Mona Charen: Democrats Fight Dirty

Mona Charen: Democrats fight dirty

Mona’s worth your time always, but particularly today.

As fair a microcosm for environmental arguments as you’d want, is up over at Dan Drezner’s, with my comments to that thread posted here.

The topic s policy to reverse global warming.
I’m skeptical, to say the least,

For a long time, now, I’ve used as a part of my header, and my tagline, a saying:

Remember; those who tolerate everything, stand for nothing. What do YOU stand for?

Apparently a corollary of this is ‘Bipastisan stands for

An interesting thought by way of E-mail. (I do get them, you know… in amongst all the hate mail, the spam, and so on, occasionally comes an interesting idea…)

Says my reader, calling himself GC:

“Let’s try a quote from

Then, there’s the story about the poor guy in Boston, one Mark F. Pasquale, whose Pizza shop… HalfTime Pizza, which is across from the Fleet Center, who kinda figured on making Pizza for the Donkey convention hand over fist. No

McQ over at QandO quotes an AP article on the 9/11 commission report:

“The highly anticipated report provided new details on contacts between Iraq and al-Qaida, noting that Osama bin Laden began exploring a possible alliance in the early 1990s.

Instapundit notes just now that he…

” got an email from a journalist asking me to assess Bill Keller’s Times so far. I’d say the answer is — not really any better than under Howell Raines.”

Big freakin shock, Glenn.

Instapundit suggests”

If I were Karl Rove, I’d encourage Republicans to counter this by prefacing all comments on the report with something like this: “In light of the ongoing criminal investigation involving charges that former Kerry foreign policy adviser Sandy

AP has an interesting report about it.
I’ll comment as I get a chance to digest it all.

Martin Peretz over at TNR:

The tale spun by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that Iraq did not ever try to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger is now in the process of unraveling. And, of course, the phalanx of anti-war journalists

Thanks to a suggestion from Q&O’s Jon Henke, (and some quick coding work from yours, truly…) Trackback is now online.

Thanks, Jon.

Boortz this morning notes a book I’ve been thinking about getting anyway:

The Connection : How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America by Stephen F. Hayes

Hayes does a fair job, I am told of detroying the

This Washtington Post Article (sorry, registration required) is remarkable in two ways:

One, that they even try to address this issue when their counterpart, the NYTimes is playing it so seriously partisan, as described over at the Belgravia Dispatch but

I’ve started noting a trend, and it’s starting to bother me a bit.
I’ve noted that around half my 80-100 HPD are regulars.
And, that’s great.

But I seem to have reached a plateau as to hits, and am curious

I don’t think I really gave much thought to the Tour e France… I’m just not into it. Yeah, it’d be nice if armstrong won, but that was about the biggest thought I had. That all changed with this story