Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s time again for me to have the privilege of reading and then voting upon the myriad Council and non-Council submissions at the Watcher’s Council. I commend them all to your attention but, rather unusually for me (indeed, I think this is a first), I’m going to highlight one that
Continue readingI may have been gallivanting around Alaska, but Council members were hard at work. Below the fold, you will find the winners during my absence:
Continue readingYou’ve probably seen the headlines saying that Alabama Rep. Bobby Wright “joked” that Pelosi might get sick and die before he’s called upon to vote for her next year as the House leader. I think that the “joke” is in exceptionally bad taste, but that’s not the issue. What makes
Continue readingAges ago, I can’t remember when, I was hunting around to find out if it was true that the Obama administration is refusing to sell arms to Israel. The information on that was inconclusive, so I abandoned that whole topic. What’s conclusive now is that, for boasting rights, the Obama
Continue readingGreat video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wusgcG4rfo[/youtube] (ht: American Thinker) One of the big regrets in my life is that I didn’t appreciate Reagan while he was president. I was still an unthinking liberal, and accepted without analysis or suspicion the MSM’s repeated assurances that he was a dangerous and evil buffoon.
Continue readingNew Jersey missed out on $300 million in federal “Race to the Top” education funds. It turns out that the state DOE filled out the application wrong. But before you start ripping Chris Christie for government mismanagement, check out his masterful, and simultaneous, acceptance of responsibility and attack against the
Continue readingCNN is running an opinion piece by Jocelyne Cesari, an Ivy League scholar, assuring Americans (you know, all those bigoted, Islamophobic, ignorant Americans) that Islam is a religion and has nothing to do with terrorism. What’s interesting is that the article doesn’t actually take a doctrinal approach to Islam, one
Continue readingSometimes, one blog will have all bases loaded and hit a home run. For your enjoyment, four things from American Digest: To laugh; To writhe in embarrassment; To get weirdly inspired; And to get that warm, cuddly feeling.
Continue readingYesterday I mentioned John Hawkin’s post explaining why he is sponsoring HomoCon. I thought a nice companion piece would be Nick Gillespie’s post reprinting the HomoCon platform, a platform I think that all conservatives will find agreeable. Remember (as if you, my dear readers, ever forget): Unlike the statists/regressives/so-called liberals,
Continue readingI’m almost done going through my emails, but still have a few left. One of them brought to my attention Zombie’s post about Obama’s schiz0phrenia when it comes to the economy. As for me, I’m not so sure that Obama is pulled in two directions. I think he’s got a
Continue readingIn America, being stoned is a good thing: it’s hip, it’s cool, it’s “real.” Being stoned in Islamic culture has a whole different meaning. I think it’s worth reading Phyllis Chesler on the subject just so that you can appreciate the true “otherness” of Islam. As Pat Condell said— and
Continue readingAmericans, if you still think elections don’t count, and that all that’s needed in the White House is a metrosexual beloved by the New York media, think again. We are all going to be very deeply affected by the changes coming down the pike this January. Higher taxes, hidden taxes,
Continue readingI had heard that, now that Obama placed the U.S. into the grossly misnamed UN Human Rights Council, the U.S. was suddenly obligated to file a self-report card. Although much of the report card is concerned with boasting about the Obama administration’s wonderfulness, it turns out that other parts are
Continue readingAlaska is the land of many, many glaciers. During my trip, I had the great pleasure of seeing Glacier Bay, the Hubbard Glacier and the Mendenhall glacier. They are magnificent. What I found amusing, in an icky kind of way, was the approach the museums, the Park Rangers, and the
Continue readingDo any of you disagree with anything Condell says? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjS0Novt3X4[/youtube] I was going to blog on the subject, which got hot while I was on vacation, but all I can do now is say “ditto” to Condell.
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