Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s not daily media, like the New York Times or the WaPo, but the New Yorker is still media. At Irish Pennants, Jack Kelly details how, in a single paragraph, Nicholas Lemann, the Dean of Columbia Universities Graduate School of Journalism, makes five major factual errors. Kelly’s gracious enough not
Continue readingAt Extreme Wisdom, I got to see a video telling about some math books that are apparently very popular in many public schools. It’s such a good video, I’m putting it in this post. If you have about 15 minutes, see what you think: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr1qee-bTZI] My take on the video
Continue readingMy friend Curt, at Flopping Aces, opened the AP can of worms when he questioned an AP report regarding concerning a series of Shia militia attacks upon Sunni mosques in the Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq. The reports painted the battle as a fiery bloodbath, with Iraqi Troops just standing
Continue readingI had the pleasure yesterday of meeting two gentlemen, one who was one of the first Marines on Iwo Jima, and the other of whom was a soldier who was part of the Normandy landing and who, after a criss-cross journey through Europe, landed in the Arden on January 1,
Continue readingSan Francisco, in an effort to increase its revenues, raised its parking meter fees to an average of $3.00 per hour. City officials expected a cash cascade. What happened instead, was that people obligated to pay the fees figured out that they’d do better in private parking garages. By doing
Continue readingIt’s with a great deal of embarrassment that I admit that I’m a huge fan of Lois and Clark : the New Adventures of Superman, something I discovered a decade ago during 3 a.m. reruns when I was up with my newborn. In these shows, the all-too-wonderful Superman understands and
Continue readingJeff Jacoby makes a good point about the fact that the lead Democratic candidates, while happy to challenge the War in Iraq, have nothing to say about the jihadist forces arrayed against the West, and hot in the rhetoric against America.
Continue readingThere may be some of you wondering why I was completely silent about the President’s State of the Union Speech.
Continue readingMarin County is one of the bluest of blue counties in America. Lynn Woolsey, the ineffectual and unintelligent Marin representative to Congress garnered close to 80% of the votes in the last election, if I remember correctly. But its easy to be Blue if you’re talking environmentalism and war. How
Continue readingAnn Coulter gives short shrift to the Hillary party claim that Hillary is another Margaret Thatcher: Mrs. Clinton’s acolytes are floating the idea of Hillary as another Margaret Thatcher to get past the question, “Can a woman be elected president?” This is based on the many, many things Hillary Clinton
Continue readingAngelina Jolie generally doesn’t even make it as a blip on my radar. To say I find her uninteresting is already to accord her too much space in my brain — except, that is, for today, when a headline in the New York Times piqued my interest, not because it
Continue readingBrent Bozell on identity politics on the road to the White House: The campaigns have just begun, and already, I’ve had just enough of this pandering. Is being black or being female a qualification, something that makes you a superior president? Or is the election of 2008 going to operate
Continue readingUPDATED AND BUMPED, BECAUSE I THINK THE UPDATE IS WORTH READING. Thanks to DB for bringing to my attention an op-ed Dinesh D’Souza wrote challenging the conventional wisdom holding that we should secularize all countries as fast as possible to rid the world of the menance of religious war. (Of
Continue readingCondi Rice was talking national policy and warfare, when Boxer attacked her for not having children. Everyone, including major media outlets, went into an orgy of analysis about how Condi’s non-parent status affected her decision-making. Would you like to know about a story where the main character’s childlessness might be
Continue readingIf you want to know what the question was that led to my answer in the post title, please read James Lewis’s American Thinker article.
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