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Redefining Conservatives By John Bender George Bush is getting credit for redefining the Republican Party and taking issues away from the Democrats by advancing their agenda and taking credit for the advances. He is not getting credit for an even bigger accomplishment, redefining the political labels in use for about 100 years. By calling himself a conservative, Bush is redefining the term. Since at least as far back as Woodrow Wilson's administration, the word conservative meant someone who favored smaller government, less government spending, and a belief that it was not the government's job to redistribute wealth from those...

FIREWORKS BEGIN, THEY WILL ONCE AGAIN SAY COLTER DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO SPEAK OR SELL BOOKS BECAUSE SHE HOLDS EXTREME VIEWS. TRUE ONES AT THAT

Friday, June 20 2003 We thought that maybe she had more to say . . . Beginning Monday, Ann regularly will offer her thoughts on issues and ideas of the day here on her blog, CoulterGeist, exclusively on Human Events Online. If you thought her weekly column and her books raised the ire of liberals, wait until the Left gets a load of CoulterGeist. - Posted 1:29 PM

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The Safety Terrorists By Deborah Venable Where do I begin to fill in the abundance of evidence for such a provocative title? No, it all didn't start with the September 11th terrorist attacks but perhaps those events have led to a truly infected mess that we must begin to address with intelligence instead of hysteria. It probably all started the first time somebody somewhere uttered those ill-fated words, "there ought to be a law." Perhaps the first time someone looked around for someone else to blame for his own misfortune – yes, these two souls probably got together at...

<p>A mysterious weblog purporting to be the journal of an anonymous heiress on the run from her wealthy family appears to be a hoax. But the site and offline elements supporting it are so elaborate and so well executed that many bloggers suspect the whole thing just might be true.</p>

Hi all.I know that some people here are fans of Blogs. I am one as well. I had a brainstorm for something new here at FR, and Jim gave me the go-ahead to give it a whirl. The idea is for a quasi~official blog. The Freeper Island Blog.Why Freeper Island? Because like Survivor, a blogger can be voted off the island. Basically what I am imagining is that we will have a dozen people who are the designated inhabitants of the Freeper Island Blog. There will be a blog thread each day, and any of the twelve can add items...

Thousands of people from around the world who are anxious to understand what life is like for ordinary Iraqis in wartime turn daily to an online diary that purports to describe one man's view of life in Baghdad. But on Monday night and Tuesday morning, site visitors saw a faked shot of President George W. Bush holding Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in a playful headlock, instead of the authentic photos of Baghdad that normally appear on the Dear Raed weblog. For the last six months the site's creator, who uses the pseudonym Salam Pax, has chronicled Iraq's political situation from...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mysterious Iraqi who calls himself Salam Pax, writing a Web log from the heart of Baghdad, has developed a large Internet following with his wry accounts of daily life in a city under U.S. bombardment. Salam Pax, a pseudonym crafted from the Arabic and Latin words for peace, came back on line on Monday after a two-day break because of interruptions in Internet access. The traffic on his Web site, http://dear_raed.blogspot.com, caused the server to go down and Salam's e-mail folder has filled with inquiries about his true identity.

---snip--- Monday, 3/17/03 I asked Fred when he this war would start. We have all given into its inevitability weeks ago. Be ready shortly after the President speaks, he told me. President Bush speaks tonight. There will be an ultimatum, we are told. Reporters here whisper in the corridors, afraid of losing a competitive edge. They fill their four wheel drives with petrol and pack them with bottled water. The days of feature stories are numbered. The only question: toward the fires or toward the glory. Or perhaps something worse. ---snip---

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Talk about a hard web site to pin down! It has taken the effort of our entire Wed Developer Network to finally locate Saddam Hussein's personal blog site! Here is Saddam's Playhouse

A persistent theme among people writing about the social aspects of weblogging is to note (and usually lament) the rise of an A-list, a small set of webloggers who account for a majority of the traffic in the weblog world. This complaint follows a common pattern we've seen with MUDs, BBSes, and online communities like Echo and the WELL. A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems. Then, as the new system grows, problems of scale set in. Not everyone can participate in every conversation. Not everyone gets to be...

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Festering pig repels virtual onslaught, remains dead... by Greg Swann Mail from Billy Beck this morning, referring back to me ranking on the 'blogosphere' for it's hubris over the hounding of Trent Lott: I note Sullivan's cite of "a reader", this morning: "I have been a fan of blogs for a while now, but I have not seen a story happen around the edges of the major media like this one has. Strangely, this could be a watershed moment for the world of blogging. Not because they have done everything in the story, but because they sustained the momentum...

THE LEFTISTS ARE WHINING again. In the ‘80s, they sniveled, "Why is talk radio right-wing?" In the ‘90s, they wept, "Why do conservatives rule the Internet?" Now a new version of the same old complaint has arisen: "Why are all the blog sites conservative?" The answer to all three questions is the same. Talk radio, webzines, list servers, message boards and now blog sites have one thing in common. They are interactive. They let people talk back. Consequently, it is physically impossible for new media to do what old media did – that is, to shove unpopular ideas down peoples’...

Are Weblogs Changing Our Culture?     Kurt Andersen, the author of Turn of the Century, is now at work on his second novel. He's also the host of the public radio program Studio 360. Andrew Sullivan, a senior editor at the New Republic, writes daily for andrewsullivan.com. Slate has asked them to discuss the Weblog phenomenon as well as two new books about blogging, We've Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture and The Weblog Handbook.     Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri   From: Andrew Sullivan To: Kurt Andersen Subject: The Blogosphere Weighs InPosted: Wednesday, September 4,...

Web news site MSNBC.com will introduce a new Web logs section by the end of August, a move that will allow more editorial control over the opinionated ramblings of its former online discussion boards. Web logs, commonly called "blogs," allow people to post commentaries and other written musings for Web audiences. Blog authors oftentimes include links to other blogs and to articles relating to a particular topic. But for a mainstream Web site such as MSNBC.com, blogs offer a stepped-up level of editorial control over the often raucous ramblings from readers in online discussion boards. The site closed the popular...

We've read the Michael Leeden articles, and we can't stand it any more. So, bloggers are jumping in. There's a Blog Burst going on, starting with John's Open Letter to the Iranian People referenced above (and reproduced/modified on many blogs). As noted on Winds of Change, Iranian blogger "Derek Shan" has already helped start 1,200 Farsi-language blogs inside Iran. We're hoping that will help with translation, and also begin spreading the word in-country. If you have a web site, join the effort! I have.

The staff of CSE have launched a new feature: the D.C. Political Blog! It's off to a shaky start but it is worth watching.