Zero Base Thinking

What's Wrong With Liberals? Yesterday I chanced across a brilliant piece in Tech Central Station dealing with the nuts and bolts of exa...

Chosen Recently passed was the Passover holiday, and at each Hebrew table Jews all over the world repeated the lament: "In every genera...

Kerry Indicted Maybe "indicted" is overstating the case, as I am using its plain English meaning and not its definition as a legal...

Europe for Kerry While it would be a fine thing if I could sit around all day, reading and pontificating, eating and sleeping, reality strik...

Mass Murderer Executed In an action that humanitarians the world over celebrated, mass murderer and Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin was killed in...

A War's Woeful Results It is going to be one long campaign. The combination of factors that have led a substantial fraction of our voter...

Trying To Be All Things To All People JFKerry is famous for trying to position himself on at least two sides of any issue, as he tries to cr...

Martha's Hubris Revealed I don't like Martha Stewart. I don't know why, exactly. She's just the type of person who rubs me t...

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...