Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Well, fans, it’s over for James Bond. The suave, charming lady’s man who long protected the West from Communists and megalomaniac bad guys has been outed as a bad guy himself: Matt Damon has dismissed James Bond as being stuck in the 1960s while promoting his own new spy film.
Continue readingRemember Rage Boy, the Mick Jagger of Pakistan, who showed up at every rally, with his wide mouth screaming its outrage at America? Turns out that Rage Boy has a friend, Anguished Woman. She’s the one who roams around in the middle of chaos screaming, and she’s now got the
Continue readingPhyllis Chesler mounts a blistering and entirely appropriate attack against the New York Times. I especially enjoyed the first two paragraphs, which also described my transition from Leftie to Rightie, including the change in reading material: Once upon a time, I only read and wrote for the most radical, left,
Continue readingIslamists have, for a long time, been singing a Siren song to Europe: “If you stop support for Israel, we’ll leave you alone and make nice with everyone.” (Tra la la!) A lot of people have actually be seduced into believing that, if they abandon Israel to the Muslim countries
Continue readingBibi is a larger than life figure, who has allowed hubris to damage his political career. Since I think he’s one of the few Israeli politicians who understands both the Islamist forces arrayed against Israel and America (where he lived), and who has the smarts to put his understanding into
Continue readingI get sweaty thinking about this one: A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for more than a mile, leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb. The 54-year-old office worker was out
Continue readingFrom today’s Best of the Web: Yesterday we noted the sad story of Nathan C. Gagner, a depressed 27-year-old Kittery, Maine, man who committed suicide by burning himself to death on a public street, and the ludicrous reaction of an unidentified resident of nearby Eliot, who wrote in a newspaper
Continue readingAfter reading my post about Huckabee, my friend the Soccer Dad directed me to an Israel Matzav post about Huckabee’s visits to Israel and to Yad Vashem. Reading that post, I can only conclude that (a) Huckabee recognizes Israel as a nation amongst nations and (b) that Huckabee has correctly
Continue readingI canceled my American Bar Association long before I realized I was a conservative. It had gone so overboard in wacko policies that I simply couldn’t stomach sending it my money. This year, the organization gave Justice Kennedy its highest award, presumably so that he could give a speech —
Continue readingIn Scotland, people are now being barred from eating in public for fear of offending Muslim colleagues who have voluntarily chosen to fast during the day at Ramadan: HOSPITAL staff in the Lothians have been told not to eat at their desks to avoid offending Muslim colleagues during Ramadan. NHS
Continue readingYes, it’s true. I am planning on fisking a Prager column, but only because I think he’s being naive, not because I think he’s wrong. This is Prager’s premise: One of the two major political parties of the United States has linked all its electoral hopes on domestic pathologies, economic
Continue readingThe astute and prescient Richard Baehr is taking a look down the road at the shape of the 2008 election — an election he sees between Clinton and Giuliani: The 2008 Presidential contest is shaping up to be similar to the 2000 and 2004 races. Those two races had very
Continue reading(The picture above is a print from 1790 showing the mutiny on the Bounty.) Fairy tales are enjoyable on one level and, on another level, they’re quite useful to pass on cultural messages. Little Red Riding Hood is a great story with its exciting (for kids) repetition of the “But
Continue readingI’m quite heterosexual, but I’ve dreamed for years of having a wife. Turns out I’m not the only one: Now that women have solidly earned their place in the work force, many find themselves still yearning for something men often have: wives. “The thing I most want in life is
Continue readingWith respect to the candy, I’m not sure, actually, whether the following is good news or bad from a dietary standpoint: First it was tortillas in Mexico, then it was Frosted Flakes in America and recently German beer (more…). Now the latest food to become the victim of prices pushed
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