Best of OTB - May 21, 2003

As part of a continuing series, I'll be highlighting material buried deep in the OTB archives that I still find interesting. From four years ago, today: "RENO" joined in on the debate, "Was Janet Reno the worst AG we have ever had, or what?” Not much substance to it but it somehow strikes me as amusing these days. "PROBLEM? ...

Best of OTB - May 20, 2003

As part of a continuing series, I'll be highlighting material buried deep in the OTB archives that I still find interesting. From four years ago, today: "LEVEL ORANGE" is a fisking of the color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System which has, to this day, varied only between Yellow and Orange. In "INTELLIGENT DESIGN," I mediated a debate on the evidence for ...

Best of OTB - May 19, 2003

As part of a continuing series, I'll be publishing excerpts and re-posts of material buried deep in the OTB archives. Some will be profound and some silly; some will demonstrate keen insights and others painful errors. While I would have personally been in favor of the war simply to eliminate the threat of Saddam’s acquiring WMD and ...

Best of OTB - May 18, 2003

As part of a continuing series, I'll be highlighting material buried deep in the OTB archives that I still find interesting. Four years ago today was a Sunday and blogging was light and the pickings slim. Nonetheless, I'll carry on: "JEFFORDS DENOUNCES DNC" pondered the mind of Jumpin' Jim Jeffords. "MUSIC IS HELL" was one of OTB's first ...

Best of OTB - May 17, 2003

As part of a continuing series, I'll be highlighting material buried deep in the OTB archives that I still find interesting. The blog started in January 2003 and there have been over 16,000 posts; some of them have to be good! "GAY STRATEGERY" takes a look at a Kevin Drum proposal to make gay marriage the centerpiece of the ...

Free Speech Includes Offensive Jokes!

Big Tent Democrat rightly excoriates Frank Rich for hypocrisy in denouncing Don Imus only after he could no longer benefit from using his show for self-promotion. His conclusion, however, is troubling: And to call this a free speech issue is a joke. We're supposed to worry about the freedom to tell racist and sexist jokes? Hell yes. Indeed, if "free speech" ...

Beltway Traffic Jam

Create your own linkfest below. To join in, choose a post from your blog to highlight, edit it to add a link to this post, and then send a TrackBack. If your blog doesn't automatically generate one, use the Send TrackBack feature below. For more information, see this post. ________ Trackposted to Stop the ACLU, Outside the Beltway, Perri ...

Professionalization of the Blogosphere

Conn Carroll believes the blogosphere is increasingly moving away from its amateur roots: Looking at the top 10 most trafficked blogs, only DailyKos, Crooks and Liars, Michelle Malkin, and Instapundit started out as lone blogger-hobbyists. The other 6 (including The Huffington Post, The Corner, and Think Progress) are either planned business enterprises, outgrowths of existing MSM pubs, or online presences of ...

Those Rich, Crazy Americans

Reacting to the contrast between Karl Rove's purported campaign strategy of emphasizing "terrorism and turnout" and Brad DeLong's hope that the GOP will begin "building pragmatic technocratic policy coalitions from the center outward," Kevin Drum responds, Over the past 30 years the Republican Party has gone from Gerald Ford to Ronald Reagan to Newt Gingrich to Dick Cheney — i.e., ...

Declaration of Independence: A Fisking

Today marks the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Jim Lynch sent out an email to several of us asking us to blog the event as if we were there. Thus, the following Fisking of the Declaration. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the ...