Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In the wake of the Michael Richards scandal, Jesse Jackson has thoughtfully stepped forward to announce a new addition to the Orwellian NewSpeak pantheon: the deletion of a word from the English language (and you know which word I mean). I wasn’t really paying attention to this whole thing because
Continue readingMy child came home yesterday with yet another spelling worksheet that contained a misspelling. But that’s not why I’m writing. She also came home with a math worksheet containing complicated problems she’d gotten wrong, and it was clear that the teacher had never bothered to enlighten her about the isues
Continue readingDo you remember a duo of Gary Larson Far Side cartoons that took on the different way dogs and cats hear? The first cartoon published was entitled (I think) “What dogs hear.” The top panel showed what people say. With a speech balloon coming out of the person’s mouth, it
Continue readingThere’s an article in today’s New York Times exposing (again) one of the problems with affirmative action — it elevates nice, ordinary people to situations where they’re bound to fail. This time the focus is on the nation’s top law firms, where African-Americans consistently fail to last: Thanks to vigorous
Continue readingHere’s a quick chronology, followed by my comments. First, during this summer’s Israeli/Hezbollah War, AP, along with several other news outlets, was shown to have relied upon doctored and staged photographs, and false and/or misleading stories fed to them by local stringers sympathetic to Hezbollah. (You can read all about
Continue readingMany years ago, when I was a naive college student, I got a job in an institution where the head of my department was a lesbian. She was a very nice woman, but I made sure I was never alone in a room with her. She never crossed a line,
Continue readingDemocratic Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida, impeached as a federal judge in 1989 on corruption charges, dropped his bid under pressure on Tuesday to chair a congressional panel designed to help protect America’s security, a party aide said.Hastings took the action after being told by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in line
Continue readingYou know how zealously I guard my identity, living as I do in the Bay Area, where conservatives are not welcome. Here’s an example of just how loony these things get. Let’s start with “The Wall,” a moderated internet site set up to be a bulletin board for San Franciscans
Continue readingAn NPR story has noted that the Iraq War has now gone on longer than World War II. That’s a fact and an interesting one. Even more interesting, of course, is how NPR spins the story: Monday, Nov. 27, marks the day when the Iraq war becomes longer than the
Continue readingI got this from a friend, and pass it on to those of you in the Sacramento area. It sounds wonderful: From: Cristo Rey High School & The Concerts of All Hallows Re: “Amahl and the Night Visitors” To: All Parishes of the Diocese Cristo Rey High School and the
Continue readingThere is no doubt that the poor live in bad neighborhoods. If they weren’t poor, they’d move someplace nicer. Neighborhoods that smell bad, are unsafe, have falling down houses and are near industry are invariably going to be more affordable than some nice suburban green stretch. This isn’t some evil
Continue reading….and this great “Day by Day” panel has a wonderful plug for Flopping Aces: I was especially glad to see that Chris’ cartoon is now entering the old media. It’s not that I’m an old media fan — as you know — but I do like the idea of his
Continue readingI was walking with my kids to the bus stop this morning. Suddenly, a whole group of kids took off down the hill, and my older child vanished with them. My younger child didn’t pick up his pace. “Hey, big guy,” I said. “Everyone’s going to beat you down the
Continue readingMy friend Curt, who blogs at Flopping Aces, has made a couple of major news discovery: First, the story about Shiite men burning Sunni men alive is almost certainly untrue. Second, the man the MSM identifies as the source for this story has identified himself as an Iraqi Captain is
Continue readingOmeed Aziz Popal, the Fremont, California, man who went on a car fueled rampage in August, during which he killed one man and injured 18 others (including one woman who ended up paralyzed from the neck down) will be tried: Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, faces 18 counts of attempted murder
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