Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It's not just remembering past events that helps us to avoid repeating past mistakes, it's also recognizing the foibles and mental tics of past enemies. As always, since we're engaged in another fight against true totalitarianism, it's useful to remember the German experience from both WWI and WWII. Let's begin
Continue readingI read this in US News and World Report: White House photographers last week got a lesson in presidential authority. Already in place for a Bush visit to a New York seniors facility, the newsmen were asked by the master of ceremonies if they’d take pictures of the crowd before
Continue readingImagine my surprise to learn that NPR — NPR! — gave airtime to Joe Loconte, who spent several minutes explaining what Islamofacism is, and why it’s so dangerous. You should take the time to listen to it. It’s good. And — another surprise — it’s one of the most emailed
Continue readingI’m quoting the following in its entirety from today’s Jay Nordlinger’s Impromptus: Friend of mine sent me the below item. I’m afraid conservative satire, today, is impossible. Indeed, conservative comment is almost impossible! ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Easter Bunny has been sent packing at St. Paul City Hall.A toy
Continue readingThere is a basic premise that underlies my blog. I believe absolutely that Israel has the right to exist and that a dirty broth of anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, Arab-Nationalism, Leftism, and anti-Democratic thinking is driving much of the animus directed at her. If you accept this premise and if you are
Continue readingI was ever so slowly inching my way up the TTLB Ecosystem when I switched to a new home for my blog. I’m now having two problems. To begin with, I can’t figure out how to show my TTLB status on WordPress, which is probably just as well considering my
Continue readingI’m in the midst of listening to Terry Gross’s Fresh Air interview with Kevin Phillips, a former Nixon operative who is deeply hostile to the Bush family and to the religious right (and he’s just written a book about how the religious right is destroying American politics). I’m about ten
Continue readingI also like columnist Debra Saunders, who has written eloquently why, despite his failings, she generally likes George Bush and believes him to be a good President. To everything she writes, I say “ditto.”
Continue readingIt’s easy to point the ideological finger of blame at today’s MSM — a finger deservedly pointed, I think. However, there’s more to shoddy reporting than just rampant belief systems. There are simply too many mistakes to be explained away that way. (For example, even anti-Bush hysteria couldn’t completely account
Continue readingDo you remember in the 1990s, the big hooha about allegedly recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse? I remember listening to a show on NPR back then that exposed some of the more famous recovered memory therapists as hypnotists who would ask their patients leading questions such as, “You remember
Continue readingI offer you this Power Line post in its entirety. It’s short, and there’s no way I can adequately summarize the fascinating point it makes: Last August, I did a post titled Some Thoughts on Casualties In Times of War and Peace, which later became an article in the Orlando
Continue reading‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,’ it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to
Continue readingWhy am I not surprised that a UC Berkeley professors claims to have scientific proof that unpleasant kids grow up to become conservatives, and the kids everyone loves grow up to become liberals? Here’s the story: Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone
Continue readingOne news outlet, picked up in today’s Drudge Report, excitedly reports that, since 2003, 100 people have died worldwide from bird flu. Just to get a little perspective, the world population stands at 6,504,897,740. Even I, a math nincompoop, can figure out that the death rate is infinitesimally small (which
Continue readingDoug Powers notes that comedian Richard Belzer came out and said what most Leftists imply and few admit: that they think the men and women serving in our American military are subnormal in intelligence and understanding. Certainly, that’s what I hear in my community, an accusation I’m always quick to
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