Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The big news in the world of conservative publishing today is Stanley Kurtz’s Radical-in-Chief. It’s not actually out yet — that will happen on October 19 — but you can pre-order at the link I provided. According to the press release, the book proves completely that Obama, despite his denials,
Continue readingHonest to Gawd, I think summer vacation is making my brains evaporate. It’s not just the endless small interruptions and tasks. Those are fixtures in my life. Nor is it the fact that the kids and their friends are around non-stop. Indeed, having the friends around is a good thing,
Continue readingYou might have noticed here a paucity of posts about the Gulf Oil spill. Except for its providing further evidence of Obama’s tin ear, I found it uninteresting. Why? Because the environmentalists were hysterical. Experience has shown me that, unlike even a stopped clock, they are almost invariably wrong. That
Continue readingThe Council has voted again, and I’m very flattered that my fellow Council members thought my post on burqas was good enough to take first place. As it is, I didn’t think I’d rank anywhere near the top, since the other submissions were so good. Here are all the winners
Continue readingWhile the MSM would clearly like the whole Journolist discussion to vanish (as evidence by the fact that I haven’t found mention or, at least, prominent mention of it in any traditional print media), the fact remains that it’s out there and it’s ugly. The bits and pieces we’ve seen
Continue readingNormally, I open one of these posts by apologizing for not blogging because, honestly, I really meant to blog. Not this time, though. I’ve been letting my brain go fallow this weekend. Aside from it being the dog days of summer, meaning that the politic scene is running stupid, but
Continue readingThose on the Left and the RINO “right” (Frum, Parker, etc.) are defending JournoList vigorously by saying that there’s nothing wrong with them having opinions and talking amongst friends. That’s absolutely true. But that wasn’t what the JournoList people were doing. IBD sums it up beautifully (emphasis mine): In essence,
Continue readingAndrew McCarthy writes compellingly about the problems — the big problems — we in America should have with the proposed Ground Zero mosque. What I like is his pithy summary of the reason Islam is different from all other religions, and this is primarily because, while it calls itself a
Continue readingBy now, we’re all familiar with the Sherrod story. Andrew Breitbart was sent an edited video that made it look as if Sherrod was boasting to an NAACP gathering about denying government aid to white farmers. The audience laughed complicitly when Sherrod made that confession. Breitbart held onto that video
Continue readingThe parts I’ve highlighted make this sound like a very expensive proposition and, as I explain below, I’m worried that the bureaucratic rigidity that controls these types of things is part of what will make it so ridiculously expensive: Corte Madera must put a $3 million to $4 million revenue
Continue readingI was complaining to Don Quixote today about the huge amount Mr. Bookworm and I pay in taxes, an amount that will only increase come January, when the Bush tax cuts expire. I have, of course, a principled opposition to these high taxes. I firmly believe that government does better
Continue readingSan Francisco has long been known for its exquisite tap water. Yup, I know that sounds silly, but it’s true. Back in 1923, San Francisco got the right to build a dam in what was once known as Hetch Hetchy Valley, near Yosemite. That clear Sierra water has been flowing
Continue readingAs the kids frolic in the pool under the watchful eye of a trusted teenage babysitter (they’re all solid swimmers but, with 10 kids in the pool, someone needs to watch), I get a different pleasure, but one fully equal to theirs: I get to read and vote on the
Continue readingI know more than one liberal who voted for Obama, despite conceding his total unpreparedness for the job, solely because he was black. These liberals were utterly unconcerned that they were elevating to the Presidency of the most powerful nation on earth, during a time of economic chaos and heightened
Continue readingI’ve got lots of news stories in front of me that are fascinating in one way or another. I just haven’t figured out yet what I want to do with them — and I’m on my way to join a friend for lunch. Since this particular friend is Don Quixote,
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