Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
[UPDATE: I should clarify here that, while Fish regularly writes opinion pieces for the Times, and while his beliefs and the Times’ beliefs harmonize more often than not, Fish is not a salaried employee of the Times. I’ve changed the title of this post to add the phrase “guest columnist”
Continue readingHaving read Chris Kyle’s American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, I keep forgetting that I never actually met the man. The book was so vivid, not just about his war-time experiences, but also when it came to his life and personality, that my
Continue readingA high school classmate of mine who is a staunch conservative posted this on Facebook: It’s not hard to see why: Leftism inculcates people with an overarching sense that they are being treated unfairly, stokes their anger, and removes all moral constraints. With that toxic combination, no wonder they kill
Continue readingMy mother lives in a very nice retirement community. Typically for an affluent suburb, the residents are rich and white, while the employees are low-income and represent a variety of races (white, Asian, black, and Hispanic). They’re not downtrodden employees. Many have been there for decades and have strong bonds
Continue readingI’ve been hostile to teacher’s unions since I was a child. I saw them from both ends: as a lifelong public school student and as a child whose father (reluctantly) belonged to the California teacher’s union. In the classroom, my teachers were decrepit fossils, many of whom hated students, and
Continue readingYou know that old joke, the one that goes “How can you tell when a politician is lying? His lips are moving.” That’s Obama. I think Obama’s skilled lying arises from the fact that he is a borderline personality, whether malignant narcissist or sociopath. These specific border personalities lie better
Continue readingWilliam Kristol and Peter Wehner, even though using the polite language of statesmen, have delivered a scathing indictment against our absent commander in chief. Considering that Obama is indeed the CIC, court-martial for dereliction of duty doesn’t seem unreasonable. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ll even get impeachment. I know that,
Continue reading[UPDATE: The magical Chukker left a comment with a link to this New York Times article, which is precisely the article I meant and that I incorrectly tied to The New Yorker.] I stopped taking The New Yorker seriously many years ago. Even before I crossed the political Rubicon, I
Continue readingLast week, we learned that President Obama was completely AWOL during the Benghazi attack. While Americans under his command were dying, he caught a few Zs. This week’s revelations are even uglier. Typically, the Daily Mail is very excited about those parts of a new book that discuss General Petraeus’
Continue readingBefore a friend posted this video on Facebook, I’d never heard of Alice and Ellen Kessler. Now I know that they are twins who were born in 1936 into Nazi Germany, whose found themselves on the Soviet side of the wall in post-War Germany, and whose parents eventually managed to
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I asked you all to explain to me why the stock market is so excited, even as the dollar is weak, unemployment is high, and national debt soars. Naturally, I got many interesting answers back, with inflation being cited as the chief culprit. Robert Arvanitis,
Continue readingSadie sent me an email: Would you post this and ask your clever and knowledgeable readers to answer mine or Dirty Harry’s question: Well, do you feel Lucky. Well do ya, Punk? I am not feeling warm and fuzzy. Admission: I am warm enough, but very fuzzy on details about
Continue readingJudy Holliday and Dean Martin singing “Better Than A Dream,” from “The Bells are Ringing”:
Continue readingI got this one in an email from a friend: Mule Trading Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily in Starkville, MS. and bought a mule for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day. The next morning the farmer drove up and said,”Sorry,
Continue readingActually, two things to get your Friday off to a good start (or, if you’re not on the West Coast, to brighten whatever part of the day or night you’re currently enjoying). The first riffs off of the “So God made a farmer” Super Bowl commercial: And the second, which
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