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Sunday, August 28, 2005

This Site Has Moved...

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...to the all-new Decision '08 version 2.0 . Please join me there, won't you ?...

More Crawford Pics

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Hey, welcome back to my old home - looks kind of lonesome, doesn't it? Here are the pics, as promised:
Friday, August 12, 2005

The Complete FDNY 9/11 Records

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Earlier today I linked to a small sampling of 9/11 audio clips released by the Fire Department of New York City; here, courtesy of the New Y...
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Able Danger: There Are Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns...

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...as Donald Rumsfeld might say. Our man AJStrata (see his latest here ) gets some great pub from Jim Geraghty's TKS blog at National R...
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Just Click and Scroll

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Few things in all bloggerdom are more fun than reading Mickey Kaus when he's on a roll - and he's on a big one now...reading his tho...

The WaPo Hits Another One Out Of the Park

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I've commented before, and recently, on the pleasant surprises that can await a visitor to the Washington Post 's editorial pages th...

When Commenters Attack...

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...is not the latest crappy reality show from Fox, but rather a reality horrow show taking place at Erick-Woods Erickson's Confessions o...

9/11: Listen As It Happened...

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By now, you've probably heard that the NYC Fire Department has just released a ton of new 9/11 recordings and documents. You can listen...

I'm In the Wrong Line of Work

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A research scientist has just left $105 million to the NYU School of Medicine . $105 million dollars - a research scientist. Have I mentio...

More Progress From England

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Blair's government is keeping up the heat on radical Islamists by intituting a ban on the return of the hateful cleric Sheik Omar Bakri...

Better Late Than Never

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After 15 days of complete silence, the New York Times has finally noticed the Air America scandal. Leon H, who suffered no such lapse, has...
Thursday, August 11, 2005

So Close I Can Taste It...

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Barring some totally unforeseen eventuality, this site will officially close this weekend, to be replaced by the new one, maybe tomorrow, ma...

Able Danger, Everywhere!

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It's starting to feel like a blogswarm...thanks to utron, AJStrata (read his latest Able Danger news here) and Greg Bullock (whose late...

Will Vs. Carter: The Battle of the Briefing Book

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Our good friend and disastrous one-term president Jimmy Carter is telling a fib, and George Will ain't gonna stand still for it . Read ...

How Dishonest is the Huffington Post?

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This Walter Pincus Washington Post story is linked from the front page. This is the conclusion: Two other sources appear to support the v...

Jagger Doesn't Even Have the Courage of His Convictions

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I think Mick Jagger is one of the great rock and roll stars of all time, but I'm gonna call 'em as I see 'em, and his current at...

Air America: How The Weak Have Fallen

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Leon H has the latest on the developing Air America scandal , and notes that it's finally penetrating some traditional media outlets two...

Woodward: It's Cheney in 2008

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Bob Woodward is predicting that Dick Cheney will be the 2008 Republican presidential nominee : If Bob Woodward is right, it will be The Old ...

Able Danger: Congressional Hearings Seem To Be In Order

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AJStrata joins the MinuteMan and others in broaching the subject of Congressional Hearings into the Mohammed Atta / Able Danger breaking s...

9/11 Commission: Oh, Yeah, NOW We Remember

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On the heals of a New York Times story revealing that the 9/11 commission knew of, but ignored, the Able Danger/Atta angle, the always-exc...

This Is News?

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The quest to unearth something that might derail the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts is becoming increasingly desperate. Today, the...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Quick Shots: One Nation, Under God - For Now...

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Scott Elliott looks at the latest Pledge of Allegiance court case and wonders if removing God from public life doesn't just enshrine th...

Rudy G., McCain Top Hillary, Trounce Kerry

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Longtime reader Fred sends a link to this story worth quoting in its entirety: NEW YORK Apparently it's never to early to speculate ...

A Conservative Deadhead? You Bet I Am...And I'm Not Alone

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Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of a loss that hit me hard on a personal level; it was the day Jerry Garcia finally paid the price for hi...
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Everything That's Wrong with Pro-Choicers in One Cartoon

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Yeah, I know, that headline makes no sense whatsoever; see here for the details (hat tip to BSR, who, I have on good authority, is NOT the ...

Even More on Able Danger

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It IS how we got Atta's name that's the problem ( see below ), says Mickey Kaus , who writes about something that's been botheri...

Able Danger: Is the Problem How We Got Atta's Name?

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I must confess that the Able Danger/Mohammed Atta story has, like the Plamegate scandal, so many threads to follow that I find it difficult ...

A Textbook Example of Bad Timing

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What is with these jurors that are intimidated into not voting their conscience? What power do they think the other jurors have over them? ...

MoDo's Back...

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...and as strident as ever . W. can't get no satisfaction on Iraq. There's an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outsid...

NY Times: Sevan's Corruption 'Small-Bore'

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My, oh, my, apparently $147,000 isn't what it used to be. The latest big media outlet to downplay the six figure embezzlement of the hea...

9/11 Commission to Review Atta/Able Danger Claim

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The assertion by Representative Curt Weldon that the Able Danger team identified Mohammed Atta as an al Qaeda operative in 2000 will be inv...

A Very Good Question...

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...to start your day. Christopher Hitchens wonders how the Left can view the Iraq War through the lense of neutrality or hostility: How can...

Sorry For the Light Posting...

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...and a heads up that it may be that way for a day or two (light posting, that is...I will be posting some ), but I have a very good excuse...
Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Et Tu, Mick?

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Reason #493 not to pay any attention to the political views of most celebrities: this, from the Rolling Stones ' upcoming album A Bigger...

Even Al Freakin' Franken Is Talking...

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...about the Air America scandal , that is, but still no word from the 'paper of record'. Hmmm...

We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident: That All Liberals Are Created Equal

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AcademicElephant brings us the latest PC diversity outreach effort , this time at Columbia University, an institution that we've recentl...

Hugo Chavez: Promises Destruction of U.S., Marvels At New Ocean-Front Arizona Property

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised a group of students that the U.S. will 'bite the dust' if we implement the long-rumored V...

Show Me The Money, Again and Again

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It's often useful, when presented with an argument that sounds facile or counterintuitive, to look at the messenger with a close focus o...

Oh, To Be Clueless, In This Carnival of Life

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Yes, that's right, it's the ninth edition of the Carnival of the Clueless , so climb aboard and get ready for some good reading...

Have a Nice Trip, and Don't Come Back

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I absolutely love this story. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has a message for Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed : "Enjoy your holiday.....

The Headline Says It All

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Shuttles Touches Down To Sighs of Relief ...indeed...

Jeb 2008? I'm Just Not Seeing It

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Brendan Miniter, writing in the Wall Street Journal , gamely tries to keep Jeb Bush's 2008 prospects alive by offering an endorsement of...
Monday, August 08, 2005

Another Story of What Might Have Been

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AJStrata has the scoop on yet another story that illustrates how close we had been to preventing 9/11 if red tape could have been replaced ...

Columbia: The Epicenter Of Academic Apologists

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How does fanaticism develop? What are the circumstances that allow the mentality of the suicide bomber to take root? One could (and many hav...

Air America: The Invisible Scandal?

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I've had very little to say on the Air America scandal to date, because other bloggers have had the situation well-covered. The continu...

Oil For Food: Sevan's Take Down to "Just" $147,184

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The third Interim Report of the Volcker commission is out, and again we see a disconnect between the way it is reported, and the serious of ...

Q: How Liberal Is Eleanor Clift?

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A: So liberal that she has a column about how the Democratic Party and the Kossacks are in bed together ...and she thinks that's a good ...
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Michael Barone Breaks the Taboo

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The excellent Michael Barone crosses a line few would have dared to approach in the quite recent past, and strikes a solid blow against mor...

The Stupidest Piece of the Day...

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...and it's in no danger of being beaten, is this piece of tripe that's as bad as its headline: [The United States] is [a] nation t...

Warning: RINOs Have Been Sighted

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That's right, it's the latest edition of RINO Sightings , so don't delay...plenty of excellent stuff this week, folks...have a g...
Sunday, August 07, 2005

Damn...

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Well, we had heard the rumors, but it's now confirmed . Peter Jennings is dead at 67. Very, very sad...deepest sympathy and best wishes ...

Almost Treason? What Line Remains to Be Crossed?

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George Galloway had better watch his butt...the words 'treason' and 'hanging' are beginning to be attached to his name on a ...

Oil-For-Food: Sevan Resigns, Blasts Annan

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In anticipation of tomorrow's Third Interim Report by the Volcker Comission, former Oil-For-Food chief Benon Sevan has resigned . It ha...

From Afghanistan To The Internet: Jihadist Training in the 21st Century

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Fascinating piece in the Washington Post on the increasingly large role the Internet plays in providing training and communications to an a...

Transparency At The U.N.? Oh, Yeah, Like That'll Happen...

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Claudia Rosett dicussess the latest Oil-For-Food machinations, specificially the manner in which Benon Sevan is hoist upon his own petard o...

Today's Must Read: Another Felllow Traveller Breaks Ranks

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It's a 'goodby to all that' moment for Nick Cohen in the London Observer (hat tip to Gregory Bullock ). Cohen surveys his sins ...

Changes Afoot At Last

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Last night, I subscribed to a hosted environment, and I already have the domain name decision08.net registered (right now it just points you...

A Prayer For Peter Jennings

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This story makes me unusually sad ...I hope Mr. Jennings has many years left, and it turns out not to be the case...yet, we know lung cancer...

A Couple of 2008 Items This Sunday Morning

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Mike Huckabee gets the 20 questions treatment from the New York Times and acquits himself admirably... Michael Shear, Richmond corresponde...
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