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you're doing, don't.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_june_13_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>6/13/02</U></A>: Al Gore needs to learn from the 2000 campaign - but not very much.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_june_20_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>6/20/02</U></A>: Hunt wants to oust Saddam Hussein - but only after debating ways and means for another decade or so.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_june_27_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>6/27/02</U></A>: Using kids as a pretext to gut welfare reform.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_july_11_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>7/11/02</U></A>: Slapdash remedies for accounting fraud.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_july_18_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>718/02</U></A>: Hunt is unhappy that not all Democrats march in lockstep on campaign finance "reform".</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_july_25_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>7/25/02</U></A>: Proving that no one can be wrong all of the time, Mr. Hunt offers sensible and sobering thoughts on the need to accelerate the destruction of Russia's Cold War stockpile of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_august_1_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>8/1/02</U></A>: Hunt rehashes his earlier arguments against doing anything about Saddam Hussein.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_august_8_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>8/8/02</U></A>: A feeble effort to reassure us that liberal policy nostrums have nothing to do with the sharp decline in the rate of adoption of at-risk children.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_august_15_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>8/15/02</U></A>: Hunt proposes to topple Saddam Hussein through "transparency".</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_august_22_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>8/22/02</U></A>: Hunt approaches baseball just like politics.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322_august_29_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>8/29/02</U></A>: Mixing patriotism, politics and treacle.</div> <div> <A HREF="id322.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 1)"><U>9/5/02</U></A>: Another try at rallying Democrats behind inaction on Iraq.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_september_12_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>9/12/02</U></A>: Al is disappointed by the war effort, because we haven't suffered enough.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_september_19_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>9/19/02</U></A>: Blather about health care: a little distortion, a dash of self-revelation.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_september_26_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>9/26/02</U></A>: Tax cuts are the root of all evil.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_october_3_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>10/3/02</U></A>: Al doesn't mind if Democrats ignore his advice, just so long as they win.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_october_10_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>10/10/02</U></A>: In New Jersey, Al does his bit for the Democratic Senate switcheroo.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_november_7_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>11/7/02</U></A>: Al tries to figure out what went wrong and concludes that it was all the fault of the right-wing media.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_november_14_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>11/14/02</U></A>: Al urges Nancy Pelosi to take Charlie Halleck as her role model.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_november_21_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>11/21/02</U></A>: Now that the Department of Homeland Security has become law, Al decides that he doesn't like it.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_december_5_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>12/5/02</U></A>: Al takes on the "mushy moderates".</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_december_12_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>12/12/02</U></A>: An attack on the White House for basing its economic policy on polls and supporting tax cuts for the rich.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_december_19_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>12/19/02</U></A>: What Al doesn't say about the contest for the Democratic Presidential nomination is the most informative part of this column.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_december_26_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>12/26/02</U></A>: Al's end-of-the-year <I>in memoria</I>.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_january_2_2002.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>1/2/03</U></A>: A good start for the New Year: sensible words about the gargantuan task of bringing education to New York City public schools.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362_january_9_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>1/9/03</U></A>: The good start doesn't continue: a pedestrian piece on the newly elected Senate.</div> <div> <A HREF="id362.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 2)"><U>1/16/03</U></A>: Al the Dove morphs into a super-hawk on Korea and Iraq.</div> <div> <A HREF="id400_january_23_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 3)"><U>1/23/03</U></A>: Al calls in the army to silence to critics of "affirmative action".</div> <div> <A HREF="id400_january_30_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 3)"><U>1/30/03</U></A>: Al delivers a self-contradictory critique of the <A HREF="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/"><U>State of the Union message</U></A>.</div> <div> <A HREF="id400_february_6_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 3)"><U>2/6/03</U></A>: Without meaning to do so, Al demonstrates that conservatives have little reason to rejoice at the White House's FY 2004 budget.</div> <div> <A HREF="id400_february_13_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 3)"><U>2/13/03</U></A>: <I>Après</I> Saddam, Al sees nothing but trouble in Iraq.</div> <div> <A HREF="id400_february_20_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 3)"><U>2/20/03</U></A>: Al offers a weasel-like defense of filibusters against judicial nominees.</div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 3)"><U>2/27/03</U></A>: At last conceding the justice of overthrowing Saddam Hussein, Al nonetheless finds reasons to condemn George W. Bush.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> [Hiatus]</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_september_18_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>9/18/03</U></A>: Al labors to stir up resentment against "this gilded age of greed".</div> <div> <A HREF="id450.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>9/25/03</U></A>: Does Iraq prove that we need higher taxes? You already know what Al thinks.</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_october_2_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>10/2/03</U></A>: A ho-hum look at the current state of the Dem race in New Hampshire. Any guy with a subscription to <I>The Washington Post</I> could write the same story.</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_october_9_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>10/9/03</U></A>: Al urges Arnold Schwarzenegger to emulate Ronald Reagan <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >— well, sort of.</FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> [Another Hiatus]</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_march_18_2004.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>3/18/04</U></A>: Is George W. Bush "the real flip-flopper"?</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_march_25_2004.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>3/25/04</U></A>: Al gets passionate over <I>The Passion</I>.</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_april_1_2004.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>4/1/04</U></A>: Al accuses President Bush of a "credibility canyon", but it's not even a crack.</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_april_8_2004.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>4/8/04</U></A>: Not much comment on a nothing column about the office "that isn't worth a bucket of warm spit".</div> <div> <A HREF="id450_april_15_2004.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>4/15/04</U></A>: Al offers a surprisingly balanced summary of the GOP Senate primary in Pennsylvania.</div> <div> <A HREF="id450.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Special Section: Hunt Watch (Series 4)"><U>4/22/04</U></A>: Al spreads incoherent gloom about Iraq.</div> <div> <A HREF="#_________home" TITLE="Hunt Watch Table of Contents"><U><B><Return to Top of Page></b></U></A></div> <div> <B>  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">var site="sm8Stromata";var g_frames=true;</script> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2" src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=sm8Stromata"> </script> <noscript> <a href="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/stats.asp?site=sm8Stromata" target="_top"> <img src="http://sm8.sitemeter.com/meter.asp?site=sm8Stromata" alt="Site Meter" border=0></a> </noscript>    </b></div> </td> </tr></table></body>