Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It was always the Left that had a lock on envisioning a new world order, while the Right stood there, desperately trying to maintain the status quo. That, of course, is no longer the case. The Left is mired in the 1960s, and the Right is trying to rejigger the
Continue readingLast year, I watched a video called Death in Gaza, shot by a British film maker. It was a sympathetic portrayal of Palestinian families, with a special focus on young boys and their fascination with emulating the Hamas killers. The video ended in a No-Man's land, with a fire fight
Continue readingWhen my home and work life are quiet, I go into a blogging frenzy. Conversely, when things heat up in the corporeal world, things fall silent in cyberspace. Between a sick kid, orthodondist appointments and after school activities, things are manic here in the real world. I don't expect to
Continue readingThrough Webloggin, I've learned about something called Newsvine. I'm still struggling a bit to figure out just what Newsvine is, but it seems to be a combination news outlet and blog spot that's driven by its readership. You should toddle on over and check it out, because it strikes me
Continue readingI didn't realize that the medical community had been bewildered as to whether premature newborns could feel pain. Now, hi-tech evidence shows that they do, in fact, experience pain: Premature babies experience feelings of pain rather than simply displaying reflex reactions, a study says. Experts have never been sure how
Continue readingHave you ever read Daddy Long Legs? Written in 1912, it's a charming story about a young orphan, Judy, who is sent to college by an anonymous trustee, her only obligation being to write him letters about her college experience. It's one of my favorite examples of an epistolatory book.
Continue readingFaith is a tremendous virtue — when it comes to religion. It has dubious value in the political field, as Thomas Sowell so neatly explains: What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey put it
Continue readingI seem to be on a binge of books that make me wonder. Today's book is Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. This is a book I mentioned before in connection with my reflections on whether a religion can abandon founding tenets and still
Continue readingFor a truly strange story about sex roles amongst the Saudis, and for a wonderful pun, go here.
Continue readingWhen is news not news? When it's rumor and propaganda — and this remains true even if every major news outlet prints it. I'm sure you haven't forgotten the New York Times' gruesome headline: "30 beheaded bodies found; Iraqi death squads blamed." The first paragraph repeated this point, and made
Continue readingJust to let you know, it's still me. I finally got the look I want, with a three column template and smaller font. Feedback is, as always, welcome.
Continue readingThe whole Cynthia McKinney kerfuffle is a distillation of entitlement run amok. McKinney, who belongs to a "protected" group (several, actually, since she's black, female and anti-Semitic), feels that she is entitled to treatment denied others: she is entitled to refuse to wear her Congressional badge, which alerts the Capitol
Continue readingI always find things like this fascinating: On Wednesday of [this] week: at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. I won't stay up for it, but I'll still think it's pretty cool that I was there at that
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs (see here), a book about how modern feminism has imposed on girls and women a view of sex and sexuality that is utterly devoid of self-respect and love. It was a profoundly depressing book. What's stayed
Continue readingI love Mark Steyn. If you don't have time to read his whole column (and who wouldn't have a few minutes for such a treat?), at least get a little fix here: [M]y point is there's no mass anti-war movement. Some commentators claimed to be puzzled by the low turnout
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