Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Rich Lowry, writing about Hillary’s announced candidacy, has some really nicely phrased thoughts: Thus, the great battle is joined between the ruthless, highly effective inauthenticity of Hillary Clinton and the vapid, feel-good authenticity of Barack Obama. *** But no one likes naked calculation, and Clinton worries Democrats traumatized by the
Continue readingAt American Thinker, Seth Cooper has written a very thoughtful article about the bestiality issue that’s now working it’s way through the PC crowd (helped by a new film at Sundance). I have to admit that I can never think of the bestiality debate without thinking about famed “ethicist” Peter
Continue readingThe Democrats, both the base and the politicos, have gotten a lot of mileage out of attacking the 2003 decisions that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A multivolume book could be written about the events then, the revelations (and absence of revelations since then), and the way in
Continue readingAlmost a year ago, I wrote an American Thinker column praising small town America — or at least the modern suburban life that passes for old-time small town America — as an exceptionally friendly, connected way to live. That column was just based on my personal observations as an ex-city
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Continue readingDuring a stimulating lunch time conversation, DQ expressed genuine mystification at my post asking whether the media was right all along. In that post, I said I wasn’t going to quarrel with whether the media was right or not about getting into the war (and some post commentors correctly noted
Continue readingOne of the problems with oppositional behavior is that, while you may think you’re in control, you’re not — you’re just in constant reactive mode. Thus, if you ask me to sit down and I reflexively refuse to sit down (“you can’t boss me around”), I’ve ceded a form of
Continue readingI’m an indifferent cook but, as I’ve blogged once before, I make a very, very good chicken soup. Good as it is, I didn’t use to make it very often because of the incredible mess. After it had simmered for several hours, the chicken had fallen completely apart, with edible
Continue readingOne of the little Bookworms is required to do a book report.
Continue readingIn some recent writings, Rich Lowry and Max Boot have announced that the MSM was right all along in claiming the war a disaster from the get-go. J.R. Dunn, writing at American Thinker, disagrees, and carefully explains why. As for me, I was not a huge hawk at the war’s
Continue readingWe’ve all laughed at Billy Crystal’s savage caricature of Fernando Lamas, a sketch character reportedly born when Crystal heard Lamas, on The Tonight Show, announce that “it is better to look good than to feel good.” That quotation popped into my mind when I read a New York Times style
Continue readingBy gaining control of Congress, the Democrats suddenly found themselves with a problem. It’s one thing, when you have to power to effect changes, to demand that the US withdraws from Iraq; it’s another thing, when power is yours, to have to figure out a way to make that withdrawal
Continue readingI’m in the midst of doing a rush edit on a brief that has to get to the publisher tomorrow morning.
Continue readingI can never figure out if the extraordinary number of errors in the written materials the schools send me result from ignorance or carelessness.
Continue readingNancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra — raised Catholic, but not currently practicing her religion — is selling her new movie, which focuses on Evangelical Christians. Her San Francisco Chronicle interview is worth reading, to my mind, for a couple of things. To begin with, it’s interesting to see Pelosi’s embarrassed, guilt-stricken
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