Archives - January 2002
14 January 2002
13 January 2002
- Spending cuts are not a part of liberal journalistic orthodoxy
- Houston Heights "Beer Can House" to open as gallery/gift shop
- Henry Kissinger: Phase II and Iraq
- George Will on the Daschle Democrats
- From Safety Valve to Safety Net
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gaia
- Polyhollidaise: They really ARE Houston's Friendliest Internet Band (funny, too)
- Michelle Kwan defines Grace and Beauty
12 January 2002
- PhotoDude's Message to BlogSpotters
- Steven Den Beste: Trent Lott is a Blithering Idiot (no argument here)
- Scroll down to Ken Layne's thoughts on the Enron non-scandal
- Ben Stein Rocks! (and Huffington insulting anyone's intelligence is laughable)
- Thomas Roeser on Daschle's blunders
- Enron sought political influence, but where's the "scandal?"
- The NY Times just can't help slipping in campaign finance reform
- NRO remembers Dave Thomas
- Sam MacDonald on Washington's $1 trillion surplus (yes, surplus)
- Matt Labash on James Jeffords's Declaration of Independence
- Stephen Ambrose, copycat AND sloppy scholar
- The Nobel Terrorist: A very bad boy for a very long time
- Al Hunt turns on Jackson and Sharpton
11 January 2002
- Robert Rubin asked Bush Administraton to intervene for Enron
- Bush circumvents Daschle's new "supermajority" rule with recess appointments
- Just Say No To Popups! [via Link Whore]
- No smoking gun: TNR's Ryan Lizza suggests Dems view Enron only as a useful political issue
- Neither liberals nor conservatives seem to like Paul O'Neill (TNR beats him up here)
- Larry Elder on Helen Thomas's Grandmother Clause
- Byron York advises the White House to tell all about Enron
- Intellectual Dishonesty: Balzar addresses DEFICITS, not SPENDING (as he claims) [Related]
- John Podhoretz asks General Zinni to stay home (or at least away from Israel)
- Is a political comeback in the works for former Peruvian strongman Alberto Fujimori?
- Republicans must be salivating over this poll and Daschle's tax preferences!
- Charles Krauthammer on the Nobel Terrorist's Ship of Truth
- I despise plagiarism, but I'm not sure this qualifies [via MediaNews]
- Stanley Kurtz looks at the NY Times bestseller list and sees a cultural shift [Related]
- David Malpass on Argentina's Woes
- Rich Lowry: Let Daschle be Mondale
- Rod Dreher wonders how Cornel West can balance public demands with campus demands (i.e. his job)
- Jacob Sullum on coercion and the Fourth Amendment
- Dan Henninger on America's largest (involuntary) charity: Government
- George Gilder on recession and political scapegoating
- Paula Zahn IS sexy (though Laurie Dhue is sexier)
10 January 2002
- Surely the Dems can address more pressing issues than the baseball commissioner
- Jeff Jacoby on Saudi (anti-American) Fiction
- Bruce Bartlett: "Surplus" debate less about the economy than size of government
- The result of Mayor Pothole's (race-card) election win: Expect more deaths like this
- It's SO easy to beat up the Chron, but Richard Connelly does it artfully
- Texas Music: Houston Marchman thinks Nashville is overblown these days
- Brian Carnell says Good Riddance to Anthony Lewis, again (me too!)
- Why do liberal taxers have a monopoly on caring for "our children" (penultimate paragraph)
- Anti-death penalty zealots crank up the rhetoric in the Yates case
- Recession Wipes 2002 "Surplus"
- A (temporary) setback for Mayor Pothole's latest cronyism
- Uri Dan does not like comparisons of The Nobel Terrorist with David Ben-Gurion
- Dan Schnur follows up on Gray-Out Davis's tax rhetoric (noted here yesterday)
- Strategy Prof Edward Luttwak on Synergistic Warfare
- Blarianna Huff[and Puff]ington: Good for amusement, and not much else
- The LA Times is right on one point: Otto Reich should get a Senate vote
- The NY Times discovers "conservative" books have mainstream appeal
- Are liberals delusional enough to think Enron will bring down a Presidency? [Related]
- Iran stirs up trouble in Afghanistan
- Reza Pahlavi on Freedom for Iran
- The Washington Post tries to explain that a tax increase isn't a tax increase
- Donald Lambro on Daschle in Wonderland [Related]
- Fiddling While Rome Burns
- Russia displeased at plans for sustained American presence in central Eurasia
- Tom Gross on English and French anti-Semitism
- Paul Goldberger on the Oklahoma City Memorial
- Michael Lynch considers access to higher education in America
- Beth Henary: Identity Politics at Ground Zero
- James Q. Wilson and Heather Higgins endorse rational profiling
- How to Avoid Plagiarism (must reading for "borrowers" like Ambrose) [via Andrew]
- Ambrose has "borrowed" before [More]
- Whether Juma Namangani is dead or not, the Central Eurasian radical Islamic threat remains
9 January 2002
- Terry Bowden is right about Florida's strange football hire
- Jonah Goldberg on Shrieking Shales
- Insight into the liberal mind: conspiracies, conservative "bias," and even more amusement!
- Way to go PETA! (Okay, WSJ says it's a hoax, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility)
- Arts Journal's Best of 2001 [via JH3K]
- A noted historian assesses 11 September (thoughtful, though I don't entirely agree) [via ALD]
- Michael Kelly on the Nobel Terrorist's "Rogue Operation" theory
- Love him or not (I'm in the latter camp), Patrick Buchanan doesn't mince words
- Is anyone else tired of the references to Evita?
- Jack Kemp on Daschle's War
- Jonah Goldberg: As Harvard Turns
- It's no surprise that the Chron thinks the Greater Houston Partnership is just swell
- Where was the Chron's criticism of Mayor Pothole before the election?
- Smooth Politician: Gray-Out Davis tries to have it both ways on taxes
- Jeffrey Abramson: What Makes a Jury Fair? [Related]
- The Washington Post assault on your tax cut continues
- Larry Kudlow Daschle's Dimness
- Eli Lake thinks the State Department is Botching Iraqi Policy
- Greenpeace on the Defensive
- Ronald Bailey makes the case against the FDA
8 January 2002
- Strange Hire: Zook Succeeds Spurrier (who once demoted him) at Florida
- Does Pat Green's latest signify the end of the Age of Garth? (We can hope) [Related]
- Understanding Argentina and Money
- Flashback to better times: NY Times feature on Texas Icehouses
- I find it interesting that Representative Dingell addresses his wife as "Woman" (fourth paragraph)
- Steven Den Beste on the troubles facing Apple
- Rearden Steel unveils multimedia system (and name change) [via Den Beste and Wickens]
- Dave Thomas, RIP [via Davidmsc]
- Bill Murchison: Evil Makes a Comeback
- James Pinkerton on the importance of the tax issue
- ABA Panel Supports Military Trbunals
- Hugh Hewitt doesn't like conventional wisdom on the upcoming midterm Senate races
- Jim Wooten on leftist cynicism and the war effort
- Dirty politics in Mayor Pothole's America?
- Historian Shmuel Katz on (perhaps) the next Palestinian icon, Sari Nusseibeh
- Of course Robert Scheer would not miss this festive Day of Liberal Bitching and Moaning
- Dick Morris examines the bureaucratic foreign policy preferences of Fuerth/Gore
- Crimson Shame: Michael Meyers thinks Harvard Prez Larry Summers caved
- Krugman's column is even more vile than usual today
- Lessons for the (radical) Islamic world from the Far East
- "Difficult choices" and "critical programs" are NY Times euphemisms for "Tax and Spend"
- Turkey's Long Road to Secularism
- An Honest Accounting (might suggest that the tax and spend crowd needs to SPEND less)
- Strange to see liberals assessing strategic success based upon lack of bloodshed!
- Kudos from the Washington Times for the (unnamed) pilot of Flight 363 [Related]
- Frank Gaffney is thinking about nuclear strategy
- As political strategy, Bush approach on taxes scrambles Dems
- Rod Dreher on Khaled Abou El Fadl
- Ralph Nader, Windbag
- Conservatives rarely can refrain from reminding us all of "the rules"
- Tunku Varadarajan won't miss the NY Times' A Nation Challenged section
- Thomas Bray wants economic leadership from Bush [Related]
- Stoops officially a member of Oklahoma's version of the Killer Bs
7 January 2002
- Mortenson is full of manure in the claim that Stoops was not Florida's first choice
- Boomer Sooner: Stoops Staying in Norman [Video]
- Jonah Goldberg on Safire's "contrarianism"
- Revisiting Slacker
- Mark Wickens wonders if Mark Steyn has been borrowing from warblogs again
- Don Feder on the State Department's love affair with the Nobel Terrorist
- Giuliani's Legacy: Saving New York from Stupid (liberal) Ideas
- Arnold Ahlert has a suggestion for Bleeding-Heart Hypocrites
- Michael Barone on the recent transformation of the Democrats
- Shades of Keohane and Nye (*shudder*) in Benjamin Barber's latest [via ALD]
- The Nobel Terrorist's Ship of Death [Related]
- Gordon Gibson is thinking about a common American currency (I like dollars myself)
- Sanctimonious "soul-searching" from William Safire
- Even the NY Times supports Senate vote on Bush nominees
- Lanny Davis criticizing the "culture of obfuscation" is funny (no, it's not about Clinton/Gore)
- Sebastian Mallaby's columns remind me of light beer: less filling, and doesn't taste great
- Sanctimonious "soul-searching" from William Raspberry
- The Energy Department is spending your tax dollars to assess dishwasher efficiency
- Today's Nordlinger Impromptus are worth reading for the comments on Helen Thomas alone
- Brian Doherty reviews Pat Buchanan's The Death of the West
- Stephen Hayes on Cynthia Cotts, Village Idiot
- Fred Barnes speculates how Ambrose's "borrowing" could happen inadvertently (hmmm)
- Will Larry Summers lead Harvard back to the real world?
- Steve Hayward discusses The Age of Reagan (RealVideo)
6 January 2002
- Stephen Ambrose apologizes for "borrowing" whole phrases [Related]
- Zev Chafets on Bill O'Reilly, muckraking journalist (yes, journalist)
- Update: Mayor Pothole's ongoing destruction of downtown Houston
- Israel and Turkey to cooperate on Arrow 2
- The Dems' growing Catholic problem [Flashback]
- Microfluiditics: The Science of Tiny Pipes
- Daniel Pipes: Aim the War at Militant Islam
- Thomas Friedman: War effort must be intellectual as well as military
- In Search of an Extra-Long Life [Flashback]
- The NY Times doesn't like the Dems' primary fast-forward
- Leadership Void at Treasury
- Liberals always want to "fix" (read "take over") the best healthcare system in the world
- Myanmar aims to go nuclear (with help from our new friend, Russia)
- Jefferson's (misunderstood) wall between church and state
- Capitalism has not yet been tried in Argentina
- Testing Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia [via John Vaughn]
- I hope (and think) Bush's political sense is better than his dad's on this issue
- In the internet age, "borrowing" ideas and/or phrases is sure to be caught (and publicized)
5 January 2002
- Bad move for the Rockies: Eusebio is not a front-line starting catcher
- 49ers safety says Cowboys "good team" on the way to being "a great team." What?!
- David Shribman on the Dems' new primary rules
- Any Attempt to Further Attempt?! Berry should be booted for her tortured grammar alone!
- Drilling Foes Driven By Myths
- Bill O'Reilly must have missed the last meeting of the Clinton Legacy Promotion Committee
- Sean Penn's Nutty Politics
- Mayor Pothole's already a bought man; why not identify the buyers?
- What kind of moron plays pranks on 911?
- Enron WAS able to pay bonuses to certain employees before bankruptcy in time (of course)
- Unfortunately, Karimov is a staunch autocrat who isn't about to "loosen the reins"
- Why do Powell/Zinni still trust the Nobel Terrorist?
- Judicial overreach: Shutting down the Interior Department's websites is a bit much
- The Washington Post tax and spend editors want your tax cut back
- John McPain's campaign-finance double standards
- The McDonaldization of ye olde ale house
4 January 2002
- The biggest reason I'm sad to see Spurrier leave college football
- I, for one, will miss Steve Spurrier in the college game
- Someone has finally noticed Daschle's radical new constitutionalism
- Jonah Goldberg on Michael Kinsley's latest
- Shocker: College football "terrorist" Steve Spurrier resigns!
- Weblogs go Mainstream (or Mainstream goes Weblog?) [via Scripting News]
- Top Ten Reasons Why FrontPage is Evil [via Link Whore]
- Clinton Legacy: Oliver North engages in a little piling on (ouch!)
- The Case for a 'Super-V' [WSJ Subscribers]
- Why Does Tom Daschle Want To Hide (millionaire) Scottie Pippen?
- Daschle neglects to explain how he will attract 60 votes to this "controversial" legislation
- Tibor Machan: Does Self-Control Exist? [via Brian Carnell]
- Edward Said's latest noxious spewing [via ALD]
- Trucks outsell cars for the first time in US (sure to displease TreeHuggingNuts)
- Is there a Montrose restaurant serial arsonist?
- Houston's #1 (I wonder if David Satcher will make a visit to scold us?)
- Benjamin Netanyahu on America's Three Principles for Victory
- The LA Times wants drivers to have an unobstructed view of the smog (err, skyline)
- Mark Steyn on the Euro, "an exercise in vanity printing"
- Charles Krauthammer on the ripple effect of American power, properly applied
- In the Middle East, Paul Rahe writes, Give Revolution a Chance
- A Texas Monthly writer speculates on why journalist Vanessa Leggett was jailed
- Reza Pahlavi agitates for Iranian democracy
- Peggy Noonan on The Transformation of George Bush
- Ralph Peters on The Saudi Threat
- How an unassuming career assistant coach won a national championship
3 January 2002
- Miami pounds Nebraska (I guess it's too late to rescind Crouch's Heisman?)
- Weblogs as Harbinger of New Reformation? [via Site-Essential]
- Goldberg Flashback: Regrettable Van Susteren
- Urban Explorers [More]
- Liberal crackup: "Progressives" facing tough times [via MTZb]
- Brain Circulation: The Merits of High-Skill Immigration [via ALD]
- Clinton's foreign-policy legacy: Building Urinals in Bosnia
- Jonah Goldberg on the businesslike new century
- Where is the outrage over Daschle's radical supermajoritarianism?
- Mark Tapscott on markets and media bias [Related]
- Liberal crackup: Je$$e, Sharpton, West, Summers, and Harvard
- The Chron is half right: Concentrate on safety/public works and forget term limits
- Typical: Houston Mayor Pothole vows fight against term limits (not potholes) in his last term
- Filing Deadline: Texas Dems set for tough primaries in 2002
- Robert Lighthizer is wrong on fast-track and wrong on 2002 elections
- Philip Meyer asks, What Defines a Journalist?
- A lazy journalist gets stung [via MediaNews]
- Larry Kudlow charts the transiton from Liquidity Recession to Liquidity Recovery
- A Woman's Prerogative
- Michael Lynch reports on the Federalized Skies
- Patrick Leahy and the Art of the Big Stall
2 January 2002
- Rob Patterson reviews the last year in Texas music
- Richard Connelly parodies Enron founder Ken Lay's "vision" for Houston (or something)
- Robb Walsh visits the Daily Review Cafe (and is only slightly more impressed than me)
- Jonah Goldberg on the new realism (btw, the line about Gerald Nadler is priceless)
- I get nervous when liberals AND conservatives start worrying about "Big Oil"
- Nannyvision [via Khava]
- Brad Sham is about the only reason to listen to a Cowboys game this year
- We like the style and substance of Jane Galt (not to mention the name) [via Patrick Ruffini]
- How Islam Lost Its Way [via ALD]
- Only a Perot-style protectionist can blame Argentina's problems on free trade!
- Michael Freund on Israel's Oslo-sis
- Friedman neglects to mention if boosting domestic production includes ANWR and offshore
- Dick Morris won't be invited to the next Clinton Legacy Promotion Committee meeting
- Michael Kelly on America's Recaptured Confidence
- David Broder discovers (*GASP*) Bush is a Republican
- Jo[k]e Lieberman distinguishes himself from other Dem Presidential hopefuls on tribunals
- Yemen at a Crossroads
- Wishful Liberal Delusions: Robert Scheer calls Enron "A Cancer on the Presidency"
- Bruce Bartlett urges Bush to expand his group of informal economic advisors
- Flashback: Bernard Goldberg's 1996 WSJ media bias article [Related]
- Churchill and Terror [via LGF] [Related] [Related]
1 January 2002
- Sounds to me like University of Houston grad Dale Robertson has Sooner envy
- Sooner Defense Wins Cotton Bowl (Offense still hasn't been seen for a year)
- Michael O'Hanlon apparently got a memo from the Clinton Legacy Promotion Committee
- Surely Helen Thomas MEANS to write a regular humor column?
- Patrick Clawson thinks Saddam Hussein is Ripe for a Fall
- An Epic For Our Time
- Design Yes, Intelligent No [via ALD]
- NewsMax's Most Outrageous Examples of Media Bias 2001
- Calling Sam Nunn one of the Heroes of 2001 is a stretch
