Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There’s no doubt but that the Larry Craig incident is ripe for parody and a guy named Doug Clark parodied it in a very funny song called “Tap Three Times.” I’m hoping the link works. Give it a try for a laugh. Hat tip: Rocket’s Brain, who blogs at Rocket’s
Continue readingSince DQ asked in a comment how we can tell if the surge is working, I’ve been collecting links to blogs and articles that discuss that point. The Captain has a lucid summary of an article in The Australian in which General Petraeus gives the heads-up about his probable report
Continue readingThe anticipation was killing, but the Watcher’s Council results are finally in and I can say, with some confidence, that they are good. On the Council side first place (again!) went to Big Lizards, this time for a stellar article pointing out that, at the NYT: Analogies Are Meaningless (Unless
Continue readingI know you all caught the story about the school in Colorado that banned tag. The school’s primary stated reason for having instituted this ban was to shelter kids they perceived as emotionally delicate: An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed
Continue readingSpurred by Amanpour’s CNN series on religion, DQ, who is a very astute analyst and a thinker who is truly open minded to new information and ideas, wrote his impressions of the show, which led to a lively and very fact intense discussion about Amanpour’s errors, both explicit and implied,
Continue readingDespite the fact that we live in a vaccine age, Britain is facing an outbreak of measles, a disease can cause life long damage to its victims: Parents were urged today to give their children the MMR jab before they returned to school after figures showed measles cases have more
Continue readingNPR did a little eulogy for Richard Jewell: Lets take a moment to remember a man who really was not a terrorist. Richard Jewell died yesterday. He might have saved lives at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He was a security guard. He’s the man who discovered a green knapsack.
Continue readingIf you haven’t already caught this at LGF, it’s still not too late. Catch it here at the source site.
Continue readingIf you read one thing this week, this month, or even this year, read this: “The Big Picture,” which Karl assembled at Protein Wisdom. It carefully analyzes the way in which the media is reporting the war, and explains why the Scott Beauchamp story is a problem, not because it
Continue readingIsrael, which has been the victim of endless and destructive rocket attacks originating in Gaza, successfully stopped one before it happened. Taking facts directly from the BBC, this is how I would have reported the Israeli Army’s successful action: Israel destroys several rocket launchers in Gaza The Israeli Army reports
Continue readingOkay, it’s not really an exclusive behind the scenes look, it’s just a great parody of the Washington Post’s craven decision, a week after happily insulting Christians, to refrain from seeing any Muslims get emotional. Hat tip: LGF
Continue readingJeff Emanuel, a former special operations veteran and a current embedded journalist, has some cautiously optimistic words about the Surge, both in terms of how it’s working right now, and in terms of the possible benefits we can see from it. Bottom line: people who give up on the Surge
Continue readingThe San Francisco Chronicle has a front page story today about the record number of uninsured people in California: A record 6.8 million Californians, nearly 1 in 5 of the state’s residents, went without health insurance at some time during 2006, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Census
Continue readingChris Muir, of Day by Day cartoon fame, hits another wonderful home run:
Continue readingDoes it strike any of you as funny that a Presidential candidate, who is one of the richer men in America, and who just built himself a mansion that checks in at just under 30,000 square feet, is telling Americans to drive smaller cars? I’d be more agreeable to these
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