Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ll keep this short, because I’m struggling with a micro keyboard on my 36 hour holiday. A comment thread some time ago concerned whether I was right or wrong in discounting Human Rights Watch’s endless attacks on Israel. I therefore read this with interest: The New York Sun publishes an
Continue readingWe all have assumptions that guide us, and we’re not obligated to explain them every time, regarding everything we say. However, to be an intelligent audience, we must always understand the speaker’s assumptions. In this excerpt from How The Left Was Won : An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and
Continue readingHere’s more, with the author’s permission, from How The Left Was Won : An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and Methodologies Used by Liberals to Undermine Society and Disrupt the Social Order. This is from a chapter which demonstrates how liberals, rather than having a core believe in individuality in
Continue readingAs promised, and with the author’s permission, here’s an excerpt from Richard Mgrdechian’s How The Left Was Won : An In-Depth Analysis of the Tools and Methodologies Used by Liberals to Undermine Society and Disrupt the Social Order. Promote and Exploit Divisiveness (page 1-3) Let’s face it, when you get
Continue readingGil Troy writes an enormously uplifting article about Israel’s victory, both in Lebanon and at home. I won’t summarize. You should read it yourself.
Continue readingHis language is a bit more colorful than mine, but Ron Down Under complete nails the fact that the UN buffer is illusory (something already being demonstrated by the fact that no UN member states want to put their troops there), as well as the dangerous dilemma facing the Arab
Continue readingJoe Rosenthal shot the iconic Iwo Jima photograph that shows the Marines raising the second flag on that blood-soaked island. As Rosenthal made clear, this was not a posed photograph; it was not false propaganda: Ten years after the flag-raising, Rosenthal wrote that he almost didn’t go up to the
Continue readingOne of my favorite bloggers, and the one who gave me that pivotal link that pushed my numbers beyond zero per day, is Rich, at Beef always wins. He started blogging during his tour of duty in Iraq, where he wrote fascinating posts both about his own experiences and about
Continue readingI’m one of those people who never, never has a good comeback in conversation. Hurl an insult or a fallacy at me and I’m the one with my mouth agape. (Typically, the French have a phrase for it: “Esprit de l’escalier.”) I can tell that something is wrong with what
Continue readingI mentioned before that I watched The Long Way Home, a documentary about the Jewish experience in the years between the liberation of the camps and the founding of the State of Israel. One of the things that movie reminded me about was the similarities between the tactics Jewish militants
Continue readingMark Steyn points out that the world sees that the U.S. as once again afraid to us its power to win: What’s the difference between September 2001 and now? It’s not that anyone “liked” America or that, as the Democrats like to suggest, the country had the world’s “sympathy.” Pakistani
Continue readingBeautiful little story here about the human capacity for altruism and self-sacrifice. I’m still wiping away the tears. UPDATE: Sometimes people take something and run with it. Just see what Kathryn did with this one little link.
Continue readingThere’s panic on the Left again at the thought of placing young Islamic males under extra scrutiny when they approach sensitive spots such as airplanes, trains, and nuclear missile silos. At the Patriot Post, we get a little reminder about why this is a good idea. I won’t run the
Continue readingAn Investor’s Business Daily poll that shows America waking up to the threat of Islamic terrorism: A majority of Americans, 51 percent, believe that “militant Islamism is no less a threat in the 21st century than Nazism, fascism and communism were in the 20th century,” 63 percent are “very concerned”
Continue readingThe meme has been that Israel lost. Hezbollah still exists, Israel had to cede control of her fight to the UN (blech), and so on and so on. However, winning or losing is often described in terms of what the parties to the engagement sought to achieve. Hezbollah sought to
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