Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A child’s death is always a tragedy, but this SF Chron report about Qana sounds like a Hezbollah PR office press release: The tiny, lifeless bodies were laid out in a row on a black straw sheet in the concrete courtyard of the Tyre Government Hospital. Twenty-one of them, all
Continue readingJay Nordlinger reminds us of Golda Meir’s prescient words: “When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. But it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.”
Continue readingIt’s beginning to look as if those children’s deaths in Qana are a replay of the family death in Palestine. You know the latter — it was the one where the Palestinians, swiftly joined by the world media, blamed Israel when a family died while on the beach (complete with
Continue readingYou can’t say that the French lack style. When they pander, they do so with panache. Take their homage, as Reuters reports it, to one of the world’s major terrorist states: French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy says Tehran is a significant, respected player in the Middle East – ‘a great
Continue readingSince Israel is at the epicenter of events right now, I wanted to share with you two emails that I’ve received. The first one is from an Israeli — an old Leftist — writing about the battle in Lebanon. I’ve redacted it for privacy, and edited it for spelling (no
Continue readingI just learned that my cholesterol is slightly elevated. It’s still in the normal zone, but on the high end of normal. I’ve already cut a lot of fat out of my diet, so I was casting around for another way to control my numbers. I know that people take
Continue readingDrudge linked this morning to an article in Australia’s Herald Sun that displays a series of damning photographs showing Hezbollah terrorists, and their weapons of course, comfortably ensconced in a dense residential neighborhood. The terrorists are dressed in comfy casuals, so that they can easily blend into the crowd. Hezbollah
Continue readingThe press is all over Israel’s missile strike that killed children. Fortunately, LGF is all over the fact that Israel, unlike any aggressor in the history of the world, warned civilians days in advance that the strike was coming and begged them to leave. The reason Israel was striking that
Continue readingMost people harbor bad thoughts. It’s the civilizing instincts we learn over a lifetime that help us tamp down those thoughts. Thus, while we may hate, really hate, the boss who destroyed our career, we don’t kill that boss — or at least most of us don’t. “Going postal,” for
Continue readingSince I have a sometimes embarrassing fondness for romance novels (Mr. Bookworm teases me a lot), I’ve written about romance novels before (once about British chick-lit, which I think is demeaning to women; and once about the conservative morals underpinning American romances). I was therefore intrigued when AP did a
Continue readingIsn’t it judo where you use your enemy’s own power and momentum to destroy him? I know it’s one of the martial arts. I was thinking of that principle when I read Mark Steyn’s accurate diagnosis of the problems with the mighty American military: We live in an age of
Continue readingIf you’re doing Yoga, be sure to bring the disinfectant: In the last two years, Dr. Cohen said, he has seen a 50 percent spike in patients with athlete’s foot and plantar warts. The likely culprit? Unclean exercise mats, he said. Gyms have long been hothouses for unwanted viruses, fungi
Continue readingFor several of my posts, there’s been a very vigorous exchange about American foreign policy. Just recently, one of my readers, who espouses what I would call a conservative viewpoint, commented about “fundamental truths” common to all people. Another reader who, on foreign policy, is I think hostile to current
Continue readingToday, in my mail, I found our local free paper, the Pacific Sun. This week’s cover story is on the cover as “A Farewell to Arms : Iraq war veterans reject their mission– and now may have to fight for their own freedom.” In the body of the magazine, it
Continue readingSometimes, you stumble across an expert who has such manifest expertise, it might be a grave mistake to ignore him. And sometimes, if you’re not the stumbling kind, you’re lucky enough to have someone tell you how to find information from that expert. Thanks to Kevin, I can tell you
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