Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Yesterday, I blogged about Murkowski’s embarrassing, condescending, crude, inept campaign commercial. Now I’ve got a good one for you — although you have to be familiar with the Old Spice ad to appreciate it: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjDQcRNHSxI[/youtube]
Continue readingIf you like old music as much as I do, you recognize my post caption as the “verse” from “Slow Boat to China,” on of my favorite songs. It has such wonderful lyrics, written by Frank Loesser: I’d love to get you on a slow boat to China, all to
Continue readingSome ads are so bad they’re good. And some ads are so bad . . . they’re just really, really bad. Lisa Murkowski’s first stab at her write-in campaign seems to have fallen into the latter category. It’s karma that her ad is so, so awful. This is a woman
Continue readingI heartily disapprove of half of the DREAM Act. For those who are unfamiliar with it, the WSJ describes it as follows: The bill would grant six years of legal residency to high-school graduates who have lived in the U.S. continuously for five years and arrived by the age of
Continue readingAndrew Breitbart demonstrates both, in spades: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWlqiv-YL7c[/youtube]
Continue readingI recently read SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance, which, sadly, was not as good as the original book by the same authors. One thing that did stick with me, though, from this slightly silly, banal book, is the author’s claim that, in
Continue readingBookworm recently asked, “is Europe trying to save itself?” To that question, I can only offer anecdotal evidence from family and business visits made to France and Belgium this summer, shortly after the Greece-precipitated financial crisis. Europe (witness the EU) is an uber-bureacracy. For centuries, Europe’s forms of governance have
Continue readingThe British government has proposed stealth communism: all paychecks go to the government first, which then doles out to the wage earner whatever amount the government feels is the wage earner’s due. Think about it. As Pat Sajak wrote yesterday, withholding is bad enough, because it deprives the worker of
Continue readingPat Sajak posts periodically at Ricochet. I always look for his posts there because they’re not just right, they’re often very witty. For example, check out his post regarding the fact that LA County managed to use $111 million stimulus dollars to save or create 55 jobs. Even when he’s
Continue readingI don’t have a link yet (it was tweeted), but it appears that the Swedes elected a center-right government. I see this as a good thing, although I haven’t lost sight of two facts: (1) Europe is so far Left that, as we know from England, even center-right is Left;
Continue readingI admit it — I didn’t read the whole thing, because the obscene relativism permeating Nicholas Kristof’s first couple of paragraphs so disgusted me, my brain shut down. Anyway, because of fair use concerns, I don’t want to quote more than the first two paragraphs, which more than adequately make
Continue readingI know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed. I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little
Continue readingThree more weeks to my favorite week of the year — Fleet Week. Yay! Up until a few years ago, Fleet Week was fun. Now, thanks to the Navy League, Fleet Week stands out as a time when I get to visit a world that is not only completely different
Continue readingA deeply disappointed New York Times reports that the Democrats are not able to rely upon the union stalwarts in the upcoming election: Labor leaders, alarmed at a possible Republican takeover of one or both Houses of Congress, promise to devote a record amount of money and manpower to helping
Continue readingYou’ve all heard by now about the group of Massachusetts school children taken to a mosque where they were taught utterly fallacious history about Islam and America, and then led in prayer: A mosque spokesperson is seen teaching the children that in Mohammed’s 7th century Arabia women were allowed to
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