Monthly Archives: November 2002

Here’s the Fox News report

Here’s the Fox News report on Al Gore’s attack on the media that I mentioned late last night. It’s worse than I thought. Gore says there’s a conservative “fifth column” within the journalistic ranks, similar to the subversive journalists in the 1950s who injected pro-Communist reporting into the mainstream media. Anti-communism is always welcome, even if it comes decades late from Al Gore. But what foreign interests, I wonder, does »

Good posts from Nugent and

Good posts from Nugent and Greenberg, Trunk. Both have made their contributions to our bounty, Nugent with songs like “Cat Scratch Fever” (I hope my memory is serving me well on this one) and Greenberg with his early warnings from Arkansas about “Slick Willie.” Here is a more pedestrian, but still worthwhile, piece on what we have to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. It’s from »

Two more terrific Thanksgiving columns

Two more terrific Thanksgiving columns to gild Ms. Kathryn’s lovely lilly below: “America Rocks,”by Ted Nugent, for which we thank OpinionJournal, and “It’s time to stop, look around and count our blessings,” by Paul Greenberg, for which we thank the St. Paul Pioneer Press. »

Bret Stephens of the Jerusalem

Bret Stephens of the Jerusalem Post delivers this critique of postmodern feminism in the form of an update on the Miss World beauty pageant. After the violence in Nigeria, the pageant moved to London. Feminists there were appalled. They concurred with the Muslim clerics who saw the pageant as “commercial sex trading.” They even found logic in the slogan used by many Muslim rioters, “Down with Beauty.” Observing all of »

Happy Thanksgiving to all from

Happy Thanksgiving to all from the Power Line crew. On September 11 of this year, my six-year-old daughter watched a television program commemorating the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks. It seemed to be largely about the Religion of Peace, and she found it unsatisfactory. She said, “They should have used my Pledge of Allegiance book,” and disappeared into her room for a while. When she returned, she had painted »

Another terrorist outrage in Israel:

Another terrorist outrage in Israel: Three gunmen opened fire on a Likud Party office in Beit Shean; the office was crowded with Israelis who were voting in the Likud primary, and four were killed. A witness described the scene: “I opened the window and I simply saw the terrorist standing, smiling, laughing and shooting in all directions….People were fleeing and falling.” »

The beautiful Michelle Malkin, an

The beautiful Michelle Malkin, an incandescent conservative who has said nice things about Power Line, offers a prayer for Thanksgiving. Michelle shares our taste in music: “O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, we thank you this day for ‘Proud to Be an American’ and ‘These Colors Don’t Run,’ for ‘Let Freedom Ring’ and ‘Of Thee I Sing,’ for ‘Every Heart Beats True’ and »

David Horowitz’s online magazine FrontPage

David Horowitz’s online magazine FrontPage has picked up our latest column: “The Silence of the Liberals.” The Claremont Institute published and distributed the piece for us yesterday, and the folks at FrontPage must have thought highly enough of it to pick it up for their own publication. We are proud of the piece and hope you find it of interest. The piece is scheduled to appear in the St. Paul »

While the New York Times

While the New York Times reports the commencement of weapons inspections by the UN team in Iraq with a straight face, I think the New York Post gets a little closer to the mark in “UN Weapons Hunt Farce.” For comparative purposes, the Times story is “Unhindered by Iraq Officials, Arms Inspectors Visit 3 Sites.” »

The latest al-Qaeda attacks targeted

The latest al-Qaeda attacks targeted an Israeli-owned hotel and airliner in Kenya, the latter through the use of what must have been some kind of missile or rocket propelled grenade. The best accounts of the attacks at this time are in the Jerusalem Post: “Three Israelis among eight killed in twin Kenya terror attacks.” The Post happened to have reporter Kelly Hartog on the scene, and she filed her own »

I’ve just heard on Fox

I’ve just heard on Fox News that Al Gore has alleged the existence of a vast right-wing media conspiracy. The epicenter, apparently, is Republcan National Committee headquarters, where conservative talking points are developed. The Washington Times, Fox News, and influential talk show hosts then dutifully repeat the talking points. Next, I suppose, the bloggers chime in. But the best part is Gore’s claim that all of this is the product »

I confess that I have

I confess that I have not yet read Al Gore’s new book, Joined at the Heart. Of course, I’m not alone. Al and Tipper’s study of American family life currently ranks #1,018 on Amazon’s bestseller list. And I have to suspect that most of those sales are institutional–gray-haired librarians in birkenstocks ordering copies for high school kids, and so on. It’s hard to imagine a lot of actual people buying »

Victor Davis Hanson on the

Victor Davis Hanson on the latest conceit of the European eilites — America as “hyperpower” and President Bush as Caesar. Hanson notes that ours is “a funny sort of empire.” We haven’t annexed anyone’s soil since the Spanish-American War. When we have overthrown the likes of Noriega, Milosevic, and Mullah Omar, we have replaced them not with legates or local client kings, but with elected leaders. And, “instead of the »

Ann Coulter contemplates the Religion

Ann Coulter contemplates the Religion of Peace: “Beauty Pageants Can Be Murder.” »

Michael Kelly’s weekly column today

Michael Kelly’s weekly column today also merits your attention: “Giving thanks for the truth.” Kelly recounts a telling anecdote deriving from his lunch with a vacuous Clinton administration foreign policy official who sounds like Sandy Berger but obviously could have been many others. (Courtesy of our friends at RealClearPolitics.) »

Mark Steyn’s latest is a

Mark Steyn’s latest is a romp through James Bond movies that never were but should have been: “The Spies that Bond us.” »

Speaking of Saddam Hussein, Debka

Speaking of Saddam Hussein, Debka File reports that Saddam is negotiating with Osama bin Laden to join Osama in the Empty Quarter of the Arabian peninsula in the event of war. Skeptics question whether Saddam is still capable of living in a tent and riding a camel. I have gone back and forth on the reliability of Debka File during the last year, but right now, they’re looking very good. »