Monthly Archives: January 2005

Live from Washington D.C.

Here’s the link for the webcast of the Heritage Foundation sponsored panel discussion of blogging in the post-Rathergate era, in which I will be participating tomorrow at 11 a.m. (eastern standard time). »

Meanwhile, In the Real World

As the Senate Democrats grandstand, using confirmation hearings to score cheap political points, those who are actually responsible for our security continue to confront one threat after another. The latest is a group of Nicaraguans, apparently including members of the Nicaraguan military, who offered shoulder-fired missiles capable of bringing down aircraft on the open market. Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times reports: Nicaraguan police, with U.S. assistance in a sting »

Taking Islamofascists seriously

Belmont Club explains why we should listen to what those who want to kill us say about their reasons, just as we should have listened to what Hitler said in speech after speech. If we listen, for example, to Abu Musab Zarqawi we will learn that he wants to destroy the U.S. for what it is, not what it does. Zarqawi recently made it clear that it is our democratic »

Wisconsin Vote Investigation Update

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has more on the joint federal-local task force that has been established to look into possible voter fraud in Milwaukee: Citing a Journal Sentinel review that found more than 1,200 votes cast from invalid addresses in Milwaukee, local and federal law enforcement officials launched a joint investigation Wednesday into potential voter fraud in the Nov. 2 election. And a new Journal Sentinel review of the city’s »

Another Zarqawi Associate Caught

You wouldn’t know it from reading your morning newspaper, but there is growing evidence that the Zarqawi terrorist ring, the number one threat to security in Iraq, is steadily being rolled up. Haider Ajina sent us this translation of an article that appeared in today’s Arabic-language newspaper alsharq Alausat: Iraqi police forces in Alkoot [southern Iraq near Basrah announced they arrested yesterday a member of Al Zarqawi »

If Elected, I Will Not Serve

The sentiment is much appreciated, but I have to nip this in the bud. »

An American growth industry

Yale Daily News columnist James Kirchick provides a case study of what George Will calls “America’s campus-based indignation industry.” Kirchick writes: The diversity movement reached its height last academic year when Yale declined to renew the contract of Dr. Connie Allen, then a lecturer in Yale’s chemistry department, due to budgetary constraints. Most important to this story is that Allen happens to be a black woman. Criticizing Yale’s racist patriarchy, »

It happens every winter

The underdog University of Maryland basketball team is locked in a close struggle with the powerhouse that is Duke. I say to the basketball gods that if the Terps prevail, I will never appeal to the gods again. Fortunately, the gods have short memories, for tonight a struggling Maryland team, desperately in need of a quality win, beat the previously undefeated Duke Blue Devils on Duke’s home court. Congratulations to »

Bobby Bland turns 75

Bobby “Blue” Bland is a living legend, master of the smoldering blues song. He made his name with hot, hot ballads including “Little Boy Blue” and “Stormy Monday Blues,” but could also tear it up in uptempo numbers like his definitive version of “Turn On Your Lovelight.” Tomorrow Bland turns 75. The photo below is from the Michael Ochs archives, via the invaluable Allmusic site. Tomorrow morning Miss Sara Oxton »

Wisconsin Voter Fraud Probed

It is becoming increasingly clear that the Democratic Party perpetrated massive voter fraud in state after state in the 2004 election, just as it did in the 2000 election. The latest news comes from Wisconsin, where a task force has been formed to probe fraud apparently perpetrated by the Democrats in Milwaukee: Local and federal law enforcement authorities are finalizing a task force that is to look into potential fraud »

Critique of pure fatigue

In his most recent column, Austin Bay postulates that the idealism of President Bush’s second inaugural address is the nerve of Bush’s grand strategy: “Given modern technology and the role tyrannical states play in facilitating or exporting terror, a democratic offensive against tyranny is realpolitik.” At his blog, Bay resurrects a powerful “critique of fatigue” on the home front deriving from his service in Iraq this past summer. Bay’s homepage »

Wing-nut

These days the Democratic party seems to consist of two wings — the paranoid wing (think Michael Moore) and the schizophrenic wing (think John Kerry during the election). This piece by Madeleine Albright places her in the vanguard of the schizophrenic wing. There are a few early tip-offs — the phrases “missed opportunity” and “no plan” are normally sure signs that someone is going to try to have it both »

Are we the “new media establishment?”

I hope some of you heard me this morning on the Howard Monroe show on 1370 WVLY in Wheeling, West Virginia. Howard is a liberal, and believes that the MSM is essentially unbiased in its reporting. Naturally, we clashed on this issue. However, Howard could not have been more gracious and civil, and I had a great time. On Friday, January 28, I will be appearing at the Heritage Foundation »

“Centrists” Oppose Rice Nomination

Reader Richard Banyard pointed out this remarkable paragraph in the Washington Post’s story on the vote in the Senate on Condoleezza Rice’s nomination: Some of the Democrats who opposed Rice were centrists from states in which President Bush won or ran strongly in November, including Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), Mark Dayton (D-Minn.), Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa). “Centrists”?? Mark Dayton? Robert Byrd? Carl Levin? »

Democrats Line Up Against Gonzales

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved President Bush’s nomination of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General today. What was noteworthy is that it was a straight party-line vote, 10-8, with all of the Democrats opposing Gonzales. What this shows, I think, is that the Dems’ apparent “crazies” like Ted Kennedy and Barbara Boxer are, in fact, speaking for their party. I suspect that we’ll see more and more instances of the Senate »

More Immigration Follies

Michelle Malkin has the immigration beat covered like no one else in the media. Today she reports on an astonishing story: the Immigration and Naturalization Service has awarded a green card to an immigrant from Siberia named Eugueni Kniazev. Only one catch: Mr. Kniazev was murdered in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That’s right: the INS has no mechanism in place–still, more than three years after the »

Armstrong’s company?

Howard Kurtz reports in this morning’s Washington Post: “Writer backing Bush plan had gotten federal contract.” La Shawn Barber comments here and concludes with a plea to the MSM: “Hire this thus-far-scandal-free conservative writer.” HINDROCKET adds: This one may not be much of a scandal. Glenn Reynolds has more, including a response from Ms. Gallagher. BIG TRUNK adds: I have added a question mark to the heading in light of »