Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s scary, but Mark Steyn is right: I’ve been saying for a year now, in NR and NRO, that the object for savvy Dems is to get this thing passed in whatever form because, once you do, there’s no going back. Kim Strassel in yesterday’s Journal gets it: So why
Continue readingAs I said, I didn’t submit a very good article, so I wasn’t surprised by my placement. I was very pleased, though, to see how this week’s votes did come out, because I think the winners, in both the Council and non-Council categories, deserved the recognition they received. Council Submissions
Continue reading… go here.
Continue readingOne of the problems with Barack Obama’s presidency is that so many people were invested in his election — and defended him so vigorously — that it’s very difficult for them, a year later, to ‘fess up that they made a mistake. It’s one thing to admit that you erred
Continue readingIntense family time, not to mention the fact that my brain is obsessed with a post (article?) I’m working on regarding San Francisco. I therefore seem to be temporarily without much to say. I do, however, have a joke in honor of Sen. Ben Nelson (one I’ve told before under
Continue readingThis is one of Steyn’s best, and that’s saying a lot. Here are my two favorite parts from his column on Copenhagen: [T]he Prince of Wales is simultaneously heir to the thrones of Britain, Australian, Tuvalu, and a bunch of other countries. His Royal Highness was also in Copenhagen last
Continue readingAlan Grayson, last heard of when he accused Republicans of backing a health care plan that told sick people to die, is at it again: Not everyone thinks imitation is the best form of flattery. In fact, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson of Orlando took such offense at a parody website
Continue readingIf I were devising a citizenship test for Great Britain, I can think of some things I would ask. Broadly, I would ask about her history (what makes Britain British?), her form of government (details about Parliamentary Democracy), and the duties of a citizen. But you see, I’m not writing
Continue readingNat Nentoff — famous civil libertarian (as in ACLU), pro-Lifer, offender of both the Left and the Right, and atheist — on Barack Hussein Obama: I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had. [snip] I am beginning
Continue readingDrudge highlighted a story about Rep. Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon. The point of the story is that he’s not a guy who can be easily intimidated. That’s good. We like people with backbone. What fascinated me about the article is it’s unembarrassed descriptions of the crude, brute force
Continue readingAl Franken, the rude buffoon from Minnesota deserved to be taken to task, and John McCain did it. The set-up: Joe Lieberman ran out of time to finish his talk; he asked, as Senators do, for a couple of extra minutes; and Al Franken, who was chairing, refused, something Senators
Continue readingSince the beginning, climate change skeptics have said that the hysteria of the man-made global warming movement, aside from being based on manifestly shoddy and often dishonest science, was in fact a Leftist political gambit. The Communists, having failed to win the world over with a Cold War had regrouped
Continue readingBecause the past week was a little bit overwhelming for me, my Watcher’s Council submission is not inspiring. That failing, however, is more than offset by the high caliber of all the other Watcher’s Council submissions for this week. So here’s what I’ll have great pleasure reading today: Council Submissions
Continue readingThe Heritage Foundation has an excellent summary of the way in which the Left has finally caught on to something the Right figured out long ago; namely, that it’s unconscionable (and probably unconstitutional) for the government to force citizens to buy a product from a private purveyor: Explaining why he
Continue readingI overheard the following the other day, and I’m still laughing: What do you mean I don’t treat you with respect? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Continue reading