Monthly Archives: August 2002

August 20, 2002 — John Hinderaker

Ouch. Thanks for reminding me,

Ouch. Thanks for reminding me, Trunk. I guess one out of three isn’t so bad. »
August 20, 2002 — Paul Mirengoff

Thanks for the introduction, Rocket

Thanks for the introduction, Rocket Man. It was much kinder than the one you gave me at the Dartmouth “Fall Novice” debate tournament in 1970. Speaking of 1970, I recommend Michael Lind’s book Vietnam, The Necessary War. Lind left the conservative movement years ago, but his book is necessary reading for those who wish to understand fully the dishonesty of the anti-Vietnam War movement. In 1967, presidential hopeful George Romney »
August 20, 2002 — Scott Johnson

I trust that Rocket Man

I trust that Rocket Man enticed Deacon to the Power Line with the same promises of women, money, and fame that he made to me when he invited me to join the team. Welcome aboard, Deacon, you won’t be disappointed! »
August 20, 2002 — John Hinderaker

We are delighted to welcome

We are delighted to welcome a new member to the Power Line team–Paul Mirengoff, my best friend from college. Paul, like the Trunk and me, is a practicing lawyer, located in Washington, D.C. He’ll be posting under his long-time nickname, “Deacon.” The origin of this nickname is lost to history, but it may stem from his physical resemblance to the great football player, Deacon Jones. Welcome and blog away, Deacon. »
August 20, 2002 — Scott Johnson

As both an outstanding actor

As both an outstanding actor himself and a respectful fan, Richard Dreyfuss has a powerful, moving tribute to Charlton Heston on National Review Online. Dreyfuss notes: “Self-consciousness is the anticipation of being silly and often is the spoiler for many actors. Charlton Heston had no such problem. He would dive into the story with what I can only call measured abandon and make me believe. And it was fun watching »
August 20, 2002 — John Hinderaker

This report on an Al

This report on an Al Qaeda poison gas lab in northern Iraq is quite troubling. The lab is viewed as evidence that money is flowing back to Al Qaeda and the organization is reconstituting itself and planning new attacks; it appears that one person was killed in a poison gas experiment, along with a number of animals. However, if ABC News is to be believed, President Bush concluded that the »
August 20, 2002 — John Hinderaker

Moshe Arens, writing in Haaretz,

Moshe Arens, writing in Haaretz, describes how President Bush’s moral clarity has revolutionized worldwide attitudes toward Islamic extremism. »
August 20, 2002 — Scott Johnson

The Journal editorial page today

The Journal editorial page today has a provocative piece by Kenneth Timmerman on the assassination of Abu Nidal in Iraq. »
August 20, 2002 — Scott Johnson

It took my sleeping on

It took my sleeping on it overnight to figure it out, but easily the most important piece in the newspapers yesterday was the column by retiring Wall Street Journal editor Robert Bartley on the FBI’s anthrax investigation. The column powerfully suggests that the FBI’s anthrax investigation has become a farce pursuant to a script written by a left-wing kook, Barbara Hatch Rosenberg. Bartley also notes that the farcical elements of »
August 19, 2002 — John Hinderaker

David Horowitz has an interesting

David Horowitz has an interesting account of his meeting with President Bush and his political staff in Crawford, Texas. »
August 18, 2002 — John Hinderaker

This article in the Washington

This article in the Washington Post has caused some controversy. It describes how Palestinian terrorists have used homicide bombings as a “smart” tactic to “level the playing field” previously slanted in favor of Israeli military dominance. It is fair to say that the article is tolerant, even admiring, of the Palestinians’ mass murder strategy. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs considers it “cold blooded” and appalling; Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit »
August 18, 2002 — John Hinderaker

The Times Literary Supplement has

The Times Literary Supplement has in interesting review of a book titled “The Culture Cult” by Roger Sandall. The book appears to be a very effective attack on multiculturalism, which, the reviewer concludes, has “replaced patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel.” »
August 18, 2002 — John Hinderaker

I agree about the Newsweek

I agree about the Newsweek article. Like most conventional-media coverage of blogging, it isn’t particularly inaccurate, but is condescending in tone. It focuses more on the use of blogs by teenagers than on the increasingly significant counterweight that people like Glenn Reynolds, Andrew Sullivan and Mickey Kaus are providing to mainstream news sources. The Newsweek article mentions the war bloggers, which I guess is the category we fall into even »
August 18, 2002 — John Hinderaker

I was just kidding too,

I was just kidding too, Trunk–didn’t mean to be critical. I just wanted to make sure you got credit for having such an accomplished daughter. She’s better looking than you, too. »
August 18, 2002 — Scott Johnson

Rocket Man’s tribute to Charlton

Rocket Man’s tribute to Charlton Heston puts me in mind of Mrs. Trunk’s and my own encounter with him in 1994. That year Heston devoted himself to campaigning and raising money for Republican candidates across the country. He was incredibly efffective. He eloquently spoke for many of us who were outraged by the destructive leftist animus of the Clinton adminstration’s first two years. (The remaining six years we were outraged »
August 18, 2002 — Scott Johnson

In addition to the Charles

In addition to the Charles Krauthammer column that Rocket Man links to below, among notable items today is Newsweek’s piece on the blogging phenomenon. I continue to find it intetersting, if unsurprising, that the mainstream media fail to note or perceive the relationship of the blogging phenomenon to dissatisfaction with organs of the mainstream media such as Newsweek. Also worth reading today is George Will’s interesting column on politics in »
August 18, 2002 — Scott Johnson

As Rocket Man notes, in

As Rocket Man notes, in the interest of full disclosure, I should indeed have referred to the new conservative voice I admired at Conservative Underground as Little Trunk. I apologize to our any of our readers who may have been misled. The post was actually a lame attempt at humor on a bad day. I have always admired the way William Buckley handled a similiar disclosure in his syndicated column »