Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I don’t think that there’s any doubt that Democrats are twitching with almost unseemly delight in Larry Craig’s humiliating fall from grace. Here is a man who stood for family values and was hostile to all things gay, and yet he was caught tapping his foot in a men’s room.
Continue readingIn an inspired Wall Street Journal article, Kimberley Strassel points out that Republican candidates, at their peril, are ignoring women, while Democratic candidates, knowing that women voters are the statistical difference for them between success and failure, are wooing them aggressively. This wooing needed go well. Strassel explains that the
Continue readingWhy isn’t anyone in Hollywood making movies about the abuses the terrorists within Iraq perpetrate against Americans and Iraqis? How honest is it to take one incident involving Americans and then to build a Riefenstahl-esque propaganda film about it, when you have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of incidents in which Islamists
Continue readingMy blog, lately, has hosted a really interesting discussion about both Israel’s legal rights in the disputed territories and the Palestinians’ lack of legal rights. Those two statements (Israel’s rights vs. Palestinian non-rights) are not mirror-like redundancies. It’s entirely possible to argue (although I wouldn’t), that while Israel has no
Continue readingThere’s no doubt but that the Larry Craig incident is ripe for parody and a guy named Doug Clark parodied it in a very funny song called “Tap Three Times.” I’m hoping the link works. Give it a try for a laugh. Hat tip: Rocket’s Brain, who blogs at Rocket’s
Continue readingSince DQ asked in a comment how we can tell if the surge is working, I’ve been collecting links to blogs and articles that discuss that point. The Captain has a lucid summary of an article in The Australian in which General Petraeus gives the heads-up about his probable report
Continue readingThe anticipation was killing, but the Watcher’s Council results are finally in and I can say, with some confidence, that they are good. On the Council side first place (again!) went to Big Lizards, this time for a stellar article pointing out that, at the NYT: Analogies Are Meaningless (Unless
Continue readingI know you all caught the story about the school in Colorado that banned tag. The school’s primary stated reason for having instituted this ban was to shelter kids they perceived as emotionally delicate: An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed
Continue readingSpurred by Amanpour’s CNN series on religion, DQ, who is a very astute analyst and a thinker who is truly open minded to new information and ideas, wrote his impressions of the show, which led to a lively and very fact intense discussion about Amanpour’s errors, both explicit and implied,
Continue readingDespite the fact that we live in a vaccine age, Britain is facing an outbreak of measles, a disease can cause life long damage to its victims: Parents were urged today to give their children the MMR jab before they returned to school after figures showed measles cases have more
Continue readingNPR did a little eulogy for Richard Jewell: Lets take a moment to remember a man who really was not a terrorist. Richard Jewell died yesterday. He might have saved lives at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He was a security guard. He’s the man who discovered a green knapsack.
Continue readingIf you haven’t already caught this at LGF, it’s still not too late. Catch it here at the source site.
Continue readingIf you read one thing this week, this month, or even this year, read this: “The Big Picture,” which Karl assembled at Protein Wisdom. It carefully analyzes the way in which the media is reporting the war, and explains why the Scott Beauchamp story is a problem, not because it
Continue readingDQ again. Thank you all very much for taking the time and effort to educate me on Israel’s rights to the occupied territories. Having only a vague notion that Israel’s borders were larger in the first proposals for its creation, I had (and still have) much to learn. But, perhaps
Continue readingIsrael, which has been the victim of endless and destructive rocket attacks originating in Gaza, successfully stopped one before it happened. Taking facts directly from the BBC, this is how I would have reported the Israeli Army’s successful action: Israel destroys several rocket launchers in Gaza The Israeli Army reports
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