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December 1998

12/31: In Defense of Liberalism

12/31: Opinion and Letters from Our Readers

12/30: Loyal Opposition -- Do the Hustle/Stepford Democrats/Next: Privatizing Torture

12/30: Lott Gags

12/29: The Propaganda Coup

12/28: Pundit Pap -- Trumped-up Guest Rosters Unanimous in Guilty Verdicts

12/27: 1999 -- What a year that was!

12/26: All Right, You've Asked For It!

12/24: Speaker Desig-"maybe" Dennis Hastert

12/24: Six Nights Before Christmas

12/23: Wag the Elephant

12/23: Why Gingrich REALLY Quit

12/22: Piling On

12/21: The Pundit Elite Impeach Themselves

12/20: Objective Achieved -- The Public Deceived

12/20: The Amway Impeachment -- it's That Simple!

12/19: The Unraveling

12/19: Bombshells, Bombs and the Politics of Personal Destruction

12/18: Does Canady Have Something to Hide?

12/18: "Adulterer Livingston, I Presume?"

12/18: Impeachment Debate

12/17: Bring It On!

12/16: Loyal Opposition -- Left at Sea

12/16: US Uses New Weapon on Iraq -- the "Al De Tripp"

12/16: President Clinton to Bomb Iraq

12/16: A Message for Moderate Republicans

12/15: Bob Barr, "Real American"

12/15: Hypocrite and Adulterer Henry Hyde

12/15: Around the News Desk -- Three Down...

12/14: Pundit Pap -- High-Stakes Pap

12/12: Witch Trials Revisited

12/12: 81 Questions for Henry Hyde, One Answer: "Never!"

12/10: Witch Trials, Day 3

12/9: Loyal Opposition -- Saving Public Retirement/Earle's Reply

12/9: The Uninspiring Judiciary Committee

12/9: Witch Trials, Day 2

12/8: How Republicans Twist the Meaning of the Constitution in Their Zeal to Get Bill Clinton

12/8: Witch Trials

12/7: "Thought Comes Before Speech"

12/7: Hyde in Front of the Boxes, Henry!

12/7: Pundit Pap

12/4: Hyde and Go Fish

12/3: Let It Go

12/1: The Henry Hyde Witch Hunt Show

12/1: Hyde's Hand-picked Panel Destroys Him

December 1: Bob Barr's REAL Impeachment Inquiry Hearing Opening Statement


November 1998

11/30: Pundit Pap

11/26: Happy Birthday 8/o!

11/25: Loyal Opposition -- Fading Starr/Her Town

11/24: Politics Ain't Matlock!

11/23: Pundit Pap -- Starr Talks, Dash Walks...

11/20: Sam Dash Becomes Starr-Gate's Howard Baker

11/19: Starr Speaks!

11/19: A Letter to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee

11/18: Loyal Opposition -- Lost Time//Newt Nostalgia/Your House

11/17: Stick It to 'Em, Al!

11/16: Pundit Pap -- No War! Why it's time for NBC to fire Tim Russert!

11/15: Livingston -- Worse Than Newt!

11/13: 81 Questions for Henry Hyde

11/12: Please, Not Again/Newtered

11/11: Loyal Opposition -- Exit, Stage Right/Lucky Man/Pundits, Airfares and Springsteen

11/10: Doctor Livingston, I Presume?

11/9: Pundit Pap's Post-Newt Frenzy!

11/6: MSNBC Reports Newt Resigns! GOP Shakeup Begins!

11/5: Post-Election DIS-Patch -- Voters Kill Impeachment, Jones Team Self-destructs

Election Day Wrap-up!
11/4: Gingrich, Christian Coalition, Armey and Lott Renounced by Voters --America Rejects Impeachment Witch Hunts, The New Moralism and GOP Radical Conservatism
11/4: Loyal Opposition -- Starr's Slips, Bloopers / Not Just Sex
11/4: Pundit Pap Special for Election Day, 11/3, 1998

11/3: Starr Leaks!! It's the End of the Beach for Malibu Ken

11/3: Election DIS-Patch

11/3: Back to the Future at ABC.com

11/2: Pundit Pap for 11/1st

11/2: Monday Election DIS-patch


October 1998

10/31: Saturday Election DIS-Patch

10/30: Left and Wrong

10/30: Friday Election DIS-Patch

10/29: Sexcrime and Goodsex: Starr's Orwellian Investigation

10/28: Loyal Opposition -- A Putz for Money/A Loose Hoosier/The Fugitive(s)

10/27: Got Pork?

10/26: Pundit Pap for 10/25

10/22: Scary Politics -- Are Republicans Getting Out the "Big Guns"?

10/21: Loyal Opposition -- Who Knows?

10/20: This Is a Joke... Right?

10/19: Pundit Pap for October 18th

10/16: Peddling Hate in America

10/15: Debunking the Clinton "Body Count"

10/14: Around the News Desk -- Making Opinion Fact

10/13: Loyal Opposition

10/12: Pundit Pap

10/9: An Open Letter to Abbe Lowell

10/8: "Is This Watergate or Peyton Place?"

10/7; Loyal Opposition

10/6: "I'm With the 60 Percent!"

10/5: Pundit Pap for October 4th

10/2: Tom DeLay Gets Federal Investigation -- of Tom DeLay!!

10/1: The Bill Clinton 'Twilight Zone' Impeachment Resolution


September 1998

September 30: Loyal Opposition -- The Thrill Is Gone/Pat's War/Past Is Not Prologue

September 29: Safire --What a "Character"

September 27: Pundit Pap for September 27

September 25: "Backlash?" Try the Straw That Broke the Camel's Back!

September 23: Armageddon Revisited

September 22: Loyal Opposition -- Regarding Henry Hyde

September 22: Betting on Clinton -- Let's Go to the Videotape!

September 21: Pundit Pap for Sunday, September 20

September 18: Sexual Armageddon

September 17: Salon Scorches! DeLay Panics! GOP Wants to Sic FBI on Blumenthal

September 16: Loyal Opposition -- Impeachment Madness

September 15: Howard Kurtz: Voice of the Clueless Media Elite

September 14: Pundit  Pap -- Public "Affair" Programming at Its Worst!

September 13: Kenny's Still Out There!/Dr. Morality & Mr. Sleaze

September 12: Oops! Another Bad "Tripp" for Starr!/Reader Letters & Choice Print Bites from the Press & Pols

September 11: Starr Report Found EMPTY by Republican Moderates!

September 10: Reichstag Tribunal Convenes, Welcomes Funeral Cortege for Democracy

September 10: Are Americans Nuts?

September 10: Welcome to Ken Starr's Toxic Waste Dump!

September 10: Loyal Opposition -- Makeover/Stepford Candidates/There Goes Beginning Poetry

September 9: Semen-Stained Dress Award Goes to George Will

September 8: America Grows Up, Media Mourns Empty Nest

September 7: Pundit Pap / A Letter from a Reader to Joseph Lieberman

September 4: It's Almost Time to Don White Sheets and Burn Crosses

September 3: Legal Racketeers?

September 3: Senator Lieberman Cops Out!

September 2: Newt and Dan -- Fashion Plates Locked Inside Their New Digs

September 1: Loyal Opposition -- With Enemies Like These...


August 1998

8/31: Pundit Pap -- Grab the Popcorn & Pepto

8/28: Linda Tripp Was Told Maryland Taping Law!

8/27: A Rebuttal of Andrew Ross's Salon Editorial "He Should Go"

8/26: Loyal Opposition -- "How long does it take for a wagging dog to become a dead horse?"

8/25: Meet Ken Starr: Newsweek's Newest Reporter?

8/24: Pundit Pap

8/21: Wag the Tripp!

8/20: Crybabies!/ Will Slate Name Names?

8/19: Loyal Opposition

8/18: Out for Blood

8/17: Pundit Pap -- Don't these guys have anything better to talk about?

8/15: Around the News Desk: The Stunt Factor

8/14: Mister Clinton Goes to Town

8/13: To Err Is Human -- To Forgive Is Un-American

8/12: Loyal Opposition -- Showtime/Muddy Reform Wrestling

8/10: Pundit Pap -- Bombings, Monica, Woodward and Bernstein

8/5: Loyal Opposition -- Monica Mania/Expert Witness/Perils of Punditry/Gun Nuts

8/1: Tabloid Presidency!


July 1998

July 28: An American Tragedy

July 27: Pundit Pap

July 23: Hong Kong -- Domestic Affairs

July 22: Loyal Opposition

July 21: D.C. Buzz

July 20: Pundit Pap -- The Secret Service, Gays, and Tim Russert!

July 18: Not Starr-Struck

July 17: Lying Until It Becomes Truth

July 16: Anatomy of a Smear

July 15: Loyal Opposition-- Tapes on Self-destruct

July 13: Pundit Pap -- Meet the Press as they really are!

July 11: Airport '98 -- The Real Disaster Film!

July 10: The Gloves Are Already Off

July 9: Around the News Desk

July 8: Letter from a Reader

July 8: Loyal Opposition -- The DeLay and Doolittle Congress

July 7: Tripped Up on Two Fronts

July 6: Pundit Pap

July 4: Around the News Desk

July 3: Loyal Opposition -- The Real Stuff/Phony Marriage Vows

July 2: Milestones and Millstones

July 1: All this damage... and for what?


6/ 1998

6/30: Ken Starr -- Conceding Defeat or Scheming to Deceive?

6/29: Pundit Pap

6/29: Loyal Opposition -- Chinese Box

6/27: Credit Where it Is Due

6/28: Judicial Triple-Header

6/25: Confidentiality Doesn't Die

6/25: Around the News Desk -- Talking China

6/24: Around the News Desk -- World Cup Diplomacy

6/23: Girl Talk

6/22: Pundit Pap-- Brill Wars!

6/20: International Finance Made Simple!

6/19: Loyal Opposition-- Starr's Grand (Self-)Illusion

6/18: Around the News Desk

6/17: Brill v. Starr -- Lapdogs on the Run

6/16: Are the Talking Points Bogus?

6/15: Pundit Pap -- Brill Cream!

6/13: America and China

6/12: They never learn

6/11: DIS-patch-- Larry Klayman

6/10: Loyal Opposition-- Deconstructing Drudge

6/9: Starr (Not Yet) Bright

6/8: Pundit Pap Galore!

6/6: MFN: Honesty at Last?

6/6: Judge Johnson Throws the Books AT Ken Starr!

6/5: Can Mike Shaheen Uncover Right Wing Chicanery In Time?

6/4: Around the News Desk -- From Hong Kong to Kosovo

6/3: Starr Drops a Bomb on the Supreme Court & Monica Secures Serious Counsel

6/2: Did the Press Miss Something Here?

6/1: Pundit Pap


May 1998

5/30: Newton's Third -- For every action..

5/29: Barry Goldwater 1909-1998

5/28: Around the News Desk -- Hong Kong, Suharto, and Technology Waivers

5/27: Newt Gingrich Slams Madeleine Albright as "An Agent for the Palestinians"

5/26: Chinese Missiles, The President, and Loral -- The Biggest Republican Lie of Them All!

5/25: Pundit Pap

5/22: DIS-patch-- Freedom from Religious Persecution Starts at Home

5/21: Around the News Desk -- Suharto and Chung

5/20: Is James Dobson the Republican Party's Public Enemy #1?

5/19: Black May

5/18: Pundit Pap

5/15: Mr. Wolf is at Your Door -- and the Christian Coalition Is the Knocker!

5/14: Around the News Desk

5/13: Dan Burton Makes a Desperate Plea to Maintain His Chairmanship

5/12: Bob Barr -- Posing As a Constitutional Defender (what he really is will disgust you)

5/11: Pundit Pap -- The Continuing Burton Meltdown

5/8: Has Bob Dole Gone Soft?

5/7: DIS-patch -- David Bossie, Vast Right-wing Conspirator of the Week

5/7: They're At It Again

5/6: The Dan Burton Interview

5/5: Pundit Pap --How Dan Burton's Campaign of Character Assassination Backfired

5/4: Mr. Burton, Have You No Sense of Decency?

5/2: Pundit Pap --Why This Week Should Be Put Out of Its Misery

5/1: Foreign Policy


April 1998

April 30: The President Makes Deserved Fools of Some of the Press

April 29: Pundit Pap

April 28: Pundit Pap

April 27: Washington Party!

April 24: Suits and Ski Masks

April 23: Around the News Desk, Talking Shop

April 23: Dan Burton: Leadership by Name-calling and Intimidation

April 22: Triple Whammy! Starr Whipped Like a Sick Dog

April 21: Pundit Pap

April 20: Pundit Pap

April 18: No Free Lunch

April 16: An Action-Packed Day of Clinton-Bashing Monkeyshines

April 16: It Doesn't End Here

April 15: Down on the Farm

April 14: Pundit Pap

April 13: Pundit Pap

April 9: True Lies

April 8: Ken Starr's Leaks to the Washington Post Backfire

April 7: Pundit Pap

April 3: How Russert, Donaldson, Fineman and Isikoff Pull the Wool Over Your Eyes

April 1: Paula Jones' Neck Snapped By Judge Wright -- The Nation Celebrates!

April 1: DIS-Patch --Get Out of Dodge


March 1998

March 31: Ask Yourself,"Why?" -- Part Two

March 31: An Open Letter to the Children of America from the Grand Old Party

March 30: Pundit Pap

March 27: Gennifer Flowers -- Screwing the President For Nothing But Money and Power

March 27: Ask Yourself,"Why?" -- Part One

March 26: Ask the Brits -- They Know a Real Scandal When They See One

March 25: Kids, Guns & America/It's a Funny World. Not.

March 24: It's the Women, Stupid

March 19: Michael Isikoff and Newsweek -- Taking After Drudge?/Rock Solid Testimony(?)

March 18: The Slow, Ugly Suicide of Newt/Whine and Run

March 17: DIS-Patch -- Slick Willey

March 16: The Ides of Pap

March 13: DIS-Patch -- You Could Be Our Next Big Winner!

March 13: Here We Go Again

March 13: Just Who's the "Secret Agenda Man" -- David Corn or Vernon Jordan?

March 12: See Newt Run

March 11: Dratt Mudge Apologizes to Clinton!!!!

March 11: John Boehner -- Master of Timing

March 10: Brock-oli

March 9: Pundit Pap

March 6: Can Democrats Be Sinking to New Lows Too?

March 6: Singapore Sling-Shot?

March 5: DIS-Patch --Bill Gates: Fake Nerd Chastised, Upstaged and Investigated

March 5: DiGenova and Toensing -- Separated at Birth from Lucy and Moe?

March 4: The New Right-wingNew York Times -- Lynching Vernon Jordan and Laughing All the Way

March 3: Talking America with Kenyans, Egyptians and Germans

March 2: Pundit Pap


February 1998

February 28: Paula Jones, Scam Artist

February 27: Hey Haley, Is That the Fat Lady We Hear Warming Up?

February 26: "Friends"Abandon Starr, Paxon Abandons House

February 25: Vote? Why Bother?

February 24: Malibu Ken -- Dweeb Turned Bully

February 23: Pundit Pap for February 22

February 20: Tripp, Lewinsky & Jones -- Not Unusual Gals

February 19: Chris Gelken on Kofi Annan

February 18: The Cult Rutherford "Institute," Paula Jones and Bogus Christian, John Whitehead

February 17: Malibu Ken Starr Is a Crook and . . . We're Asking Janet Reno to Indict Him!

February 16: Pundit Pap for February 15

February 13: The Official Tim Russert Presidential Sex Questionnaire!

February 12: Fred Thompson Delivers! Absolutely ZERO Again!

February 11: So -- Who Is This Guy George Conway III?

February 10: Don Imus

February 9: Pundit Pap for February 8

February 6: Boom Time for Body Bags

February 5: Scaife, Tyrrell, Hale and Their Blown Covers

February 4: In Other Shenanigans

February 3: Thanks But No Thanks, Ken, Three Branches Are Fine

February 2: Pundit Pap for February 1


January 1998

1/30: No Sex, Just Lies

1/29: The Doc Throws Starr and Tripp Into the Klink

1/28: Back to Business

1/27: Gelken on Bill, Gonzo on Hillary

1/26: Pundit Bowl 1998

1/24: 32 Questions for Linda Tripp

1/22: Think Twice Before Preaching the Gospel of Christ in the Church of Satan

1/21: Drudge Sludge! "Malibu" Ken Starr Strikes Out Again!

1/20: Clinton v. Jones Our Brief!

1/19: Pundit Pap

1/12: Pundit Pap

The Paula Jones Soap Opera! Chapters 1,2,3 ,4 & 5

1/9: Sleeping With the Enemy

1/8: The Speaker Soaked in ARCO Oil

1/7: Doug Bailey & American Politics Journal Give Ralph Reed Some Advice

1/6: Pothole Follies 1998

1/6: Take the Speaker's IRS Customer Survey!

1/5: Pundit Pap

1/1: The Great 1997-98 Bumper Sticker Page


1997

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