Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Do you remember this video contrasting the Marines’ response to Bush and to Obama? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw[/youtube] The video came out very early in Obama’s presidency, when he was a relatively unknown quantity with regard to the military. Now that he’s been in office for more than two years, do you think
Continue readingBarney Frank is one of the least savory figures in government. I disagree strongly with his politics and his ethics hover somewhere around the zero level. Michelle Malkin details his habit of giving his friends nice gifts at taxpayer expense. But here’s what I want to say in his defense,
Continue readingOne lesson of advertising is that, no matter whether true or false, to make a message stick, one must repeat, repeat, repeat. This is how false messages become enshrined into the ideological orthodoxy of the Left and ripple out to the collective consciousness of the masses. Now, there are many
Continue readingMy son has a small infection in his toe. It definitely hurts, but it’s not the end of the world. This afternoon, when he was out in the backyard with his friends, I came out and announced that it was time for him to go to martial arts. “No,” he
Continue readingAs I mentioned in an earlier post, in preparation for the Midway Commemoration next Saturday, I’m reading Gordon Prange’s Miracle at Midway. After describing the hubris that afflicted the Japanese command six months after Pearl Harbor, Prange has this to say about the American commmanders as they prepared for the
Continue readingThe only thing that bugs me is that I wasn’t on the list of seditious, dangerous websites that need to be banned.
Continue readingI’ve enjoyed reading these submissions, and I bet you will too: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Evil Precedent – Indiana Invalidates Fourth Amendment Rhymes With Right – Daniel’s decision Highlights A Problem With Our Politics Simply Jews – Binyamin Netanyahu (Bibi) goes to Washington Right Truth – Trending Pro-Life
Continue readingI forget in which thread it arose, but someone tried to argue that Israelis were disappointed by Netanyahu’s performance, because the liberal media concluded they were. Barry Rubin challenges that line of thinking.
Continue readingIf you haven’t listened to Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, you must. And I mean listen. I’m usually a speech reader, because I read quickly, and seldom have the time or the patience to sit down and listen to someone give a 45 minute speech. In addition, some speakers have so
Continue readingSeriously — was there ever a more cool performer than Cab Calloway? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-kJqM7he9o[/youtube]
Continue readingThe speech starts about 22 minutes into the video:
Continue readingPaul Ryan seems adamant about not running, but boy! do I like him. This video perfectly exemplifies his highly intelligent policies and his extremely pleasant persona: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJIC7kEq6kw[/youtube]
Continue readingI’ve long since learned that, if the liberal media endorses an ostensibly Republican candidate, I should run far and fast in the other direction. Verum Serum has a nice video explaining why Huntsman is the current go-to Republican candidate as far as the liberal media is concerned: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8HFHkX3PA[/youtube] By the
Continue reading** Newsflash*** Heard on the popular “Don and Roma” show on WLS AM890 Radio during this morning’s Chicagoland commute: In his interview with the radio hosts, Illinois Senator and naval intelligence officer Mark Kirk explained that the U.S. policy toward Somali piracy is apparently to capture them and release them
Continue reading*** Newsflash*** Heard on the popular “Don and Roma” show on WLS AM890 Radio during this morning’s Chicagoland commute: In an interview with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, John Bolton allowed that he was thinking very seriously about jumping in as a Presidential candidate. Now THAT would be interesting! My
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