Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My family is going to a reception tonight at which we’ll get to meet the Blue Angel fliers. (Although this is not an event affiliated with the Navy League, I learned about it through friends in the Navy League, so the NL still gets the nod.) As the reception has
Continue readingConspiracy thinking is an interesting thing. We know that conspiracies really can and do exist. We know that even paranoid people have enemies. But how do we know whether any given theory points to a legitimate plan, goal or movement, or simply reflects our own fears and biases? Two conspiracy
Continue readingI just love Jennifer Rubin in the morning. Let me just cherry-pick some paragraphs from her morning writing. On Obama’s governing style: James Capretta notices two developments in the health-care debate. First, the president is telling us to shut up again. (”President Obama said today that the debate on health
Continue readingYup. Yahoo felt compelled to help Obama out by fact-checking a Saturday Night Life sketch that noted Obama’s inability to carry through any legislative agenda. First, here’s the SNL sketch: I just have to fisk the Yahoo story, because it’s insanely stupid: This weekend “Saturday Night Live” opened with Fred
Continue readingIt was like a battle scene in an old Hollywood movie, when Americans still knew in their arts that American soldiers are ordinary Americans — good people — only braver and more honorable: Fighting raged at two remote U.S. outpostsnear the Pakistan border this weekend, that left eight U.S. soldiers
Continue readingPaul Krugman is shocked! shocked! (albeit not surprised) that Republicans are exhibiting a certain amount of Schadenfreude when it comes to the rebuff the IOC delivered to Barack Obama: So what did we learn from this moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the
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Continue readingI can’t trace the exact quotation down, but Dennis Prager often says something to the effect that compassion towards society’s malfeasors is often tantamount to punishment for the innocent. This story, which is the follow-up to a terrible accident I blogged about five months ago, perfectly illustrates that point.
Continue readingI found this news snippet interesting, beyond the fact that Obama, the missing and passive Commander in Chief, is at odds with his general (emphasis mine): According to sources close to the administration, Gen McChrystal shocked and angered presidential advisers with the bluntness of a speech given in London last
Continue readingIt’s a 20 second video clip, but you see a moment of life in 1930s Germany [or Holland, if it’s a late enough movie clip] — and Anne Frank, high in a window above, looking down on the bride and groom: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hvtXuO5GzU[/youtube]
Continue readingJust back from an early morning meeting, and feeling an energy I haven’t felt in days. I have paying work to do, but I also feel like blogging, which I haven’t felt in a while. This, therefore, is an open thread while I process news and other data. The only
Continue readingElBaradei says nuclear Israel number one threat to Mideast/ Chutzpah has been redefined, once again. Mohamed should consider a name change to el Parodei.
Continue readingAbercrombie & Fitch used to be a rather stodgy store that sold high quality sportswear — for those who viewed “sports” as hunting and fishing. It now sells trendy clothes, propped up by tawdry advertising. It seems as if the venerably Burberry’s (conservative raincoats, for those not old enough to
Continue readingIf only I could draw, I try to draw this type of political cartoon.
Continue readingI’m not sure why Canada, except for maybe the large Muslim population, the porous border, and the country’s politically correct inertia: Iran is attempting to acquire clandestine shipments via Canada for its nuclear program, a senior customs official said Thursday. Canadian customs officers have seized everything from centrifuge parts to
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