Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I have a really ignorant question for my Christian friends. I am under the impression that, if you are a fundamentalist Christian, accepting Christ as your savior is the one and only road to salvation. I think I’ve read this described as “faith, not acts.” If I’m correct about this
Continue readingI don’t know about you, but it’s easy to read a whole bunch of quite uplifting symbolism into this story: An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said. The crucifix, made of copper and
Continue readingMy son’s Nintendo DS crashed and, as it turned out, he hadn’t saved for quite a while. He lost several special moves and weapons that he’d gathered since the last save. I suggested (sympathetically) that he might want to save more often. His response: “I’m going to sue Nintendo.” I
Continue readingIt’s old news in the blogosphere, but I was very pleased to see that The Telegraph, one of Britain’s three main newspapers had as a top story (online) Steve McIntyre’s find that NASA climate information was in error: A US blogger has caused a stir in the climate debate by
Continue readingFIRE has targeted the University of Maryland at College Park as one of the most repressive colleges in America. It’s created an environment governed entirely by giving all self-styled victims the right to take offense, with no vestige of the traditional Western university model of the free exchange of ideas.
Continue readingWhen I used to go to Lake Tahoe in the 1960s and early 1970s, the water was such a clear blue it seemed magical. If you took a boat out, you could look straight through to the bottom to incredible depths. The lake area also wasn’t very crowded. You could
Continue readingCliff Thier is looking ahead to the possibility that the 2008 election will see Hillary and Rudy competing against each other in the White House. With that in mind, he’s come up with a great idea for a campaign commercial. Aside from liking the idea, I think it’s incredibly important
Continue readingSchool starts in a week, so this is one of the last of my lazy mornings of sleeping in a little longer and lolling around before turning on my computer. I haven’t even read the news at this point! Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the new school year. Already
Continue readingWell, fans, it’s over for James Bond. The suave, charming lady’s man who long protected the West from Communists and megalomaniac bad guys has been outed as a bad guy himself: Matt Damon has dismissed James Bond as being stuck in the 1960s while promoting his own new spy film.
Continue readingRemember Rage Boy, the Mick Jagger of Pakistan, who showed up at every rally, with his wide mouth screaming its outrage at America? Turns out that Rage Boy has a friend, Anguished Woman. She’s the one who roams around in the middle of chaos screaming, and she’s now got the
Continue readingPhyllis Chesler mounts a blistering and entirely appropriate attack against the New York Times. I especially enjoyed the first two paragraphs, which also described my transition from Leftie to Rightie, including the change in reading material: Once upon a time, I only read and wrote for the most radical, left,
Continue readingIslamists have, for a long time, been singing a Siren song to Europe: “If you stop support for Israel, we’ll leave you alone and make nice with everyone.” (Tra la la!) A lot of people have actually be seduced into believing that, if they abandon Israel to the Muslim countries
Continue readingBibi is a larger than life figure, who has allowed hubris to damage his political career. Since I think he’s one of the few Israeli politicians who understands both the Islamist forces arrayed against Israel and America (where he lived), and who has the smarts to put his understanding into
Continue readingI get sweaty thinking about this one: A Japanese biker failed to notice his leg had been severed below the knee when he hit a safety barrier, and rode on for more than a mile, leaving a friend to pick up the missing limb. The 54-year-old office worker was out
Continue readingFrom today’s Best of the Web: Yesterday we noted the sad story of Nathan C. Gagner, a depressed 27-year-old Kittery, Maine, man who committed suicide by burning himself to death on a public street, and the ludicrous reaction of an unidentified resident of nearby Eliot, who wrote in a newspaper
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