Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Words have always changed their meaning over time. Some of the ones that used to have neutral, descriptive meanings came to be seen as insults because of their association with disfavored people in society. For example, a spinster used to mean a woman (usually single) who spun wool or flax
Continue readingI admit that I am not a Reverend Martin Luther King scholar. As is the case for every American educated after 1970, though, I am reasonably conversant with his speeches and writings. My memory is that his crusade was one to remove barriers that society had placed in blacks’ way.
Continue readingBecause I have a high-energy young dog and a bad knee that precludes more vigorous exercise, I walk a lot. I happen to find this very boring and am grateful for whatever entertainment I can get on my iPhone. A lot of trial and error has revealed that the best
Continue readingThe WaPo’s Richard Cohen wants you to know that 12 Years A Slave is an extremely important movie because it gives Americans a surprising new message that they need to hear: Slavery is bad. I don’t know under what rock Cohen has been living, but the last major American movie
Continue readingWhen I think of elderly people, including the ones naive enough to have believed Obama’s lies (at their age, they should have known better), my heart bleeds as I try to imagine them navigating Obamacare, and that’s true whether the system works or is broken. No matter what, a generation
Continue readingI do believe that this is one of Sowell’s best articles ever. It’s a very simple one, really, as his articles so often are. This one looks at the way black and Hispanic leaders have sown hopelessness amongst the young they claim to lead and definitely influence. It made me
Continue readingIt’s all good, guys. I’ve finally figured out what’s been going on. We’ve just been reading history dead wrong. The operating historic premise is that the KKK and the Democrat party parted ways during the Civil Rights movement. When the KKK guys realized that northern Democrats who supported civil rights
Continue readingIt must be enormously frustrating for the Left that new media no longer means that the Democrat white power structure can be the official and the only voice for black America. Because Democrats’ vested interest is in keeping blacks subordinate to the Democrat party, that Leftist voice has always worked
Continue readingYou’ve already heard, I’m sure, about Delbert Belton, the 88-year-old World War II veteran who was beaten to death by two black teenagers. The police are assuring everyone that there’s no need to get worried, because this wasn’t a race crime. Instead, it was Delbert’s own fault. According to the
Continue readingThis post poses a very provocative, even inflammatory, question: “Is the mainstream media the spiritual heir of Charles Manson?” Will you be too surprised if I answer “yes”? Let’s start with Charles Manson. Manson had a goal: he envisioned a new world order, with himself and his followers as the
Continue readingHere’s a concept to keep in the back of your mind as you read this post: Black people — especially black men — in America are murdered at a rate far greater than their representation in the American population. While blacks make up less than 13% of the population, more
Continue readingI liked Elbert Guillory from the first time he crossed my radar, when he was still a Democrat. I continue to like him, as you can see in his video introducing the Free at Last PAC, aimed at introducing blacks to conservative principles. He’s remarkably good at explaining free market
Continue readingAs you’ve probably realized, I have very limited access to news and the Internet on this vacation. My shipboard Internet plan gives me about five (very expensive) minutes a day, which is just enough to make sure I don’t have any emergencies in my inbox, to write to my family,
Continue readingI’ve already admitted to my crush on Elbert Guillory, a crush that formed when he was still a Democrat, although he must already have been planning to leave that party. My political crush has just deepened into a full-blown, out-and-out case of political passion. If you haven’t yet watched this
Continue readingYou may recall that I developed an instant political crush on Sen. Elbert Guillory, a black Louisiana state Senator who castigated the “race card” as a cheap tactic. It turns out my instincts were right on the money. Shortly after refusing to play the Democrat “race game,” Guillory became the
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