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Friday, December 13, 2002

Enemy of the Week

A Sorry Lott

12.13.02

Apologies all around, except from Jimminy Carter.

Special Report

The Icon in Winter

Judd Magilnick | 12.13.02

Was Dragnet’s Jack Webb the first victim of Political Correctness? Lunch at the Cock and Bull on December 13, 1982.

Washington Prowler

The Black Caucus Is Back!

The Prowler | 12.13.02

Lott and Pelosi alike are feeling its presence. ALSO: Giving up on Gore in the Grassroots — while Daschle heads for Iowa and beefs up his staff.

To Be Absolutely Frank

Name Droppings

Francis X. Rocca | 12.13.02

If you didn’t pay for it, Senator, why was it named after you?

The Current Crisis

Digging Jerusalem

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.13.02

Religion dominates here, sometimes in ways that might persuade even the most obdurate non-believer to give God a second look.

Reader Mail

Up, Up, and Away

12.13.02

Flying right in our bankrupt skies. Also: Lott gets no lift. Plus more.

Thursday, December 12, 2002

Washington Prowler

The Whistling Dixiecrat

The Prowler | 12.12.02

New GOP rumblings about Trent Lott. Plus: The GOP’s absentee margin.

At Large

Make Way for the War

John Corry | 12.12.02

Indeed even the New York Times seems resigned to its inevitability.

Live From New York

Pariah Republicans

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder | 12.12.02

Why would most Jewish people prefer being attacked by a mob of contaminated turtles than be caught voting for a Republican?

Special Report

Faith in Violence

George Neumayr | 12.12.02

Many Muslims define Islam as violent and insist that militant Islam is orthodox Islam. Are they wrong?

Movie Takes

Dis Equilibrium

James Bowman | 12.12.02

Cool violence, all because a ruthless right-wing government outlawed feeling and being nice to pets.

Reader Mail

All Over the Lott

12.12.02

How deep the doo-doo? Plus more …

Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Washington Prowler

Lott in Deepest Doo-Doo

The Prowler | 12.11.02

Democrats on the Hill are hardly the only ones who want him out. Also: Lieberman watches Al squirm. Plus: Moderates ignore Pelosi.

The Investor

Eat the Friendly Skies

Michael Craig | 12.11.02

Some hard-to-swallow facts about the bankruptcy of United Airlines.

The Current Crisis

Gentleman Sharon

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. | 12.11.02

The 74-year-old Prime Minister of Israel is built like some sort of heavily armored mobile weapon.

Movie Takes

Empire and the Giuliani Dictatorship

James Bowman | 12.11.02

A Puerto Rican charmer should have stayed a drug dealer and not got mixed up with those crooks on Wall Street.

Reader Mail

From Iraq to Conason

12.11.02

Saddam holds on to his breaches. Does Josh Marshall deserve a Conason Prize? Plus more.

Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Loose Canons

The Whores of UNMOVIC

Jed Babbin | 12.10.02

Saddam is playing for time, and thanks to Hans Blix he appears to be succeeding. The President made a big mistake by not declaring immediately that Saddam’s ”disclosure report” is a lie.

Editor’s Desk

The Conason Prize

Wlady Pleszczynski | 12.10.02

On the trail of a lefty scribe eager to do his best to serve the interests of liberal pols besieged by the conservative media monolith.

Washington Prowler

Frosty Toward Frost

The Prowler | 12.10.02

Nancy Pelosi needs his help but isn’t man enough to ask for it.

Special Report

We Have Met the Wealthy, and They Are Us

Lawrence Henry | 12.10.02

And if not us, then the millionaires next door who work hard, live modestly, and invest in the American dream.

Reader Mail

When Push Comes to SUV

12.10.02

Ben Stein’s road map to highway happiness, plus more.

Monday, December 9, 2002

Special Report

The Big Not-So-Easy

Reid Collins | 12.9.02

Two American myths died over the weekend: Bigfoot, and the invincibility of President Bush’s political powers of persuasion.

Washington Prowler

Recovery Zones

The Prowler | 12.9.02

Bad turnout and Landrieu still wins? Also: What Lindsey-O’Neill knew. Plus: Edward to burn candles at both ends of table tonight.

Lifestyles Left and Right

Deck the Halls With — Broomsticks

12.9.02

Witch is your religious preference?

Political Hay

The New Censorship

George Neumayr | 12.9.02

Liberals now recognize that free speech absolutism is a poor guardian of their power.

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