Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When countries are in decay, whether because of self-inflicted economic wounds or because of external factors, something is always better than nothing. Hitler, in part because of his rampant spending on weapons, was billed as having saved the German economy. Mussolini was touted for having gotten Italy’s famously flakey trains
Continue readingHezbollah claimed some more Arab lives, this time killing three Bedouin women from one family: Residents of Arab al-Aramshe find it difficult to comprehend disaster in which mother, her two daughters were killed as Katyusha rocket hit their house yard. One of daughter recently got engaged. ‘We can’t believe we
Continue readingIn June, my daughter crashed into me while wearing cleats and ripped off half my toenail. I refrained from fainting, and did a post wondering why my vasovagal syndrome is so much more profound when I hurt a toe than when I hurt any other part of me. Today, I
Continue readingIn a comment to one of my posts, someone suggested that there is proof positive that Israel is the bad guy in all this — Human Rights Watch has condemned it. Clearly, when an organization dedicated to watching out for Human Rights condemns Israel, Israel must be at fault, right?
Continue readingI’m still wondering when the NY Times will admit in its masthead that it’s the official newspaper of the Democratic party. Anyway, today’s partisan attack is a scathing denunciation of Donald Rumsfeld. It wouldn’t be notable in any way — just another day in the NY Times’ party warfare —
Continue readingVisit this PowerLine post to see a video that the Israelis periodically manage to get hacked into Lebanese TV. I know American soldiers would love to see something like this done in Iraq against Al Qaeda and Co., but we’re too PC. As John, at PowerLine says, he’s not sure
Continue readingForget all the UN/media garbage. This is disproportionate force. Hat tip: Little Green Footballs
Continue readingEngland used to be a fairly wonderful place. For one thing, with that blessed wet climate, it’s just so doggone pretty. Spring in England is a sight to see. England also used to stand for a really high degree of civilization. It prided itself on setting high standards for its
Continue readingHat tip: From Neptunus Lex, via Best of the Web Today And, just in case anyone needs a reminder that this is not just Israeli propaganda, I direct your attention to a recent about Israeli soldiers protecting Lebanese women and children who were being hammered by Hezbollah file, and to
Continue readingI have noticed that, whatever WordPress did to make the colors more electric on my blog, to change the sidebars somewhat, and to allow author attribution, it also managed to mess with the formatting for quotations. When I do a block quote, I lose paragraph spacing. A little investigation has
Continue readingYou know the Occam’s razor principle, don’t you? Nowadays it’s boiled down to mean that, if you’ve got a simple answer, you often don’t need to look for something more complex. At medical school, students who are all excited about rare diseases they’ve read about in books often need to
Continue readingIsrael has, for years, had missiles rain down upon her, and suicide bombers work from within. Since her inception, every Arab nation has called for her destruction and the death of her citizens. In the last year, her Arab neighbors have given her the gift of more than 2,000 missiles
Continue readingI got this in my email today: Subject: Breaking News: Gibson Converts to Judaism Gibson Converts to Judaism Changes Name to Mel Gibstein In his boldest bid yet to apologize to the Jewish community, actor Mel Gibson today announced that he had converted to Judaism. The news took many Jews
Continue readingI learned through PowerLine that Ehud Olmert, in an interview with the London Times, has compellingly taken on the disproportionate force argument, as well as the impossible to prove claim that Israel has somehow managed, in Lebanon, to kill only civilians, without taking out any of the Hezbollah fighters hiding
Continue readingIran may be positioning itself as the epicenter of the Muslim world, as the place where elite Muslims meet to greet and die, but those who leave don’t always want to go back. In Denmark, five of them, after starving themselves almost to death to make the point, are now
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