Questions for Dean

Diana West has come up with an excellent article which asks some questions which are bound to be uncomfortable for Howard Dean… If he ever makes it to the final round, these questions ought to send him packing easily enough.

A while ago, on usenet, I made the statement that one of the objects behind our action in Iraq was Palastinian peace.

Conformation of this came up this morning:

BY JAMES TARANTO
Tuesday, July 1, 2003 3:27 p.m. EDT

In case you’ve not heard from our usual news suspects, there’s a revolution going on in Liberia.  Our president, George W. Bush has been asking Charles Taylor, the President there to step down. Thus far, the request has been refused.

Salon is in debt… bigtime. Here’s the figures

— By way of Drudge…

You’ll recall I promised to keep you up to date on the outrage at Oxford.
Here’s an update on that.

Isn’t it amazing how a New York Times writer, Diana Jean Schemo has to go outside the Times to get

Jeff Rosen in The New Republic this morning, makes an excellent case against the Lawrence case in Texas; one of the better ones I’ve seen. Interestingly, he makes the same comments as regards judicial activism as I did a few

An interesting article this mornng from the Telegraph.  Among other things, the writer, Janet Daley, points up the prevailing attitude at the BBC:

What is most disturbing about encounters with BBC current affairs people is not that one has disagreements

An interesting take from Mona Charen today.

There’s a number of people who think (As usual) that it’s all the Bush administration’s fault. Charen, though takes a different view, and, unlike the usual idiots in the Bush Bashing camp, what

The 9th Circus court has come up with a ruling I’m not convnced is a fully GOOD thing.
I have to think about this one a bit.

I commented the other day that Andrew Sullivan has it part-right, but tends to get bogged down in homosexual politics, as regards little things like, well, logic, for example. An understandable situation, but none the less one that skews his

Stephen Moore… a far smarter gent than his grossly overweight and underbrained leftist namesake, has come up with an excellent way to both solve a chuck of our fiscal problems and our legal problems as well.. Soak the hell

In last Saturday’s BITHEAD’S BIT, I suggested:

*Such an interest is by no means a constitutional argument, but rather, a political argument… and a short-term political argument at that.  Even the key vote in this case, Justice Sandra Day

RICHARD SPERTZEL who was head of the biological-weapons section of Unscom from 1994-99, writes essentially; Of course Iraq had banned weapons, lots of them, and of course the UN wasn’t going to find them.

Despite the recent discovery of plans

From the opinion Journal today:

Karl Rove must be jumping for joy. Apart from the Sharptonkucinichmoseleybraun also-rans, Dean is the best opponent the Republicans could possibly hope for. Can anyone imagine such an intemperate lefty winning a single “red” state?

A reader in Florida just forwarded me a note, telling me about how Ann Coulter was being asked on “the View” if she had ever seen two women having sex.  Says our Annie: “Not since I saw Katie Couric interview