Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As you may recall, Michael Monsoor fell on a grenade to save his comrades. It turns out that Michael Fumento, during a previous visit to Iraq, spent time with Monsoor’s unit. He has pictures of Monsoor, and some video footage, which he shares here.
Continue readingBarack Obama, bright though he may be, strikes me as nothing more than a media creation. Patrick thinks so too.
Continue readingMark Steyn pithily reminds us why the anyone-but-Bush and the anyone-but-the-Republicans and the I-want-to-punish-the-Republicans crowds are all wrong: But if it really is, as Democrats say, ”all about the future of our children,” then our children will want to know why our generation saw what was happening and didn’t do
Continue readingA week or so ago, I did a post about the movie Maria Full of Grace, and what I thought were that movie’s larger implications. I couldn’t get the subject out of my head, and expanded it into a longer article, which you can read here.
Continue readingI happily slept in this morning — until 8 a.m. It was only after I woke up that it occurred to me that, in the old days, pre-kids, sleeping in used to mean noon.
Continue readingIn a lengthy article about increasingly aggressive rioting in the Paris suburbs, the AP manages only reference to “Muslim” and that with an oblique reference to France’s failure to give Muslim’s economic opportunities. The article carefully refrains from identifying by religion the current crop of gun-wielding, bus-burning “youths.” If you
Continue readingWhen it comes to Hollywood, you have to assume someone is making the following stuff up. It’s so extreme that it must be a Rove-ian plot to discredit Hollywood in the eyes of average, decent Americans. I don’t see any other explanation for a post that purports to come from
Continue readingLaer does a wonderful take down of the execrable views from Sheikh Taj El-Din Hamid Hilaly (left), the Mufti of Australia’s biggest mosque in Sydney, including the latter’s BDS defense. Hilaly is the one who opined that women who are not fully veiled deserve to be raped (and, judging by
Continue readingNews reports facts (in theory). Editorials expound upon opinions. Tell me if this opening paragraph if from a news story or an editorial: The divisive debate over gay marriage, which played a prominent role in 2004 campaigns but this year largely faded from view, erupted anew on Thursday as President
Continue readingThe same Mary Davenport who took on the scientific falsehoods in Michael J. Fox’s ad has co-authored an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle regarding the parental notification proposition (Prop. 85) on California’s ballot. The Proposition requires that, before a teenage girl can have an abortion, the clinic must notify
Continue readingAs I was writing the preceding post about Iran, it occurred to me that, as far as I know, Iran’s Mullahs actually live the personally austere life their extreme religion demands. (We don’t hear about Uday-like pleasure palaces, for example.) I wonder, though, if that’s really true. It’s such a
Continue readingIn at least 10% of the old Loony Toons cartoons, one of the characters will say to another, “Oh, you naughty, naughty boy.” As far as I can tell, that’s pretty much been the appeasers’ approach to Iran, with the UN, at Europe’s behest, periodically writing “this time we’re really
Continue readingAnd this drek from Virginia candiate James [Jim] Webb is not even redeemed by being marginally good writing. [Be warned that the content I’m sending you to is very graphic.] Hat tip: Drudge UPDATE: My first take on Webb’s writing was as you see it — his stuff is gross
Continue readingI worry about my lovely little girl coming of age in an image obsessed world, saturated with packaged beauties. I’m going to make sure to show her this video, from the Dove company, showing how the advertising world distorts women’s natural looks to sell products. I’m so impressed with the
Continue readingQuite a rogues gallery at At the Zoo. Check it out, but try not to throw up over the picture of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakin. Hat tip: Ymarsakar
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