Zero Base Thinking

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

Thursday, May 29, 2003

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Vacation Over OK, not so much a vacation as a mixed business/pleasure trip. In any case, I was out there, on a roadtrip, having a fine old t...
Saturday, May 17, 2003

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Ruminations on the Palistinians Recently I stumbled upon a copy of Edward Said's The Question of Palestine , and I reread parts of it. F...
Wednesday, May 14, 2003

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Google to Blogs: Get Lost Well, maybe not. At least not yet. But the signs are unmistakable that the current predominance that blogs have i...
Thursday, May 08, 2003

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Bears Under Attack "Activists sue U.S. Wildlife Service over the killing of bears" reads the headline in a news item. Apparently ...
Friday, May 02, 2003

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Who Stands Alone Eleven thousand soldiers lay beneath the dirt and stone, all buried on a distant land so far away from home. For just a s...
Wednesday, April 30, 2003

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Gay Marriage In today's Daily Dish entry Andrew Sullivan takes James Taranto to task for his views on Gay Marriage. Taranto makes the e...
Friday, April 25, 2003

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Intelligent Design Now the debate on Darwinian evolution is heating up again. The opposition chooses to use the euphemism "Intelligent...
Wednesday, April 23, 2003

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Miranda Warnings Any watcher of TV police dramas knows that the police try as hard as they can to elicit confessions from suspects, and they...
Saturday, April 19, 2003

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Umm Qasr, Success Story If this story is correct, the way the British are handling the civilianization of Umm Qasr should serve as the tem...
Monday, April 14, 2003

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Military Intelligence We hear so much these days about the power of our combined arms attack. We forget that our tanks are 1970s technology,...
Wednesday, April 02, 2003

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Rules of War There has been a bit of babble on the tube about the Iraqi forces "not playing by the rules" of warfare, the Geneva c...

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EA-6B Prowler I recently noticed, in video from the deck of one of our Aircraft Carriers, that the A-6 jet fighter that was being launched s...
Tuesday, April 01, 2003

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Saddam In this atmosphere of superlatives, I pause before making the statement I plan to make here. We are told that this has been the faste...

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War Polarizes As the war progresses, the opinions expressed by those citizens who respond to pollsters have become more polarized. Not only ...
Monday, March 31, 2003

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War Aims What are our war aims? In the beginning, it was billed as a continuation of the war on terror. Then it was the suppression of a pro...
Friday, March 28, 2003

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What About Baghdad? Reading about the enormously rapid and breathtakingly successful sweep of our forces from the desert of Kuwait into the ...
Thursday, March 27, 2003

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Now U.S. Knows How Israel Feels In an insightful article in the Jerusalem Post , Barry Rubin asks how it feels to Americans to be treated th...
Wednesday, March 26, 2003

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Echoes of Viet Nam There are a few aspects of the current conflict that are evocative of our Viet Nam experience. I thought that we had lear...
Friday, March 21, 2003

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Some Thoughts on the War This piece from Oriana Falaci is a magnificent, almost poetic screed by a former Italian resistance fighter, a jou...
Wednesday, March 19, 2003

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War Imminent As the water gets hotter and hotter, this frog is about to break into a rolling boil. France and Germany have failed to stop th...
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