by Scott Holleran | Mar 6, 2003 | POLITICS
While one might have concluded that the weekend arrest of Sept. 11 attack coordinator Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was a fundamental blow to America’s enemies, such a conclusion would be a grievous mistake. Attorney General John Ashcroft, citing the capture, boldly...
by Don Luskin | Mar 6, 2003 | POLITICS
Whether you look at it as a fundamental investor, a value investor or a technical investor, the market is getting ready to take a turn for the better. Let’s start with fundamentals. All the evidence shows that the economy is gradually improving —...
by Daniel Pipes | Mar 6, 2003 | POLITICS
Why are Palestinians so angry at Israel? There are two possible reasons. Political: They accept the existence of a Jewish state but are angry with this or that Israeli policy. Rejectionist: They abominate the very existence of Israel and want to destroy it. Which is...
by Don Luskin | Mar 5, 2003 | POLITICS
I have to strongly disagree with Mickey Kaus and Daniel Drezner — both have recently argued that it would be to President Bush’s realpolitikal advantage to delay the war against Iraq, and start it closer to the 2004 election. Kaus in Slate (2/28/2003) says...
by Robert W Tracinski | Mar 4, 2003 | POLITICS
When the Bush administration agreed to subcontract its Iraq policy to a Swedish civil servant–chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix–many feared that Blix would be an accommodating diplomatic type, eager to smooth relations with his Iraqi handlers and play...
by Don Luskin | Mar 4, 2003 | POLITICS
Warren Buffett is warning that derivative securities are a “mega-catastrophe” and “financial weapons of mass destruction” in the sneak preview of this year’s annual letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, published in the latest...
by Wayne Dunn | Mar 4, 2003 | POLITICS
While channel surfing the other day I saw a man telling his daughter to be proud of herself. The next channel had a preacher telling his congregation that pride is a “sin.” This little coincidence perfectly illustrates our culture’s schizophrenia...
by John Bragg | Mar 4, 2003 | POLITICS, War with Iran
The Internet is a powerful tool for international understanding. This writer, through a chain of various links, found the web log of an anonymous Iranian girl. She had quoted the parts of President Bush’s State of the Union speech on Iran. “Different...
by Alexander Marriott | Mar 3, 2003 | POLITICS
Gore Vidal, famous historian and author, has a new book out. Its title explains not only everything that is wrong with Gore Vidal, but also everything that is wrong with the field of history today. The title is, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta.I...
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