Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Those of us who believe in Israel’s right to exist are tired of the old trope that the new anti-Zionists are not also the old anti-Semites. It’s easy enough to point out that these are not people who are simply criticizing a State’s — any state’s — policies vis a
Continue readingI’m pretty careful with my Hitler analogies. I tend to reserve them for people who, through their acts, have proven that they are willing to do precisely what he did (Pol Pot, for example), or for people who, through their rhetoric, indicate a willingness to act precisely as he did
Continue readingWhatever the word is, it’s nice to see the Japanese showing some in the current North Korean crisis: Over Chinese and Russian objections, Japan introduced a draft Security Council resolution Friday that would impose sanctions on North Korea for its series of rocket test-launches and also order a halt to
Continue readingMy theory about wars is that one fights them to win. The EU’s theory, apparently, is that they should be fought for Israel to lose. How otherwise to explain its most recent criticism: The European Union accused Israel on Friday of a disproportionate use of force against Palestinians in Gaza
Continue readingI don’t like marijuana. I think it smells bad and that it’s bad for people. I’ve tried it once (yes, I was curious and I did inhale) and hated, just hated, how it made me feel. I had no inclination to revisit it. Of course, I don’t like alcohol either.
Continue readingThe title of this post is part of the title of an article Rick Perlstein wrote for The New Republic: “What is Conservative Culture? Mass Martyr” is the full title (and you can read it if you register). Although I no longer agree with its politics, TNR is, I think,
Continue readingI’m a carnivore, but a guilty one. That is, I appreciate that, in order for me to enjoy my sauted chicken breast or grilled burger, some animal had to die. Long ago, as a result of an article I read (New Yorker? New Republic?), I decided to aim for meat
Continue readingThe latest news from the South on gay marriage: The state Supreme Court reinstated Georgia’s constitutional ban on gay marriage Thursday, just hours after New York’s highest court upheld that state’s gay-marriage ban. The Georgia Supreme Court, reversing a lower court judge’s ruling, decided unanimously that the ban did not
Continue readingEliza Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, sang the words of my title. I thought of this when I listened to Jeff Nunnberg, NPR’s resident linguist, tout his book opining that the Right uses language better and that’s why conservatives are defeating liberals in the marketplace of ideas. It doesn’t seem
Continue readingThis is the latest “wisdom” coming out of the UN, which can rightly be characterized as an organization devoted to the destruction of Israel and the United States: The UN Human Rights Council has passed a resolution demanding a halt to Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip. [UN Human Rights
Continue readingSometimes it’s little things that are the tipping point — not the bombed towers, trains or subways, but the attacks on core cultural values. The British upper echelons are planning a big change to a traditional British icon; let’s see if the masses object. (By the way, I found the
Continue reading“When religion teaches, I respect it; when it coerces, I fear it.” That was Dennis Prager this morning, nailing the difference between the Western approach to religion and Islamofascism. He made the comment on air while talking about the religious police who slaughtered some Somalis for watching TV. The same
Continue readingAlthough the anonymity of the internet is a huge problem when it comes to children and the internet (I’m thinking of sexual predators), I think it has a real virtue in the area of political blogging. People reveal what they feel is relevant about themselves for purposes of supporting any
Continue readingAre you tired of America bashing? If you are, refresh yourself by reading Edward Bernard Glick’s article explaining why you probably shouldn’t take it all that seriously: When European intellectuals and their U.S. counterparts proclaim that the peoples of the world hate the U.S., they have it backwards. Americans are
Continue readingLong after I thought the Walt/Mearsheimer anti-Semitic smear had been laid to rest, our good friends at the government-supported (that means taxpayer-supported) National Public Radio have given it a new, national forum. Has else to explain the endless interview Steve Inskeep gave Walt and Mearsheimer on today’s Morning Edition. I
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