FROM BROOKES NEWS
The Democrats, social security and the equity premium puzzle The Bush administration’s proposal for social security accounts invested in the share market has been unjustly attacked by Democrats
Lefty journo slimes humanitarian Lib candidate The Herald-Sun’s Luke McIlveen’s slimy attack on NSW Liberal Senate candidate and bush poet Michael Darby not only showed McIlveen [...]

FROM BROOKES NEWS
The Democrats, social security and the equity premium puzzle The Bush administration’s proposal for social security accounts invested in the share market has been unjustly attacked by Democrats
Lefty journo slimes humanitarian Lib candidate The Herald-Sun’s Luke McIlveen’s slimy attack on NSW Liberal Senate candidate and bush poet Michael Darby not only showed McIlveen [...]

More C-BS Shenanigans and an Iraqi Blogger.
Bill at INDC Journal interviewed Richard Schlesinger from CBS regarding the recent story about the threat of re-instating the draft. He also talked with Sandra Genelius, a CBS Spokeswoman, and Linda Karas, the producer of the piece. He brought up some excellent points, not the least of which is [...]

As we get closer to the election, worries about voter fraud become more significant. There have already been problems in Wisconsin with a Democratic organization, and Michelle Malkin writes an excellent review of the problem here.

History
Want to turn red? Read the Washington Post letters section. (I can’t avoid it. I’ve been getting it free from my apartment building.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40140-2004Sep21.html
Germany’s Camp, Not Poland’s
Wednesday, September 22, 2004; Page A30
With deep sadness and disappointment I once again draw attention to The Post’s use of an unacceptable term, “Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau [...]

You can read about it here (hat tip Hugh Hewitt). Since CBS was using fraudulent documents to try to influence a Presidential election, I think hearings are justified and overdue. The problem is that the delay allows CBS to destroy evidence that they don’t want Congress to get their hands on.

“The Attacker”…
John Kerry seems to have one mode in his campaign and that is to attack everything and anything in sight.
I can understand his attacking Bush but he does it so ineptly. Instead of presenting a [...]

Most voters say not very much. You can read about that here.
Now, compare that to articles like this:
Showtime for Kerry

By THOMAS M. DeFRANKDAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
CHIEF Wednesday, September 29th, 2004 WASHINGTON – After eight months of increasingly scornful long-distance sniping, President Bush and John Kerry finally confront each other tomorrow in a debate [...]

The Death of the Exclamation Point.
Friends, I’m sad to let you know that within a week I’ll have to stop putting out The Chapin Nation! (not the MND one) as we reached our memory limit 6 weeks ago. I emailed blogger and they told me that we had used up our alotted space. [...]

Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man.
I was suprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It’s definitely a polemical work and not anywhere near dispassionate in tone. Some conservatives have looked down on it because of its stridency but I think they’re short-sighted to do so. I think an [...]

John A Baden suggests, at Tech Central Station, that economists and ecologists should be brought together. I’ve noted before that ecology and economics have many striking features in common. Generally, the phenomena we see in the marketplace has very close analogs in the biosphere, and vice-versa.
And for those who are violently opposed to [...]

AUSTRALIA MATTERS
An interesting email from one of my American readers:
“Perusing your postings, it occurred to me that your readers might not realize just how important your forthcoming elections are. Not just for your country, but for the course of the entire free world.
Mr. Howard has shown a sort of political courage depressingly rare in [...]

Here’s a pretty comprehensive FAQ, and even SAQ (Seldom…) for the Swift Boat Veterans’ story. I’d like some evidence that the folks who raise objections to their story show some evidence of having at least read this document.
Debunkers, you know who you are. At least address the points that are raised here. [...]

Thought for the Day…
I find myself wondering whether the past 35 years or so of American history will go down as a parallel experience to the Soviet experience in Russia, the Nazi episode in Germany and the “Cultural Revolution” in China in the 60’s, situations in which the insane [...]

AUSTRALIA MATTERS
An interesting email from one of my American readers:
“Perusing your postings, it occurred to me that your readers might not realize just how important your forthcoming elections are. Not just for your country, but for the course of the entire free world.
Mr. Howard has shown a sort of political courage depressingly rare in [...]

Not according to this NYT piece.
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Where Did All the Jobs Go? NowhereBy DANIEL W. DREZNER
Chicago — John Kerry is making the outsourcing of jobs by American companies a centerpiece of his campaign, telling audiences that “because of George Bush’s wrong choices, this country is continuing to ship good jobs overseas.” President Bush’s team [...]

Unfortunately, this does not surprise me at all. I really encourage people to try to understand where candidates stand on the issues, and that’s one of the reasons for a blog like this. A republic like the United States relies on informed voters, and I continue to urge our citizens to learn [...]

Amnesty International and other trash…
The Associated Press has just run a story which describes British hostage, Kenneth Bingley, begging Prime Minister Tony Blair to work to save his life.
This is disgusting.
I have heard alot of yammering about how peoples’ rights were violated at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib but I have not heard a peep out [...]

From The Wall Street Journal:
“WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy grew more rapidly this spring than an earlier report suggested, as businesses bulked up their stockpiles and the level of imports flowing into the country turned out to be lower than previously estimated.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that gross domestic product increased during the April-to-June [...]

These people just don’t learn their lesson. Or, maybe they just want John Kerry to win so badly they they’re willing to look really bad to do it. Now they’re using bogus e-mails in their attempts to trick voters into thinking a military draft is coming.
There’s more here.

Look at this silliness. No, I think John Kerry should go after “unpersuadable voters”. As my eight year old daughter would say “Duh!”

I consider this to be a serious blog, but I can’t help wondering what in the world happened to John Kerry’s skin in the past day or two. Not only are the Kerryites not capable of runnning an intellegent campaign, but they can’t even figure out a way to get their guy a normal looking [...]

Here’s the latest from Pew Research. This is yet another poll showing a solid lead of about 8 points for President Bush. For all of the new attacks on Bush’s Iraqi policies, Kerry has not gained any ground . Why? Because even those people who aren’t happy with the way things are going do not [...]

What’s geekier — going online to look for instructions on how to put together a Cat-5 twisted-pair cable, or actually finding them?
A few months back, Jerry Pournelle was sounding off at a LASFS meeting. Several people had asked him what a router is, and why someone might want one.
Rather than answer the same question [...]

ECONOMICS
EU wants to criminalize work: “EU states will find it harder to opt out of the Union’s 48 hour maximum working week under new proposals. The European Commission says it wants to tighten loopholes in its Working Time Directive in order to limit the time employees spend at work. The changes would mean workers [...]

ECONOMICS
EU wants to criminalize work: “EU states will find it harder to opt out of the Union’s 48 hour maximum working week under new proposals. The European Commission says it wants to tighten loopholes in its Working Time Directive in order to limit the time employees spend at work. The changes would mean workers [...]

“The right war, at the right time.”
Saddam’s continuing and flagrant violations of the 1991 cease-fire agreement was enough. Failure to bring him to account for thumbing his nose (moustache and all) at the US doubtless encouraged people like Osama bin Laden in a belief that the US would not respond if attacked.

[Hat tip: Tech Central Station]
“The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst case being developments that could lead to civil war, the officials said. The most favorable outcome described is an Iraq whose stability would remain tenuous in political, economic and security terms.”
The ‘one hand, other hand’ analysis [...]

Many people have postulated that Israel will eventually take out Iran’s nuclear program the way they did to Iraq’s in 1981. But, is it technically possible? This article from the Jerusalem Post raises serious questions:
National Security Adviser Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland was quoted Monday by the Maariv daily as saying Iran will reach the “point [...]

Lest We Forget….
The coming presidential election is the most important that this country has had since 1940, when we were on the verge of entering World War II.
There will be a lot of talk about “bringing our boys home”, “wrking with our traditional alliesthrough international channels” with wistful comments about Gandhi.
Non-violence only works when there [...]