Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My posting was light yesterday, in part because I had a lot of work and childcare obligations, and in part because I’d sort of run myself out of energy working on a contribution to the American Thinker‘s series of articles about religious wars. For the American Thinker, I ended up
Continue readingEven the propaganda organs can only be taken so far before the reporters realize they’re being played for total fools. How else to explain the fact that the BBC has acknowledged that some of the bodies in Lebanon belong to terrorists, not “innocent” civilians: The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) has
Continue readingDennis Prager, on this morning’s radio show, directed me to an LA Times Op-ED by Zev Chafets, a non-religious Jew. In it, Chafets explains, once again, why American Jews have to shake off their atavistic fear of American Christians: For millions of American evangelical voters, living right includes supporting Israel.
Continue readingOn Sunday, San Francisco saw a fairly large rally supporting Israel. It wasn’t large for a City of SF’s size, but it was large for a City as Left as SF is. To her credit, Dianne Feinstein attended and spoke at the rally. The San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting on the
Continue readingSince I’m not blogging today (or probably not) here’s something fun to watch, especially if you need someone to tell you “I love you.” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVzJj9Bio5g]
Continue readingI have a ridiculously short work day today, and lots of work to do in that time. Since I’m not going to be blogging, I urge you to visit the Blogfriends in my sidebar. Not the Big Blogs — you know all about them — but the Blogfriends who consistently
Continue readingAmongst the billions of criticisms leveled at Israel is the one claiming that she’s taking out too many innocent civilians. DQ examined some of the problems with this claim here. David Horowitz examines another problem, which is that Lebanon is more complicit with Hezbollah than we currently wish to admit:
Continue readingAs a favor, I’m watching someone’s toddler. It’s 90 degrees, we have no air conditioning, my home is not childproof, and my own kids are intermittently “helping” with the toddler. All I have to say is shoot me now and put me out of my misery….
Continue readingIn fact, the cheese-eating surrender monkeys weren’t anywhere near the winners’ podium: Floyd Landis won the Tour de France on Sunday, keeping cycling’s most prestigious title in American hands for the eighth straight year. The 30-year-old Landis cruised to victory on the Champs-Elysees, a day after regaining the leader’s yellow
Continue readingMark Steyn on the vile Islamist whirlwind the European and American dilettantes must now reap after having cultivated the PLO and its ilk so assiduously: In Causeries du Lundi, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve recalls a Parisian dramatist watching the revolutionary mob rampaging through the street below and beaming: “See my pageant passing!”
Continue readingNot a day goes by that we don’t hear a drumbeat of stories about the “civilians” being killed in Lebanon and the growing “civilian” crisis there. But what is a civilian? If Israel bombs the home of a civil Hezbollah leader and kills the leader, his wife and his four
Continue readingMr. Bookworm rented a movie called Tigerland the other day, about men being trained to go off to the Vietnam War. I found it unwatchable, in large part because every other word was a filthy obscenity. There was almost no substance to the dialogue, just foul language. Thinking back, this
Continue readingI’m always stunned by the shallowness of liberal thinking about international affairs. Granted, it’s hard to be deep on a bumper sticker, but surely they can do better than the ones I’ve been seeing lately. “In an eye-for-an-eye world everyone will be blind.” Well, yes. Of course, if the other
Continue readingHere’s the story: A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring five before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said. The 21-year-old suspect, whose name was withheld pending charges, was arrested and then taken to a hospital after complaining of chest pains, Memphis Police
Continue readingIt’s time for another installment in the “things I find interesting” series of posts I’m doing about the Israeli/Hezbollah war. This is not meant to be a compilation of everything regarding the war, just those things that struck me as fresh takes, or unusually clear takes, on current events. As
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