Sometimes I like to look way back at some of the more prolific bloggers and see what they were writing about back in the days. Doing this every once in a while gives a fresh perspective on the issues of the current day. When you ask, how did we get to this point, you can say - “well, this is where we were five years ago.”
Today we look at May 1, 2003 @ the Instapundit. Looks like it was a “surprising” day for him. It is also the day Bush touched down on the USS Abraham Lincoln and gave his “mission accomplished” speech.
- Surprise - The two British suicide bombers who blew up a seafront bar in Tel Aviv, killing three people, had posed earlier as peace activists, acting as “human shields” for Palestinians
- Surprise - RAGEH OMAAR, the BBC’s star correspondent in Baghdad during the Iraq war, developed a close and potentially embarrassing relationship with the director of Iraq’s Ministry of Information, who was responsible for controlling foreign correspondents.
- FBI Crime Lab incompetence in the McVeigh case.
- Explaining math to the NY Times.
- Not thrilled with Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech - a nice roundup of links.
- Cincy dropping a gun suit against manufacturers.
- Daniel Drezner says Iraq is going well — Afghanistan, not so much.
- Why technology beat the SARS virus (remember that hysteria?)
- Eric Mcerlain a letter from Iraq. Interesting stuff.
- More crushing of dissent
- Looking at German predictions of the war
- Media cover-up for George Galloway?
- Is Glenn too hard on Bush? He didn’t think so.
- More crushing of dissent.
- Appreciating John Howard.
- Arthur Silber on gay history.
- Criticizing Bush’s secrecy as policy.
- More crushing of dissent, this time out of Hollywood.
- Boris Johnson on Civilian casualties.
- Lileks says blogging is easier than writing columns.
- Kaus dissing Gary Hart’s blog.
- Terror attacks down significantly.
Now THAT is a prolific day of blogger. Amazing…
Posted on May 1, 2008 at 8:08 am by michael
