Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Rev. Wright has surfaced in 2012, just as he did in 2008. In 2008, though, John McCain not only refused to mention Wright, but told his minions they couldn’t either. This time around, Romney’s minions want to raise the Reverend again, especially as more and more information is emerging about
Continue readingYou realize this means war! When I was growing up, we socialized with a lot of Arabs — from Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, etc. I don’t know why that was possible back then — if we were anomalies or if, back in the 1970s, the hatreds of the Middle East
Continue readingPeople hostile to American consumerism (that would be the AGW/Green crowd), as well as vegetarians and PETA people (often the same people as the AGW/Green crowd), like to point out that Americans, by buying their meat neatly packaged at the grocery store can ignore the living, breathing animal behind that
Continue readingHeard this on the radio today and, once I remembered how much I liked this song, I wanted to share it with you. I’ve never quite understood the lyrics, which were written as a subversive joke (I always thought it was “one toe” over the line), but I still like
Continue readingI’ve been thinking about death lately. Not in a morbid, depressed way, but in a more philosophical way. Someone fairly close to me, someone I have liked a great deal and respected even more over the years, died recently. The death was neither unexpected nor was it tragic. Her loved
Continue readingClever, non-vulgar ridicule. We need this:
Continue readingSadie hit the punster’s trifecta (although the last one is rather tragic): Pecker painting Peckerhead Peckerless
Continue readingClick on image to enlarge: Hat tip: Ron Radosh UPDATE: Welcome, Ace of Spades readers. Here’s a little more food for thought about our President’s mysterious origins.
Continue readingRep. Pete Stark (D-19 terms) is not a nice human being. This is entirely separate from (or perhaps closely related to) his politics. Here are some examples of his “not nice”-ness: 2007: Speaking of Republicans, he said the were sending America’s youth to Iraq “to get their heads blown off
Continue readingBarack Obama has kept carefully hidden all of his college records. Many of us have assumed that this secrecy is because those papers show that he took nothing but Leftist Mickey Mouse classes and ended up with lousy grades. Now that we know that Obama marketed himself to publishers as
Continue readingThe silly season is over; it’s time to get serious. Gov. Romney has released his first television ad, one that’s targeted, not to the political geeks on the internet, but to a broader TV audience, one that hasn’t been paying him very close attention: What do you think of the
Continue readingThe San Jose Mercury News talked to fifteen teenage student journalists about issues ranging from texting while driving to Trayvon to politics. As journalists-in-training, these students are presumably better informed and more engaged than their peers. That presumption could be wrong. The students’ responses to the Trayvon matter fascinated me
Continue readingDQ here. Recently, I had a chance to attend a luncheon in which awards were made for the Federal Employee of the Year in various categories. Most of the program was what you would expect. The ceremony began with the presentation of the colors and one of the finest renditions
Continue readingEd Driscoll has the best wrap-up I’ve seen of the bombshell report that Barack Obama either told his literary agent that he was born in Kenya or, when she made a mistake to that effect, was happy to let that mistake sit around, uncorrected, until 2007. Ed’s point, like mine,
Continue readingThe silly season is over; the serious season has begun. The Watcher’s Council, of course, is on top of it. Herewith, the submissions for this week: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – “Distress” The Noisy Room – The Fascist Boogie Fever Simply Jews – Fahd al Quso’s demise, blame
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