How deep and irrational is the Arab world’s hatred and suspicion of Israel? Consider this. The Jerusalem Post reports that Hafez Hafi, an Israeli Arab man from Lod, a mixed Arab-Jewish neigbhorhood, was killed in the Sinai bombings. The victim’s family is well-integrated into Israeli society, owning successful businesses and having many Jewish friends. Who […]
Archive | October, 2004
Bush shows slight improvement in recent polls.–
There are hints of a very slight move toward Bush in recent polls. As usual, RealClearPolitics.com is a good place to follow trends. At the moment they show recent polls averaging 49.0% for Bush, 45.2% for Kerry among likely voters. This is influenced by the latest Gallup poll, showing 52% for Bush, 44% for Kerry. […]
Newspaper endorsements.–
This local TV News site reviews a few newspaper endorsements. Kerry gets the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Minneapolis “Strib”. Bush gets the Chicago Tribune, Omaha World Herald, and Rocky Mountain News. For me, the big surprise in this group is the Chicago Tribune (disclosure: the Tribune is a former client of mine). Although […]
Limited Government and Bush vs. Kerry:
I haven’t posted for a while, because I have become increasingly disenchanted with the current administration and have not wanted to start writing angry or petulant posts about how President Bush has betrayed the principles of limited government, but at the same time the election has been at the forefront of my thoughts and is […]
Washington Post Looks Into Vanity Fair Story on Bush v. Gore:
Today’s Washington Post has a detailed story by Charles Lane looking into the controversy of the OT 2000 Supreme Court law clerks who disclosed details of Bush v. Gore to Vanity Fair. The article includes a few strong hints (and two disclosures) of the identities of some of the former clerks involved.
Harsh Treatment at Guantanamo.–
The NY Times is revisiting Guantanamo Bay and finding harsher treatment of prisoners than the military was claiming: Many detainees at Guantanamo Bay were regularly subjected to harsh and coercive treatment, several people who worked in the prison said in recent interviews, despite longstanding assertions by military officials that such treatment had not occurred except […]
New York Times Endorses John Kerry for President.–
The New York Times has endorsed John Kerry for president. After some perfunctory praise of Kerry, the Times launches into a scathing attack on Bush: There is no denying that this race is mainly about Mr. Bush’s disastrous tenure. Nearly four years ago, after the Supreme Court awarded him the presidency, Mr. Bush came into […]
Mark Steyn on the canadian health care system.–
Mark Steyn has a column on the Canadian health care system (written for Canadians). He makes a point that I had never thought about before: When health care is the government’s responsibility, it becomes its principal responsibility. Imagine if we [in Canada] had as many high-profile conferences on national security as we do on health. […]
CAMPAIGN SPAM:
Is anyone else getting spammed to death by the Bush-Cheney Campaign (or perhaps Kerry-Edwards as appropriate)? I swear every day I open my email I have at least one email from “Mark Racicot” or “Ed Gillespie.” Is this their way of trying to get me to contribute more money–by annoying me?
Jon Stewart:
Jon Stewart takes on Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala of CNN’s Crossfire here. (Compressed .wmv file; the video is about 13 minutes long.)
Law Student Forces Change in College Application Policy:
A very interesting story from today’s New York Times.
Metal Detector at Protest Ruled Unconstitutional:
Yesterday, the Eleventh Circuit held that a city police policy requiring everyone attending a November 2002 protest against the “School of the Americas” to pass through a metal detector violated the Fourth and First Amendments. The court’s opinion is particularly notable for its rebuke of the city’s effort to justify use of the metal detector […]
If It Involves Datamining, It Must Be Bad:
Two years ago, public concern over the proposed Total Information Awareness datamining program led Congress to defund the program. At the time, the thinking was that while the private sector and the international community was free to gather, scan, and assess large databases for all sorts of purposes, it was problematic to have the United […]
Reasons to Love The Corner:
Rick Brookhiser quoting Muddy Waters. (The anti-immigration stuff, on the other hand, I could certainly do without.)
The Long-Delayed Jane Fonda Blacklist:
This statement in a Slate review of Trey Parker’s and Matt Stone’s Team America: World Police struck me as odd: [W]hen Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, and Janeane Garofolo moronically align themselves with Kim Jong-il and start wielding automatic weapons against Team America, well . . . Leftist actors learned from Vietnam […]