Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve become very fond of David Denby’s movie reviews in the New Yorker, largely because he can’t resist letting his politics leak out all over the place. I’ve blogged before about his slobbering praise for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and his compulsion to use Garrison Keilor’s Prairie Home Companion
Continue reading(WordPress was good enough to save the post I was working on when my son got hurt, so here it is. Sadly, but not surprisingly, it’s not as good as I remembered….) Apparently I was not the only one to notice that the missing Egyptian students dispersed to some remarkably
Continue readingI’d started a really good post on something or other, when my daughter came running into the house screaming that my son was injured. I dropped everything and headed out the front door. I heard him crying before I saw him. What I saw was a white t-shirt stained with
Continue readingOne of the things the jihadists have been very good at is playing the MSM. I’ve always thought the turning point was when the Palestinians had the brilliant idea to make Hanan Ashwari their spokesperson. You remember that personable, educated, charming woman? She was everywhere, talking about freedom from the
Continue readingThis about sums it up: This is from The People’s Cube. Gates of Vienna picked it up, and I found it a Michelle Malkin.
Continue readingMy 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
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