Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My host during the Thanksgiving break introduced me to a newspaper called Muslim World Today. It’s editor-in-chief is Tashbih Sayyed, who is also the president of the Council for Democracy and Tolerance, which sponsors the paper. The CDT is a grassroots organization which has as its unabashed goal the dethroning
Continue readingI missed the original hoo-ha about Rangel’s new remarks attacking the military. Most commentators are appropriately likening it to Kerry’s recent “joke” about military intelligence. I think there’s more there, though, than just an attack on the intellectual abilities of the average mil guy or gal. Here’s the money quote:
Continue readingWe returned late last night from a trip that saw us surrounded by interesting people, and staying in the gorgeous home of gracious hosts. And yet I’m just so glad to be back. I’m a complete homebody — I like my bed, and my kitchen and my computer. It was
Continue readingI’m hitting the road for the holiday weekend, so my blogging will be intermittent at best. Don Quixote has hinted, though, that he will do some posts, and those are always some of the most popular reads here. So, if you’re near a computer, don’t forget to visit occasionally this
Continue readingI’ve blogged before about the fact that identity politics ghettoizes people, depriving them of the ability to see outside the prism of their particular victim status (and identity politics does march hand in hand with victim politics). In other words, to a person immersed in an identity worldview, everything revolves
Continue readingI was doing my usual “I find public school distressing” rant to a neighbor, when she caught me up short. I had acknowledged, as I have done here, that my children’s teachers are very good at going through the curriculum, and my children are definitely learning. I complained, though, as
Continue readingI’ve been hit by massive amounts of spam lately, with WordPress’s Askimet program working overtime to winnow this stuff out. Usually, I scroll through about two hundred trapped spam comments every couple of days to see if any legitimate posts got stuck in the filter. With almost two thousand spam
Continue readingNo one who has visited this blog recently can have missed my grumbling about public school teachers who, when cut adrift from their rigid curriculum, show that they do not understand either grammar or spelling — nor does their ignorance seem to bother them. Although I find their intellectual ignorance
Continue readingI don’t know what’s most interesting about this story Patrick, the Paragraph Farmer, brought to my attention. What John Bolton said, or the fact that the American media ignored it completely? The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, launched a scathing attack on the United Nations Friday. Bolton was
Continue readingCharles Rangel wants the draft back not to aid our military in the war, but to create a 60s redux, with potential draftees undercutting the entire military effort: Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 under a bill the incoming chairman of the
Continue readingThis is a post just for WordPress users. I’m having an irritating intermittent problem, which is that the comments people leave at my blog, which WordPress is supposed to email to me automatically, aren’t always showing up in my email. Or, as happened yesterday, they show up a couple of
Continue readingApropos those report cards that came home the other day, I’m happy to announce that, if Little Bookworm were to take the standardized test that drives modern public education, she would score in the 70% to 94% range. In other words, her work quality floats somewhere between barely passing and
Continue readingI’ve known about it all day, and almost didn’t blog about it, since news gets stale so quickly. Nevertheless, it seemed almost morally wrong not to applaud the Dutch for their recent moment of spine: they’ve banned the burqa. The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the
Continue readingClear an hour on your timetable. Then, watch Glenn Beck’s Exposed : The Extremist Agenda, about the footage CNN, MSNBC and the Times/Discovery Channel aren’t showing you. The Nuremburg rallies look like high school talent shows compared to these things: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWIK8YTZS8] Hat tip: Little Green Footballs del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingIf you haven’t already done so, take the time to check out 30 Rock. The fact that Tina Fey, the head writer, and the star, was head writer at Saturday Night Live actually wasn’t much of a recommendation as far as I was concerned. Happily, I overcame that prejudice, because
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