Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Faith is a tremendous virtue — when it comes to religion. It has dubious value in the political field, as Thomas Sowell so neatly explains: What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey put it
Continue readingI seem to be on a binge of books that make me wonder. Today's book is Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. This is a book I mentioned before in connection with my reflections on whether a religion can abandon founding tenets and still
Continue readingFor a truly strange story about sex roles amongst the Saudis, and for a wonderful pun, go here.
Continue readingWhen is news not news? When it's rumor and propaganda — and this remains true even if every major news outlet prints it. I'm sure you haven't forgotten the New York Times' gruesome headline: "30 beheaded bodies found; Iraqi death squads blamed." The first paragraph repeated this point, and made
Continue readingJust to let you know, it's still me. I finally got the look I want, with a three column template and smaller font. Feedback is, as always, welcome.
Continue readingThe whole Cynthia McKinney kerfuffle is a distillation of entitlement run amok. McKinney, who belongs to a "protected" group (several, actually, since she's black, female and anti-Semitic), feels that she is entitled to treatment denied others: she is entitled to refuse to wear her Congressional badge, which alerts the Capitol
Continue readingI always find things like this fascinating: On Wednesday of [this] week: at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. I won't stay up for it, but I'll still think it's pretty cool that I was there at that
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs (see here), a book about how modern feminism has imposed on girls and women a view of sex and sexuality that is utterly devoid of self-respect and love. It was a profoundly depressing book. What's stayed
Continue readingDQ again. I'm a NASCAR fan, but I normally TiVo the races and skip the long opening ceremonies. Today, there was nothing much else on, so I watched the race and the ceremonies live. I was struck by the pure pride in America that infused those ceremonies. It's sad that
Continue readingI love Mark Steyn. If you don't have time to read his whole column (and who wouldn't have a few minutes for such a treat?), at least get a little fix here: [M]y point is there's no mass anti-war movement. Some commentators claimed to be puzzled by the low turnout
Continue readingJust a short note from DQ. I saw a headline the other day which informed me that 14 people had died in a rebel attack in Afganistan. Sounds like a really successful attack until you read the article, which reveals that 12 of the 14 were the rebels themselves. Now,
Continue readingThere's a move afoot to extend the voting age downwards to young children (their votes would get counted on a fractional basis). As a parent who interacts a lot with young children, I think this is stunningly stupid. As more evidence in the stunningly stupid category, I offer the beginning
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