Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Here'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
Continue readingNeither of my children understands what a joke is. They mangle them, they make up decidedly unfunny stories, and they yell a lot about the failure of the other child's joke. Out of all this, though, my son inadvertently came up with something funny That is, after I thought about
Continue readingHere's the Little Green Footballs story: The creepiest political ad ever made, for Ned Lamont, features Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga sneaking around and peeping through a window as Lamont gives a cut-and-run speech, then bursting into the room with a bunch of weirdly jacked-up progressive pals and grinning into
Continue readingNRO had a great column today comparing George Bush's War against Jihadist Terrorists to Harry Truman's war against Communisn in Korea. The author points out that just as George Bush is reviled and suffering terrible poll numbers, so too did Harry Truman. But the passage of time has shown that
Continue readingI'm a little late to the party, but I'm finally reading Ann Coulter's wonderful 2002 book Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right. In it, in her wonderful snarky way, she exposes the media's relentless push to demonize conservatives — and, especially, to portray all conservative politicians as stupid.
Continue readingThose who have read my blog for its fairly limited lifespan know that I'm not overly impressed with judges. I find most of them so concerned with their own personal sense of what's "fair" (and in the area in which I live, fair usually means anti-business) that they have no
Continue readingWhy haven't police been using the rallies to round up those illegal immigrants who attend? Shouldn't it be like shooting fish in a barrel? No raiding sweatshops, no trolling dark allies. Instead, the illegals have come out of the shadows, into the sun, and conveniently collected themselves in nice little
Continue readingIf you are a passionate Austen-ophile, as I am, and if you think the 1995 A&E production of Pride & Prejudice is one of the best movies/miniseries ever made, you really must check out the Austen encomium at Seraphic secret. Only last month, I bought myself the DVD of Pride
Continue readingI tend to give very brief bedtime kisses; Mr. Bookworm goes for endless bedtimes. I finally realized why. After dinner, Mr. Bookworm lingers over dinner, turns on the TV, or works at the computer (all things he deserves, because he works very long hours). After dinner, I hustle the kids
Continue readingI know some perfectly delightful French people — charming, kind, and intelligent. Indeed, I know many. But there is something about collecting French people in one place that seems to bring out a darker side in them. Many years ago, at a local park used by a French elementary school,
Continue readingWhy am I not surprised? Unidentified Palestinian gunmen shot dead a senior Hamas activist in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medics and a security source said, in a further escalation of lawlessness in the coastal strip. They said unknown gunmen shot and killed 25-year old Mohammed Tatar, a senior
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