Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Using your own people as weapons is not a new tactic. During WWII, the Soviet Union was effective against the Germans, not because it had good weapons, but because it had a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cannon fodder. When the Germans advanced on Russia, the Soviets threw unarmed men in
Continue readingHidden in an old cereal box, a cache of perfectly preserved letters from a British POW held during WWII in Italian and German camps: ‘I want to say, my darling [wife], there is no need for you to worry. ‘The shock of course was great, but I am not alone
Continue readingYou’re all familiar with Shakespeare’s famous question and answer: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” It keeps popping into my head when I think about Obama and “torture.” As you know, so I won’t even hyperlink, Obama has
Continue readingGreen is fine if you can be cute about it: cute little hybrid cars, cute little permanent shopping bags boasting about your green-ness, and cute locally grown arugala. But is Green still fine if your City requires that, as a matter of law, you spend up to $30,000 to bring
Continue readingI’m sure I’m misreading something here. Help me out. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, husband and wife team Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom discuss a case coming up to the Supreme Court, Ricci v DeStefano. The issue is a simple one: The issue in Ricci was simply stated by
Continue readingIs it me, or has every Politico top story, for I don’t know how long now, focused on how Obama is trouncing the Republicans? That being the case, I just can’t understand how Obama’s popularity, although still respectably high, continues its downward trajectory. Or how his administration keeps getting embarrassed
Continue readingMany have been wondering about Jeanine Garofalo’s unending stream of bile, especially now that her candidate and her party occupy all positions of power. I’ll throw in a personal anecdote here, or at least a “one degree of separation” hearsay anecdote. Back in the early 1990s, when Garofalo was beginning
Continue readingI know zippo about the small nation of Cameroon, but I can say that the First Lady has flair. Not my style, but definitely a style.
Continue readingI’ve got everything lined up but for the “not neurotic” bit (emphasis mine): But what effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of temperaments lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the
Continue readingMaybe there’s more to the story than appears in this article, but it’s one more reason I don’t like airplanes.
Continue readingMonday’s Wall Street Journal carried an interesting item on the problems now besetting herders in Mongolia. It seems that many of these people had borrowed extensively in order to expand their herds and supply the growing demand for cashmere from the U.S. and Europe. (Like Americans with home-equity loans, some
Continue readingAack! Over at the Watcher of Weasels, the new nominations will be up tomorrow, and I haven’t yet notified you of last week’s winners. Here they are: Winning Council Submissions First place with 2 points! – Joshuapundit – A Few Inconvenient Truths About Israel And ‘Settlements’ Second place with 1
Continue readingMy friend the ExPreacherMan just sent me an email telling me about a “don’t miss” deal: The NRA is giving FREE 1-yr memberships to everyone who wants to join. They are trying to build up their membership to fight pending legislation that impacts our right to keep and bear arms.
Continue readingWork calls (sigh) so blogging will have to wait. (Article contributions, anyone?) So that this morning isn’t a big empty space, I thought I’d toss in here one of Irving Berlin’s more charming lyrics. It’s from The Gay Divorcee, and is known to Berlin, Astaire & Rogers devotees, but not
Continue readingI’ve long had a conflicted emotional relationship to Poland. I know that Poland bore the brunt of the first official Nazi invasion in WWII, back in August 1939. I also know that the Poles suffered horribly under the Soviets. In the modern era, it was the Poles whose bravery exposed
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