Category: Blog

Sparse Matrix: Bush’s Second Term

David at The Sparse Matrix does me the honor of linking to and discussing a recent column I wrote (available on our website in the form of a short paper). The column was part of a debate Knight-Ridder published on ...
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Ted Rall Ridicules Handicapped Kids

belowStreetLevel has kindly said some nice things about this blog, for which I thank them, but I want to direct readers to their post linking to yet another Ted Rall monstrosity: A cartoon in which Rall tries to make fun ...
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Condoleezza Rice’s Nomination

I wonder what Ted Rall will say now? On a more sane note, blog readers might be interested in an op-ed Dr. Rice contributed to Project 21's national op-ed syndication service, New Visions Commentaries, last year. It is a good ...
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NLPC Asks Verizon to Stop Funding Jesse Jackson

The National Legal and Policy Center has submitted a shareholder resolution to Verizon Comunications requesting that the Verizon "Board of Directors to establish a policy precluding future financial support of Jesse Jackson, the Citizenship Education Fund, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and/or any ...
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Heritage Foundation United Nations Prediction

The Heritage Foundation's Nile Gardner, who is closely following the United Nations oil-for-food scandal, is predicting (on Fox's O'Reilly Factor tonight) that Kofi Annan may go down because of the scandal. If Gardner is right, I hope Annan takes the ...
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CodeBlueBlog: As The News Squeezes Out

CodeBlueBlog continues to try to unravel the mystery surrounding Yasser Araft's cause of death, while fisking -- in a highly amusing way -- statements made on the matter by the late terrorist's associates ...
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Eliminating the U.N. — By Stealth

From an article by Irwin M. Stelzer in the November 22 issue of the Weekly Standard: More than one of the policy wonks scattered throughout the administration is giving serious thought to a radical change proposed almost 10 years ago ...
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Global Warming

I was planning to blog about Ron Bailey's new piece on global warming in Reason, but I see that Sean at Everything I Know Is Wrong has just done so. So, instead, I recommend Sean's piece -- and I would ...
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Belgium Bans Democracy

Yet another strike against the European Union. One begins to get the impression that Europeans horrified by the re-election of President Bush are not just horrified at the U.S. vote tally, but that George W. Bush was allowed to run ...
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Boehner v. McDermott Phone Tape Case Apparently Resolved

I missed this when it was announced October 29, and suspect others who followed this case (which received a lot of attention from conservative talk radio) may have as well. Roll Call, October 29, 2004 (excerpt): Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) ...
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