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Monthly Archives: October 2005
High noon in Hanover
On page one of the New York Sun this morning, Jacob Gershman follows up on the story of this Sunday’s Dartmouth alumni association meeting in Hanover: “Dartmouth struggle set for showdown over the weekend.” My Standard columns on the subject are “Bucking the deans at Dartmouth” and “The empire strikes back.” Information on the petition slate of alumni council candidates is available here. Joe Malchow is the undergraduate proprietor of »
Curses, Foiled Again!
The Democrats thought they had scored a coup when Tom DeLay was required to submit to fingerprinting and a mug shot. No doubt they thought they’d be able to use the photo as a campaign prop. But the Congressman thwarted them; here is the mug shot: It’ll be hard to do much with that in a TV ad. Meanwhile, we understand that DeLay’s lawyers have filed motions to change the »
Clarity: It’s A Good Thing
Senator Tom Coburn’s effort to de-fund the Bridge to Nowhere, along with several other indefensible pork barrel projects, failed today by an 82-15 vote. Which is discouraging, of course, in that it shows how far both parties are from either fiscal sanity, or an appreciation of the proper role of the federal government. On the other hand, it was a clarifying moment. The Associated Press says: [I]n the tradition-bound Senate, »
Not As Dumb As It Sounded
Several pundits whom we respect, including Patterico and Michelle Malkin, were apoplectic today over one aspect of the questionnaire Harriet Miers filled out for the Senate Judiciary Committee. This was the offending paragraph; it was part of Miers’s recounting of her experience with Constitutional issues: While I was an at-large member of the Dallas City Council, I dealt with issues that involved constitutional questions. For instance, when addressing a lawsuit »
One reason why this conservative hasn’t turned on President Bush
Fred Barnes provides six reasons why “conservatives have turned on Bush.” Along the way, Barnes takes up the question of whether Bush actually is a conservative. He writes: Bush, of course, is a conservative, but a different kind of conservative. His tax cuts, support for social issues, hawkish position on national security and terrorism, and rejection of the Kyoto protocols make him so. He’s also killed the ABM and Comprehensive »
Plame indictments
If what I’m hearing is accurate, expect some soon. »
Time present and time past
Yesterday NRO ran a wonderful appreciation of the film version of “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Thomas Hibbs: “To Kill still kills.” His meditation on the film gives great pleasure; I wish only he had added some comments on the relationship between the novel and the film. As part of its series celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of National Review, NRO has also posted Professor Jeffrey Hart’s terrific 1999 review of »
The orphan
It’s difficult not to feel sorry for Harriet Miers — by all accounts a fine person. She gets no love from liberal Senate Democrats, and is bound to lose any good will they may have for her once she refuses, during the hearings, to commit herself to Roe v. Wade. She gets no love from conservative Senate Republicans because there’s little evidence that she’s a strong conservative. For a while »
Joe Wilson speaks
To borrow the expression from Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels, Joseph Wilson is a master of saying the thing which is not. Yesterday he strutted his stuff at San Francisco State University: “Joseph Wilson, husband of outed CIA agent, speaks at SF State.” Wilson, the man whose falsehoods were explored at length in a Senate Intelligence Committee Report (relevant parts of which were summarized by Stephen Hayes in this week’s »
Kofi Annan doesn’t speak
In the post below John refers to the culture of corruption among the Congressional proprietors of pork. Today’s New York Sun runs an eloquent editorial that captures the cultural corruption of the United Nations: “Annan is mum.” The editorial reads: Secretary General Annan is refusing to comment to the press on the decision of the world body to give a platform to one of the world’s most repressive dictators, Robert »
Staged attacks, take 2
Over at Human Events Todd Manzi follows up his column on the staged attack on Bill Bennett with one on the staged attacked on President Bush’s question-and-answer session with our guys in Iraq: “How the media is fighting for our enemy.” Manzi’s column supplements Michelle Malkin’s column yesterday on the same subject. »
Nice State You’ve Got Here, Too Bad if Anything Should Happen to It
Mrs. R. reports that Patty Murray is now speaking against the Coburn Amendment, and has just issued a threat against any Senators who vote for the amendment: we on the Appropriations Committee will take a “long, hard look” at any projects in your state. Can anyone say, “culture of corruption”? »
Coburn Amendment Offered
We’re told that Senator Tom Coburn is speaking on the Senate floor right about now, offering the amendment to kill the Bridge to Nowhere that we talked about last night. This seems like an ideal test case for the anti-pork initiative; we’ll try to update when there is more news. »
Top Iraqi Terrorist Nabbed
Saddam Hussein’s nephew, Yasir Sabhawi Ibrahim, has been arrested in Baghdad. He was reputed to be the chief financier of terrorism in Iraq. That’s great news. Even better news is that Syria kicked Ibrahim out of the country, then told Iraqi authorities where to find him. The rate of progress in Iraq seems to be accelerating. »
“A Hill to Die On”
That’s what Red State calls the Coburn Amendment. The Coburn Amendment may prove to be a historic rallying point for the forces of limited government and fiscal sanity. Then again, it may not. But it’s a good place to start. The amendment is very simple: it proposes to redirect the ridiculous $220 million earmarked for the Alaskan “bridge to nowhere” to Hurricane Katrina relief; specifically, reconstruction of the Twin Spans »
Where was the outrage?
John’s post below about the utter complacency of “the international commmunity” in connection with the savagery on display in Arafatistan reminds me of previous history that I am afraid has been lost down the memory hole. It is history that demonstrates an important continuity between time past and time present in that part of the world. Jerusalem has of course always been the Jews’ holy city. In the Arab war »
Where’s the Outrage?
Our readers know about the Palestinians’ desecration of synagogues in Gaza after the Israeli army pulled out; we reported on it here. But those who rely on American newspapers and news magazines for information probably heard nothing about it. Jonathan Gurwitz writes: Unlike allegations that the American military flushed copies of the Koran down the toilet, the desecration of synagogues in the Gaza Strip actually happened. Hamas and other Palestinian »
