Zero Base Thinking

If You Just Can't Get Enough.... I continue to get requests for more stuff than I am able to post on this here web site. I guess I'v...

John Kerry, New Front Runner After my last prediction, on the Iowa caucuses, I am out of the prediction business. But it requires no special...

The Next Stage of History Ten Months ago, in what Orrin Judd called what "may have been the best thing written last year about the rol...

Spam Us. Because We Demand It! Spam. The one thing that seems to define our times is the ubiquity of messages and data that confront us, the...

The Task at Hand Guest Post by Scott Harris When US embassies, US servicemen abroad, US civilians abroad, and US warships were attacked in ...

A Small and Pitiful Man Thus did James Taranto describe Al Gore, in his ever entertaining and illuminative Best of the Web column of Friday...

O'Neill: Nothing New So, in a more-ridiculous-than-usual stampede to get into print, all media outlets have been publishing the story o...

Paying the Bills In this political year, we are seeing a plethora of hate-Bush books leading the best seller lists. Heading into Christmas, ...

Bush Lied In recent days, I have been noting more and more complaints that "Bush Lied." It seems to be the big argument against th...

Whither Osama Like a bad penny, stories of the whereabouts of our arch-enemy, Osama bin laden, keep circulating anew. Recently Monsoor Ijaz,...

Unilateral - Newspeak for Sovereign George Orwell had a way with words. His explorations of the use and abuse of power are necessary to the ...

Uncommon Knowledge It is no secret to my regular readers that I hold the common knowledge in disdain. The problem with common knowledge is t...

Some Democrats ARE Unpatriotic Yesterday the inevitible democrat nominee gave a speech at Warren Christopher's Pacific Council in an ...

Urgent Action on a Non-Problem Human history is replete with wasted energy and failed diplomatic initiatives, but surely the Kyoto Protocols...

Storm Clouds Over Europe A friend sent me this and asked that I pass it along. After checking it for factual accuracy, I present it here. I...

Peace or Piece I don't know whether to laugh or cry this morning. Some Israeli dissidents, without even a strong minority of Israeli sup...

Something to be Thankful For Love him or hate him, everyone must agree that our president has balls. Going to Baghdad in that big plane, rig...

Honest Opposition My mother always told me that if I wanted to criticize something I had to offer a positive alternative. I guess my mother ...

Ration(al) Energy As I contemplate the world that my children will inherit from us, it pains me to see the extent to which crucial decisions...

Retraction Almost a month ago I announced that I could not support Bush for reelection. I wrote that no democrat could be worse. I wrote th...