Zero Base Thinking

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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