Zero Base Thinking

Question authority. Find out the facts. Think for yourself.

Monday, November 25, 2002

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WhoseTen Commandments? Politics makes strange bedfellows. Tonight I'm ready to sleep with Pat Buchanan and a bunch of Southern Baptists...
Sunday, November 24, 2002

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Kabul Recovers. Slowly The people of Kabul, a place I know well, are some of the most self-sufficient in the world, living in a laissez fa...
Saturday, November 23, 2002

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Freedom vs. Order There is a great debate today between republican conservatives and the libertarians and young conservatives who gave them ...
Thursday, November 21, 2002

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How I Dealt With D.A.R.E. My son is now in the sixth grade, and had some problem with DARE, when the program was offerred in the fifth grade...
Tuesday, November 19, 2002

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Was J.F.K a Dope Fiend? Slowly, historians extract bits of information about major figures, and the past acquires more and more context and ...
Saturday, November 16, 2002

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What Next for Afghanistan? Regular readers of this space know that Afghanistan and its people inhabit a special place in my heart. The Afgha...
Friday, November 15, 2002

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Nancy Pelosi, Conservative Catholic That's what she said. In liberal San Francisco, says the new democrat leader of the House of Represe...
Thursday, November 14, 2002

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Bloggers Since I decided to profile, in this space, some of the lesser known blogs I have been astounded by the sheer quantity of great work...

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Can We Believe DebkaFile? I have been reading DebkaFile for years, and have found that their reports have mostly been correct, but a little...
Wednesday, November 13, 2002

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What Are The Democrats? I was pondering just this question when I came upon this piece by Joe Klein in Salon this morning that gives more t...
Tuesday, November 12, 2002

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Weepy Docs Prognosticate A group of British political doctors, who call themselves Medact , predict over four million casualties in any war ...
Friday, November 08, 2002

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Character Counts Neil Cavuto on Fox News made a statement at the end of his show tonight that is priceless. It's too good to excerpt, s...
Thursday, November 07, 2002

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Election News: The Good and the Bad Now that the election is over, we can sit back and ponder the good, the bad, and the ugly news in Americ...
Tuesday, November 05, 2002

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Pre-Election Day Musings As I sit here on the eve of the 2002 elections, I can't help but wonder what it all means. Whether the Donks ex...
Friday, November 01, 2002

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Republicans? Over 200 years ago, Scottish historian Alexander Tyler, studying the Athenian democracy, made these observations that have alw...

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Blog Reviews The blogosphere is a crowded place, with a lot of great stuff to read. While the Professor is a great place to start, there ar...
Friday, October 25, 2002

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Chechens In Custody Once again the application of Zero Base Thinking gives its practitioners advance warning of the news. Since these Cheche...

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Saddam Gets Religion Today Saddam Hussein, secular dictator of Iraq, issued a statement urging the Chechen fighters in Moscow to wage jihad...
Thursday, October 24, 2002

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Chechens in Moscow So now Chechen rebels have taken a theater and about 800 hostages in Moscow. Reports are pointing out the links between ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2002

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Afghanistan Improving In spite of all the gratuitous remarks one can read about how hopelessly bad things are in Afghanistan, Colin Powell ...
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