Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Even though the Watcher has retired, the Watcher’s Council marches onwards. As is always the case, the articles on which we voted were excellent so you can count on it that the Winner’s were good. On the Council side, first place went to Wolf Howling for Critiquing the Obama Manifesto
Continue readingFrom LGF to me to you — the Pew News IQ test. With the same humility that characterized Charles Johnson’s take on taking the test, I humbly report that I aced it. (Of course, with only 12 questions, that wasn’t too hard.)
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Continue readingDi Fi writes an op-ed that is a perfect example of liberal think: let’s not do something that’s not a perfect solution, despite the fact that it is a partial solution. Her column explains correctly or incorrectly (and it really doesn’t matter for purposes of my post), that the off-shore
Continue readingStarvation, sadly, regularly stalks the African continent. This religiously prophetic website, in its famine page, tracks those trends and provides truly horrible images, one of which I reproduce here (from Somalia): In the great country of America, however, hunger has a different face: I do not post the above picture
Continue readingPatrick grew up in Oakville, Iowa, as did his father before him. It was a quintessentially small Midwestern town, but its future is in now question because it was completely flooded when the waters rose. Patrick’s now started a blog with illustrations of both the damage done and the work
Continue readingMany years ago, I did a post noting how extraordinarily scatalogical the true believers on the Left are. To me, that obsession with fecal matter bespeaks a certain, how shall I say it?, immaturity. It’s all of a piece with what Diana West writes about in her book, The Death
Continue readingEverybody’s talking about it and no wonder. “It,” in this case, is today’s Charles Krauthammer article dissecting Obama’s staggering self-involvement and recognizably clinical narcissism. The article is a tour de force insofar as it highlights the worst of Obama’s egotism. I’ll help out just a little here by providing a
Continue readingMore jokes added at 11:00 a.m. P.S.T., at items 15 in the list. Okay, folks, it’s time for what will be, I hope a change — a change from the fear of telling Obama jokes. Consider this post a respository for any jokes you make up or that come your
Continue readingHere’s a good video showing Obama’s constantly revolving position on Iraq (h/t Hot Air): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHEIi4XKRmM&eurl=http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/17/new-mccain-video-the-obama-iraq-documentary/[/youtube] And, given the way Obama’s head is flipping left and right as he keeps doing a 180 on his Iraq position, I couldn’t help thinking of poor little Linda Blair’s head: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qG5V2iBvFs&feature=related[/youtube]
Continue readingJo Stafford, one of the best big band songbirds of the 1940s, died yesterday. She was 90 years old. Words don’t do her justice. You have to hear her music. Here are two of her best known recordings: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=9H1Imb6jm0U[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vf1fnO0kvVw&feature=related[/youtube]
Continue readingDick Morris offers a nice, pithy rundown of Obama’s biggest flip-flops (which Morris believes may have contributed to the stall in Obama’s soar): • After vowing to eschew private fundraising and take public financing, he has now refused public money. • Once he threatened to filibuster a bill to protect
Continue readingI won’t comment; I’ll just point out: A long overdue civil grand jury report released Wednesday says that the city should be proud of getting over 4,000 homeless people into housing since 2004 but distressed at the scene on the streets. Panhandling, public drunkenness and street loitering are still an
Continue readingIn my post yesterday about the corpse/prisoner swap in which Israel exchanged, I noted that an inviolate body is a very important part of Jewish religious law, going back to the ancient Jewish revulsion against pagan sacrifice and the subsequent desecration of corpses. (I also noted that I didn’t think
Continue readingI doubt he caused this situation, but Obama, during his political tenure in Chicago and later in the Illinois Senate, manifestly didn’t fix it.
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