Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Showing once again my armchair hawk tendencies, I have to say that I’m delighted with Israel’s show of force against Hamas and Hezbollah (and the governments/countries that shelter and use them). I’ve long thought that Israel’s restraint was an error against enemies that loudly call for her total destruction and
Continue readingMy parents had really awful lives. My father was raised in the slums of Weimar Germany, ended up in an orphanage, escaped Nazi Germany in 1935, was homeless in Tel Aviv for a little while, spent 1939-1944 fighting Nazis in North Africa and Southern Europe, and fought in the Israeli
Continue readingIsrae, as always, is being attack not only by Islamic and Palestinian terrorists, but also by the world’s media, various nations, and the ubiquitously evil UN. If you’d like to dilute some of that horrible pressure on this beleaguered nation, why don’t you send a supportive email to the Israel
Continue readingWe’ve all thought it, but I think Michael Medved has managed to state it with incredible clarity: What lapse of logic (or ancient prejudice) can explain the stubborn, utterly unshakable, and nearly universal insistence that Israel must pursue a “peace process” with its terrorist adversaries? Regarding the United States, not
Continue readingJust a head’s up: Patrick, the Paragraph Farmer, is back from a two week trip to S. Korea (wow!). He promises that he’ll be posting photographs. He’s already proven himself to be a wonderful photographer, so those should be worth checking out. I’m also willing to bet that those photographs
Continue readingI received the following in an email and thought it interesting enough to publish here. Regarding the facts the author relays about the schools at issue — I’ve heard those same facts from other teachers at similar schools, so I believe them to be true. What do you think of
Continue readingI used to date a man who liked to blame me when things went wrong. Sometimes, of course, the blame would be merited, but as often as not, the matter at issue would be his fault or, indeed, no one’s fault. I got tired of the arguments. Eventually, when the
Continue readingUsually Webloggin cites to me. Today I’m citing to Webloggin, which has an excellent summary tying together Israel’s ability to fight a war on two fronts (an analysis that references an equally good story the Captain wrote), and the New York Times‘ despicable bias regarding this war. It harmonizes well
Continue readingThis is an NPR story about a “how to” Jihad book that ended up published on line. William McCants, a West Point scholar, discusses the larger principles in the book, including the admonition to manipulate the press better. I wondered if Steve Inskeep, as he conducted the interview, realized
Continue readingNPR today had a story about Democrats seeking an issue to draw their voters to the polls. The issue they’ve picked is the minimum wage. Democratic strategists think that Republicans have repeatedly bested them by using ballot initiatives to draw out their base. In past elections, as in this one,
Continue readingMr. Bookworm is one of the smartest people I know. He’s also someone who gets his news exclusively from the New York Times, NPR and The New Yorker. He’s fond of repeating in a loud voice that President Bush is the worst president ever, that he’s an idiot, and that
Continue readingThe war claimed another life, that of Army Spc. 4 Christopher D. Rose. His death is noteworthy, not only because it’s a tragedy every time an American soldier dies, but because he is San Francisco’s first Iraq tragedy since the war’s start more than three years ago: The parents of
Continue readingThomas Sowell on one of the fallacies behind the argument that illegal aliens cannot be deported but must, instead, be given amnesty: New York’s mayor Michael Bloomberg is still pushing the line that there would be economic collapse without illegal immigrants. But, despite the scary picture of 12 million illegals
Continue readingIf you want a reminder that children are the most effective, lethal weapon a foul ideology can harness to carry out its aims, read this. In many ways, it’s a companion to this. And it explains my heartlessness when I wrote this. The only way to save the children is
Continue readingIf you haven’t already, you should read Dennis Prager’s most recent column about communications to and about African-Americans.
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