Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
With respect to the Minneapolis bridge collapse, it was too much to hope, as I did in my last post, that fatalities would remain in the single digits. Right now, with known injured people and bodies recovered, the search begins for the people still missing — possibly as many as
Continue readingI’ve been amusing myself re-reading Gone With the Wind. The racism in the book is undoubtedly offensive, but it is otherwise a rip-roaring, fantastically good story, whether as a character study (and Scarlett’s quite a character), as a romance, or as a portrayal of a culture falling apart in war
Continue readingHere’s Hillary announcing her desire to use government force to steal (there’s no other word for it) oil company profits: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PfE9K8j0g] And in Zimbabwe, we can see what what happens when Hillary’s mindset — that government should take over the market — becomes the only game in town: Robert G.
Continue readingI got pinged back to a blog called the Culture Warrior. It’s a liberal blog, and my posts wouldn’t normally show up there. The Culture Warrior, however, is the blogger who expressed disappointment that Judge Roberts had merely had a seizure, rather than died. A lot of conservative bloggers found
Continue readingI’m still reading Melanie Phillips’ Londonistan, an extremely well-written book about a most depressing subject — the Islamic push to take over Britain, all aided by the British ruling classes. Reading it also reminds my that my sojourn in England managed to miss this whole political and social movement, which
Continue readingSan Francisco tried to do away with guns entirely, but was forced to back off of that one because of a little thing called the Second Amendment. It’s now trying a new tactic, which is to say that you can have guns, you just can’t have them in a way
Continue readingI don’t think anyone is going to argue with me that prisons are dreadful places. Even if the facility is decent, you’re still locked up with hundreds of people who have violated the law, many in heinous and violent ways. There’s also too much time and too little to do
Continue readingAs you know, I don’t have much bad to say about the leading Republican candidates, all of whom I think are qualified to take the White House (including my least favorite of the bunch, John McCain). They’re certainly more qualified than their closest, and sometimes very scary, competitors. With that
Continue readingThe last word I heard on the bridge collapse in Minneapolis is that about 50 people are injured, with 3 confirmed deaths. (H/t Drudge.) The reason behind the bridge’s collapse is currently a mystery, so I won’t comment or speculate. I’ll only say that I hope that the above numbers,
Continue readingAt Small Dead Animals, Kate caught an amusing moment in which the Canadian media dropped its pants and flashed its biases for all to see and then, in response to raised highbrows in the blogosphere, hastily redressed itself and pretended objectivity. UPDATE: Here’s the companion piece to Kate’s catch, this
Continue readingThe last Weasel election passed me by. In the rush before I left for vacation, I submitted a post of mine that did not deserve votes and, unsurprisingly given the acumen of the other Council members, did not receive votes. I also never got the chance to read last week’s
Continue readingI’ve been quiet so far about the attack against Stanislav Shmulevich, a 23 year old Pace University student who was arrested for flushing a Koran down the toilet. Part of my silence was because this story happened while I was on vacation, which made blogging about it (heck, even thinking
Continue readingI’ve always loved Leon Uris’ epic Exodus, a novel that is ostensibly about the founding of the State of Israel, but that also manages to blend in the pogroms in Russia, the Holocaust, and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, all of which are necessary preconditions to understanding Zionism; anti-Semitism;
Continue readingWe were in some nature preserves on our vacation. In each place, on every informational placard, at least half of the material presented was about the fact that this plant or that animal is going extinct. Other species are moving in and destroying the whatever it is. We must stop
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