Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I 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
Continue readingI’m still going through my 1967 Life magazine special edition about the 1967 war, and would like to highlight two more articles within the magazine, one about the refugee situation, one about Russia’s involvement in events. First, here, in its entirety, is Life’s, June 23, 1967 editorial, which is both
Continue readingWhen my mother was going through her stuff, she came upon a 1967 issue of Life magazine entitled “Israel’s Swift Victory.” It’s a 100 page special edition, so I won’t attempt to retype all of it here. I’ll just cherry-pick my way through those bits of coverage I found most
Continue readingAs part of a superb article about Hezbollah, the war with Israel, and the larger ramifications of that war and its outcome, Dan Gordon properly identifies Hezbollah and its goals: Hezb’allah is not your father’s terrorist organization. This is not a group of loosely affiliated cells of would-be hijackers or
Continue readingGood news out of Anarchy-land: Two Fox journalists kidnapped by militants two weeks ago in Gaza have been released and appear to be in good health. Fox reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig were released shortly after noon Sunday and dropped off at the Beach Hotel in Gaza City,
Continue readingAlthough I’m guilty of more than my fair share of typographical errors and am a dreadfully bad proofreader (very, very guilty), I’m actually a stickler about good writing when it comes to my professional work. One of my all time favorite books is Bryan Garner’s The Winning Brief, a book
Continue readingHere’s the headline: “Israelis kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza.” The picture that Yahoo News is currently showing with this headlined story is of an injured boy in a hospital bed with an elderly woman sitting next to him. Sort the whole thing out and this is what you get: the
Continue readingMy kids have started public school after several years in the rarified world of alternative education. I’m a bit dubious about the whole thing, being a product of public schools myself (so I know just how bad they can be). Two things stood out today: First, my daughter told me
Continue readingJust as the Soviet Union’s fingerprints were all over the local wars that were the testing areas for the Cold War, it’s becoming apparent that both the Soviet Union’s and Russia’s fingerprints are all over the Middle Eastern wars that the testing areas for World War IV (the War Against
Continue readingThere’s been so much talk about and anger towards Israel because of the wall Israel built in an effort to protect her citizens from suicide bombings. Only occasionally, though, does one hear that Egypt also built a wall — and the Palestinians are as determined to do away with the
Continue readingWhenever I read books about the Black Death in Europe, whether fiction or non-fiction, I’m struck by the emphasis on the speed with which nature reclaimed formerly populated, domesticated areas. When the human population dies, nature quickly surges back. One of the recurring images in these books, of course, is
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