Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of the things that distinguishing humans from all other animals is their ingenuity. If you live in the West, that ingenuity is used to discover new vaccines, maximize crop harvests, invent computers, make beautiful communities, etc. If you live in the world of radical Islam, that ingenuity is used
Continue readingPaul Belien, the editor of the Brussels Journal, has written an op-ed describing the battle in the front lines in Europe — and the Europeans are not only losing, their handing their weapons over to the Islamic hardliners, with instructions about how to shoot. The heroine of his story is
Continue readingWe watched a humdinger of a movie yesterday, one you might already know about because it’s been out for a while, and received a lot of well-deserved acclaim. It’s a documentary called Murderball, which focuses on the lives of the United States Paralympic Rugby team. These wheel chair bound rugby
Continue readingAs you watch this amazing video, in which a UN Watch spokesman unloads on the “Human Rights” Council, keep in mind the fact that the first thing the council did when he was finished was try to erase the speech from the record. Then, remember what Winston Smith’s job was
Continue readingIf you’d like to get a perfect sampling of illogical thought masquerading as logic, check out this Brutally Honest post, which examines Hillary’s latest bon mot. Speaking of Hillary, I heard a woman today telling Michael Medved that, while she is a Republican, she’ll vote for Hillary because she wants
Continue readingOf the many foolish ideas I had when I was young, a belief in government run medical care wasn’t one of them. This rare moment of youthful intelligence came from the fact that I spent a very enjoyable year as a student abroad during the twilight years of the Thatcher
Continue readingOne of my friends, who goes by the wonderful name of “Bald-Headed Geek” has decided to open up shop as a blogger. You know you’re going to enjoy the blog when the “about me” reads as follows: I am a forty-something professional who lives in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the
Continue readingThis video pretty much speaks for itself: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAtNILh6uY] Hat tip: American Thinker (where Thomas Lifson notes that it’s not well rated, something you can change by logging into YouTube and casting your vote, here). del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingShe helped kill nine people, she got five consecutive life sentences, she’s never shown the slightest remorse, and she’s walking after only 24 years in prison: A former member of the Baader-Meinhof gang has been released after serving 24 years for her involvement in kidnappings and murders in the 1970s.
Continue readingWhen I was young, I knew a family of six that could “boast” about the fact that each member of the family had been involved in a serious car accident. If that coincidence wasn’t strange enough, what made the whole thing truly bizarre was that none drove. Each of them
Continue readingFrom Bookboy, 7: “I sometimes like being really clean and groomed. Now I have brand new Band Aids and I’m looking swell.” Absolutely!
Continue readingAmerican Heritage Dictionary – Cite This Source ni·hil·ism (nī’ə-lĭz’əm, nē’-) Pronunciation Key n. Philosophy An extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence. A doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a
Continue readingJonah Goldberg’s analysis of Gore’s approach to climate change sounds entirely accurate given the way in which Gore is presenting the problem and the changes he’s demanding: Indeed, he wants to change attitudes about government as much as he wants to preach environmentalism. Global warming is what William James called
Continue readingI didn’t even have to read Dick Morris’ article to know that I liked it. Here’s the tag for the article at Front Page Magazine: “Only gutless Republicans could turn the U.S. Attorney firings into a budding constitutional crisis.” Well, yeah. The Democrats scream bloody murder over the political equivalent
Continue readingI don’t think I’ve ever written “pork” and “surrender” in the same sentence, but needs must. The necessity in this case is to bring increased attention to the really vile bill the greedy surrender monkeys in the House have cobbled together in an effort to position themselves to win the
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