Archive for March, 2005

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Miscellanea: Who Could’ve Predicted It? Edition

Totally true to form, as anticipated, Kofi and his supporters are treating the Second Interim Report as total vindication. When asked if he would resign, Kofi replied, “Hell, no” (hat tip to RealClearPolitics)…
Well, Johnnie Cochran has passed away…and in sympathy, I’m shelving the treatment for JFK, The Sequel for now…will it be brought back? Who […]

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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Oil For Food, Part Twelve: A Summary of the Second Interim Report

I do the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to…
The committee seeks to answer three questions in the report:

Was the selection of Cotecna in 1998 free of improper or illicit influence, and conducted according to regulations, including competitive bidding?
Was the conduct of Kofi Annan adequate, particularly regarding possible or apparent conflicts of interest?
Were the actions […]

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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

More Cheney ‘08 Talk, And A Buried Whine

Jonathan Chait of TNR (hat tip to PoliPundit) is talking about the Cheney ‘08 movement. I still think it feels more like a trial balloon floated by politicos than a ‘movement’, and Chait basically admits as much in his article, though you have to read between the lines a little. This won’t go down in […]

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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

Today’s Must Read: Thwarting the Search for Bin Laden

It actually came out yesterday, but there’s an excellent (if infuriating) article in the New York Sun by Richard Miniter detailing how a U.S. diplomat hindered our search for Osama bin Laden. Heads should roll (hat tip to Power Line)…

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Monday, March 28th, 2005

Miscellanea: Fun With Numbers Edition

Jeff at the Bernoulli Effect takes apart a study some anti-war folks are using as ammo. I suggest you take a look…
Michelle Malkin has started a side blog with some friends dealing with immigration issues, a matter dear to her heart, and the subject of two books written by her. Did you know one […]

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Monday, March 28th, 2005

The Best Basketball Weekend Ever?

An entertaining piece in Slate by Robert Weintraub says it was…that may be a little too much (can anything ever top Laettner’s turnaround jumper?), but it was definitely in the top ten. Weintraub points out how much bad coaching there was from some big-time coaches…of course, that assumes the players run the play that was […]

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Monday, March 28th, 2005

Eric Alterman: A Subtle Voice of Reason

If you see this man, RUN! From today’s column (“How Do You Spell Police-State?”):
The United States of America, under the leadership of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, is operating a police state at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere in military and secret prisons throughout the world, where innocent people are being jailed, […]

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Monday, March 28th, 2005

The Must-Read Hat Trick

Three must-reads in a day? Why not? Lawrence Kaplan in TNR (may require registration, but it’s free), the most ‘centrist’ of the leftwing journals, asks why we aren’t hearing the good trends in Iraq from the mainstream media:
…over the past month, the news from Iraq has been unusually good. Depending on which military official […]

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Monday, March 28th, 2005

Who Says Bloggers Don’t Do Journalism?

They forgot to tell Roger Simon, who has some Oil-For-Food news that’s not going to make Kofi’s life any easier. Simon says he’s sharing information with the great Claudia Rosett. That makes two must-reads for today (hat tip to the mighty Instapundit)…

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Monday, March 28th, 2005

Today’s Must-Read: US To Begin Withdrawal From Iraq This Year, Says Novak

Columnist Robert Novak is reporting that Condi is a strong advocate of beginning an Iraq pullout soon. He describes her as an extremely strong Secretary of State who is not in thrall to the neocon vision of a perfect democracy. Is he right? Well, he has good sources…just ask Joe Wilson…

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Miscellanea: Easter Bonus Edition

Brian J. by way of A Small Victory asks: what albums can you sing from memory? Jeez, I could go on forever, so here’s the first ten that pop into my head:
Rolling Stones: Sticky FingersFrank Sinatra: In the Wee Small HoursRobert Earl Keen: Gringo HoneymoonBruce Springsteen: The RiverU2: WarThe Beatles: Rubber SoulThe Replacements: TimPink […]

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

And Then There Were Four…

One of the great Regional Finals weekends ever has wrapped up, and #5 seed Michigan State outlasted #2 seed Kentucky in double overtime. So, ladies and gentlemen, your 2005 Final Four:
#1 seed Illinois#4 seed Louisville
#1 seed North Carolina#5 seed Michigan State
And now my bold prediction…BOTH #1 seeds lose, and Rick Pitino’s Louisville falls to Tom […]

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

I Might As Well Be Liveblogging…

…maybe I will for the Final Four or Championship…but man, was that ever poor execution by Kentucky! Overtime #2 on the way!…

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Ohhhhhh, BABY!!

Man, the THIRD overtime of the four Regional Finals…was his foot on the line?…Probably so, but I agree it was inconclusive…

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Miscellanea: Place Your Bets Edition

Will Kerry ever sign the SF-180? PoliPundit wants your best guess…
Does Paul Wolfowitz have a Muslim girlfriend? Does it matter? Dr. Rusty Shackleford weighs in here…
JustOneMinute says the Schiavo controversy may have opened the door for a renewed stem cell debate. How so? Follow the link…
Little Green Footballs links to an article […]

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Three Out of Four…

…and ticket number three belongs to #1 seed North Carolina, winners against #6 seed Wisconsin in yet another great game. Michigan State fights it out with Kentucky right here in Austin for the final spot…

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Candidate Profile Fifteen: Jeb Bush

Dave Guipe links to a Democracy Corps poll showing Hillary Clinton beating Jeb Bush by 50-47 in a hypothetical matchup, then remarks on two things: (1) Hillary getting 50%, and (2) the fact that Jeb has likely run his last race. Has he? Let’s take a look…
John Ellis Bush - official biography
If there’s a Jeb […]

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Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Today’s Must-Read: Aides to Reid Behind Memo?

I’ve briefly covered the kerfuffle over that supposed ‘Josh Marshall‘ (a little inside humor) that the Republicans allegedly distributed regarding the Schiavo case. Power Line has a summary of an intriguing development: some Republican staffers, according to In the Agora, are suggesting an aide to Harry Reid may be behind the memo. […]

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Saturday, March 26th, 2005

That MoDo Mojo: All Contempt, All The Time

Let’s face it, I have a hard time letting a Maureen Dowd column pass by unremarked on, so I’m just gonna make it official and announce a regular feature called That MoDo Mojo. In this installment, our intrepid heroine has bravely stood up against those religious types again, in a rambling screed on Catholicism […]

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Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Another Scorcher

Wow…#1 seed Illinois knocked off #3 seed Arizona by a single point in overtime, and they’ve earned the second spot of the Final Four…it’s the only time in tournament history that two regional finals on the same day have gone into overtime…here’s hoping tomorrow’s games match the intensity of today’s…

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