Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Gas prices are dropping (something I’ve already noticed at my local pumps): Gasoline prices are falling fast and could keep dropping for months. “The only place they have to go is down,” says Fred Rozell, gasoline analyst at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS). “We’ll be closer to $2 than
Continue readingWell, if the numbers at my stat counter are any indication, my 15 minutes of blogger fame are just about wrapping up. I enjoyed it tremendously while it lasted, and do think I was a useful respository of information about an interesting, and possibly quite significant, story. Now it’s back
Continue readingIf you don’t have the stomach to wade through the banal, silly comments at MoveOn.org in order to find the more sinister and distasteful anti-American, anti-Semitic comments that pepper that same site, take heart. Some brave bloggers have stepped forward to do it for you. Check out MoveOn.org, Please Move
Continue readingI’m basking in the love of a good dog right now, but if you’re not, and you either (a) miss having a dog around or (b) merely admire them from a distance, check this out.
Continue readingDo you think electronic scanning at grocery stores has increased or decreased magazine sales? In the pre-electronic age, when grocery stores had long lines, I used to read the magazines kept near check-out. If what I was reading was interesting, and I wasn’t going to get a chance to finish
Continue readingToday, we all know that the principle purpose behind journalism is pretty close to what it was at America’s inception — to spread rumors and bring down governments (something that becomes obvious when you read David McCullough’s biography about John Adams). Certainly, both of these are activities that the First
Continue readingA madman ran amok all over San Francisco today, targeting pedestrians with his car and deliberately running them over: As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said. Seven of those injured were
Continue readingThe UN, in Resolution 1701, agreed to help pay for damages Lebanon sustained in the recent war, but has not even considered doing so for Israel. You could argue that Lebanon is a non-combatant that got caught in the middle. I think, though, this is a difficult argument to sustain
Continue readingRadical Islamists in England sought to blow up at least ten transatlantic flights. Britain’s so-called “moderate” Muslims did not condemn this manifest act of terror. Instead, they sought to be capitalize on it, in order to advance the same Muslim agenda the terrorists wanted to impose through mass murder: Islamists
Continue readingKarr was a perverted poser, but Warren Steed Jeffs is the real thing — a genuinely bad guy — and he was just arrested. If you’ve read or seen anything about the radical polygamist sect Jeffs headed, and about the horrible abuses he’s forced on young girls for years in
Continue readingI never watched morning news shows and I stopped watching the network news about 20 years ago. All I know is what I read on the internet and in news magazines. I have therefore been mercifully unaffected by the hoopla surrounding Katie Couric’s imminent ascendancy to the nightly news. This,
Continue readingDavid Horowitz and Richard Poe have written a book about George Soros and the negative effect he’s having on American politics. It’s called The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. FrontPage Magazine has interviewed Poe about the book. I can’t
Continue readingAndrew Bostom, who has written a detailed, erudite treatise entitled the Legacy of Jihad : Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, weighs in on the Fox reporters’ forced “conversion.” Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over
Continue readingHere’s a bit of good news: An ambitious military sweep appears to be dramatically reducing Baghdad’s homicide rate, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday — even as violence nationwide killed at least 80 people, including six U.S. soldiers in and around the capital. Last month, the Baghdad morgue received more
Continue readingMy Mom was quite the packrat. In addition to the Life magazine that I quoted from in the two previous posts (here and here), which was published at the end of the War, my Mom also saved the June 16, 1967 edition of Life magazine, which was written within days
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