Fearmongering: Bush and your vote

By Robert Adler
10/31/2004

Psychologists at Rutgers, Skidmore, the University of Arizona, and the University of Colorado asked 190 people of various ages and ethnic backgrounds to vote for one of three hypothetical candidates for governor based on a one paragraph statement from each contender. Each candidate’s statement began with the phrase, “I will be the perfect governor for this great state because,” but differed in order to present one as task-oriented, one as relationship-oriented, and one as charismatic.


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Questioning Kerry's Belief in the U.N.

By Stephen Macklin
10/28/2004

I have read a good deal about the Al Qaaqa explosives story over the last couple of days. The piece that struck the strongest chord with me was written for written for The American Thinker by Douglas Hanson. This is a subject which Hanson is qualified to comment upon. In the summer of 2003 he served as the Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Science and Technology for the Coalition Provisional Authority. His piece springs out of the whole missing explosives story, focusing on the role of the IAEA, but it goes a long way toward showing how wrong John Kerry is.


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For Honest Media Bias

By Dennis Fox
10/25/2004

Mark Jurkowitz, the Boston Globe's media reporter, writes today about rising complaints of media bias. Some see a liberal tilt, others a conservative one. Jurkowitz, noting the now-common observation that voters who watch Fox News overwhelmingly support George Bush while CNN watchers opt for John Kerry, points to the "growing evidence that citizens may be matching their news sources with their ideology."


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Bush and Kerry Both Wrong on Judges

By Dennis Fox
10/19/2004

A president's appointments to the federal judiciary can do more long-lasting harm to the American people than just about anything else they do short of initiating global self-destruction. As a report two weeks ago by the Environmental Law Institute reiterated, President George W. Bush's judicial appointees take a markedly different stance on environmental regulation than judges appointed by Democrats. That surprises no one, despite the common civics lesson that judges are just supposed to follow the law.


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Poll: Bush over Kerry by eight

By Editor
10/17/2004

A new USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll shows President Bush leading his Democratic challenger, John Kerry, by a margin of eight percentage points.


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The Kerry draft scare

By Editor
10/16/2004

Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry once again advanced the fearmongering cause of his campaign by insinuating a draft should President Bush be reelected.


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Bush and Kerry Both Wrong on Education

By Dennis Fox
10/14/2004

At one point during the third presidential debate, John Kerry pointed out that George W. Bush failed to answer a question about job losses. After quickly advising laid off workers to go back to school, the president simply bragged at length about his public school education initiative, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Bush never did explain how improving the education of young children helps their parents find jobs.


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An Iraq War cost breakdown

By Robert Adler
10/13/2004

Watching newscasts, I've noticed that immediately after the announcer says something like, "The candidates are disputing whether the Iraq War has cost $200 billion or $400 billion," I've already forgotten the amounts. Even when a huge number like that sticks in my head, it doesn't mean much. I understand what I can buy with the $84 in my wallet, why I’m waiting to buy that 6-megapixel digital camera I've been drooling over, or how long it will take my wife and me to pay off our mortgage. But it's hard to grasp the hundreds of billions the Iraq war is costing, this year's $477 billion deficit, the $1.75 trillion U.S. budget, or the $7.4 trillion national debt.


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Bush health care centerpiece is off-center

By Andante
10/13/2004

Tonight's debate centers on domestic policy, including how to keep our fractured and hyper-expensive health care system from going even further out of control.


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The Kerry Plan on Terrorism

By Stephen Macklin
10/11/2004

John Kerry:


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Bullet to Bullet: The Myth of Missile Defense

By Eric A. Webb
10/09/2004

These days, it’s easy to take journalistic potshots at security. The whole notion of it has been so overblown since 9/11 that it is laughably easy to find holes in America’s homeland security. Newspapers from Hawaii to Maine have run articles talking about how people slipped through the newly federalized bag checkers at their local airports, armed with everything from Mace to stun guns to firearms. Michael Moore and his Trooper Bob demonstrated only one small part of our porous coastal defense; in terms of money, training and sheer magnitude, the paranoiac level of attention required to seal the borders of America would take decades to realize. Really—if the combined forces of the American military, the FBI, ATF, DEA, Coast Guard and local police forces haven’t been enough to slow the flow of illicit drugs into the country, how well will they really fare against the much more protean and slippery enemy of ‘terrorism’?


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Anemic job growth

By Mike Thomas
10/08/2004

The new job numbers are out just in time for the second presidential debate tonight and boy are they lousy.


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U.S. Unemployment

By Mike Pechar
10/05/2004

In the next debate between candidates Kerry and Bush, unemployment in the United States will be a point of sharp disagreement. President Bush will state that many jobs were lost due to uncontrollable circumstances in the economy, however, the trend in job growth is positive, sustained, and substantial. John Kerry will state that people in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan are suffering from lost jobs while quoting an abundance of statistics.


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Cheney: Hussein not worth additional U.S. casualties

By Mike Thomas
10/05/2004

Here's Dick Cheney’s whopping double backward flip-flop with a triple twist on the Iraq War.


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Kerry's plan for Iraq dissected

By I.J. Reilly
10/04/2004

Yes, he really does have one.


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The Evolution of Information and the 20 Minute News Cycle

By Stephen Macklin
10/02/2004

These have been very interesting times for me. I am a blogger who has a degree in journalism that has been gathering dust during a 15 year career as a graphic designer. The recent typographic controversies that have sparked something of a feud between the mainstream media and the blogosphere have touched on all of that background. The story of the forged documents aired by CBS News will eventually fade but they will forever mark a turning point in the evolution of information.


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What the Bush - Kerry debate caused you to miss

By Eric A. Webb
10/02/2004

So President Bush and President-elect (I’m sorry, Senator) Kerry debated two nights ago. Excitement galore, I’m sure. Don’t get me wrong; I was glad, exultant even, to see the verbal broadside Mr. Kerry leveled against the president. But while every blogger wants to deposit their two cents on the ongoing fray over who won the debate (who gesticulated more? Whose facial expressions gave away insecurity? Who is fighting so vociferously?), I am frankly more worried about all the stories not making the front pages today because of the grand spectacle of the debate's televised display of intellectual knowledge stomping across wrong-headed ideology.


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