Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
John Hawkins hit two home runs today. The first is his Town Hall article about the motivation behind the appalling attacks against Sarah Palin. The second is a post at his own blog, Right Wing News, giving twenty of his favorite quotes from the Republican convention. Both make for enjoyable
Continue readingMataharley (great name), who posts at Flopping Aces, has pulled together the procedural details of the challenges Palin faces with regard to her ex-brother-in-law, the hard drinking, hard tasering, hard threatening, hard illegal hunting Wooten. It’s a remarkably interesting post in that it is less concerned with the substantive details
Continue readingAfter pointing out how ignoble the attack on Palin is coming from the self-appointed coastal elites, Victor Davis Hanson sums up how Palin is the ultimate feminist triumph: Sarah Palin is the emblem of what feminism was supposed to be all about: an unafraid, independent, audacious woman, who soared on
Continue readingMy sister forwarded the following email to me from someone who clearly is not a PUMA, which I sent back with my comments: For those of us who have been stunned by McCain’s VP pick, it seems to fit his cultivation of the idea of “maverick” over thoughtfulness, of political
Continue readingI won’t comment. You know what I’m thinking: They have amused us, angered us and sometimes – just occasionally – they have actually made us buy something. But now the end could be in sight for adverts which use sex to sell after they came under the unforgiving gaze of
Continue readingI periodically check out Yahoo’s most popular news to see what AP articles are getting the most play according to the Yahoo picks (which, except for including Ann Coulter, skew liberal). It’s fascinating to see the AP headlines, each of which is snarky, dismissive or critical of Palin in some
Continue readingI missed the last 15 minutes of Sarah’s speech because TiVo had stopped recording it (and I was at a meeting when she was live), but I came away with some strong impressions nevertheless. (I’ll watch the whole speech sometime today, because I know I missed the substantive stuff.) 1.
Continue readingWhen I was a little girl (6 or 7, I guess), my father found a set of books at a garage sale called “Uncle Arthur’s Bedtime Stories.” The price was good, so he brought them home. I fell madly in love with them. I read them over and over. They
Continue readingThe Watcher is right: it is a week tainted by Palin Derangement Syndrome, something reflected in both Council and non-Council posts. Before I list them so you can draw your own conclusions, a few announcements. First, the Watcher’s Council finally has a permanent home, and this link will take you
Continue readingNot much, it turns out.
Continue readingThe good thing about living in a liberal community is that you get to hear how ordinary people — not the pundit class and the media — think. I blogged yesterday about one elderly woman’s absolute trust in the MSM. If they say it, it must be true, all actual
Continue readingAs nice a summary as any I’ve seen of the practical effects of the proposed Obama tax plans: But here’s the thing: It’s not that Mr. Obama hasn’t been specific enough in his governing plans. To the contrary, he has been very specific about his tax policy, health-care and energy
Continue readingFrom the National Enquirer: The ENQUIRER has also learned that Palin’s family is embroiled in a vicious war that is now exposing her darkest secrets, threatening to destroy her political career. Palin’s ongoing war with her ex brother-in-law Mike Wooten, a state trooper, has caused multiple sources to come forward
Continue readingFrom the National Review editors: This shameful but predictable media performance [obsessing about Bristol’s sex life and manufacturing debased rumors] stands in marked contrast to the rigorous “hands-off” privacy policy dutifully honored by the press throughout the Clinton years for the president’s then-teenage daughter, Chelsea. Indeed earlier this year, though
Continue readingI’m having a very hard time finding out what the sex ed curriculum is in Alaska schools. Although Palin advocates abstinence, what are the public schools teaching? It appears from the article that they’re teaching full sex ed, with an emphasis on the virtues of abstinence. A couple of things.
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