left-wing "The Ballots Will Be Counted" people jumped on the bandwagon well AFTER JudicialWatch
• Is this a flashback to the Carter years, or did it really happen THIS year?!
• Kondracke on potential for Bush-Daschle cooperation
• Steyn: Everyone's getting snippy with poor AlGore
• Novak: AlGore is toast in 2004
• Safire: Bush wins under any scenario (requires registration)
• Tony Snow on simple versus complex law
• Berenson on the Florida Supreme's clear choice
• AlGore's Bombastic Barristers
• Bashar al-Assad, Doofus
• Machete-wielding Irian Jayan separatists attack police
• Estrada called "lord of all gambling lords" as impeachment begins
• Chavez continues on the road to despotism
• We've heard of the Religious Right; here's an example of the Religious Left
• Happy Birthday, Elian
• Guess which one will be sitting on a stool in a few weeks
• This is what happens when Greens keep power plants from being built in a highly prosperous state
• Warring parties ink Congo withdrawal deal

2000-12-06

• About the best damn thing I've read on Florida in a while
• It's fun when idiot liberals cannibalize each other!
• Texas executes record 38th person (and counting)
• Text of Clarence Thomas at Hillsdale College inaugural for new president Larry Arnn
• A Claremonster I know weighs in on the Seminole county proceedings
• Considering the money spent, it's actually a very high-budget, but still quite bad, movie
• AlGore tells yet another lie
• I concur
• The Greenspan Mystique
• Camille Paglia: "The only thing worse than the candidates this year is the shockingly biased liberal press"
• Some facts on the "Clinton" economic success
• NRO: Seminole and Martin cases pose no threat under objective reading of law
• Text of Bush appearance on 60 Minutes II
• O'Reilly: Why Al Gore is Cooked
• George Will on the end for AlGore
• Once off limits, now even Presidential Transition is political
• A Northwestern law prof opines on Seminole County case
• The term "battered by blockade" just seems incongruous to me
• The BBC runs this photo every time there is bad news in Iran
• Sri Lankan politicians may be goofier than our own
• Assam separatists surrender
• Repeat "Explosion in Muzzaffarabad" ten times quickly!
• Oil prices drop below $30/bbl
• Israeli diplomat shot by unknown assailant in Jordan
• Russia jails US "spy"

2000-12-05

• Secret Society of Happy People
• AlGore's status, Greenspan's comments lead to record day at NASDAQ
• In praise of Judge Sanders Sauls
• An excellent article by Jim Delong on Florida's certification
• This guy is lucky Orenthal didn't cut his head off
• How 3 USC 5 applies to that ongoing Seminole County case
• Why AlGore couldn't bow out and run in 2004
• Now that it's almost over, Dick Morris scampers out to tell AlGore to pack it in
• AlGore's legal losses mount
• John Fund: Three Honest Democrats
• Robert Bork on the Florida mess
• Bangladesh doesn't screw around with strikers
• What comes next when one is banned for life from cricket?
• The Soviet anthem is making a comeback in Russia
• Jiang: Being a millionaire is honorable!
• Estrada mistresses to testify
• Papua New Guinea firms up Irian Jaya border
• Violence continues in Cote d'Ivoire

2000-12-04

• Is AlGore about to plant one on his bitch, Jo[k]e Lieberman?
• The country judge who wasn't swayed by those "city" lawyers
• Gore solicits more cash for recount battle
• Gore's Inner Thoughts
• Judge Sanders Saul's opinion in Gore, et al. v. Katherine Harris, et al
• NRO: "The practical effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision is to strip Gore from asserting any argument grounded in the Florida constitution � such as voter intent, the will of the people, the rights of man, the French Revolution, or whatever"
• Behavior befitting Nobel winner?
• Sore Loserman's world turned upside down today
• Caldwell: "It's odd that [Katherine Harris critics] would use "emptiness" to describe a woman who speaks more languages than [most], reads Flannery O'Connor for pleasure, has a master's degree from Harvard in public administration, has studied art in Spain and philosophy and religion in Switzerland, and plays the accordion."
• U.S. Supreme Court vacates FL Supreme Court decision with narrow Per Curiam ruling
• Laurence Tribe, Partisan Scholar
• Democrats harass electors, but the story goes virtually unreported
• Steyn: "As I write, the Vice-President is guesting on Ally McBeal, attempting to persuade the only lawyer in America not on his payroll to contest an absentee-ballot recount in Volusia County. Ally has locked herself in the toilet."
• WSJ: "The only question left is how bloody-minded Gore wants to be"
• Bartley on Clinton's legacy of rule or ruin
• Goddam Insane's "Realpolitik"
• Interest rates hit 19,500% in Turkey (no, it's not a typo)
• How will Fox handle the Zapatistas?
• Election uncertainty in Sudan (not Florida for a change)
• Political unrest in Cote d'Ivoire

2000-12-03

• In the Useful Idiots category: If Salon actually believes Angola's generals are concentrating on the environment rather than UNITA, they are more delusional liberals than even I suspected
• Netanyahu set to make triumphant return to Israeli politics
• Victimhood out of Victory
• This UAE-Iran dispute seems to flare up every six months or so
• If Bubba threatens to send Madeleine Not-At-Albright, maybe they'd make peace just to avoid her?
• This EU blunder reminds one of Madeleine Not-At-Albright's state department
• Khizbi Tahrir militants arrested in Tajikistan
• Isn't it time to stop calling Chavez a populist?
• Tanzania bans dancing in effort to stop the spread of aids?
• Some countries get upset about media bias!
• Sooners survive K-State to go 12-0

2000-12-02

• Jay Gallagher
• Look what trouble Iraq and Syria are causing while Florida counts dimples
• I am sick to death of idiot journalists with no legal training using this phrase: "he has a reputation as a 'fair-minded' judge who is not a partisan when wearing the robe."
• A recipe for old-fashioned, homemade chicken soup
• A new low, even for Jesse Jacksoff
• The GOP master of cross-examination, Phil Beck
• Sore Loserman's skewed reality
• I'll ask again: why isn't Janet Reno involving himself in an investigation of conspiracy improperly to influence election officials and results?
• The Miracle on 34th Street effect
• Alt: "It's good to see that [Orenthal] has taken a break from his tireless crusade to find out who the real killer is, and is using these same, precisely honed detective skills to find out who the next president really is."
• Tyrell: "Can a political party come to power driven solely by the will to power?"
• The American Specator's Enemy of the Week
• Coulter: Things Only a Democrat Will Say with a Straight Face
• America's assault on objective reality
• A rather harsh assessment of Mr. David Boies (who intrigues me despite his being on the wrong side so frequently)
• Hadley Arkes on yesterday's Supreme Court oral questioning
• Bush's next steps if AlGore wins in court
• I could have written this article on Journalism and Law
• More on the post-election divide
• Prince Albert in Fantasy Land
• Goddam Insane's anti-sanctions strategy
• Isn't it colder in the streets?
• I find the term "Thailand's aids armour" odd
• Ongoing perils of e-relationships
• Chile's military upset over Pinochet arrest

2000-12-01

• I do not like attempts to predict Supreme Court decisions based on oral questioning, but this is an interesting analysis even discarding the prediction at the end
• Trying to ascertain how justices will rule from oral argument, as this piece does, is rarely a fruitful endeavor
• Funny that no lefties mentioned AlGore's book before the election
• At least 445 felons voted illegally in Florida, 75% of them being registered Democrats
• Michael Lynch talks to some of those "Jack-Loafered Thugs" of Miami-Dade
• Algore, inventor of his own troubles
• Clinton claims Gore won Florida in a breach of protocol amazing for any president (even one who faced impeachment)
• Laugher: the LA Times tries to rescue Jo[k]e Lieberman's reputation
• Steve Neal: Now Gore has invented precedent
• WSJ: "The Supreme Court should put a stake through the idea of dimples wild before it becomes a permanent blight on American democracy."
• Paul Gigot on AlGore's Pandora's Box
• Shelby Steele: "When Mr. Jackson rides into a situation like Florida, his purpose is always the same: to use racism to undermine the moral authority of laws or standards or rules...."
• Overrated Presidents: "As a progressive, Wilson neglected Constitutional restraint"
• India wins back to back "Miss World" crowns, begins planning Three-Peat
• BBC analysis of Goddam Insane's maneuvering
• Focused on UN sanctions, Iraq cuts oil exports
• The EU focuses on. . . fish quotas
• Let's hope W doesn't follow this example on Inaugural Day
• At LEAST we managed to hold debates successfully
• Guinea Bissau "regrets" killing leader of attempted coup