Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
For almost a year now, LACMA (aka the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) has been pushing illegal immigration propaganda at taxpayer expense. Los Angeles County taxpayers cough up $29 million a year to cover operating costs for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, aka LACMA. I wonder if
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Progressive policies prove a proposition about lawless government: “You cannot have law-abiding citizens if you do not have law-abiding government.” Three days ago I posted about trickle-down lawlessness in California, in the form of sanctuary city and state laws: The fish rots from the head. At the very uppermost echelons
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Travis Allen, an intelligent, truly conservative happy warrior has what it takes to put a Republican in the California governor’s office. I attended a luncheon today at which Travis Allen spoke. He is running for California governor. I’ve been to many luncheons over the years at which Republican men and
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There’s a disconnect between Democrats’ approach to deadly illegal aliens and their approach to the NRA and guns, especially the AR-15. (To enlarge, click on image and then, in new screen, click on image again.) *****
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Watching the differing responses from Left and Right to the Florida school shooting perfectly captures fundamental differences in Left and Right thinking. After the school shooting news broke yesterday, I quickly pounded out a few thoughts based in large part on data from and reactions to past shootings. Now that
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Does it get any better, after Donald Trump’s spectacularly successful first year, to watch him “Shake It Off,” Taylor Swift style? I missed last year this cute Auto-Tune video, which gets Trump to sing a verse and chorus from Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off. I don’t know if I would
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Following his unexpected victory, Trump is quickly becoming America’s most consequential conservative president, making him a one-man flock of Black Swans. A “Black Swan Event” is one that: Comes as a surprise – i.e., a “high-profile, hard-to-predict, and rare event . . . beyond the realm of normal expectations in
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Even if the MSM isn’t lying about the facts, it’s still purveying fake news because its Leftist values permeate everything from story placement to language. PragerU is back with another of its excellent videos, this time about fake news. In it, Andrew Klavan offers his three-point rule of thumb for identifying
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I like some of Charles Krauthammer’s ideas about slowing the influx of illegal aliens into America, but he’s wrong to give amnesty to those already here. Charles Krauthammer has a good video out through Prager University about ways to deal with illegal aliens. He talks about the virtues of building a
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VICE News’ sob story about an illegal immigrant forced to cross legally into Canada to escape the evil Trump was truth to Leftist, but propaganda to me. The other night, I found myself sitting with a Progressive friend and watching VICE News, which is a Bill Maher production that runs
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A Progressive makes the illogical argument that civil disobedience is good in the cause of illegal immigration, but bad in the cause of abortion. A good rule of thumb is that you should never trust a Leftist who makes an argument under the morality banner. That’s certainly the case with
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On illegal immigration, today’s young people cannot understand what “the rule of law” means. But maybe you can phrase it in terms they understand…. One of the most devious tactics the Left is using lately is to conflate legal and illegal immigration. Most conservatives (like me), support the former and
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I posted a rant yesterday about how I lost a little bit of control over myself on Facebook when a Progressive friend got hysterical about ICE going after illegal immigrants with additional felonies on their records. I started off with a delicate inquiry about whether she distinguished between legal and
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Okay, I’m exaggerating a little bit when I say that Donald Trump is Rodney Dangerfield, because Trump isn’t a Jewish stand-up comedian whose shtick was to be a shlub who “got no respect” and who, near the end of his career, suddenly hit the big time in Hollywood. But if
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“Ipse dixit” is one of the more charming Latin phrases you’ll find in legal writing. It translates to “he himself has said it.” (As an aside, Gilbert & Sullivan aficionado’s may recognize that little phrase from H.M.S. Pinafore.) What the phrase means is that the author asserts as authority the
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