The American Spectator

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Man's Search for Meaning

2.15.02 @ 12:02AM

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Welcome back. I've missed that conservatism with an edge without whining outraged indignation. Refreshing indeed.
-- [unsigned]

BTW, I am here because Howard Kurtz mentioned [your site], so be nice to him.
-- Patrick McGuinness
Austin, Texas

It's good to have you guys back; we need to stay alert and watch out for a new Bill Clinton. Eight years of him is a lifetime for anyone. We need your voice to point out what the major media is covering up for the Democrats.
-- Bill Schafer
Edgewood, MD

Thank you for all you're doing. Your website is a wonderful political deep-thought resource. Keep up the good work!
-- Barry Mann

Thank God you're back -- life was really meaningless there for about a year.
-- Mark Stoffel

MISSING PERSONS
Please bring back "Ben Stein's Diary." Ben is a rarity in columnists these days: he is both optimistic and grateful. Being grateful to others for their help and for what you have is a rare thing these days. It is extremely rare in media people of all stripes. His remembrances of his parents are beautiful and his recounting of his father's last days were heartrending.

Can we at least get "Ask Ben Stein" back?

Grateful for any Ben Stein you can give us,
-- John Clark

Joe Conason -- I can't believe he still spews his DNC marching papers. How come we don't know anything about this guy? I'd love to see the "Prowler" do an expose on Joe. Or at least some pithy analysis. I mean, why is this guy still employed?
-- Mike Baron

BLOG ON
In "Is the Web Driving Us Nuts?" Wlady Pleszczynski writes:

"[H]ow long is anything said by a so-called "blogger" ... to remain valid?

"'The Weekly Standard' this week posted a definitive parody of run-amok blogging and the wacky back and forths and cross-linking and self-referentiality and full immersion in the increasingly ephemeral that the genre inspires. In this climate, it seems, nothing lasting can be said, nor even anything remotely serious."

This from a veteran of a medium that is notoriously used to line
birdcages.

Is Mr. Pleszczynski willing to bear the test he imposes on Josh Marshall? Let us examine his first published impressions of George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and maybe one or two others, and demand that he either stand by them or admit he cannot remotely be taken seriously.
-- Fritz Anderson
Chicago, Illinois

Loved the article but am amazed you did not reference Glenn Reynolds's InstaPundit blog. Far and away the best pure blog out there.
-- Mike Daley

Letter to the Editor

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