Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
From CENTCOM comes a nice report about the freeing of 3 Iraqi citizens who were held in a spider hole for 27 days, and tortured during that time, as well as the capture of a large cache of weapons, including an armed suicide car: CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – Marines from
Continue readingDecades ago, when I still naively believed that the UN was an organization that would preserve world peace, I knew that certain Evangelical Christians believed it to be a harbinger of the Anti-Christ’s One World government, and a precursor to the End of Days. How I laughed at their religious
Continue readingI’ve been complaining for decades (really) that Israel has the worst public relations imaginable. While the PLO practically held reporters hostage to tell the story with the PLO spin, the Israelis always responded with a tight-lipped military spokesman. Israel might never have prevailed against the Leftist forces arrayed against her,
Continue readingWhile the MSM, the Europeans and the UN have been calling for an instant cease fire, because they all crave the untenable , violence-ridden status quo, things are a bit different in the Arab world. Unlike the others I named, who are caught in the PLO/Israel trope, which sees Israel
Continue readingRight now, at least in my brain, the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict dominates the news, followed by the Iraq War. Afghanistan is out there, but only vaguely. Fortunately, our military forces haven’t forgotten Afghanistan and they’re still making strides against the hydra-headed insurgents that keep popping up: BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – A
Continue readingAlthough war rages because of them, we don’t hear the voices of the three kidnapped Israeli soldiers — Gilad Shalit, age 19; Eldad Regev, age 26; and Ehud Goldwasser, age 31. Lest they be forgotten StandWithUs.com (which is generally a good source for information about Israel in this time of
Continue readingI distrust the media. This is entirely separate from believing the media to be biased, and it is also separate from believing that the media intentionally sets out to deceive. My distrust goes to the nature of our visual news medium and, I realized in conversation tonight with my family,
Continue readingThere was a whole lot going on at the annual National Education Association convention, but not a whole lot of it seemed to have anything to do with education. Thus, because it’s clear that our nation’s children are learning reading and writing at rocket-like speed (this is said with a
Continue readingWhile I criticized Richard Cohen’s article calling Israel a mistake, I didn’t do so in quite the strident terms others used. I didn’t think he meant what he said, although I thought his writing inept and some of his conclusions were pretty silly. In any event, I don’t have any
Continue readingIsrael went after Hamas with a vengeance when Hamas kidnapped Cpl. Shalit. No negotation; no prisoner exchanges; no nothing. Israel wanted Shalit back, and that was it. Apparently, Israel’s tactics against Hamas were effective, not only with regard to Cpl. Shalit, but also with regards to the thousands of rockets
Continue readingKarl Rove has apparently planted a mole at the UN. How else can one explain this story about the UN humanitarian chief: The UN humanitarian chief accused Hizbullah of “cowardly blending” among Lebanese civilians and causing the deaths of hundreds during two weeks of cross-border violence with Israel. *** On
Continue readingThe wonderful editor at Webloggin has done something amazing for me. He’s set up a site at www.bookwormroom.com (no mention of WordPress in that address), which will nevertheless take you right to me. I don’t know how he’s pulled this one off, but I’m just thrilled. It’s not that I
Continue readingThose who know the corporeal me, as opposed to the cyber me, will tell you that I’m a fairly unassuming person. I’m not at all shy — indeed, I’m quite gregarious in my own social circles — but I’m not someone who will put myself forward. I don’t like going
Continue readingIf you need any further evidence that the MSM is not thinking about events in the Middle East, you need go no further then a little NPR news squiblet I heard this morning which, in less than 30 seconds, had 4 shopworn, thoughtless cliches. I can’t find the transcript (it
Continue readingI started a series of posts aimed at examining what the Left side of the blogosphere had to say about what I think is one of the biggest stories of our day: Israel’s major military initiative against Hezbollah. What I discovered, and why I’ve sort of dried up on checking
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