Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My Dad told many war stories, most of which have stuck because they were so vivid. One story was about training he underwent during the Israeli War of Independence. For my Dad, this was a review class, since he’d spent five years in combat during World War II. The class
Continue readingIf you want to learn a little bit more about North Korea, which seems to have something at least approximating real nuclear bombs, check out all the information Laer has gathered on the subject. I’m still feeling green around the gills and emotionally horrible from reading it. This is a
Continue readingMark Steyn’s latest takes the Dem obsession with the Foley follies and broadens the focus so we understand that Dems are repeating a decades’ long pattern of playing in the bedroom so as to avoid the ugly world outside: Thomas Sowell says the question for this election is not whether
Continue readingWe Americans are very respectful of other people’s cultures. The old “ugly American” of 1950s stereotypes died on college campuses in the 1960s, to be replaced by the multiculturalist, PC American who would never dream of challenging the way in which another culture conducts itself. The most recent example of
Continue readingMore from the public school front. My daughter today told me that, during P.E., she got a special commendation for the fact that she didn’t care if she won at kickball or not. Apparently the modern notion of good sportsmanship is no sportsmanship at all. I went ballistic. I told
Continue readingWarren Harding was arguably one of the worst, most ineffectual, most corrupt Presidents in American history. Received wisdom was also that, with a huge influx of newly enfranchised women voters, he won 1920’s election because he was a pretty face. (Hard to imagine looking at that face now, but standards
Continue readingI am way too old to be drooling over pictures of gorgeous, ripped young men. However, when you have this kind of thing placed before your eyes, and you still have a few red corpuscles left, what the heck are you supposed to do? Add to that two more facts:
Continue readingYou’ll recall that, when I commented on the Reid scandal — and it is a scandal, because he used Government power for private profit and then hid that fact — I said the real story would be whether the MSM embraced the story. If it didn’t, I said, that would
Continue readingThe Germans have some interesting words that encompass deep philosopical ideas. The ones that spring easily to my mind are Weltanschauung (“a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it“); and Weltschmertz (“Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the
Continue readingOne could argue many reasons why the Republicans should lose Congress. I won’t agree with any of them, because no matter how weak or confused Republicans may be, I think Democrats leading today’s world would be a very, very dangerous thing. However, if the Republicans were to lose Congress because
Continue readingSteve Feldman, who hosts and produces “The ZOA Middle East Report”, gives us the back story on the beating Shoaib Chourdhury sustained when he attempted to be a pro-active moderate Muslim. (You can read more about Choudhury here.) You’ve often heard me (read me?) ask where the moderate Muslims are hiding,
Continue readingThomas Lifson writes a remarkably sanguine article in which he posits that the recent fizzle-pop out of N. Korea was not a show of strength, but a last ditch effort to keep the N. Korean army in line: Any dictator who can allow a million or two of his 20 million countrymen
Continue readingIt’s nice when someone who understands medical journals and statistics has the same reaction you do to the ridiculous Lancet story that claimed 655,000 Iraqi war-related deaths in a mere two years. Medipundit puts it all in perspective: The researchers spent two months canvassing households in various regions of Iraq
Continue readingBack in the 1980s and early, early 1990s, when I was young and frivolous, I used to enjoy Vanity Fair, a magazine that allowed you to sneer at and envy the rich and famous, and that had eyeball popping ads. I thought Tina Brown was a good editor for Vanity
Continue readingKudos to the AP for revealing that Democratic Leader Harry Reid was involved in an unethical financial deal that netted him money most of us can only dream of. Here’s the beginning of the AP’s report: Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas
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