Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Okay, folks, I’m going to admit to racism here, by which I mean that I’m advancing a position based on racial considerations. I just learned through The Corner that there is an online conservative journal on the scene called Freedom’s Journal Magazine. Aside from the fact that it has one
Continue readingHoward Fineman was going along all right in a column admitting that the health care bill was politically dangerous for the Democrats and that Americans really don’t like it. Then he got stupid — and it’s the kind of stupid that either proves he has minimal gray matter in his
Continue readingI had lunch today with Don Quixote and his wife. We were talking about the fact that we all feel a little down, a combination of work pressures, the economy, political news, etc. Looking at all these factors, I said I was suffering from the “Malaise of 2010.” DQ and
Continue readingActually, there are only three reasons here why public sector employment is killing the economy. I’m sure that, all of us working together, could think of many more reasons: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LWNTUK8KtA[/youtube]
Continue readingMany of my facebook friends have been posting stories (from the NYT, the WaPo, NPR, etc.), about the incredibly violent, dangerous, racist, and homophobic tea partiers. I countered this morning with a very neutral post to the effect that, in a two party system, citizens will always challenge the president,
Continue readingSometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. And when you have two pictures you can compare, the meaning multiples exponentially. First, from the White House’s own Flickr site, here’s Obama greeting the troops: Let me reiterate that this is the image the White House itself chose to represent the
Continue readingConservatives are rightly irked by the fact that the short form for the census seeks to divide people into racial classifications, a la apartheid South Africa. I don’t even know what the long form seeks, but I’m sure it’s intrusive. Nevertheless, please don’t lose sight of the fact that the
Continue readingWouldn’t it be delightful if the authors of disaster were also the only ones who suffered from their creation? Sadly, that’s seldom how it works. The power players get roll their balls, and the ordinary people suddenly find themselves as the innocent nine pins, hoping that the ball hits the
Continue readingI’ve been thinking a lot about crazy people, which is an interesting thing to do because it’s very hard to get a handle on what constitutes a crazy person. I know for pretty darn certain that the guy who used to stand on a corner in downtown San Francisco all
Continue readingI did my duty as a citizen today, when I left bright and early and headed up to the local courthouse. Although it was a profoundly boring day, it was also an interesting experience. You see, despite many years of lawyering, I’ve never sat on a jury, nor have I
Continue readingAn antisemitic Jew I know, rather than seeing the Passover ceremony as the celebration of freedom (the world’s first and for a long time only successful slave revolt), and of justice and morality (the Ten Commandments), derides the whole ceremony as the unconscionable and immoral celebration of the genocide of
Continue readingAndrew Klavan goes back and forth between being quite brilliant and being very brilliant. I’ll let you decide where this one falls. I will add only that my mother, who voted for Obama, told me that she’s very resentful of the way she was duped. I wanted to tell her
Continue readingA few days ago, Danny Lemieux, in a comment to this blog, asked a very important question: If more than 50% of wage earners pay no income tax and can vote themselves (i.e. parasitize) the labor and assets of the 20% of the population that pays the large majority of
Continue readingI’m not quite sure of the language one uses for Palm Sunday: “I wish you a happy Palm Sunday?” “I wish you a peaceful Palm Sunday?” “I wish you a joyous Palm Sunday?” “I wish you a meaningful Palm Sunday?” Whatever the correct wish is, for those of my friends
Continue readingI had another fascinating conversation with a liberal who offered this take on the situation with Israel: Because everyone hates Israel, it’s a brilliant strategy for Obama to attack it to raise his standing in the world. Israel wants this too. I bet you $100 that we’ll learn that this
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