Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
[I’ll keep this at the top through Memorial Day. Scroll down for lots of new posts.] Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words as part of a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished
Continue readingThis morning, I was emailing back and forth with my friend Kim Priestap, who blogs at the wonderful and charming Up North Mommy. We were discussing Jews who view Israel, not as a victim, but as a predator. Never mind the fact that Israel lays claim to a tiny patch
Continue readingFor once, Israel is trying swiftly to retain some semblance of control over the message. Using facebook, the Navy is disseminating videos of the incident. I’ll show them here, followed by the IDF’s narrative, which the IDF included with the YouTube footage. This video narrative begins yesterday, when the IDF
Continue readingAs I’ve mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. A liberal I know flipped through the book’s first few pages and had a very different reaction.
Continue readingMr. Bookworm called to me today: “Israel did it again.” I can’t fault him for his viewpoint. This is what happens to people who read only the New York Times. To them, it is always Israel’s fault, because that’s what they’re told to think. The possibility that there might be
Continue readingOn the right side of the blogosphere, we have often discussed the fact that, during the Bush years, the Left indulged in gory fantasies of George Bush being shot or beheaded. In the interest of fairness, it behooves me to point out that some on the Left indulge in similar
Continue readingI did a very little post about Obama’s meaningless rhetoric and, with a nod to Lerner and Lowe, I titled it “Words, words, words. I’m so sick of Obama’s words.” Tonestaple, in the comment section, came back with something much better: With deepest apologies to Lerner & Lowe: Words, words,
Continue readingAmerican Jews supported Barack Obama in numbers second only to American Blacks. They still support Obama. This is because the soft life in America has sucked out their brains. How else can one explain that they continue to support him despite things like this: Washington’s unprecedented backing for a UN
Continue readingWe’ve talked before about the horrible racism of liberals. They typecast everyone, and then convince each person so typecast that he (or she) is a victim of an all powerful white male cabal. Here is a perfect example, courtesy of Bill Maher. I’d like you to imagine the uproar —
Continue readingI love kid logic. I was telling my pre-teen daughter about the Navy SEALS (having just finished Lone Survivor), and I mentioned the incredible physical strength and mental stamina the men had. “And the women….” she prompted me. “Nope,” I said. “No women.” She stared at me. “But don’t the
Continue readingHow could I have missed this one? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4r6YCUtxfs[/youtube]
Continue readingFor someone who is supposedly the most adept president at speechifying since FDR, Obama is a bombastic blowhard, whose occasional forays into real speech reveal ugly things about his thinking. Mark Steyn describes Obama’s linguistic approach: Like those of many great “thinkers,” words for Barack Obama and his coterie seem
Continue readingEffective ad: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVehAAwh0gY[/youtube] I’m not a Peggy Noonan fan, since I haven’t forgiven her for drinking the Obama Kool-Aid simply because he fit her class structure rubric (Ivy League professional), but I think her WSJ piece should be read as a companion to this video.
Continue reading[Broken video link fixed.] I’ve known Dan Noyes for years, as our children have attended the same schools. This is not to say I know him well and, indeed, he knows me even less well. Every time we run into each other at school functions, you can see him try
Continue readingWith increasing frequency, we hear reports about the Left’s growing disaffection with Obama. The media, for example, is hostile to the fact that Obama doesn’t even bother to hide his disdain for them. This is not just media pique resulting from unreasonably high expectations. Obama is quite explicit about his
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