Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m blessed to have made a lot of good friends in the blogosphere, and this morning I got a bunch of emails from them, all of which were intriguing, thoughtful and even exciting discussions of current affairs. I pass them on to you: Kim Priestap and the Anchoress both think
Continue readingCool. UPDATE: Thanks, Cottus. The typos I make, of course, are meant to ensure that, despite my impressive pedigree (which, Obama-like, I’ll keep hidden from you and, instead, I’ll just repeat that it really is as impressive as I say it is), I’m still one of “the little people.”
Continue readingOne of my favorite organizations is the Navy League. I wrote this post last September to encourage people to check it out. I’m reprinting it today, slightly modified, because, for no clear reason, the Navy League has been in my mind. I guess the dog days of Spring already have
Continue readingWell, I finally got around to seeing The Blind Side. For those unfamiliar with the movie, it retells the true story of Michael Oher, a profoundly disadvantaged black boy who ended up as a scholarship student at a Christian academy in Memphis. Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, parents at the
Continue readingJ.C. Arenas on the laundry list of qualifications for Obama’s Supreme Court picks: Obama’s first Supreme Court appointment was Sonia Sotomayor, the Bronx-bred daughter of Puerto Rican parents, who supposedly was a valedictorian student with a deficiency in English and become an Ivy-League educated jurist credited with saving Major League
Continue readingDennis Prager writes a long and interesting column detailing the way in which the Left resolutely refuses to conflate two ideas: terrorism and Islam. He then wraps it up with a conclusion that operates only if you accept Prager’s view of the world, but that is meaningless to the average
Continue readingNever assume stupidity when malevolence can apply — words that aptly characterize the Obama administration’s approach to Israel. Evelyn Gordon takes a look at the new “proximity” talks between Israel and the Palestinians, talks that no one expects to yield any results. After all, the predicate is that the Obama
Continue readingThe Progressives are characterized by solemnity and pomposity. They take themselves very, very seriously. Barbara Boxer personified this obsession with self-worth when she chastised a general for respectfully addressing her as “Ma’am” instead of “Senator.” I really wonder if she thought people were impressed by her thin skin and self-aggrandizement.
Continue readingI know that much is being said amongst both Progressives and Conservatives about Kagan’s possible lesbianism. Progressives are mad at her for being in the closet; Conservatives are worried about her orientation affecting her rulings as a Supreme Court judge. Both are completely wrong. Regarding the Progressive’s disdain for Kagan’s
Continue readingFrom James Lewis’ must-read article today about the effect of Iran’s ICBM’s (which it has spread throughout the Middle East) and its future nuclear arsenal: Mahmoud Ahmadijenad is the aggressive chess player behind all these missiles surrounding Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Iranian strategy has been to move its missile assets
Continue readingI’d like to analyze a Harvard’s law prof’s defense of a Harvard law dean. The Prof (and ex-dean himself) is Robert Clark, who wrote an op-ed in the WSJ defending Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s approach to the military during her tenure as dean of Harvard Law. He spells out
Continue readingWhenever it comes to mentioning presidential policy, this New York Times article about the collapse of AIDS care in Africa is studiously neutral. Read between the lines (and make it almost to the end of the article), though, and you’ll see the truth peek out: Bush, the quintessential “white man,”
Continue readingIf you read nothing else today, please read Fouad Ajami’s devastating indictment of the Islamic culture, a culture that encourages perpetual disaffection and anger with the world at large: ‘A Muslim has no nationality except his belief,” the intellectual godfather of the Islamists, Egyptian Sayyid Qutb, wrote decades ago. Qutb’s
Continue readingTo no one’s surprise, Obama nominated Elena Kagan to fill the opening on the Supreme Court. Many have pointed to the fact that she’s never served as a judge before as one of the main reasons Obama did so — she has no paper trail. Since I have a generally
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