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Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Life, Why Do You Mock Me?, or Maureen Dowd Strikes Again

She’s back, and (not worse, she already was at the bottom) as bad as ever. How this low-talent Bush-hater gets national column space is one of the true mysteries of existence, up there with ‘action at a distance’ and relativity. Maureen Dowd is to journalism as Corey Feldman is to acting. Is […]

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Thursday, February 17th, 2005

Summers Controversy Continues

The Academic Left continues to pound Harvard President Lawrence Summers for suggesting that perhaps innate biological differences are the cause of fewer women in the sciences. You can find a good deal of background material here; here is an article discussing the free speech implications.
This is the exact opposite of the Ward Churchill snafu; […]

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

Miscellanea - Someone’s Got the Big Head Edition

I link to the Daily Kos a lot because he’s a jerk, and he provides great fodder - case in point: today he reveals he has the fate of all Democrats in the palm of his hand:
Switch or die. I’d rather we didn’t have to spend the money to take out Chafee if we could […]

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

The Hitch Strikes Out

So greatly do I value the journalistic skills, integrity, and writing ability of the great Christopher Hitchens that I must admit getting a bit of a sinking feeling when I read that he had joined the chorus of those who smell a rat in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election. Unable to resist any longer, but […]

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

2008 Poll Numbers

CNN/USA Today/Gallup has some poll numbers for 2008 for both the Dems and Republicans. They’re pretty worthless, though - they just named three candidates for the Donkeys, and four for the Republicans, then gave the respondents the additional choices of other, any, none, or no opinion. For what it’s worth, the numbers for the […]

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

Condi ‘08 - A Dissenting View

Carpe Bonum takes issue with the notion of Condi as the Republican candidate for 2008. He also references this longer anti-Condi article by Steven Warshawski in The American Thinker (anti-Condi as a candidate; everyone seems to love the job she’s doing - at least on the right side of the aisle). My thoughts have been […]

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

A Wictory Wednesday We Can ALL Take Part In

Alright, no excuses this time; for Wictory Wednesday this week, all you have to do is join an online petition (no money, no significant time involved), so please check out this week’s post at PoliPundit, and the petition is here.
Not so fast, you say - what am I signing? It’s a petition at the GOP’s […]

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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

Today’s Must-Read: The Return of Rathergate

The New York Observer has an article up on the refusal of the CBS employees asked to resign in the wake of Rathergate to shuffle offstage without the top brass taking their share of the blame for the fiasco. More on this later…

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Weekly Jackass Number Eleven : Keith Olbermann

You know you’ve reached the height of jackassdom when you make so many boneheaded, outrageous, and just plain wrong statements that entire websites are devoted to watching your every move. Olbermann gained fame on ESPN’s Sportscenter, where his droll delivery was actually pretty funny, for about ten minutes; then you grew to dread his […]

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Pessimism Is A Hard Sell in the Land of Optimism

Why is Howard Dean a bad choice for DNC chair? Why do I have such a high time spotlighting the antics of the Angry Left? Why did I begin this post by asking multiple questions?
We’ll never know the answer to that last one, but the first two are easy: you can’t win elections […]

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

A Word on Trolling

Much as I hate it, I’ve just banned the second person from commenting at this site. The first one was just a case of profanity-laced screeching - I’m not a prude, but this isn’t that kind of site. God knows, if you want to call someone a nasty name, you don’t have a […]

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Miscellanea - I Just Can’t Wait Edition

I have been dying all day to post on tomorrow’s Weekly Jackass; it should be a dandy (hint: he’s bigger than a breadbasket, but smaller than a barn)…
I was going to say something about this jerk, but deacon at Power Line did such a good job, I’ll just say: ditto…
Professor Bainbridge on Dean and Krugman…
Tim […]

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This

Paul Krugman, in today’s New York Times, defends Howard Dean as a centrist moderate! The inevitable question is - who qualifies as a liberal with Krugman? With three years to go, I love our chances in ‘08 already (hat tip to RealClearPolitics)…

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Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

Preparing for March Madness

In what has to be the biggest win for my Texas Tech Red Raiders since the glory run to the Elite Eight during the Tony Battie era, Bobby Knight’s club defeated the No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks 80-79 in double-overtime at the United Spirit Arena in Lubbock. Way to go! Hopefully, that will get […]

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Monday, February 14th, 2005

Miscellanea - In Other News Edition

Okay, enough of the vanity posting (did I mention I was in the New York Times today?). Here’s another Times article that has increased my growing hopes about peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Let’s hope this newfound warmth continues…
I haven’t mentioned the Day by Day cartoon strip by Chris Muir yet. […]

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Monday, February 14th, 2005

Why No Link? I Smell a Rat

After buying the city of Austin’s entire supply of today’s New York Times, I returned home to find this article by Captain Ed, in which he says, and I quote:

NOTE: The Times also provides links back to the blogs it mentions. Nice touch; not all newspapers remember to do that.
Not ALL of the blogs got […]

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Monday, February 14th, 2005

I Get Mentioned In - The New York Times???!!!

My post on the meaning of Easongate has received far more attention that I ever would have dreamed of - including this mention in the New York Times:
Some on line were simply trying to make sense of what happened. “Have we entered an era where our lives can be destroyed by a pack of wolves […]

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Monday, February 14th, 2005

Is the Jordan Affair a Blow to Free Speech?

The bringing down of Eason Jordan by the blogosphere continues to spark broad-ranging debate on its meaning. James Miller has an article up at Tech Central Station arguing that the Jordan affair may have a stifling effect on free speech, though he doesn’t quite have the nerve to say it in so many words. I […]

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Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Micheal Moore Hates America - A Review, Not A Statement

Does Michael Moore hate America? That’s a hard question to answer - he certainly hates America as it is. I doubt seriously if there ever was or ever will be the America the Left wants to reach or go back to. Michael Wilson is a young filmmaker who had a clever concept - turn Roger […]

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Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Eason Jordan: Is There More Than Meets the Eye?

Mickey Kaus at kausfiles has an interesting post up that suggests a resolution to the mystery of why Eason Jordan was relatively quick to resign. Kaus has been playing up the Howard Kurtz angle - i.e., the softball coverage on l’affaire Jordan provided by the Washington Post and CNN reporter, and the conflict of interest […]