Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Help me develop a polite, persuasive argument to challenge a young friend of mine who has bought into the media narrative about right-wing extremism. (If you prefer listening over reading, the companion podcast to this post is embedded below, or you can listen to it at Li’bsyn or at Apple podcasts. I’m trying
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“White Supremacy” is a progressive canard to keep the race card viable in the absence of actual racism. It paints all whites as inherently racist and promotes the worst of tribalism as a progressive political tool. The New York Times’ 1619 Project seeks to “reframe” American history to mark the
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Scott Adams errs badly in excusing Antifa on the grounds that it’s just risk-craving young men having fun committing non-lethal violence against bad guys. When Scott Adams first heard about the way Antifa brutally attacked gay Vietnamese-American journalist Andy Ngo, he was as outraged as any decent person would be.
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Another Bookworm Beat looking at the daily news, including the daily propaganda from former news outlets, all of which is endlessly fascinating It’s not Trump’s foibles, but the media’s failures, that account for his low numbers. NeverTrumpers, looking at the chasm between Trump’s out-sized positive accomplishments in areas that matter
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Here it is — a round-up about American life in the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, with everything from politics to plumbing thrown in. This will be my last big post before my week-long hiatus (during which, as I said, I’m sure something big will happen). Fear not, though, because
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This Bookworm Beat has it all: Leftist racism, Russian conspiracies, the Cold War, cops, Hercule Poirot, education insanity, crazed campus co-eds, and more. The Trump Tower set-up and other Russian collusion fantasies. You have to be a Leftist to claim that Trump’s son walking away from a meeting at Trump
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