Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Yes, I know I keep coming back to the same theme — the media’s obsession with dead and wounded soldiers, as opposed to active warriors — but I can’t help feeling that there’s more here than just a stupid and irritating media. Melanie Phillips, who writes about a similar trend
Continue readingSometimes, a reader leaves a comment that is too good not to elevate to post status. This time, it was Spartacus, writing in response to my question about real ways (not stupid, embarrassing, intrusive ways) to improve airport security: *** A childhood friend of mine got married in the Tel
Continue readingMore than a hundred years ago, writing in a deeply religious era, Robert Browning observed “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” Perhaps it’s no surprise that today, in a society with a pop and media culture dominated by secularists who have abandoned
Continue readingIn a previous post today, in which I asked how to make airline security actually work, the clear winner was profiling, a la the Israeli system (along with some other solid suggestions, such as privatization). But as long as the feds control airline security, that’s not going to happen. Witness
Continue readingFrom today’s Chron: Soon-to-be-dethroned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have been a favorite target of Republican candidates in the midterm elections Nov. 2 – by one count more than 400 of their ads featured her as the enemy – but voters in her famously liberal home turf of San Francisco
Continue readingA reader was kind enough to pass this joke on to me, and I now get to share it with you: Having served his time with the Marine Corps, a man became a school teacher and before school started he injured his back. He was required to wear a plaster
Continue readingOver at RedState, there is a post that succinctly sums up the three choices currently facing people who plan to travel to a faraway destination: Door #1: Have nude pictures of yourself beamed to some video monitor to be viewed by a total stranger where it may or may not
Continue readingThere are stories like this every day, because the march of time is inexorable. I just bring to your attention the fact that another Pearl Harbor survivor, one who managed to thumb his nose at the Japanese by living on for another 69 years, has passed on.
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Continue readingYes, you read that post caption correctly. British Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge, in a speech in the House of Lords, claims that terrorism around the world is Israel’s fault, because Israel treats the Palestinian’s badly: On the issue of world conflict prevention, Tonge then said: “It is a disgrace to
Continue readingPerfect for a Saturday night: Harry James, the Andrews Sister and Shemp: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcyiC79l910[/youtube]
Continue readingThe Council has spoken. As always, if you haven’t already done so, do yourself the favor of reading, not just the winners, but all the posts. They’re that good. Council Winners *First place with 3 2/3 votes! – Joshuapundit – Jews, Democrats And ‘Progressives’ Second place with 2 2/3 votes
Continue readingAt Simply Jews, you can read about what happened when one man tried, in a somewhat vulgar way, to exercise free speech in Venezuela.
Continue readingEvery conservative writer in America (heck, in the world), myself included, has had occasion to write about Obama’s overwhelming vanity. Jonathan Last has now turned his hand to the task and, by gum, he’s hit it out of the park. He’s not saying anything anyone else hasn’t said before, but
Continue readingI mentioned in passing how revolting I thought it was that Obama bashed Israel from a podium set up in a Muslim country. Andrew McCarthy expands on just how bad the president’s choice of forum was.
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