Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The conservative blogosphere has been upset since Friday, when Obama, as part of a Friday night document dump, issued an executive order entitled “National Defense Resources Preparedness” (“NDRP”). Ed Morrissey, for one, was unimpressed: This EO simply updates another EO (12919) that had been in place since June 1994, and
Continue readingOver the weekend, I got a link to a story about Malia Obama heading off to Mexico for vacation with 12 friends and 25 Secret Service agents. The story is newsworthy because it implicates taxpayer concerns: Malia is going to a nation that the State Department warns is dangerous, and
Continue readingToday, a gunman hunted out a Jewish school in Toulouse, killing four (three of whom were young children) and then vanishing. Despite the unusual specificity of the targets (i.e., Jewish children), the usual suspects are very busy denying that the unusual specificity of the targets had anything to do with
Continue readingLast year, it was a flotilla. This year, it’s a “Global March to Jerusalem.” No matter the name, it a Leftist-Muslim alliance designed to use force and disinformation to breach Israel’s borders and obliterate the Jews’ three thousand year claim to the Holy Land. If you’d like a continuous stream
Continue readingHere’s the video in which Eric Holder ends by saying that we have to “brainwash” young people into new attitudes about guns: I am no Eric Holder fan. I think he’s very busy now trying to destroy both the Justice Department and the abstract notion of justice within the United
Continue readingToday’s news — if you can call it news — is that Rosie O’Donnell, is not only to the left of Left politically, she’s no lady when it comes to her day-to-day interactions with people, especially people in subordinate positions: Through all the changes [in the form of the just-cancelled
Continue readingAfter a self-indulgent morning spent doing nothing, I’m catching up on family matters. I hope to write this afternoon but, until then, please enjoy this Open Thread.
Continue readingIf St. Patrick’s Day had fallen on a school day, every child at the bus stop, whether Irish, Jewish, Asian, East Asian, or Black, would have been wearing something green. No one would have found this peculiar. Today, I know that when I go out to run errands, I’ll see
Continue readingSame old, same old, I’m afraid. Here is an anguished cry for help by a student that feels she got shafted by the system. Let me summarize: 1. Latina (not wise, but special) 2. Grew up middle class Ft. Worth. 3. Went to small private college in Boston. 4. Wracked
Continue readingIf you ever quizzed me on military ranks, I would fail, not just miserably, but whatever is more abject and humiliating than “miserably.” As of today, though, I know what a Sergeant Major in the Marines is, and now you can too: In the United States Marine Corps, sergeant major
Continue readingA video that illustrates why the Democrats’ recurrent analogy between mandatory car insurance and mandatory health insurance works perfectly — works perfectly, that is, if you want to show the absurdity of mandatory insurance.
Continue readingThis week’s Council submissions don’t actually have anything to do with St. Patrick’s Day, but the Watcher’s post does: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – The American Spring Bears Poisonous Fruit The Political Commentator – Eminent domain: Being a bondholder ain’t what it used to be! Simply Jews – Maradona
Continue readingAce manages to summarize in one short paragraph everything that’s wrong with the Obama administration’s approach to technology: I prefer the “Old” approach to emerging technology: We adopt new technology when it is better and cheaper than the old technology, not when it is worse and more expensive, with a government demanding
Continue readingA month ago, I reviewed Tom Grace’s excellent book, The Liberty Intrigue, which is a very rare animal indeed — a political polemic that isn’t didactic or boring. I also got the opportunity to send Tom a list of questions about his book. They’re not very good questions (I’ll never
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