Desperation of the X42 apologists: Hugh Hewitt on Joshua Marshall's bitter attempts at redemption

By the way, my prediction is that this will be an odd year!!!
For a few MORE predictions, see:

The Year Ahead: Predictions for 2003 [from National Review]
www.NationalReview.com ^ | December 27, 2002 | An NRO Symposium [Frum, Golberg, Hanson, Hewitt, Steyn, et al]
Posted on 01/01/2003 1:17 PM PST by RonDog

December 27, 2002 12:00 p.m.
The Year Ahead
Predictions for 2003.

An NRO Symposium

RO asked some familiar daring faces to make predictions about the new year. Read their brave predictions, and don't forget to check back later in the year to see who was most right…and wrong!
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Victor Davis Hanson
Revelations in a post-Hussein Iraq of Saddam's frightening weapons, torture, and mass murder will shock even realists.
After some frightening events, we will liberate Iraq as unlikely would-be allies join in on the war against terror.
Parts of bin Laden's corpse will turn up.
The anthrax attacks will be positively linked to Iraq and al Qaeda.
— Victor Davis Hanson is a contributing editor of NRO and author of An Autumn of War.

Hugh Hewitt
There will be two retirements from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003: Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice O'Connor. The president will nominate Justice Scalia to replace the retiring chief, and will nominate California Supreme Court Justice Janice Brown and recently confirmed judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Miguel Estrada to the two vacancies. Both will be confirmed by comfortable margins.
Orange County California Sheriff Mike Carona will declare his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer.
Fox News Channel will continue to rise in the ratings, and the first half-hour of Special Report will be carried in prime time on the Fox Network as an evening newscast that will quickly pass the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather in total audience, forcing Rather into early retirement. MSNBC will discover that Jesse Ventura was a much better governor than he is a talk-show host. Nachman will move into primetime, and Buchanan and Press into the late night.
The Bush administration will unveil a health-insurance initiative aimed at low and middle-income Americans not presently eligible for group insurance at their place of employment. The model will be the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program ("FEHB"), and insurance companies that wish to be eligible to participate in the FEHB will be obliged to offer coverage to the uninsured targeted by the initiative.
— Hugh Hewitt is a radio talk show host. The Hugh Hewitt Show can be heard daily at www.hughhewitt.com.
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2003 will be a momentous year, and those who want to comment on its events would do well to prepare to do so by reading the second volume in William Manchester's biography of Churchill, "Alone."
From amazon.com:

Freedom's Greatest Defender, Hitler's Greatest Enemy!, May 2, 2002

Reviewer: dougrhon (see more about me) from Rego Park, New York USA

Most people today know Winston Churchill at the great British Prime Minister of WWII. But Churchill was 65 when he became Prime Minister and had a public career spanning more than forty years. In this excellent book [Alone, Volume TWO] which is part biography, part history, William Manchester focuses on the period of 1932-1940 when Churchill was out of power, an outcast in his own party and universally derided as a warmongering relic. Churchill referred to these years as his "wilderness years" and they are among the most fascinating of his life because the years of Churchill's political exile coincide with the rise of Hitler and the growth of Germany from defeated power to world menace.
Indeed, as Manchester chronicles, Churchill's return from the wilderness was intimately connected to the rise of Hitler because Churchill's relentless public opposition to Hitlerism and British policy towards Germany throughout the thirties is what led to his continuing exile while this same stalwartness preserved him from the mark of shame that infected the rest of the British elite when the policy of appeasement collapsed in 1939...