Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A friend of mine told me of wise words he once heard. When in despair, don’t stop moving. Or, as he said, “keep your fly wheel spinning.” It takes less momentum to keep moving than to start moving. I think Robert Hall, who blogs at The Old Jarhead, would agree,
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Continue readingFrom a news report describing the usual leftist/statist suspects at an anti-War parade: Bruce Yurgil, a cartoonist from San Rafael, was trying to unload 80 homemade T-shirts showing former President George W. Bush’s brain spilling from his head. The T-shirts were marked down half-price, to $10. “It’s no fun being
Continue readingSince I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, I came of age in an era when policemen were routinely referred to as “pigs.” That, I’m happy to say, was not the sentiment in my home, and I’ve always had a deep and abiding respect for the men and women
Continue readingI’m getting more and more reports on my email list of liberals turning on Obama. (For example, this.) That their eyes are opening is a good thing. When you hear a liberal make the dismaying discovery that Obama has feet of clay, rather than sneering “I told you so,” which
Continue readingAt Mike’s request, I’m reprinting here an updated version of a post I wrote back in May 2008, long before Obama’s election. I’ve also added a brilliant video showing in a very graphic way that, regardless of the appellation, the real difference between various political ideologies is the level of
Continue readingZhombre alerted me to the AP’s problem when it tries to balance its story line (Obama good) with the facts, whatever they happen to be. Here’s the question Zhombre asked: “It there some dissonance between the first and second sentences or it is me? Does the AP lead completely contradict
Continue readingDrudge’s latest headline is to the effect that Obama wishes to exert ever tighter controls over American businesses by having the government establish limits on salaries. (Now we know why he was whipping up AIG hysteria, don’t we?) Obama is busy creating the slippery socialist slope and, unless we put
Continue readingMy 9 year old son was looking at his book about fighter planes through history. That triggered this question and answer session: Son: Why were the Germans so bad? Me: Humans have always fought. It’s part of the human condition. They’ve also always killed their enemies, including destroying whole villages,
Continue readingReading this, it makes you think that if, God forbid, Iran truly gets the bomb (although I place faith in Israel to prevent that), those at the epicenter might be the lucky ones: An Iranian-American journalist — held in Tehran in solitary confinement now for 47 days — has reportedly
Continue readingAJStrata explains why it is so bad that the Obama budget’s deficit will be even bigger than promised.
Continue readingI don’t watch the Ellen Degeneres show, although I often find her one very funny lady. She’s in fine form here, with a little help from an infomercial product. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHiqVygN-w0[/youtube]
Continue readingI forgot to post the submissions for the Watcher’s Council (yesterday was a very busy day), but I’m happy to post the winners, every one deserved: Winning Council Submissions First place with 3 points! – Joshuapundit – What Netanyahu Should Say About Peace To The Arab World Second place with
Continue readingI’ve been very, very conflicted about the fact that I’ve come to the point in my life where I feel as if I’m looking over a giant chasm when I speak with my gay friends from my youth (or read their input on Facebook). I grew up in the Stonewall
Continue readingI threw a book away yesterday. I mean, I really threw it away. Into the garbage. Shocked the heck out of my son, who has never seen me treat a book with disrespect. “What was that book, Mommy?” I answered, “It was called Book by a Complete Idiot.” What it
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