Zero Base Thinking

The Gloves Come Off Unable to wait another minute, President Bush has begun the campaign for reelection. Last night, at a meeting of governo...

Mending Fences Clifford D. May has an article up that wonders about the good things that might happen if the fence that Israel is erecting ...

One Step Closer? The Hydrogen economy is, an article in the journal Science says (as reported in The Monitor ), one step closer to practical...

Another Issue Off the Table Democrats and Lefties must be very unhappy this morning. The former CEO of the notorious Enron Corporation, Jef...

Bold New Plan, or Brazen Pandering? John Dunshee over at his fine blog "Just Some Poor Schmuck" has a post detailing some of the ...

Sleeping With the GOP Recently the Village Voice ran a column detailing their investigation of how the campaign of Al Sharpton is being fin...

Time To Pay Attention With the political season already upon us, way too early, and the war to end all wars simmering away, it is easy to lo...

All Hail the Royal He We Americans are so lucky. Now that John Forbes Kerry is about to contend for the highest office in the land, we find ...

Shooting out of Both Sides of their Mouths So now Strategy Page has an overview of European outlays for military strength, and the outlook ...

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 ...