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BISHOPS UPDATE [KJL] They did wind up releasing the Catholic pol report before the close of the meeting today. Posted at 07:50 PM "SOMEBODY PLAYING POSSUM JUMPED UP AND SHOT HIM" [KJL] Belmot CLub puts the Marine incident in perspective. Posted at 07:48 PM ISN’T IT CURIOUS? [Cliff May] The MSM is going on and on about President Bush filling his Cabinet with people who “agree with him” – that is to say people who share his vision and are eager to implement his agenda. Instead, they say, he should be hiring people who disagree with him, people with different visions and other agendas. This is particularly curious coming from the MSM (“mainstream media” for those who don’t speak blogian). Why? Because the publishers and seniors editors of the complaining publications -- do they hire people who disagree with them? Do they hire conservatives and evangelicals and other such characters as editors and reporters? No, of course they don’t. And they never would. Not for all the chardonnay in France. Posted at 06:47 PM GOOD QUESTION [KJL] "When Jon Kyl, Jeff Sessions or John Cornyn would make a great chairman, why in the world would Republicans take the great risk of trusting Specter?" Posted at 06:42 PM CORNYN ON SPECTER [KJL] Reuters: "We need some sort of public confirmation of Senator Specter's positions," said Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and a member of the Judiciary Committee. Posted at 06:40 PM "DON'T KNOW MUCH...BUT I KNOW I HATE YOU," RONDSTADT SINGS... [KJL] Singer Ronstadt says of Bush's reelection: "It’s like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we’ve got a new bunch of Hitlers.” Posted at 06:14 PM PBS NOT PC ENOUGH! [Mark Krikorian ] "There are no Asian/Pacific Islander Americans among the 64 key American innovators in the book, 'They Made America,' by Harold Evans, the basis of the PBS documentary of the same name." Posted at 05:56 PM THE INVISIBLE HAND [Mark Krikorian ] The Wall Street Journal has a story today on a new report that finds that the tight labor market for nurses has eased because of a higher pay drawing more people into the occupation. Now how do you think that would have worked out if the president's proposed guestworker program had been up and running? He has called for opening every occupation in every part of the country to an unlimited number of foreign workers willing to work at any wage. Would nurses' pay have gone up or down? Would hospitals be giving nurses more flexibility in setting their schedules or less? Hospitals know the answer, which is why they are perennially at the forefront of efforts to increase the number of nurses imported from the Third World. As Adam Smith said, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." Posted at 05:53 PM LIVERWURST [Mark Krikorian ] So I write a posting about how immigration policymaking is dishonest, opaque, and self-interested -- and what's the reaction? A spirited defense of liverwurst! OK, I take it back; immigration policymaking is like head cheese. Posted at 05:51 PM MILITARY QUESTION [Kathryn Jean Lopez] This is to a select group--those who have served abroad in this war and who have found the blogosphere (NRO in particular, because I am self-interested) useful, or not. Just curious for feedback. Am speaking to a group of Marines tomorrow morning re: alternative media and am wondering any pointers you have for the military making use of NRO & the world wide web more, and why you think it is valuable to do so. And how frustrating (or not) MSM coverage is. Anything specific you'd want the media-focused in your branch of the service thinking about? Families of soldier abroad may have ideas of their own too. Thanks in advance. Posted at 05:36 PM STUD W! [KJL] 
Posted at 04:36 PM TOM WOLFE'S NOVEL [Rod Dreher] Today is a big day around my house: my wife will finally finish "I Am Charlotte Simmons," the new Tom Wolfe novel, which means I'll get my hands on it. Julie loves the book, and says she's amazed that Wolfe, in his seventies, got the reality of college life down so accurately. She's seven years out of college, and says the book rings true to her. Moreover, she says that she understands why The New York Times and other MSM outlets have negged the book. She told me last night, "Tom Wolfe rejects the sexual revolution, and his protagonist is a good girl with traditional morals. When she compromises on her standards, she takes it hard. I bet this worldview is inconceivable for the kind of people who write reviews for The New York Times, but it makes perfect sense to readers like me." Posted at 04:23 PM ANOTHER CHICAGO [Stanley Kurtz] Now here’s that letter from the parent of a University of Chicago student: "It is, indeed, a tragedy to see Chicago lose its distinctiveness, which made it unique among American research universities -- and my son is seeing the loss in slow-motion over his undergraduate years. There are still some older faculty around to teach the Core; for example, my son is enjoying the outstanding teaching of Karl Weintraub's wife Katy in the History of Western Civilization sequence. But the administration is slowly gutting (ever more so) the Core, and the newer faculty generally do not support the Core. Even worse, the administration admittedly seeks to make Chicago just like another Ivy League university, which requires obeisance to the liberal shibboleths that rule the Ivies. So, the O-Week activities include mandatory sessions on "diversity" (with all the usual victim classes) and sexuality -- which made my son's service as an Orientation Aide this fall a bit tricky as he tried to steer away from having to lead any of those sessions. My son still loves the U of C, and for the most part I agree that his education is better than he would get most other places. Still, conservative students should view Chicago in the same category as the Ivies or Stanford -- which means, plan on spending four years behind enemy lines!" Posted at 04:21 PM MORE CHICAGO [Stanley Kurtz] I’ll post sections of another letter from the parent of a University of Chicago student. Some of the letters I’m getting emphasize that there are fairly large numbers of conservative students at Chicago, and thus great discussion and generally fair treatment–at least from fellow students. No doubt that’s true. But it seems to me that Chicago is running on (and running down) the “cultural capital” of its long reputation for balance. The key to the long term character of the university is the administration and faculty. Once these tilt decisively to the left, the conditions for educational quality and fairness are undermined. For a time, the U. of Chicago will get by as a place that attracts a large number of conservative students, just because it always had a reputation for fairness on that score. But soon things will slip, as they already clearly have. Exactly when the tipping point is reached no doubt depends on what subjects you study. If you are interested in becoming a scholar of the Middle East, you’re out of luck. Ditto for many other subjects in the social sciences and humanities. And the real problem is that in many subject areas, there is nowhere else to go. Chicago was always disproportionately important to conservatives because they were so unwelcome elsewhere. So to lose Chicago is to lose much more than one school. Posted at 04:16 PM CHICAGO [Stanley Kurtz] Here’s a sad but revealing e-mail from a parent about what’s happened to the University of Chicago, once the only reliable refuge for conservatives among the great universities: “Your take on university of Chicago is spot on. My eldest daughter had them at the top of her list, of course, and was attending interviews, visits to campus, etc. She loved it and was very excited until she began to attend many of the orientation sessions. Victimhood, political correctness, and the gender politics were overwhelming. She was disappointed, of course, and confided that she was not interested in attending a place where those concerns were a part of daily life. She had assumed there would be disapproval from friends and family that had attended Chicago in the past, but was relieved that we were supportive of her choice. She still plans to attend their graduate school in couple of years, but, in my not so humble opinion, the University lost a wonderful undergraduate due to the erosion of independent thought and political correctness.” Posted at 04:12 PM OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY [Andrew Stuttaford] Finally, a use for Elliot Spitzer: "The European Union's financial watchdog refused to sign off the Brussels budget yesterday for the tenth year in a row, finding that 93.4 per cent of spending was either unsafe or riddled with errors." Over you go, Elliot. Posted at 04:07 PM WHEN MORE IS LESS [Andrew Stuttaford] "The EU has agreed to revise the way it deals with Cuba's dissidents in order to develop political dialogue with Fidel Castro's government.... Diplomats said on Tuesday that they would continue to engage with Cuba's opposition but were looking to do so in a more productive way, leaving the path open for talks with government officials." "More productive" eh? We'll see. Posted at 04:04 PM NRO TV [John J. Miller] John J. Miller is scheduled to appear on John Gibson's Fox News show today at about 5:50 pm EST -- the topic is Jacques Chirac and Miller's book Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France. Posted at 03:54 PM PERSON THE YEAR [Jonah Goldberg] Time has no credibility. None. I don't care who they pick. That doesn't mean they won't get it right but that hardly means we should care much if they do. The magazine which had the guts to pick dictators and tyrants when they deserved it has, in recent years, gone the rout of People magazine. Even when they go in a controversial direction, it's invariably controversial in way designed to be not-too-controversial. "Now, Twice the Controversy But Half the Calories!" What was it a few years ago? Whistleblower women? And in 2001 when it deserved to be Osama Bin Laden, they went with Rudy Giulliani. How nice! I don't bash corporations much, but this seems to be one of those conventions that gets approved by a committee of suits before it goes anywhere. Posted at 03:40 PM CANADA... WITH A BULLET [Jonah Goldberg] I haven't checked this guy's stats -- because I'm on a cruise for pete's sake -- but some interesting tidbits: Jonah, Posted at 03:30 PM BY THE WAY... [Jonah Goldberg] Several readers have bcc'd me on emails to the NYT petitioning the Times to replace Safire with me. I do not authorize such actions -- but nor do I condemn them. Posted at 03:21 PM YES, YES... [Jonah Goldberg] It's true, I have revealed myself in ... cheese. [Scroll down if you find this cryptic beyond words]. I've also had a fine time so far. Just got back from lunch with the Ponnurus. Posted at 03:17 PM SWIFTIES [John J. Miller] K Lo: I'm definitely not predicting that the Swifties will make the cover of Time as "Men of the Year"--I'm saying that probably would be my choice. Posted at 01:17 PM OH BROTHER [KJL] This is Arlen Specter doing Rick Santorum no favors: “Sen. Santorum has been enormously helpful,” said Specter Tuesday. “He’s gone above and beyond the call of duty. My number one priority in the next two years is to reelect Sen. Santorum.” Posted at 01:03 PM RUSH'S TOPIC TODAY [Tim Graham] Cartoonist Pat Oliphant has definitely crossed a line in his latest cartoon portraying Condi Rice as a very subservient large-lipped bird. Will the liberal papers run it? Posted at 12:54 PM OY [KJL] Watching the Bishops' Conference on EWTN (the Catholic channel). The buzz about the meeting this November, from where I am sitting, was their expected report on pro-choice Catholic pols, what to do about them. Yeah, not happening. In the interest of time, they're not issuing anything this meeting, but a statement, which hearing it read on EWTN by EWTN's newsman Raymond Arroyo, sounded really lame--like it could have provided aid and comfort to a John Kerry lame. Which, of course, is more than simply lame. (I don't see a link up yet.) Posted at 12:42 PM YEAH, SO GLAD I'M PAYING FOR THAT [KJL] : From the Chronicle of Higher Education Only about 11 percent of full-time students say they spend more than 25 hours per week preparing for their classes -- the amount of time that faculty members say is necessary to succeed in college. Forty-four percent spend 10 hours or less studying. Posted at 12:35 PM THE PRIEST & THE CANTOR [KJL] An Andover, Mass. priest asks a pro-choice pol to step down as parish lector. Said pol told the Boston Globe: ''I'm trying to be a good Catholic...this should be a separate issue. Church should be a sanctuary for me and my faith and not have anything to do with my work." Posted at 12:30 PM IS JOHN KERRY [KJL] taking back his concession? Posted at 12:23 PM SWIFTVETS? [KJL] Think again, John J. Actually, if I had to bet my money on this one, I'd put it on Michael Moore. Here's how one loyal, tested reader: "Choking down the bile as I type it, but I would nominate Michael Moore. Who else galvanized both sides of the aisle as effectively?" Posted at 12:09 PM CHICAGO [Stanley Kurtz] Here’s a sad but revealing e-mail from a parent about what’s happened to the University of Chicago, once the only reliable refuge for conservatives among the great universities: “Your take on university of Chicago is spot on. My eldest daughter had them at the top of her list, of course, and was attending interviews, visits to campus, etc. She loved it and was very excited until she began to attend many of the orientation sessions. Victimhood, political correctness, and the gender politics were overwhelming. She was disappointed, of course, and confided that she was not interested in attending a place where those concerns were a part of daily life. She had assumed there would be disapproval from friends and family that had attended Chicago in the past, but was relieved that we were supportive of her choice. She still plans to attend their graduate school in couple of years, but, in my not so humble opinion, the University lost a wonderful undergraduate due to the erosion of independent thought and political correctness.” Posted at 12:03 PM BAD SIGNS [John J. Miller] From the Los Angeles Times: "Spellings' impending appointment was hailed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), who worked closely with her and the White House in crafting No Child Left Behind. 'Margaret Spellings is a capable, principled leader who has the ear of the president and has earned strong bipartisan respect in Congress. I look forward to working with her to strengthen our public schools,' Kennedy said. ... Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Assn., a 2.7- million-member teachers union, said Spellings' nomination was 'a great opportunity for the administration to change the tone of its discourse with the education community.'" Posted at 12:03 PM GREEN FOG [KJL] An e-mail: I am distraught. I went to [a military hospital last] evening to drop off some DVDs for a young Marine [I know]. Anyway on my way around the [hospital], I found myself trapped behind a huge Red Cross van. All of a sudden, two soldiers appeared and opened the doors. I could see that there were some of our wounded in there- clearly new arrivals. The staff lifted them onto the moveable hospital beds (many of the guys had machines attached to them) and wheeled them into the main building.And, when I asked Jed Babbin about the Marine incident yesterday, he wrote back: The idea that the shooting may have been wrongful is justified by the film. But I'm sure that it doesn't portray accurately the room-to-room fighting that was going on. Every time the Marines find someone alive they find someone who may be wired with a bomb and still able to detonate it. I recall Richard Tregaskis, in Guadalcanal Diary, quoting one Lt. Harold H. Babbin, USMC -- my dad -- briefing his platoon on the eve of the invasion:I don’t know what happened in that one incident, and wrongdoing obviously needs to be punished, but am I wrong to want to give these guys volunteering to keep us safe and free others the benefit of the doubt when they are being shot at, with their lives on the line? Posted at 12:00 PM P.O.Y. [John J. Miller] Here's a list of Time's "Person of the Year" since 1927. The editors picked Bush in 2000, so I doubt they'll choose him again this time. Bloggers would be interesting, but they've made some computer and Internet picks in recent years (Andy Grove, Jeff Bezos) so I think they might avoid something similar now. I suspect they will inevitably choose gays and lesbians one of these years, and this one would be as good as any. If it were up to me, I'd think about selecting John O'Neill and the Swift Boat Vets. Posted at 11:51 AM HMMM [KJL] A reader: Time's Man of the Year? Oughta be bloggers. Posted at 11:32 AM AND DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT [KJL] Harry Reid, yesterday: "We all miss, more than we can describe, Senator Daschle," Reid said. "But Tom Daschle is not here. We're going to proceed forward." Posted at 11:28 AM IRAN [Stanley Kurtz] Today’s biggest story may be a piece by Douglas Jehl buried in today’s New York Times. The same group of dissidents who exposed Iran’s once hidden nuclear program now say that Iran has yet another secret facility at which they are trying to produce nuclear weapons, even as they deny their nuclear ambitions and promise to freeze their current program. The group is apparently giving chapter and verse on the location of Iran’s secret facility. If this pans out, it not only torpedoes the agreement currently being negotiated by the Europeans, it shows that no agreement is reliable. There is no good solution to the nuclear mess in Iran and Korea. This is truly the crisis that threatens our lives and our nation. The president is going to have his hands full with this one. Posted at 11:25 AM IDEOLOGY [John J. Miller] It's perhaps worth remembering that one of Russell Kirk's favorite sayings was a phrase of H. Stuart Hughes: "Conservatism is the negation of ideology." Posted at 11:19 AM MARGARET SPELLINGS IS THE NEW ED SEC PICK [KJL] which is bad news for many coaches. Posted at 11:12 AM NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE NEWS [KJL] Senate Republicans just elected Senator Dole to replace Senator Allen at the NRSC. She defeated Senator Norm Coleman of MN. Vote was close--28-27. Posted at 11:06 AM "IDEOLOGUES" [Rich Lowry] Greetings from the NR cruise! Here is a thought from the ship's internet cafe. I don't mind the word "ideologue," but in our foreign policy debate it is used in such a tendentious way. Consider this from the NYTimes today, about the cabinet shakeup: "`This could actually turn out not so well for the ideologues,' said one administration official, referring to the staff members in the vice president's office and the Pentagon who are openly skeptical of the idea of negotiating solutions to the crises over Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs." But aren't the people who believe in a certain kind of negotiated solution--despite our experience with the last, failed negotiated deal with North Korea--just as "ideological," maybe more so, than the administration's hawks? If we're going to throw the word around, let's say that the shakeup "could turn out not so well for one set of ideologues in the administration and better for another set of ideologues." Posted at 10:45 AM IT'S ALL ABOUT JONAH [KJL] Hugh Hewitt is campaigning for him to replace Safire. (An idea floated here earlier.) Posted at 10:10 AM JONAH'S NOT ON THE CRUISE, DON'T BELIEVE HIM [KJL] He's all cheese. Posted at 10:07 AM WHITHER CHICAGO? [Stanley Kurtz] Last year, I went to the University of Chicago and debated HR 3077, the bill that would reform federal funding for area studies. Several of the students I met after that panel were in despair about the absence of professors of Middle Eastern studies at Chicago who could balance the overwhelming number of faculty critics of America and Israel. It is shameful that students at the University of Chicago need to import professors like Berkowitz to defend Israel, while critics of American and Israeli policies can easily be found on the Chicago faculty. The Berkowitz-Sassen episode can’t help but raise the question: What has happened to the University of Chicago? Two years ago, I wrote about the gutting of Chicago’s famous Western Civilization program. Things seem to have gone downhill from there. Chicago used to be the only truly great American university where conservative students could get a fair shake. Those days seem a long way off. Slowly but surely, the University of Chicago is transforming into just another leftist dominated university. Perhaps the intellectual monopoly is not quite as total as elsewhere. But the signs are frightening. Of course, any fine faculty will have its share of leftist professors–and rightly so. But why must the other side be shut out? Perhaps if we had more intellectual diversity–the only sort of diversity that should count on a college campus–professors would not confuse mere disagreement with inadmissable bias. The real victims here are the students, deprived of exposure to intelligent representatives of different perspectives, and intimidated into withholding their own views for fear of losing faculty recommendations. Conservative students and parents take note: The University of Chicago is not what it used to be–not by a longshot. And let the University of Chicago administration take note as well. Is there no room for a thoughtful and intelligent supporter of America’s Middle Eastern policies, or of Israel, on your Middle East studies faculty? Is academic merit so unevenly distributed throughout the population that it falls to leftists alone? Posted at 10:01 AM NOT BERKOWITZ! [Stanley Kurtz] This powerful letter of protest by Peter Berkowitz tells the tale of a remarkable incident at the University of Chicago. (Hat tip to Glenn Reynolds.) Apparently, University of Chcago sociology professor Saskia Sassen stormed out of a panel discussion on the Middle East after discovering that Berkowitz and another invited speaker disagreed with her views. Two of the panelists at the event were critical of Israel, while two defended it. This arrangement appears to have struck Sassen as impermissibly biased. “We need to recognize that the Israeli state has operated with excess power in a situation of extreme asymmetry,” said Sassen, justifying her walkout. In other words, acknowledge Israel’s guilt or forfeit your right to participate in scholarly debate. Although she makes a show of caring about freedom, Sassen has no trouble decrying the “scandalous” differences between American democracy and Cuban communism. Sassen’s behavior at the panel shows just how little regard the academic left has for the free exchange of ideas. Her more conservative opponent, Berkowitz, on the other hand, has just edited two marvelous volumes on American conservatism and liberalism. Posted at 09:58 AM GREETINGS LANDLUBBERS [Jonah Goldberg] I made it. The Fair Jessica, Lil' Lucy and I arrived in St. Thomas yesterday and we're in Tortola now. Huge turnout on this cruise -- over four hundred NR fans, followers and friends. Not much to report yet. Lowry seems a bit deep in the grog and Lucy thinks we live at sea now. Will report in when I can, but there's a pina colada with my name on it. Posted at 09:29 AM "MIND YOUR WORDS" [KJL] The message Senate Republicans sent Specter, according to the Philly Inq. Posted at 09:27 AM KIRSANOW IN OHIO [KJL] Frequent NRO writer Peter Kirsanow (and Civil Rights Commission member) will be speaking on "Racial Rebellion: The End of the Victim/Grievance Movement" tomorrow ,Thursday Nov. 18, at noon at the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs in Ashland, Ohio. In you are nowhere near there, though, CSPAN will be showing at some point. Posted at 09:23 AM WHAT A BEAUT! [Jack Fowler] The National Review Treasury of Classic Bedtime Stories is a thing of true beauty. Inside are ten wonderful adventure stories -- wholesome stories that teach clear morals! -- of the doings of Reddy Fox, Jimmy Skunk, Buster Bear, and many other colorful denizens of Thornton Burgess's glorious Green Meadows, Green Forest, and Laughing Brook (if you're of a certain age, you'll well remember how these delightful stories made your youth all the merrier). And throughout the 360 pages of this sweet hardcover are some 60 charming illustrations by the great Harrison Cady. Perfect for new and beginning readers (first through third grades) and ditto for littler ones who cherish being read a warm tale as they're tucked in for the nightly trip to Nod, The National Review Treasury of Classic Bedtime Stories makes a super Christmas gift. We have a few special offers available when you buy this book, which can be done safely, securely, and swiftly here. Posted at 09:11 AM A RIDGE FAR ENOUGH [John J. Miller] Homeland security secretary quitting, says CNN. Posted at 08:52 AM BUSINESS AS USUAL [Mark Krikorian ] The Congress is now considering an arcane proposal (to exempt certain foreign graduate students from the numerical limits in H-1B work-visa program) that exemplifies much of what's wrong with our immigration system: Dishonesty. The program has a limit of 65,000 visas per year except that the cap is "pierceable," in that any foreign worker indentured to a university or the government isn’t counted toward the cap, and the immigration service won't say how many visas were issued outside the cap. The provision now under consideration would expand the dishonesty by exempting even more visas from the "cap." Secrecy. Members of Congress know that very vocal elements of the public hate this kind of thing, and have succeeded in killing it before. So, instead of having a debate and vote on the merits, Ted Kennedy and Saxby Chambliss are trying to sneak it into the omnibus spending bill that Congress has to pass to keep the government open. Subsidy. Some of the biggest boosters of this measure are universities, for whose graduate departments it would represent a significant financial windfall. One of the main reason that few American students pursue PhDs in many technical fields is that graduate study often serves no useful purpose and in fact can result in a big loss in lifetime earnings. But foreigners would get paid in a different coin -- access to the U.S. -- and so are willing to fill redundant graduate programs that otherwise, without this federal subsidy, might be discontinued. And the subsidy continues, because universities not only get more paying graduate students but they are then able to use these students to get more federal research grants. I know that legislating is like sausage-making, but there's sausage and then there's sausage. I like salami; immigration-policy shenanigans are liverwurst. Posted at 08:32 AM WHERE ARE THE SWOONS? [Tim Graham] As a colleague suspected yesterday, since Madeleine Albright was the first female Secretary of State and Colin Powell was the first black man, Condi Rice will not get the usual media swoon for being the first black woman as Secretary of State (or even the first black woman to hold a cabinet post that weighty.) It's nowhere on the front of the Washington Post today. That would not be the case if Rice was serving a Clinton. On the other hand, that's nice, since she is not being appointed for that reason. But it ought to be interesting to see just how much less gooey reporters are than they were over the selection of Madeleine Albright in Clinton's second term. The most recent boomlet of pro-Madeleine bias is captured here. Posted at 07:44 AM THE BRUTAL FRONTLINE [Andrew Stuttaford] What, I wonder, will Al-Jazeera have to say about this? From the London Times: "In the south of Fallujah yesterday, US Marines found the armless, legless body of a blonde woman, her throat slashed and her entrails cut out. Benjamin Finnell, a hospital apprentice with the US Navy Corps, said that she had been dead for a while, but at that location for only a day or two. The woman was wearing a blue dress; her face had been disfigured. It was unclear if the remains were the body of the Irish-born aid worker Margaret Hassan, 59, or of Teresa Borcz, 54, a Pole abducted two weeks ago. Both were married to Iraqis and held Iraqi citizenship; both were kidnapped in Baghdad last month. US and Iraqi troops have discovered kidnappers’ lairs filled with corpses or emaciated prisoners half-mad with fear, and piles of bodies of men who had refused to fight with the insurgents. As the guerrillas run their last sprint from death, sympathy for their cause is running out among Iraqis." Posted at 07:37 AM DESPERATE MONDAY [KJL] This Monday Night Football stunt just sounds stupid. It's not like they needed the publicity for the show. Posted at 07:31 AM "SURE FEELS LIKE LOVE" [KJL] Wouldn't Stud Duck Larry Gatlin be happy knowing NRO is ocassionally edited to the tune of his hits? Posted at 07:25 AM RE: REED IRVINE [Tim Graham] The entire conservative movement owes Reed Irvine and Accuracy in Media a debt of gratitude for starting the business of professional media watchdogging in the Nixon era. When I first became a young Reaganite in the summer of 1980, I would to walk a few blocks to our small-town library to read Human Events, and there was Reed in its pages, on the case against "60 Minutes" or the New York Times. (Reed also authored or co-authored a set of books compiling AIM's media research, starting with "Media Mischief and Misdeeds" in 1984, to expose and correct liberal bias.) He taught many of us how to read the press with a critical eye. I know Brent Bozell agrees that there would be no Media Research Center without Reed Irvine. May he rest in peace, having run a good race for the good of the country he loved. Posted at 06:36 AM TO RULE THE WAVES [John J. Miller] This weekend, C-SPAN's Book TV will broadcast a talk by my friend Arthur Herman, author of To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World. I'm pretty sure this will be from the presentation he gave (and which I attended) at a D.C. bookstore last week. It hardly matters: Arthur is brilliant and eloquent and To Rule the Waves is very, very good. It's partly a military history of the Royal Navy, but it's also the story of how British admirals and sailors became a powerful force for globalization, and how their influence is still being felt today. NRODT readers will know Arthur for his book reviews--and they'll also know that our current issue includes a big thumbs-up review of To Rule the Waves. I recommend it highly. Posted at 06:33 AM TIME'S MAN OF THE YEAR [KJL] Karl Rove? Posted at 06:12 AM MEDIA CRITIC REED IRVINE DIED. [KJL] RIP Posted at 06:02 AM POWELL FOR SENATE? [John J. Miller] New York Republicans are urging Colin Powell to run for the Senate -- against Hillary in 2006, according to the New York Sun. Posted at 05:54 AM TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF THE CORNER: JUST CAME ACROSS THIS NOV. 3 E-MAIL [KJL] I'd never laid a mouse click on The Corner before last night, but it, and your posts in particular, got me through the night. I've been an internet addict for years clicking through its its highways and byways and bookmarking my favorite rest stops. Discovering The Corner last night was like coming over the horizon and discovering my destination. Posted at 05:33 AM CHAIRMAN ARLEN [John J. Miller] The Washington Post says he's got the Judiciary Committee all but locked up. There's nothing in the story about hugs for Specter, but the article does quote Hatch: "Nobody in the meeting was against Arlen. ... Senator Specter handled himself very well. ... I'm for him, as I should be." Reminds me of an old saying: Don't count your Hatch before he's chickened. Posted at 05:16 AM |
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