Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I knew he was going to resign when, yesterday on NPR, I heard the reporters lambast him for stupidity — although their tone was high brow, what they basically asked was “how could a former federal prosecutor who understands how bank transactions are scrutinized act so stupidly that he practically
Continue readingDavid Mamet is a famous American writer, who has distinguished himself in every area of endeavor: plays, screen plays, film director, essayist, and author. You name it and he’s done it, and done it well. By his own admission (see below), he was also just as liberal as you’d assume
Continue readingSoccer Dad, who has a wonderful blog here, sent me a nice email agreeing with the points I made in my Biology will have its way post. He added an anecdote about Planned Parenthood: “The archdiocese of Baltimore announced that it would pay for counseling for women who had undergone
Continue readingYou may recall that, only last week, I reviewed one of McCain’s victory speeches and concluded that it bore some remarkable similarities to Churchill’s “finest hour” speech. It turns out I’m not the only one to see that McCain’s . . . perhaps not his rhetoric but his world outlook
Continue readingThe moral equivalence crowd, the one that says all cultures are created equal, except that non-Western cultures are better than others, is going to have to pretzel itself severely to deal with this one: Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs
Continue readingSpiegel, a German magazine that is not known for its friendliness to either America or Israel, has a quite amazing story today about a Gazan woman, pregnant with twins, who was allowed to enter Israel for treatment of her complications. While there, she was exposed to the same Israelis who
Continue readingYet another problem with biofuels, the ones that are supposed to be cleaner and help stop global warming. I haven’t seen any reports yet, but I’m sure that part of the rise in food prices will be traced back to the fact that food crops, both those directly supplied to
Continue readingOne of the things the feminists insist upon is absolute equality, whether that means depriving men of the opportunity to participate in college sports simply because there aren’t enough women to create parity, something that’s now being done in the sciences as well; or allowing women to engage in sexual
Continue readingNormally, when a gunman enters a school and treats students like birds in a turkey shoot, the media covers the matter obsessively, dwelling for days on the horror of those trapped in the carnage — and this is true whether the shooting takes place at home or abroad. Such was
Continue readingWith regard to Eliot Spitzer, a defense is springing up all over the MSM and the liberal blogosphere: it’s stupid to make prostitution criminal; therefore, Spitzer shouldn’t be in trouble for paying for prostitutes. In response to this defense, I would point out that whether it should be criminal is
Continue readingI would be remiss if I did not point out to you that Democratic NY Governor Elliott Spitzer has some problems with prostitution — and it’s not that he disapproves of it: Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet with a high-priced prostitute at
Continue readingIt wasn’t bad enough that Scotland Yard was probably infiltrated by anti-government Islamist working for the Jihad. That’s carelessness, although probably inexcusable carelessness. Nope. What’s really disgusting is that Britain has announced to the world that an Israeli politician is banned from entering England because he criticized England, while a
Continue readingIf you’re a blogger wondering whether you can use a photo in a post, Confederate Yankee has some helpful hints. As for me, I’m very partial to Wikimedia Commons, an enormous resource for copyright free images.
Continue readingEvery morning finds a new batch of Barack Obama stories. These are some of the ones I found interesting today: 1. The Chicago Tribune finds that Obama committed what could be called “acts of artistic license” when he wrote his best-selling autobiography (h/t LGF). Interviews with people who knew him
Continue readingThis was, again, one of those weeks during which I was completely in synch with my fellow Watcher’s Council members, and voted for the winning posts. First place went to Big Lizard’s for his excellent expose of the unhappy “coincidences” that just seem to happen to Obama’s political opponents, leaving
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