Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m telling myself it was just a fluke, but I feel like an utter failure: Over at the Watcher’s Council, I didn’t get a single vote for my last Watcher’s Council submission. I’m not wailing about the fact that I didn’t win, mind you, because my submitted post wasn’t in
Continue readingI am not writing this to pick on Mrs. Edwards, who is suffering from a recurrence of her breast cancer. As to that, she has only my best wishes that her cancer is, in fact, curable or, if not, that its progress is slow and mild. I cannot resist, however,
Continue readingThe Watcher’s Council has another vacancy, and is looking for a blogger to step up and fill some mighty big shoes. (Sundries Shack is stepping down.) If you’re interested, you should definitely apply, by going here, reading what membership entails and, if you’re interested, submitting your application. Being a Council
Continue readingWhatever else it is, the CIA is not a government office loyal to either truth or the White House. Read this from Robert Novak, and I think you’ll fully appreciate the dishonest political game the CIA is playing — a game entirely separate from its mandate to amass information to
Continue readingThe title of this post describes how I felt when I read this fawning article in the SF Chronicle about Bore’s appearance on Capitol Hill, especially since its ultimate paragraphs have Babs Boxer practically eulogizing Bore without his having to go through the bother of dying first. This is not
Continue readingAs you’ve guessed by now, I dislike and distrust Obama. I noted to DQ that part of my visceral dislike may be because I’ve never actually heard him speak, since I never watch political speeches, I only read them. Having read his speeches, I’ve come to the conclusion that, while
Continue readingA Best of the Web reader makes mincemeat of Bore’s fever analogy (“the earth has a fever” and it’s going to die unless everyone but Al gives up fuel consumption): Reader Scott Jacobson questions Gore’s premise: Some great news for Daddy Gore: Little baby Earth does not have a fever.
Continue readingAs you’ve probably guessed, I’m incredibly pressed for time today, so can only blog in minute snippets. To that end, let me just direct you to the WSJ editorial regarding the fake scandal over the 8 U.S. attorneys the administration fired. I agree in every particular, whether it’s about executive
Continue readingSoccer Dad ruminates about the different ways in which at least one Ethiopian and all Palestinians handle the tools of war.
Continue readingYou know it’s going to be a busy day when you wake up worrying, not about the great number of things you have to do throughout the day, but just about the great number of things you have to do before 8:30 in the morning.
Continue readingCatherine Seipp died today. She was a trenchant and witty commentator about the silliness that is West Coast liberalism, and I know that I will miss her columns. My thoughts and wishes go to her family.
Continue readingWhat do you get when you put a deep and wide fund of knowledge, a logical mind, and a profound intellect into the service of a single article? You get Richard Baehr’s article at The American Thinker entitled “The War in American against Israel (part one).” Unsurprisingly, Mr. Baehr does
Continue readingCommon sense from a man who has seen Marxism’s ugly hand: Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Wednesday that fighting global warming has turned into a a ‘religion’ that replaced the ideology of communism and threatens to clip basic freedoms. The right-wing president, a free-market champion, wrote to the U.S.
Continue readingThe British revealed today that, because of lax security, they issued 10,000 passports last year to bogus applicants, including at least two terrorists: The Home Office today revealed that around 10,000 British passports were issued to false applicants last year, as it released details of new measures to combat identity
Continue readingI first heard about this ATM scam when I read of it in Rick Steve’s excellent travel book on Italy (it is, apparently, a very popular European scam). You can view this easy to read slide show to understand what not to do when your card apparently gets sucked permanently
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