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• Does Welfare Cause Terrorism? You knew Mickey's Assignment Desk would come to this.
  Mickey Kaus Dec. 17, 2001
  
• Is it in Bush's political interest to prolong the war? Get tomorrow's cliché today at kausfiles.
  Mickey Kaus Dec. 6, 2001
  
• Update: Hot Recount Docs! Written evidence that Gore might have won—and that the NYT blew it.
  Mickey Kaus Nov. 20, 2001
  
• Everything the New York Times Thinks About the Florida Recount Is Wrong! It turns out the U.S. Supreme Court really did cast the deciding vote ...
  Mickey Kaus Nov. 13, 2001
  
• Media Recount Alert: Did Gore Blow It? Introducing kausfiles'Spinoculator service.
  Mickey Kaus Nov. 11, 2001
  
• Four Easy 9/11 Pieces  Mickey's Assignment Desk Strikes Back 
  Nov. 2, 2001
  
• America, the Screw-Up?  
  Mickey Kaus Oct. 19, 2001
  
• Bin Laden's Instructive Home Video 
  Mickey Kaus Oct. 8, 2001
  
• Stating the Obvious 
  Mickey Kaus Sept. 23, 2001
  
• Bush Is No Giuliani; He Shouldn't Even Try 
  Mickey Kaus Sept. 13, 2001
  
• Sorry! The Budget Debate Really Isn't Exciting! 
  Mickey Kaus Sept. 7, 2001
  
• The Hidden Genius of Condit's PR Campaign 
  Mickey Kaus Aug. 26, 2001
  
• Condit-Obsessives' Corner: Watch the Watch! 
  Mickey Kaus Aug. 23, 2001
  
• Honk If the New York Times Recycled Your Story! 
  Mickey Kaus Aug. 16, 2001
  
• Update: The Good Big News 
  Mickey Kaus Aug. 14, 2001
  
• Special XP-ation Edition! 
  Mickey Kaus Aug. 3, 2001
  
• Banned in Dulles 
  Mickey Kaus Aug. 1, 2001
  
• Waiting to XP 
  Mickey Kaus July 29, 2001
  
• Series-SkipperTM: There's a Scandal in Here Somewhere! 
  Mickey Kaus July 18, 2001
  
• Warning: Chandrogynous Zone! 
  Mickey Kaus July 15, 2001
  
• Update: West Wing Creator Apologizes 
  Mickey Kaus July 9, 2001
  
• West Wing Web War! 
  Mickey Kaus July 4, 2001
  
• Apocalypse Mom 
  Mickey Kaus July 2, 2001
  
• The Good Big News (That Nobody's Reporting) 
  Mickey Kaus June 20, 2001
  
• Why Liberal Democrats Should Love Bush's Budget 
  Mickey Kaus May 26, 2001
  
• Boo's Clues 
  Mickey Kaus May 18, 2001
  
• Hell, No! We Weren't Wrong To Not Go! 
  Mickey Kaus May 5, 2001
  
• Democrats Should Immediately Ignore My Previous Column! 
  Mickey Kaus May 3, 2001
  
• Infighting on the Left: Was the '90s Boom a Bust? 
  Mickey Kaus April 23, 2001
  
• They Don't Pay kausfiles Enough To Read This Series! 
  Mickey Kaus April 16, 2001
  
• The Curse of the Opel, cont. 
  Mickey Kaus April 1, 2001
  
• The Tao of D.C. 
  Mickey Kaus March 23, 2001
  
• Run, Joe, Run! 
  Mickey Kaus March 7, 2001
  
• Will Sex Save Bill Clinton? 
  Mickey Kaus March 4, 2001
  
• Yet Another Rich Theory 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 26, 2001
  
• Series-Skipper: Shaw Must Go On! 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 20, 2001
  
• Series-Skipper: The Post's Deadly "Deadlock" 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 14, 2001
  
• Why It's OK To Be Shocked by Mr. Clinton's Recent Misbehavior 
  Mickey Kaus Feb. 8, 2001
  
• Election 2000: The Race Tightens Up! 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 28, 2001
  
• Kausfiles Answers the Miami Herald: This Time It's Personal 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 25, 2001
  
• The Miami Herald Blows Its Pulitzer 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 18, 2001
  
• It's Back ... 
  Mickey Kaus Jan. 1, 2001