Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of the blessings of blogging is that I’ve met so many wonderful people. I haven’t met most of them in the conventional sense — that is, I haven’t been in the same physical space with them — but I’ve corresponded with them over the years and feel I know
Continue readingIf you have a good monitor, watch this video at maximum size. It’s stunning: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEu42L0ufBY[/youtube] (Or, if the embed code doesn’t work, go here.)
Continue readingSadie played connect the dots for me: Dots begin here . . . . After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose
Continue readingA new enlistee thought quickly and helped arrest a couple of brazen criminals (emphasis mine): A quick-thinking cashier ran out of a Mill Valley store Sunday morning and photographed two women who had shoplifted Taser stun guns and pepper spray — resulting in arrests a few minutes later. At about
Continue readingPlease forgive me in advance for committing quite possibly the worst punning offense ever seen at this blog. Back in the 1970s, after assassinating San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, Supervisor Dan White’s legal team came up with the novel line of defense: Dan White couldn’t help
Continue readingRon Paul’s doing well in Iowa, so well that there are some who project a win for him there. Interestingly, despite his frontrunner, or near frontrunner, status, the MSM is remarkably quiet. Some think it’s because the MSM knows he can’t possibly win, so why bother. Others wonder the MSM
Continue readingI came of age in the post-Vietnam era. Let me amend that: I came of age in San Francisco in the post-Vietnam era. Although Fleet Week, which started in the City about 20+ years ago has done a lot to turn things around, San Francisco has not been a military
Continue readingWe all grew up being taught that FDR was the nation’s savior. He wasn’t. He was a Progressive who prolonged the depression by an extra seven or eight years, inflicting tremendous damage on the nation. The fact that Newt finds FDR an effective leader is somewhat worrying.
Continue readingObama is getting drunk with power. He’s a scary drunk.
Continue readingIt was inevitable, but that doesn’t make Christopher Hitchens’ death less sad for those of us who valued and enjoyed his intellectual honesty, brilliant writing, and all around caustic joie de vivre. Christopher Hitchens — Requiescat in pace.
Continue readingThe usual truly excellent stuff is before me: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – Looks like U.D. still hasn’t fully learned its lesson The Political Commentator – The Captured U.S. RQ-170 drone in Iran! Why is Jimmy Carter smiling? The Noisy Room – A Square Deal in a Round
Continue readingA lot of people have had a good laugh over the fact that Time Magazine, romanticizing the OWS crowd and the Muslim Brotherhood, named “The Protester” as its person of the year. A friend of mine, however, has noted something that a lot of people passed over, which is one
Continue readingAll of us at this blog have shared thoughts and facts similar to those in Bill Whittle’s latest video. It’s hard, though, to imagine anyone putting them together as well, as cogently, and with such elegant brevity, as Whittle himself: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-oS4WLui3Q&sns=em[/youtube]
Continue reading“Facts are stubborn things.” — John Adams. “Ideologues are even more stubborn than facts.” — Bookworm A few nights ago, Mr. Bookworm watched the movie Shattered Glass with the children. It’s a fairly good retelling of the way in which Stephen Glass, a young feature writer at The New Republic,
Continue readingI’m a day late (per my usual habit of posting this list on Tuesdays), but I’ve still got the results from last week’s Watcher’s Council votes. It is, as always, good, good stuff: Council Winners *First place with 3 votes! Joshuapundit––Heart Of Darkness; Obama’s Campaign To Make Israel A Scapegoat
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