Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
According to what I have been reading, Loughner purchased his handgun legally. How could this happen? When you purchase a handgun, you have to fill out an extensive questionnaire for the FBI background check. You answer questions about whether you have ever been convicted of a violent crime or misdemeanor,
Continue readingI’d like to think this is a joke, but modern Britain being modern Britain, I’m actually sure it’s not. One can only hope that at least some people will give the correct response to such an intrusive, inappropriate question: “Bugger off!” Are you straight or gay? Police and nurses to
Continue readingIvory Tower used to be a compliment. Now, just as ivory has degraded in social standing (the whole death of elephants thing), so too has the Ivory Tower’s star fallen (the whole death of logic, common sense, morality and actual education thing). This morning, I posted about UC Berkeley’s buffoonish
Continue readingThe Colossus of Rhodey looks at the way in which our children are being indoctrinated. Okay, they’re not really being indoctrinated this time around, but any red-blooded liberal should be horrified by the graphics. Any normal person, of course, reacts . . . well, normally. More seriously, Rob Miller, writing
Continue readingThe media does hysteria well. It’s about the only thing it does well. It hysterically accused Palin and Beck and Limbaugh and the Tea Partiers of being complicit in mass murder despite a few readily known and very salient facts: (1) the absence of a single quotation that can be
Continue readingIs there a cause and effect between hate speech and violence? These tweeters are certain there is, and they believe that Palin should be tortured, given loathsome diseases and killed for having the temerity to engage in (unidentified) hate speech: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgJKNpjSNI[/youtube] Hat tip: The Jawa Report
Continue readingBecause there are lots of announcements this week (yay!), I’m simply reprinting here, verbatim, the post the Watcher put up at the Watcher’s Council site when announcing this week’s nominations. *** Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere,
Continue readingIf you haven’t already seen it, here’s a link to the video of Sarah Palin’s response to the shootings — the actual bullets aimed at real bodies in Tucson, and the rhetorical bullets aimed at political bodies in Tucson’s wake. The beginning, with it’s platitudes about “the process of healing”
Continue readingThe two posts I link to below are very narrow in focus, and very important — both analyze the mechanisms the media used following the Tucson shooting to promulgate blatant lies masquerading as news. J.E. Dyer Ace UPDATE (8:40 a.m. PST): If you need a reminder about the scope of
Continue readingI didn’t elect this guy. I can’t get rid of this guy. This guy is in charge of education for the roughly 33,000 students at UC Berkeley. This guy gets a salary that 90% of America would envy and that I, as a California taxpayer, help pay. This guy gets
Continue readingI published the following post almost exactly five years ago, on January 6, 2006. In light of Lougner’s long-standing, florid mental illness, it seems appropriate to republish it today. *** If you link here, you can hear a really sad story. It’s the taped reminiscence of Kim Emerson, whose sister,
Continue readingAllen Guelzo has written one of the absolute best articles I’ve seen on the Left’s response to the Tucson shooting. This is a hard thing to do — write one of the “absolute best articles” — because everyone who is conservative or sane has been writing wonderful articles about the
Continue readingDoesn’t the information below about the lying autism/vaccination doc remind you of Green Billionaire Al Gore and his fellow wealth redistribution (into their own pocket) fellow travelers? According to new research published in today’s BMJ, Wakefield’s motive for the fraud was money — and lots of it. Wakefield “planned secret
Continue readingI’m very slow to anger, and with reason — I’m a mean angry person. I don’t do the liberal thing of wishing people dead or threatening them or imagining violence or bloodshed. When I’m hot under the collar, though, I up the rhetorical ante, big time, usually with high doses
Continue readingBrilliant. That’s just it. Brilliant. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaRCq9eXKw[/youtube] Hat tip: Ed Driscoll
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