Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Many years ago, when I lived in England, I brought my roommates (or, should I say, flatmates) to convulsive laughter when I announced that the 1960s happened in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district — and nowhere else. In my parochialism, I was completely unaware of the whole "Swingin' London" scene of
Continue readingIf you're reading this, it may well be because you found a mysterious link at your stat counter site, your Word Press information page, your Truth Laid Bear page, Technorati or any other site that you, as a blogger, regularly check to find out how you're doing and who's talking
Continue readingNever send me an email if you don't want me to take your thoughts for inspiration that ends up in my blog. This weekend, I got the following email from a friend: Check out today's WSJ and the chilling article about Aayan Hirsi Ali, Somali born critic of radical Islam
Continue readingThe AP wrote a fairly comprehensive story about the latest Congressional scandal: Rep. William Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat, took a $100,000 bribe from an informant and boasted about other acts of corruption, all of which was caught on videotape. We've seen this kind of story before about Republicans, and
Continue readingI bet someone — not someone famous, just someone — in your State, town, city or county died a violent death today, or yesterday, or the day before. I bet, too, that the death got local news coverage. But I'm pretty sure that, unless your local decedent lived in Israel
Continue readingThere's no comment necessary when it's Mark Steyn writing on Washington's approach to the problem of 12 million Mexican scofflaws in America: This is not an "illegal immigration" issue. That's when one of the Slovaks or Botswanans gets tired of waiting in line for 12 years and comes in anyway,
Continue readingI'm always careful to distinguish between censorship — which is government suppression of speech — and corporate decisions to suppress speech. The latter may be irritating, but it's not classic censorship. What gets me is businesses that pretend that they don't have biases or that they don't engage in censorship.
Continue readingIsrael has become the most reviled nation in the world. Israel is also the only nation I can think of that would give $11 million in humanitarian aid to a people that has determined, as its primary goal, the complete destruction of Israel and the slaughter of her people. I
Continue readingI've been sewing for the kids — not because I want to but because I have to. They need some special clothes for school that I can't find in the store. I learned how to sew thirty-five years ago, and hated it. I therefore stopped sewing for thirty-four years. However,
Continue readingImagine a mother. Her child is busily involved in stripping her shelves of every piece of heirloom China she owns, and then hurling the stuff to the floor. The mother is ineffectually fluttering around the child saying, "Stop, please stop." Her neighbor walks in and says, "Why don't you promise
Continue readingHere's a quick heads-up for a great post: Riffing off of a Charles Krauthammer article about the constant characterization of border security as a conservative issue, when it really ought to be a union issue (since illegal immigrants take union jobs), the Captain takes on the entire rationale underlying the
Continue readingThe New York Times has an article about a sudden trend in naming babies: Chances are you don't have any friends named Nevaeh. Chances are today's toddlers will. In 1999, there were only eight newborn American girls named Nevaeh. Last year, it was the 70th-most-popular name for baby girls, ahead
Continue readingPhyllis Chesler writes movingly about the fact that Western women, obsessed as they are with abortion and Palestinian rights, have been shockingly silent regarding the treatment the Dutch have meted out to Ayaan Ali Hirsi. Among other things, Chesler has this to say: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has offered
Continue readingHere's a list of names, and you get to guess what they have in common: Fabian Nunez, Howard Dean, Carol Liu, and Liz Figueroa. If you guessed that they're all Democrats, you're halfway there. But there are lots of Democrats around. These four fall into an even tighter group. They
Continue readingDems have, for decades, shown how little they think of the African-Americans who constitute their most loyal and reliable constitutents. In statement after statement, and policy after policy, they show that they believe African-Americans to be incapable of caring for themselves without government intervention; incapable of making educational strides without
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