Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The “Progressive” aversion to rich people (at least, rich people in the abstract, since so many prominent Progressives are filthy rich) is a hangover from a non-capitalist time, when wealth was class-based. In America, with a free, capitalistic system, wealth is, at least in theory, available to all people. Historic
Continue readingMy mother, European and half-Jewish, has lived in America since the 1950s. Before that, she lived in Israel, a proud Jewish nation continually under Arab/Muslim attack. Her years in Israel were interrupted by a four year long stint in a Japanese concentration camp in Java. As a pre-teen, she lived
Continue readingMy brain is an arid desert, devoid of ideas or inspiration. At least for the next few hours, until my synapses start firing, you’re on your own!
Continue readingGreg Gutfeld calls it “Students Against Hummus, Not Hamas,” which is a very funny description of something that’s not funny at all: Anti-Israeli students at Princeton, offended that two Israeli companies are provided the hummus sold in school-run stores, are making a lot of noise about “expanding” the hummus selection.
Continue readingThis is a somewhat random post, since I’m mushing an idea around in my mind, and would love to have your input. The start for this post is my upbringing. I was raised in a European household (although that household was located in America). Both my parents came from the
Continue readingMany, myself included, found it heartening that the Wikileaks cables showed that Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, were talking tough to American diplomats when it came to Iran. That proved, we said, that, no matter what the leaders said on the streets, behind the scenes they were sensibly aware
Continue readingI spoke this weekend to a law enforcement agent who works in domestic counter terrorism. He said what we all know: one of the ways in which Islamic radicals recruit previously apathetic young men is through sex. Not actual sex, but the manufactured sex of rock videos. In other words,
Continue readingI have friends who have taught in inner city schools. Without exception, they have told me that, if a child’s parents are drug-addled, the school lunch may be the only meal the child gets. There is a tremendous virtue to feeding starving children. Having said that, I found revealing a
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Continue readingBlackfive links to Lieutenant General John Kelly’s tribute to the Marines, a tribute made more moving if one knows that Gen. Kelly’s son had died in combat a mere four days before his father gave that speech. General Kelly’s speech culminates with a moving description of the last seconds in
Continue readingIn Progressive cities, long-established businesses pull out because (a) they can’t afford the cost of doing business in a Progressive-run city and (b) the work force is substandard (which may go a long way to why the City’s voters consistently elect Progressives).
Continue readingI really shouldn’t pick on Tom Friedman. If he was the average idiot holding forth in a bar or living room, I probably wouldn’t. But this average idiot has a forum — the New York Times — that gives him license to spread his stupidity to a much wider audience
Continue readingEveryone is at risk in an Islamic country: Pakistani authorities have arrested a doctor on suspicion of violating the country’s contentious blasphemy law by throwing away a business card of a man who shared the name of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, police said Sunday. The punishment for blasphemy, of course, is
Continue readingEveryone has been talking about Obama’s bizarre behavior in ceding his press conference to Bill Clinton and just walking away. What I haven’t seen commented upon yet, but what I find incredibly funny, is the henpeckedness of it all. Both of these men are reputed to have wives with more
Continue readingA Congressional panel is advocating the removal of all restrictions between women and the front line. Aside from the same problem that arises with gays at the front line — the possibility of sexual jealousy interfering with unit cohesion — there are a few biological realities that I see as
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