Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The anticipation is over and the votes are in for the weekly Watcher’s Council survey of news and analysis you can use! This week, the first and second place winners for council authored articles are (1) Joshuapundit’s Between Iraq and a Hard Place — Why We Went, How It Got
Continue readingI know it’s unkind of me, but ever since I saw that video of John Edwards preening to improve his pretty-boy self, I think of him as a sort of Barbie doll — or, maybe, I should say a Ken doll. That’s why I found it exquisitely funny that this
Continue readingDaniel Henninger has a really brilliant article about the fact that the focus of the Presidential primaries, on both sides of the political divide, is entirely wrong, with form (and the hunt for public humiliation) dominating when substance should matter: The world beyond America’s borders isn’t dormant; it is a
Continue readingAs you know, the U.S. Mint is trying to sell the public on a new series of one dollar coins. It makes sense. Although they’re more expensive to make than paper bills, they have greater longevity. However, having held these coins in my hand, I can tell you that they
Continue readingOne of the things that T.S. raised in my original Scooter post was that Fitzgerald said that it was wrong to disclose Plame’s identity. Now, as a lawyer, I can tell you that the fact that Fitzgerald said something doesn’t make it so. In fact, nothing a lawyer says is
Continue readingBetween kids at home in the first part of the week, and all of us gone in the second part of the week, President’s Week slipped by me entirely, which is why I forget to tell you about the Watcher’s Council articles that won that week (February 23). You’ll want
Continue readingThis kind of writing is why I’m not going to turn my back entirely on Ann Coulter, even when she makes inept (and, yes, offensive) jokes, not so much about John Edwards and gays (although they were caught in her misfire), but about a type of political correctness that has
Continue readingSome things make one yearn for good, old-fashioned medieval death by torture: A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about
Continue readingYou don’t need a scorecard to know the players; just a picture.
Continue readingFrom Jay Nordlinger: Reading about John Edwards and what he thinks Jesus would think of us, I remembered the rule. You know the rule, don’t you? You can talk about Jesus and religion all you want, if you’re a liberal Democrat. That’s cool. But if you’re a conservative Republican, you
Continue readingMy phone lines are inoperative. The nice computer voice at my local phone company has assured me that it’s the phone company’s fault, and that I should have service back by Friday night. How comforting. Thank goodness I have a cell phone and cable internet access. My sister missed a
Continue readingI’m off to do volunteer work at my kids’ school (see, I don’t just grumble; I am proactive), so won’t have time to blog this morning. If you’re looking for good reading, though, you could do a lot worse than to stop by the Watcher of Weasels, which has posted
Continue readingI can’t think of anything better to say than to quote Mark Steyn’s take on the Scooter Libby trial outcome: I have no idea whether Scooter Libby is a “good man” or a partisan hack, but I certainly hope he has a Bush pardon in his pocket or in his
Continue readingYou know you’re tired when you look in the mirror, see dark circles under your eyes, and assume that they’re make-up that’s drifted down, only to discover that no amount of make-up remover will take those shadows away! Reminder to self: get more sleep.
Continue readingLet me open by saying that I know that the Hillary/Barack showdown is almost Hollywood perfect: she’s the constantly morphing, much hated, incredibly powerful and wealthy wife of a still loved ex-President; he’s the telegenic, deep voiced, wunderkind, with so little experience that he has no political dirt attached to
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