Bad News for the Doomsayers Extent of African AIDS epidemic has been wildly overstated. So says a London Telegraph article, yesterday: Millions of Africans believed to have HIV/Aids are free....

The Selling of General Clark Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CIV Yesterday's NYT reports on how Wesley Clark's campaign is trying to make him more appealing to women voters. + +....

Twenty-First Century Slavery Guess where it prevails and who inflicts it on whom. Dhimmi Watch blogs today an article from Chiesa (Church): From the Niger River to Sudan slavery continues....

"Why Howard Dean is like Charles DeGaulle" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CIII First, an NYT article today. + + + + + Howard Dean criticized President Bush on Friday for....

News to Keep Terry McAwful McAuliffe & James Carville Awake At Night Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CII From today's Best of the Web Today. + + + + + Strangers....

Re: General Wesley Clark Picks Up a Crucial Endorsement A reader goes where The Blog from the Core had feared to tread. Paul writes today: Well, General Clark's campaign must....

Whose Jesus? Indeed Extreme Catholic blogs an article by Matt Grills on "Cliff" Dean's faith: Howard Dean has joined that elite pool of politicians who use Jesus as a prop....

"Cliff" Dean's Religion Problem Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode CI Franklin Foer writes at The New Republic, Dec. 29, 2003: .... Dean, to be fair, recognizes the need to provide some....

MCJ on WCCNGTA Vide.

General Wesley Clark Picks Up a Crucial Endorsement Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode C Madonna. + + + + + I've never done this before. But life is about taking risks....

Frank Salvato Slices and Dices "Cliff" Dean At The Washington Dispatch today: .... But probably the biggest hardship for Dean, the modern day version of the poor little match girl....

Modern Marxist Language Association Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCIX Scott Jaschik, former editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education, takes a look at the latest annual meeting of the Modern....

Patriotic Rock No, not music. Enjoy. (Thanks, Jennifer.)

"My Journey to Conservatism" An article by philosophy professor Keith Burgess-Jackson at TCS, Jan. 6: .... I used to be liberal. When I was, I thought conservatives were uncaring, unintelligent,....

Letter to Jennifer Nelson A reader very kindly copied The Blog from the Core on her e-mail to Jennifer Nelson: Thank you for pointing out the hypocrisy of the wealthy....

Hillary Clinton: Racist Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCVIII And, Core's Law of New Media. Hillary Clinton made a racist joke the other day. + + + + + Sen. Hillary....

The Leftest Part of the Left Coast? Reconsidered Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCVII Another... interesting... column in the Seattle Past-Intelligence Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 5, by Neal Starkman. + + + +....

The "Democratic Demolition Derby" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCVI Georgia's Sen. Zell Miller writes an open memo to Terry McAwful McAuliffe, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at OpinionJournal,....

Vote for Your Favorite! For the Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of 2003. Final-round voting is now underway! At little green footballs. My vote? Michael Moore, of course. Re: Fiskie....

The Leftest Part of the Left Coast? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCV The Blog from the Core has thought it appropriate to point out that especially wacky articles blogged here....

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCIV But George McGovern was right! + + + + + THE DEMOCRATS see....

Hunches for 2004 I won't call these predictions. I won't even dignify them by calling them guesses. They're just hunches, that's all. George W. Bush will win California in the....

Is a Prominent Wing of the Democratic Party Turning Against Doctor Howard "Cliff" Dean? See here, here, and here. My own intuition is that the mainstream-media branch of the Democratic....

Doctor Howard Dean I just love this, too.

Howard "Cliff" Dean I just love this.

Britney Spears' "Marriage" Surely, Faithful Reader, you are surprised — nay, astonished! — that The Blog from the Core would take notice of Dr. Spears' recent, brief foray into putative....

Epiphany Today — the Twelfth Day of (after) Christmas — is the traditional date of the Solemnity of the Epiphany, and it is still celebrated today in much of the....

"Jerry Brown Proposes Taxes on Junk Food, Alcohol" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCIII Out of the depths of the backlog — former Calfornia governor Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown says the Left....

"Recipe for a Landslide" Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCII Out of the depths of the backlog — an editorial at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 21, 2003. + + +....

Seven Hundred and Seventy-Six Spams so far since last Tuesday. Down from last week's Eight Hundred and Fifty-Eight.

Al From Where? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XCI Harley Sorensen, who often writes really wacko stuff, actually has a pretty -sometimes- good analysis here today, but when he tries to....

Papers of Abraham Lincoln Vide. :-)

When You Use the Last Resort, First, What Does That Say About You? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode XC It's my pleasure to call to your attention that Rerum Novarum answers....

Clark Won't Be Vice-President Either Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode LXXXIX While Wesley Clark is on our minds, allow me to pull this out of the backlog (ellipsis in original). +....

Apparently, Wesley Clark Doesn't Know Kentucky Is In the South Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode LXXXVIII One supposes he doesn't know the rest of the South is in the South, either.....

Topple Bush! Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode LXXXVII A fabulously astounding cornucopia: THIS WEB SITE is dedicated to one primary purpose: To help raise money for the candidates now running against....

Two Old Guys Who Desperately Want to Become Relevant Again Support Wesley Clark Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode LXXXVI (Accent on Desperately.) Well, that's what I get out of this. +....

Religion, Government, and Holidays Thanks to Margaret for calling David Warren's latest column, yesterday, to my attention: .... There is no religion without holidays, but more to the point, vice....

The Year of the Crazy Leftoid 2003? Heck, you ain't seen nothin' yet! The Blogosphere's Tim Blair writes in The Daily Telegraph, Sydney, Jan. 2: .... 2003 was the year....

Mark Morford is a Real Treat Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode LXXXV This one could have been filed under Remember That "Decorative" Turkey? But it really deserves it's own special place.....

Remember That "Decorative" Turkey? Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode LXXXIV As I'm sure you remember, Faithful Reader, the president was photographed carrying a "decorative" turkey while in Iraq on Thanksgiving Day.....

Howard "Chameleon" Dean Democrats in Self-Destruct Mode LXXXIII If you have been paying attention, Faithful Reader, you will have noticed that Howard Dean has said that the election in the....

"The Western Disease" Sorry I've neglected to blog this monumental column by VDH @ NRO, Dec. 30: After watching a string of editorial attacks on America both at home and....

More "Cracking the Anti-Catholic Code" Part Two of a Special Planet Envoy Critique of The Da Vinci Code See "Cracking the Anti-Catholic Code". (Thanks, David.)

"Religious Freedom is for Everyone — Not Just Minorities" A fine article at Towards Tradition by Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Jan. 2: Well, 2004 has arrived which means that dreaded "C....

Three from Morrison V Poems from Masterpieces of Religious Verse. "With Whom is no Variableness, Neither Shadow of Turning" It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth....