Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
This song is as timely now as it was then, only more so: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-BI89mb9A[/youtube] They’re rioting in Africa. They’re starving in Spain. There’s hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain. The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles. Italians hate
Continue readingMost of us here in the Bookworm Room express a healthy skepticism of “experts” in general. Most of us revel in our ability to think and discourse critically for ourselves, while others lament that socially-anointed “experts” are not solemnly revered through incense, incantations and burnt offerings made before the Temple
Continue readingI recognize that we of the Bookworm Room set do tend to be trend setters and prognosticators in intellectual discourse, but I take a special pride in the fact that we have established, through previous discussion threads, the template allowing none-other than distinguished Harvard historian and financial economist, Prof. Niall
Continue readingEvery week, I think that Council members can’t top the week that came before, and every week they surprise me. It just gets better and better. Apparently world crisis inspires council members and the non-council bloggers they nominate. Here are the winners for last week: Council Winners *First place with
Continue readingIf you haven’t already sent emails expressing support to Wisconsin Gov. Walker and the Republican Senators, you must. Here are the email addresses: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Wisconsin has become the first battle in
Continue readingI am so proud that a person like this can articulate so well what we believe: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_z1hcp1CNk[/youtube] May the angels of discourse burnish the silver on his tongue. ***UPDATED***new link!
Continue readingIf you read only one thing today, read this Caroline Glick article about the media’s Middle East coverage.
Continue readingThe average Wisconsin teacher has a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer. After the proposed legislation goes through, the average Wisconsin teacher will still have a better total compensation package than the average Wisconsin taxpayer. If this was 1789, events in Madison would be the equivalent of
Continue readingI like these paragraphs: And the exquisitely temperate ladies and gentlemen who were just the day before yesterday lecturing us about the allegedly corrosive tone of conservative political discourse are parading through the mean streets of Madison waving placards bearing the name and likeness of Adolf Hitler, and denouncing Governor
Continue readingThere’s an excellent article in the WSJ about the challenges that retiring baby boomers face as 401(k)s fail to meet their retirement needs. I don’t know if this can be accessed without an online subscription to the WSJ, so to summarize…buffeted by two major stock market crashes, most baby boomers
Continue readingI’m so upset about what happened at the UN today, I can’t speak (or write). Hot Air explains what happened: after casting a veto against the Security Council’s vote on Israeli settlements, the U.S.’s Ambassador, Susan Rice, launched into a vitriolic attack that would have come easily from the lips
Continue readingAs I understand it, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, faced with a $3.6 billion biennial budget deficit (for the years 2011-2013), had the choice of raising taxes in his financially beleaguered state or firing up to 6,000 state employees. He chose a third route, proposing that Wisconsin’s public sector employees start
Continue readingThe MSM, which went on a fruitless hunt for violent rhetoric from the Tea Party, is hiding from the public the fact that it finally found that violent rhetoric. The MSM’s problem, of course, is that the rhetoric and imagery have nothing to do with the Tea Party, and everything
Continue readingReading stories about the uproar in the Middle East, it occurred to me that, like teenagers, the citizens of those nations are rebelling (although, unlike most teenagers, they actually have cause to do so) without any clean plan beyond the rebellion itself. In this regard, they differ significantly from America’s
Continue readingI’m reading a thriller written in 1987. The bad guys are Soviet spies. They’re really bad. That was par for the course with Cold War thrillers. H0w many thrillers can you name now that have radical Islamists as the bad guys? I know there are a handful, but usually the
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