Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As always, it was a good week at the Watcher’s Council. Indeed, I’d say it was a better week than usual, because we’ve traveled back to our roots and made an effort to nominate blog posts, rather than syndicated articles, in the non-Council category. It made for much more varied
Continue readingYou know how you never drink a toast to yourself? Well, in Obama’s world, it’s all about him. As he made clear at the Berlin Wall ceremony, history has culminated in him. He transcends all things and is now, at least in his own mind, the living embodiment of America.
Continue readingLook on the lower left right side of the screen capture to see a very interesting the poll from the Marin Independent Journal, the local Marin newspaper: The poll, of course, can be totally slanted because of a couple of emails to conservatives living in Marin. What makes the poll
Continue readingThe following are this week’s Watcher’s Council submissions. I’ll explain the two extra links below, because it may be of interest to you: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric – Agitprop-Funding NEA Chief: “Barack Obama Is The Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar The Glittering Eye – Triage Rhymes With Right –
Continue readingObama has known for more than 12 months that he was going to become CIC, with responsibility for Afghanistan. This means 12 months of presidential advisers able to give this neophyte help in figuring out the best strategy for the war that he declared, during the campaign, was the essential,
Continue readingThat Nancy Pelosi is a pistol. Here she is, a terrible public speaker, but still arguing strongly that it’s absolutely unconscionable for Congress to sneak bills through committee, to vote on things they haven’t read and don’t know, to vote on bills that the American public hasn’t had to read,
Continue readingI couldn’t find the absolutely exquisite Dorothy Lamour/Jimmy Dorsey version from the film The Fleet’s In (starring a ridiculously young Bill Holden), but I enjoyed this Slim Whitman kind-of-funky version of one of the most beautiful love songs ever written: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyCp32NBXmU[/youtube] Incidentally, Mark Steyn is paying tribute to Johnny Mercer
Continue readingAmerican Thinker is a site I check regularly, at least twice a day. It’s not just that the editors are kind enough to publish my work occasionally. It’s because the articles that appear there routinely range from really good to out-of-the-park stupendous. Today, there are two that fall in the
Continue readingOn October 22, 2008, I wrote this: The MSM has been remarkably cavalier about Joe Biden’s bizarre statement regarding the “fact” that America will be attacked six months into a Barack Obama presidency and that people will be shocked and disappointed by Obama’s response (meaning that he’ll either collapse in
Continue readingIf it wasn’t in a news story, I’d actually think that this was an O. Henry story, because the ending is such a twist. You see, it all started when a young man, walking down a dark street at night was mugged and robbed at gunpoint: A Milwaukee Army reservist’s
Continue readingIn a month or so, I will be eating at a restaurant that boasts “biodynamic vegetables.” I don’t know what the heck that means, but it makes me think of this: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfLWAB8bY4[/youtube]
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Continue readingThe big buzz is about James Cameron’s Avatar, which is supposed to be to modern movies what The Jazz Singer was to the silent film: It will remake movies. I don’t know about that, but having seen the preview a few days ago when I took some boys to the
Continue readingNot a big story, not an American story, but still a story perfectly illustrative of the cultural insanity that elevates perpetrator rights over the rights of ordinary citizens: A teenage sex attacker kidnapped and raped a five-year-old boy eight days after a judge spared him custody for another rape, it
Continue readingI remain absolutely convinced that Obama, the boy genius of the left, is a product of affirmative action who is hiding his academic record because it is dismal. If it weren’t dismal, he’d be showing it off. Frankly, though, after thirty years of affirmative action, we expected nothing more from
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