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Best of the Web Today - December 31, 2004 By JAMES TARANTO If Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires next year, President Bush likely won't face a tough battle over his successor. So reports the New York Times, ci…
Best of the Web Today, December 29, 2004: Satirists Can't Keep UpOn Monday blogger David Burge published a funny satire titled "Top Scientists Warn: Sea Gods Angry." Here's a sample: Pointing to the devastating we…
This was too good to leave out. More Best of the Web Today, December 28, 2004: Reuters 'Reports' the News"Yushchenko 'Wins' Ukraine Election"--headline, Reuters, Dec. 26 Gotta love the scare quotes!
Best of the Web Today, December 28, 2004: Life Imitates Art?From a Washington Post editorial on Asia's deadly earthquakes and tidal waves: The shaky video and fragmentary breathless descriptions are like something …
OpinionJournal, Christmas Eve, 2004 WONDER LANDWhence Came The U.S. Tradition To Give and Give? BY DANIEL HENNINGER December 24, 2004 What is the wellspring for the American compulsion to give, especially at this time…
OpinionJournal, December 22, 2004: AFTER SADDAMThe Future Iraq Deserves A democratic, pluralistic Iraq is the only acceptable outcome. BY AHMAD CHALABI December 22, 2004 BAGHDAD--The Iraq Liberation Act, voted in Co…
OpinionJournal's Political Diary, December 20, 2004: The nation's chief executive and the governor of the largest state are both practicing a quiet form of political incorrectness this Christmas season. President Bu…
Come, Desire of nations come, Fix in us Thy humble home; Rise, the Woman's conquering Seed, Bruise in us the Serpent's head. Adam's likeness, Lord efface: Stamp Thy image in its place; Second Adam, from above, Reinstate …
Best of the Web Today, December 17, 2004: What Liberal Media?From an Associated Press dispatch on Bill Moyers's retirement from his PBS show, "Now": One example of typically good journalism on "Now" not long ago: an …
Best of the Web Today, Wednesday, December 15, 2004: Commies vs. ChristmasWhat does Cuba's communist regime have in common with the American Civil Liberties Union? "Cuba's most senior US diplomat says he has been warned…
Best of the Web Today, December 14, 2004: The Generation BridgeOne of the clichés of the 1960s was "the generation gap," a reference to then-youthful baby boomers rebelling against their parents. Times have changed, s…
Very good book. I don't know who Walter Hooper is, though - perhaps the editor? It's a collection of essays about "other worlds," particularly writing about them. Some titles: "On Three Ways of Writing for Children,"…
Best of the Web Today, December 1, 2004 From Cradle to Grave in Record Time"A hospital in the Netherlands--the first nation to permit euthanasia--recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newbo…