Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If I remember correctly, the New York Times was not that upset about a tax funded school in New York devoted to giving Muslims a proper Arabic and Muslim culture education. I guess it was just sleeping the day that news story came out. Today, it’s wide awake and really
Continue readingAs you may recall, a couple of days ago I asked why there had been no comment whatsoever in the conservative blogosphere about a New York Times op-ed piece in which seven active duty soldiers criticized the Iraq War. In updates to that same post, I was able to point
Continue readingIn a bizarre speech yesterday, Hillary wittingly or unwittingly admitted that the Republicans are best when it comes to security against terrorism. Here’s what she said: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year’s election, warning that it could boost the GOP’s efforts
Continue readingDon Quixote will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think one of the core things about being a libertarian is that you don’t try to control people’s conduct, but you do step in if they break certain clearly stated rules. Indeed, you don’t need to be a libertarian to
Continue readingIt’s rare that, on the same day, two articles come out that neatly bookend a single subject. Today, though, that happened, with the first article being a Mona Charen piece about Israel, which discusses its overall humanism (despite a few bad apples) and which points out the difference the wall
Continue readingMy children wearily put up with my joke that our dog is my favorite “child,” because she’s the only one in the house who always listens to me and lives to please me. My kids do know, though, that I’m joking, not about my dogs lovely attributes, but about actually
Continue readingAs I’ve freely admitted over the years, I’m quite a cowardly person. I’m a physical coward insofar as I assiduously avoid physical risks, and I’m an intellectual coward to the extent that I blog anonymously. I’d like to be brave, I truly would, but whether I’m confronting the specter of
Continue readingI’m getting the kids ready for school, and what to slam out the Watcher of Weasel results before I forget. Needless to say, every article is thought-provoking. I had a terrible time voting this week, because I just could not decide which of the Weasel articles was the best. They
Continue readingAs I’ve noted before, my mother spent the war years interned in a Japanese concentration camp in Java. These camps were not Nazi death camps, but they were no picnic either, with a horrible attrition rate from disease, starvation, overwork and abuse. (See here for more information about one of
Continue readingIn 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, declaring that they did not want to see racial or gender preferences used in public contracts, employment and education. Turns out that, in a wonderful anti-Democratic display, San Francisco has been ignoring that voter mandate, and the California Supreme Court is now going
Continue readingAs you know, one of my big complaints about British chick lit is that the “heroines” are usually needy alcoholics, something that stands in stark contrast to American chick lit, where the heroines usually live good, clean lives. Turns out that the British writers may just be reflecting the world
Continue readingI won’t paraphrase. I just suggest you read and enjoy this post at the Captain’s Quarters.
Continue readingMany of us on the conservative side bemoan the decline of religion on moral grounds. The Judeo-Christian tradition spells out moral absolutes, so that we don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel to figure out the big “rights” and the big “wrongs.” (David Klinghoffer points out the disaster that happens
Continue readingI’m sitting here eating a bowl of 8 a.m. chocolate ice cream to celebrate one of my favorite days of the year: the first day of school. I’ve always loved the first day of school. As a child, I loved the sense of possibility: wonderful things could happen during the
Continue readingIf I were to choose someone to write my obituary, I would want someone who wrote beautifully and and an unerring sense for getting to the heart of a matter. I would hope that the writer would have a soft spot for me, of course, because with that skill and
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