Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
An engaging member of the alphabet cohort, a fine product of the American education system, proposes a wickedly simple cure for Mother Gaia’s fever complaint: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-PG_OKjw4o&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] [h/t Captain Capitalism]
Continue readingObama Stimulus? Fail! QE-1? Fail! QE-2? Fail! Keynesian economics? Fail! http://www.cnbc.com/id/43598606 The economy is still mired in depression, joblessness rates are unmoved, housing starts are moribund, the dollar continues its decline, food and fuel inflation encroach, consumer pessimism mounts and, as Nancy Pelosi promised, we are still discovering new ways
Continue readingThomas Friedman, one of the leading lights of the NYT and more profound thinkers on the Left, shares his views on the world with Israeli TV. In doing so, he also divulges a hitherto unknown artistic talent. Watch it all and be amazed! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7wwxkcQvU&feature=player_embedded#at=248[/youtube]
Continue readingNorth Korea assumes presidency of U.N. arms control conference http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/29/north-korea-assumes-presidency-of-u-n-arms-control-conference/#ixzz1Ql1gXN44 “Bare months after the U.N. finally suspended Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi from its Human Rights Council, North Korea wins the propaganda coup of heading the world’s disarmament agency,” the executive director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer said in a statement
Continue readingWe have an odd family friend. Fundamentally, she is a nice person and sports a very unconventional view of the world that occasionally emotes great insights into the human condition. She has a major flaw, however, one that she admits as a character flaw: she is an unabashed hater. Despite
Continue readingHollywood comic Evan Sayet is proving himself to be a truly significant thinker and observer of human foibles. In this commentary, he explores the fundamental divide between the Left and Right /Conservative views of humanity. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/06/27/being-honest-about-the-%E2%80%9Cpartisan-divide%E2%80%9D/ One one side you have Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s vision of “perfect” or “natural” human beings
Continue reading’nuff said (h/t Captain Capitalism) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3Eo9cScEQ&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Continue readingOh dear, it appears the CBO has turned a tad pessimistic about its earlier prognostications on the economy, stimulus and ObamaCare, heralded as dogma and chiseled in stone tablets on the alters of the Left’s Temple of Orthodoxy. Drinks all around for the Bookworm Room denizens that correctly anticipated
Continue readingEUrope sits on the cusp of a revolution. Between unsustainable social welfare costs and demographic collapse, EUrope’s unavoidable question will be how to address what happens, as Margaret Thatcher so memorably wondered, when socialism runs out of money. http://spectator.org/archives/2011/06/22/europes-not-so-revolutionary-y For EUrope, we see the results in mass demonstrations
Continue readingMuch has been written about playwright David Mamet’s coming-out as a conservative and his reasons for so doing, but there is still much gold to be mined from Mamet’s mind. Today’s National Review Online revisits Mamet in this stellar piece by Matthew Shaffer that contains this one gem that
Continue readingHow stupid is Sarah Palin? Just watch this fabulous video to find out and also explore how a significant Lefty segment of the population can live within a totally alternative reality created from abstract emotions and insulated from facts. We’ve already had evidence of this phenomenon on this blog, but
Continue readingWhat is it about Democrats that makes them despise our friends and love our enemies? With Clinton, it was giving away advanced parallel computing, stealth technology, submarine propeller and nuclear warhead reentry systems technologies to the Chinese. Now, according to this article in foreign policy, it is the Obama
Continue readingThere are few issues that have been obfuscated as diligently by the media organs of the MSM Left as has been the housing crisis that led to our current economic depression. Why, of course they would do that: the Democrats are guilty as sin! We’ve observed on the pages of
Continue readingFollowing Book’s trendy new tradition of “spot the lie”, I had to include this article from that renown bastion of conservatism (you know, those people wedded to their confirmation biases), the U.K. Guardian, reports on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard gleefully anticipating the explosion of Iran’s first nuclear bomb: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/jun/08/iran-blogging
Continue readingThe last thing I want to do is to revisit the tedious back and forth discussions on global climate change, as each side, pressed for time, simply throws their favorite source links on the table. Unfortunately, because most of us have real lives, we lack the time to undertake the
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