Democratic Lies About Florida 2000.
Common Sense brought this up the other day. He called me and was stupified at the amount of lying intrinsic to their political operations. I was not surprised.

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Third, what specific criteria do you recommend that we should use over the coming months and years to measure whether the Iraq invasion has been a success?
Let’s try these:

Elections
There’s a saying to the effect that one election is not proof of a successful democracy. Two elections are. I think at least two, preferably [...]

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Second, what reaction do you have to the not-very-upbeat news coming of Iraq these days, such as the stories I link to above?

Casualties
Eugene Volokh posted an article by Max Boot suggests a bit of perspective. On average, we’re losing one or two soldiers per day in Iraq. Compare that with 250 per day for [...]

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First, assuming that you were in favor of the invasion of Iraq at the time of the invasion, do you believe today that the invasion of Iraq was a good idea? Why/why not?

I was in favor of the invasion before we went in. The reasons are pretty much as stated in the resolution authorizing [...]

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Orin Kerr, a member of the Volokh Conspiracy issued a request for discussion (RFD?)on the topic of the invasion of Iraq:
So here’s a little experiment in blogospheric dialogue. I would like members of the hawkish side of the blogosphere to post responses on their blogs to three questions I have about the situation in Iraq. [...]

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Hurricanes Not a Result of Global Warming.

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FRANK FUREDI’S JOURNEY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
Frank is an Australian psychologist and ex-Marxist who has now long been a British resident
“Furedi found himself feeling ‘ever-more estranged’ from the conventional left. He recalls three incidents in particular that suggested the left was moving in a troublesome direction. ‘The first time I felt it was when there [...]

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FRANK FUREDI’S JOURNEY FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
Frank is an Australian psychologist and ex-Marxist who has now long been a British resident
“Furedi found himself feeling ‘ever-more estranged’ from the conventional left. He recalls three incidents in particular that suggested the left was moving in a troublesome direction. ‘The first time I felt it was when there [...]

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This Week With The Swings
“Behead THIS bitch!” http://www.fromthepen.com/swings/

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Who would have thought that one day the Russians and Israelis would get together to fight terrorism. After all, the Russians have been strongly anti-Israeli in the past, and have helped arm Israel’s enemies. If anyone can help teach Russsia how to combat terror it is Israel. I wonder though, if there is some [...]

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Byproduct of water disinfection process found to be highly toxic
15 Sep 2004

A recently discovered disinfection byproduct (DBP) found in U.S. drinking water treated with chloramines is the most toxic ever found, says a scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who tested samples on mammalian cells.
Water in the United States has to be treated [...]

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An article I read a couple of years ago made the point that police officers surveyed tend to think they shoot and drive considerably better than they actually do. It would appear journalists think more of their own skill levels than may be justified by objective measurements of their performance.
However, just to balance things [...]

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Ah, there it is! I’ve been looking all over for it!
Hat tip: Hobbs Online.

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Charles Johnson (who has an excellent first name, by the way) cites this article in which David Broder complains about the journalistic bar being lowered and all the riff-raff getting in. He asks how long it will be before Broder calls for blogs to be regulated.
I’m wondering how blogs might be regulated. A [...]

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I would not encourage anyone to do this. It probably wouldn’t really work, and besides, it could be used the other direction, also. But it’s still pretty funny!
Working people frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting. I went to the store the other day. I was only in there for [...]

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Terrorism, being militarily weak, relied upon legal restraints, inviolate borders and traditional respect for noncombatants and holy places to provide the shelter that concrete could not. Khalil lived in an unguarded compound in Damascus, in an ordinary residential neighborhood, free to plot the deaths of Jewish civilians. His armor was neither Kevlar nor steel but [...]

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There were well documented examples of election fraud in Wisconsin during the last Presidential election. Since things were very close there, this fraud may even have delivered the state to Al Gore.
Now you can read here about how the Democrats are gearing up to do it again (hat tip to Powerline).

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THE ILLOGICAL JOHN KERRY
“John Wayne Kerry has unveiled his new counter-terrorism initiative. Naturally, it’s a panacea liberals have been pushing for the past 40 years: gun control. Kerry claims George W. Bush is soft on al-Qaeda, et al., because the president didn’t twist congressional arms to get an extension of the so-called assault weapons [...]

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From Newsweek (hat tip to Instapundit):
The standard rap against Bush is that he was ducking combat by joining the Guard. Actually, the Texas Air Guard had a program called Palace Alert that allowed pilots to volunteer for flight time in Vietnam. Three of Bush’s fellow pilots—Udell, Woodfin and Fred Bradley—recalled to NEWSWEEK that Bush inquired [...]

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