He’s dead after all

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TheStar.com – Bin Laden tape a fake, Swiss lab says

PARIS (AP) – The latest audiotape statement attributed to accused terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden is not authentic, a Swiss research institute said.
The Lausanne-based Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence said it is 95-per-cent certain the tape does not feature the voice of the [...]

Why I love Peggy Noonan

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OpinionJournal – Peggy Noonan

An enjoyment of religious freedom that is so much a part of the air we breathe, so expected, that we barely remember to be thankful for it. Yes I know they look down on American religious feeling in our great universities, but the Ivy League isn’t America. The suburbs of Dallas where [...]

S & M weapons inspector

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A story in the WaPo highlights a UN weapons inspector’s hobby:

The United Nations launched perhaps its most important weapons inspections ever yesterday with a team that includes a 53-year-old Virginia man with no specialized scientific degree and a leadership role in sadomasochistic sex clubs.
Sadly, they miss the point of this entirely. S & M [...]

Giving Thanks

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Laugh for the day

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Al Gore had a complete core meltdown today, lashing out at the media, left right, and center in the New York Observer.

Mr. Gore acknowledged his image problem among powerful Democrats, and that the onus will be upon him to recapture the loyalties of those who supported him in 2000. “Maybe I bear the blame for [...]

Tivo stereotyping

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Mr. Jeff Jarvis astutely points to a hilarious article on WSJ.com about Tivo’s weird suggestions algorithm:

Basil Iwanyk is not a neo-Nazi. Lukas Karlsson isn’t a shadowy stalker. David S. Cohen is not Korean.
But all of them live with a machine that seems intent on giving them such labels. It’s their TiVo, the digital videorecorder that [...]

Bush nepotism

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By way of following up on the Krugman smear about Republican nepotism, we offer the following from The Political Graveyard on the political geneology of the Bush family. As you see, all of this nepotism started in 1778, so nefarious are these people. Enjoy.

William P. Walker (1778-1858) Father-in-law of Julius Rockwell and David Davis. Born [...]

The letter

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Osama’s ‘Letter to America’ certainly co-opts a large spectrum of opinion, all the way from Kyoto, racism, and the oppression of women to Clintonian immorality. Nothing is safe any more, but the blogs are hard at work reducing it to rubble through parody.
See: Samizdata and South Knox Bubba and Dr. Frank.
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Dirty Republican plot exposed

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Enron’s boy at the New York Times, Paul Krugman, is upset at conservatives again (so, what else is new?) The issue: some of the children of prominent conservatives have jobs in government or media. For shame.

Just ask the Bush brothers. Talk to Elizabeth Cheney, who holds a specially created State Department job, or her [...]

Libertarians fight back

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Not to be outdone on the irresponsible Libertarian voting scandal, Radley Balko’s Cato colleague Randy Barnett blames it on Republicans:

What conservative Republicans often fail to realize is that libertarians are an important constituency that should not be ignored or taken for granted lest their votes be driven to the Libertarian party or even to the [...]