Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My mother and I put our heads together tonight and began bemoaning the absence of charm in our modern world. The subject came up when, a propos something in our conversation, I quoted a line from “Singing in the Rain.” We fell silent a moment as we thought of that
Continue readingSometimes I’m lucky enough to stumble across an unusually beautiful post, that takes a familiar subject, fleshes it out, and brings fresh insights to what has became nothing more than a faded Victorian post card. This time, believe it or not, that subject is the high mortality rate that plagued
Continue readingThis is the start of a Stratfor analysis I received today: An extraordinary thing happened in the Middle East this month. An Israeli army faced an Arab army and did not defeat it — did not render it incapable of continued resistance. That was the outcome in 1948, 1956, 1967,
Continue readingWhenever I do a gay marriage post, I feel like prefacing it by saying “some of my best friends are gay.” In fact, that statement is no longer true. I didn’t turn on my friends, but I did settle down to marriage with children in the suburbs. In this community
Continue readingI haven’t blogged about multiculturalism in quite a while, so those new to this blog may not know that it is one of my pet peeves, an enormous, angry bee buzzing in my intellectual bonnet. I think it is the root cause of the disuniting of America, with its effort
Continue readingNo disrespect to any other branches of the military, but there are some really good stories about Marines. Here’s one that just broke: For years, authorities wondered about the identity of a U.S. Marine who appeared at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, helped find a pair of
Continue readingCurt, who blogs at the excellent Flopping Aces, dug around at the Democratic Underground to find out what the guests there were saying about the kidnapped reporters. Apparently what they were saying did not reflect well on them, and Michelle Malkin’s site (which is being guest hosted right now), picked
Continue readingAll the missing Egyptian students have been rounded up. It’s entirely possible that they were just on a little lark, sight-seeing when they should have been reporting to school, but it was bizarre and unnerving how quickly they dispersed throughout the United States. They didn’t go to tourist destinations, and
Continue readingI don’t have to demonstrate it, because YNET news does. In the same vein, Gail, at Crossing the Rubicon, shows the WaPo’s fun little games with facts that will undermine Israel.
Continue readingI live in an area where most of the parents I know are college grads. It is amazing to me how many of them (not the majority, but a significant number) have decided not to vaccinate their children because of the “risk.” The risk, of course, is the possibility that
Continue readingThis is an interesting NPR story about efforts to identify and deal with violently aggressive boys before they go postal. A little tidbit buried in the story, and quickly passed over, is a denominator common to “most” (not just “many”) of these violent boys — they have no father in
Continue readingI’m a word person. I’m very, very, very verbal and I prefer to get my information through reading. Maybe that’s why I’m so sensitive to, and really obsess about, the nuances news coverage about events in the Middle East. For example, there’s a BBC story boldly headlined “Palestinians killed in
Continue readingFrom Jay Leno, via Townhall: “British authorities said they were able to detect the terrorist plot using a surveillance program that the “New York Times” hadn’t got around to exposing yet.”
Continue readingI’ve been depressed lately by the sheer volume of scary and bad news: the Israeli/Hezbollah war and its pathetic outcome, with Israel actually believing that signing on to the defeatist UN ceasefire will improve her standing in world opinion; the planned London airplane bombings, which included mothers intentionally using their
Continue readingBefore the Nazis killed the Jews, they executed those they deemed unfit because of physical or mental handicaps. My goyish uncle, who was institutionalized because he was “crazy” (we now think he might have been homosexual), was one of the first the Nazis executed in their drive to purify the
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