Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Sometimes 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
Continue readingI was very surprised this morning to read about a judge who held (correctly) I think, that gay marriage is not a matter for judges, but for the people’s representatives (who, unlike judges and European politicians, are actually beholden to their constituents): New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that gay
Continue readingIf you’ve ever wondered what the reductio ad absurdum of socialism is, I think North Korea must be the answer. Certainly the many pictures that Russia’s top web designer took during a recent trip there make it seem like the closest thing the real world has to Orwell’s imagined 1984.
Continue readingA familiar plaint on the right side of the blogosphere — and certainly something that crops up frequently in my posts — is media bias. I tend to address it in bits and pieces. That is, one thing or another offends me and I comment on it. A more sophisticated
Continue readingI can’t summarize it adequately, but Robert Alt offers a nice article detailing the peculiarities of the liberal response to the Hamdan ruling. Suffice to say that, even if one concedes for the sake of argument that the liberals’ legal position is and was correct, their spin is distinctly off-putting.
Continue readingIt’s no secret that I’m hostile to the teachers’ union. While I completely support the idea of teachers earning a living wage and having decent working conditions — and am willing to concede that unions are well suited to negotiating these ends — I think the teachers’ unions have gone
Continue readingIn an interview at Front Page, Theodore Dalrymple tackles the conventional wisdom about Heroin (how people start, how addicted they actually get, and how bad withdrawal really is). Regarding withdrawal, he has this to say: With regard to withdrawal, it is grossly exaggerated as a phenomenon. Unlike withdrawal from barbiturates
Continue readingBut this time I don’t think anyone is too upset: Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Hastings are feeling lucky this year. The 30-county area they serve in central Nebraska and north-central Kansas hasn’t had a confirmed tornado for the first six months of this year. That hasn’t
Continue readingPeople who work with me know that, for almost twenty years now, I’ve had one big, across-the-board complaint about judges — they don’t follow the law. My experience, which is fairly broad, is that while many (although not all) judges will pay lip service to the law, the fact is
Continue readingLong-time readers know that I can’t stand Steven Spielberg movies. I’ve never seen one (and I’ve seen many, so I know what I’m talking about) that hasn’t left me bitterly regretting the time and money I lost on the movie. I was therefore just thrilled with Diana West’s take on
Continue readingI’ve been thinking a bit lately about America’s unique focus on the individual and not on the State. (I blogged about it here, when I was thinking about nations that turn on their own citizens.) The fact that power resides with the individual in America is one of the bulwarks
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