Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The moment I saw the boastful headline yesterday announcing that, if the election were held today, either Obama or Hillary would beat McCain by a mile, I suspected that something was wrong. The numbers just didn’t sound right. And of course, they’re not: However, a closer look at the poll’s
Continue readingIt’s amazing how your brain freezes up when you do these things — although, in my defense, there were countries I knew, but the computer wouldn’t accept the way in which I typed them: 68 By the way, that’s 68 out of 270. Hat tip: The Anchoress
Continue readingFor a year, Gaza has rained over 2,000 rockets onto Israeli soil, aiming specifically for civilian communities. There was, of course, nary a peep from the UN. Now that Israel has struck back, targeting specifically militants who happen to hide amongst civilian populations, the UN Rights Council springs into action:
Continue readingIt’s often frightening to see how terrorists use technology against freedom. It’s therefore uplifting and refreshing to see people using technology to advance freedom. The New York Times, which has always been dizzyingly respectful of Castro, has pulled a fast U-turn and written a very good article about young people
Continue readingWriting at American Thinker today, Steven Warshawsky gave a very good review to John McCain’s victory speech the other night. Warshawsky praises McCain for taking the high road and promising to focus on the issues, which should help middle class voters get past possible guilt about not voting for the
Continue readingThe following video clip of couples dancing the Lindy Hop, from 1941’s Hellzapoppin’, is the perfect example of the old saying that they don’t make ’em like they used to: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU&feature=related[/youtube] All I did was watch it and I’m exhausted — and very, very impressed.
Continue readingThis following observation about Obama, which takes as its starting point the increasing number of youth oriented videos lauding him, is correct. It’s made more interesting by the fact that it comes from a Clinton campaigner, Simon Woods, with the irony being that he doesn’t recognize that it’s the liberal
Continue readingThey don’t blog often at Scott’s Conservative News & Commentary, but they do blog well. This one from a month ago, which is a real cry from the heart, talks about a pernicious habit that’s crept into American language in the PC, multi-culti era, and that ought to be erased.
Continue readingIt’s like quiz show: we give you the clues, you provide the answer. Over at Crossing the Rubicon, Gail highlights a news story that provides everything but the central piece of information one expects from a news story. It’s got the what, why, where and when. It simply left out
Continue readingI lost track of his blog for a while, and didn’t realize that Teflon Don, who wrote so poetically and movingly on his blog, Acute Politics, about his Iraq experiences when he was on active duty there has returned as a civilian journalist. You should definitely check it out. He’s
Continue readingThere’s a big hoo-ha about the “Marines killing a puppy video,” a bit of nastiness, whether real or faked, that is giving the anti-military crowd a lot of grist for their “the military creates monsters” mill. I learned something interesting, though, at From my position . . . on the
Continue readingAlmost exactly a year ago, I did a post I entitled Manly men, Girly men and Peter Pan. In it, I tried, ineffectively, I admit, to figure out America’s cultural trends regarding men. There’s the manly trend, exemplified by the Marines and much admired in certain romance novel genres; the
Continue readingIn the post immediately preceding this one, I wrote about a song sending me tumbling back into a moment of time from my own past. This post is about the discovery of a really beautiful photo from someone else’s past — Helen Keller’s, to be specific. It turns out that
Continue readingI’m working on a fairly straightforward appellate brief right now, so it doesn’t require that I engage in enormously deep concentration. Because I can let my mind operate at more than one level for this project, I have Pandora playing in the background, with my usual chosen mix of Big
Continue readingLast week, I blogged about the way in which a wheel chair ramp in the meeting room that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors used has ballooned into a more than $1,000,000 project. I also pointed out that the whole program had the smell of a dictatorship of one, since
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