Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The New York Times has again thrust before me food for thought — and food that I haven’t seen addressed in the major conservative blogs. Again, it involves military personnel criticizing the war effort. The trigger article is a May 2007 opinion piece in the Armed Forces Journal in which
Continue readingHave a smile about this one, until the moment you suddenly realize there may be a lot more young people out there who are just like her: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww] Hat tip: Hot Air
Continue readingSan Francisco is a small town and I knew Naomi Wolf when we were both young. With the best will in the world, I didn’t like her. Okay, I’m lying — I didn’t have the best will in the world. I was an insecure teenager, and viewed with hostility anyone
Continue readingMr. Bookworm and I just finished watching the second and last season of Rome, the series. At the IMDB link I just gave, 7,600 viewers gave it a staggeringly high rating of 9.2 out of 10 — and, I think, deservedly so. Zhombre suggested that I start a thread on
Continue readingBest Hamster Dance video ever: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=kpdSQ1v-4h8]
Continue readingIf it startles a laugh out of me, I pass it on to you. This one, sent by a friend, is too good to keep to myself.
Continue readingJames Lewis has put together the “greatest hits” of liberal wisdom, all culled from conversations with ordinary liberals. It reads like fantasy (or nonsense), but it isn’t. As to almost every single item on the list, I have read or heard someone say it.
Continue readingNo comment, ’cause this one speaks for itself: Despite its numerous calls for Israel’s destruction, and repeated denials of the Holocaust, Iran has been selected by the United Nations for a leading position in a committee that will plan the 2009 UN World Conference against Racism. The planning committee, which
Continue readingIf I remember correctly, the New York Times was not that upset about a tax funded school in New York devoted to giving Muslims a proper Arabic and Muslim culture education. I guess it was just sleeping the day that news story came out. Today, it’s wide awake and really
Continue readingAs you may recall, a couple of days ago I asked why there had been no comment whatsoever in the conservative blogosphere about a New York Times op-ed piece in which seven active duty soldiers criticized the Iraq War. In updates to that same post, I was able to point
Continue readingIn a bizarre speech yesterday, Hillary wittingly or unwittingly admitted that the Republicans are best when it comes to security against terrorism. Here’s what she said: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year’s election, warning that it could boost the GOP’s efforts
Continue readingDon Quixote will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think one of the core things about being a libertarian is that you don’t try to control people’s conduct, but you do step in if they break certain clearly stated rules. Indeed, you don’t need to be a libertarian to
Continue readingIt’s rare that, on the same day, two articles come out that neatly bookend a single subject. Today, though, that happened, with the first article being a Mona Charen piece about Israel, which discusses its overall humanism (despite a few bad apples) and which points out the difference the wall
Continue readingMy children wearily put up with my joke that our dog is my favorite “child,” because she’s the only one in the house who always listens to me and lives to please me. My kids do know, though, that I’m joking, not about my dogs lovely attributes, but about actually
Continue readingAs I’ve freely admitted over the years, I’m quite a cowardly person. I’m a physical coward insofar as I assiduously avoid physical risks, and I’m an intellectual coward to the extent that I blog anonymously. I’d like to be brave, I truly would, but whether I’m confronting the specter of
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