Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
DQ here. The current Reader’s Digest uses freedom of religion to argue for the Ground Zero mosque with the following sentence in the concluding paragraph of the six-page article: “From the Islamic perspective, freedom to worship is part of the divine plan.” In which Muslim-dominated countries is this divine
Continue readingFrom Sadie, about a Civic Literacy test: Elected officials who took the test scored an average 5 percentage points lower than the national average (49 percent vs. 54 percent), with ordinary citizens outscoring these elected officials on each constitutional question. Here’s a link to the quiz. I scored a 93.94%,
Continue readingHave you heard of Team Rubicon? I hadn’t until yesterday, but I can tell you that it’s an organization you’ll want to know about. Check it out. As a certified wuss with a narrow physical comfort zone, I have no words to express my admiration for these volunteers.
Continue readingI really enjoyed the beginning of this opinion piece from the Guardian: When Barack Obama addressed a shocked nation in Tuscon, Arizona, yesterday, he deployed the only weapon left to a crippled presidency: the power of rhetorical cliche. He deployed it brilliantly. “Together we thrive,” he cried meaninglessly. “For all
Continue readingSmall Dead Animals notices something interesting: the crime stats in Sheriff Dipstick’s county, as compared to Sheriff Arpaio’s county, are appalling. Appalling that is, assuming you’re a law abiding citizen and not a criminal. If you’re a criminal, they’re pretty darn good. My only question is whether the lousy sheriff
Continue readingI don’t have problems with calling things by their true names. So, I don’t think Palin erred in using the correct phrase — blood libel — to describe the heinous rhetorical attacks leveled against her. Barry Rubin does an excellent job explaining precisely why her word choice was so accurate.
Continue readingEd Morrissey writes about yet another homegrown jihadist, this one in Pennsylvania. The only thing that distinguishes this story about a man who wants to use his Islamic faith as a reason to commit mass murder is the defense his family is mounting: the 21-year old has Asperger’s, they say.
Continue readingThe virtue of the media’s post-Tucson shooting attacks was that they were so blatant. It was easy to challenge them because they bore no relationship to objective reality. What’s harder to deal with are the attacks that fly below the radar. You know the attacks really exist but, sometimes, if
Continue readingAlmost thirty years ago, just after college, I got a summer job in a hospital administrative office, filling in for a gal who was on maternity leave. One of the guys in charge of that office looked, to my fevered young eyes, just like Tom Selleck. He wasn’t very nice,
Continue readingI’ve been quiet so far about the President’s speech and the memorial service, but I’m sufficiently irked by the praise being heaped upon it (praise measured by the Left using the standard of insults to Palin) that I’m not going to be quiet any more. First, contrary to the hype
Continue readingOkay, to be precise, this was a former Marine, but it was still a Marine to the rescue, in the wake of a street shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District. As a witness wrote: Hey. I live right at 20th and Dolores. I ran out the door on Friday night
Continue readingJ.E. Dyer writes about the way in which Obama, having joined with those who sought to destroy American norms and institutions, may finally realize that he’s crawled to the top of a possibly worthless heap — and one that he helped reduce to that level. Michelle Obama Malkin points out
Continue readingSome saw Iowahawk is a comedic genius. Some (myself included) would agree: Hat tip: Soccer Dad
Continue readingThe other day I said I was trying to find a good analogy for the Left’s sudden demand for civility in speech (ignoring the fact that we know that they’d redefine “civility” for themselves so as to render it meaningless). Jonah Goldberg’s got it (emphasis mine): The false equivalence between
Continue readingA couple of days ago, I posted a YouTube video made up entirely of tweets from Palin haters. It was a classic “unclear on the concept” thing, as the tweeters, in response to their perception that Palin’s “hate speech” caused the Tucson shooting, tried to top each other with vivid
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