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August 2004

"Cognitive Dissonance"

Dale Franks: This is paranoia. There's simply no other word for it. I mean, sure, it's an amusing kind of...

Is Kerry's Silver Star Really Tin?

Thomas Lipscomb drops a bomb on the Kerry campaign: The Silver Star smells fishy, and Navy Secretary Lehman has "no idea" who wrote those words to which his name was signed. Meanwhile, no response returned from the SS Kerry...

Discrediting the Swiftboat Veterans: Did O'Neill Lie?

O'Neill lied, right? Or maybe not... I take a quick look at a typical anti-SwiftVet slam -- and find it wanting. Did O'Neill lie? It's not impossible, but this is hardly proof...

Zell Miller on JFK (The Original)

Quoth Zell Miller... Consider one of our greatest Democratic Presidents: John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Back in 1963 President Kennedy proposed a...

Eugenics: A Child of the Left

My freshman year at Washington University in St. Louis, "The Panda's Thumb" was part of the required reading list for...

On Urban Legends, Snopes is Slanted

Apparently Snopes.com is not interested in being credible. I've noticed they were extremely quick to "debunk" any popular "urban legends" which leaned left, but appear uninterested in doing the same for slams against conservatives...

Why Kerry Worries Me

The overwhelming impression one gets of Kerry is that of a man who manufactures his own history at will...

Fuming About SwiftVets, Kerry, Bush, and the Media

Venting after seeing probably the most dispicable media hit-job I can recall in recent memory...

Alan Keyes and Reparations

Alan Keyes supports reparations. What next, Hillary Clinton comes out supporting vouchers and privatized social security? A few thoughts on why I think Alan's stance is sorely misguided...

Guns Have Only One Use?

"Handguns are made for killing, They ain't good for nothing else..." - Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Saturday Night Special" That's probably the...

Kerry Campaign: We Rely Upon the Media

Kerry's campaign spokesgal admits they expect the media to do their dirty work for them. (Apparently, there's just one major fly in that ointment.) An interesting admission, as is her charge that SwiftVets are a Bush "front"...

Disturbed Leftist Academic Du Jour

Last time we highlighted a well-credentialed leftist who is sure we invaded Iraq to gain alien technology. Today's sad but...

School Choice: An NY Times Retraction?

The times corrects one of its articles about failing charter schools. Or does it? You be the judge.

He's Got a Point There, Judge

but I still think he's wrong... Glenn Reynolds makes an extremely good point about the apparent increase in anti-Islamic sentiments...

Sol Stern on Bush and School Choice

In City Journal: The Census Bureau has just released figures showing that the D.C. public school district spends a mind-boggling...

Bush's Seven Minutes with the Kids

Moore made much hash of the fact that Bush was told about the events of 9/11, and then spent seven...

Now Alston: Does the Lying Never Cease?

Another whopper of a lie from the Kerry campaign? Another fabrication? Who would have believed it! Why, it's almost enough to make one cynical about the current Democratic candidate's honesty!

Blog Review: EU Referendum

Just wanted to recommend an interesting blog: lately, I've been reading what gets posted at EU Referendum, an interesting pair,...

Kerry Will Be Better than Bush on Intelligence?

There are indeed, I am told, major differences between Kerry and Bush's stance on Iraq: A new one is, apparently, that Kerry would have been a more insightful consumer of intelligence. Yet what does Kerry's record say?

Carville: Shout, Shout, Let it All Out!

When it comes to the truth, his own allegations aside, it seems Mr. Carville "can't handle the truth." We've heard...

Jesus was a Liberal?

Jesse Jackson claims Jesus was a liberal. LaShawn barber points out this is biblical illiteracy -- from a supposed "Reverend" at that. But if you examine the passages closely, you'll see it not only supports LaShawn's contentions, it actually teaches the opposite of what Jesse says it does...

"See the Violence Inherant in the System!"

One student fails to be oppressed. This is a big problem, apparently, for her professor...

Poor Barry Sanders

Brian Carnell: Some NFL teams have a knack for taking second-rates back and turning them into stars and their teams...

Wealthy Liberals for Kerry

John Ray argues that wealthy people and cultural elites who are leftists do so because they think they "get a...

An Esteemed Leftist Academic

You are not going to believe this one! Are you one of those who are amazed how unhinged the left -- particular leftst academics -- have become? Wait until you see this example, which explains quite a lot...

Becoming a Conservative

Some comments about Bill O'Reilly remind me where I stood, politically, a decade or two ago, and what happened in the meantime to bring me where I am now.

SwiftVet Media Feeding Frenzy Starting?

Well, Fox has started to cover the story... the usual route for left-unfriendly facts. Without Fox, nobody would have to...

Lileks on the Importance of Kerry's Tales

Quoth Lileks: If Kerry’s story is a lie, it’s significant, but not because we have a gotcha moment – gee,...

My Two Cents on the SwiftVets Flap

For those that are still with me, I don't think you be shocked to learn any of the following, but...

Fox News on Kerry: A Bit of Leftist Bias?

I'm told Fox News is supposed to biased towards the right. Perhaps that's true with some of their editorialists, but...

Kerry Flip-Flops: Conservatives Just Don't Get It

Moderate conservatives, and other forms of ordinary people, are a naive bunch when it comes to politics. Consider the Iraq...

EU: Charity, Subsidies, and Dumping

EU Referendum has an interesting pair of articles on EU sugar subsidies and EU "charity". Now why, I can hear...

Admitting One's Motivations

Was perusing this rebuttal (badly-formatted but well written, scroll down to the debate between Gagnon and Countryman) of a particular...

Thomas Jefferson on Liberty's Foundation

Thomas Jefferson: God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure...

And What a Messy Week It's Been...

This box completely freaked out hardware-wise (while I was away on vacation, to make timing worse) and took quite a...

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