Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Jonah Goldberg, in his wonderful Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, reminds me of something I had long known, but forgotten: Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood and birth control Goddess, did not embark on her birth control crusade because
Continue readingIf you’re a liberal Jewish voter, and tremendously excited about Obama’s candidacy as the fulfillment of the civil rights movement, slow down, Pardner. Jews have always assumed that, because they supported the civil rights movement with enthusiasm and hard work, there would be a quid pro quo by which blacks,
Continue readingThe progressives of the Victorian era would be proud, but the old fashioned liberals are rolling in their graves: Independent schools are to be made to open their doors to more children from poor homes under guidelines announced to stop them being run as “exclusive clubs”. Schools failing to meet
Continue readingI saw this headline: “New material pushes the boundary of blackness.” Was it naive for me to assume that it was yet another story about which candidate on the Democratic side has better black bona fides, the one who is half black or the one married to the first white/black
Continue readingAs you know, I like Mitt and think he would make a better president — and certainly a better president than either Huck or McCain. I was therefore very pleased with the outcome in Michigan. It doesn’t mean he wins, but it also means that it’s not over yet —
Continue readingIf you want to witness the interesting spectacle of my going from a fairly mild mannered, motherly lawyer type, to a screaming, foaming-at-the-mouth harridan, mention one acronym: MCLE. This stands for Minimum Continuing Legal Education, which I found an inconvenience when I was a big firm attorney and that I
Continue readingRichard Disney has dug up two more great old videos from a halcyon time when Americans liked America — and were able to articulate why American exceptionalism meant that, while America was (and is) by no means perfect, it was (and is) still a pretty damn great system.
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Continue readingAIDS is a disease that does not distinguish between race, religion, sex, or national origin. Like all diseases, it is opportunistic, and thrives when behaviors provide perfect incubation and vector situations. The promiscuity that characterized gay sex in the late 1970s and 1980s was the perfect petri dish for the
Continue readingI’m still enjoying every page of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, and I thought I’d share with you a few more points that I thought either summed up perfectly something most of us have already figured out
Continue readingI almost missed a wonderful op-ed piece in today’s WSJ about the fact that the candidates’ grammar, unfortunately, tends to show both cowardice and ignorance. I admit to having one or two grammatical blind spots myself, not to mention a proofreading deficiency so extreme I probably qualify for federal aid,
Continue readingThe title of my post should ring a few bells in the minds of those old enough to vote in 1992. It was, after all, Bill Clinton’s official campaign theme (with “I feel your pain” being the unofficial theme). Perhaps the economy will be the undoing of Hillary’s campaign —
Continue readingThis month’s California Lawyer magazine ran a profile of Hugh Hewitt (who is an active lawyer, a Con Law teacher, and a very well known talk radio host). It’s not a bad profile at all, and may give knee jerk liberals a pause when they try to write off the
Continue readingTime flew, and I forgot to post the winner’s in the last vote over at the Watcher of Weasels. Let me start, for once, on the non-Council side, where the winning piece got the highest vote I’ve ever seen in my time on the Watcher’s council — and deservedly so.
Continue readingI just have to share with you a few more gems from Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, and then I really, really have to buckle down and get some paying work done. First, regarding the constant calls for
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