Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I purposely didn’t read the news stories headlined “McCain’s wife sells off” something, something, something Sudan. I knew what I’d find there, once I got passed that smear headline implying that McCain & Co. are profiting off of people’s misery in Africa. The actual facts would show that Mrs. McCain
Continue readingCharles Johnson, at LGF, working off the top of his head, put together a list of Obama’s troublesome associations: * Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years. * Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel
Continue readingIf I had to pick one article to recommend for today’s reading, it would have to be Dennis Prager’s explanation about why voting Democrat would truly put the country on the wrong track. I would go slightly further and say that we have to guard against the same outcome —
Continue reading…how’s Obama going to talk to Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-Il and all those other bad guys he’s said he’ll speak with unreservedly? As for the afraid of John McCain, that comes from this: John McCain’s campaign is strongly considering presenting Barack Obama with a proposal for a completely new kind
Continue readingIn an interview for Atlantic Monthly, Obama got hit with two direct questions about Israel, both requiring a yes or no answer. Obama couldn’t do that. Instead, he blathered on and on and on, leaving discerning viewers to parse his bloviating and conclude that, perhaps, he thinks that maybe Israel
Continue readingNot that they were ever really on, but when it comes to Obama, my gloves are off. I’ve concluded that the man is not just a liar and an ideologue, he’s stupid. With regard to the situation in Lebanon (where Hezbollah is using terror to topple the power of the
Continue readingThe British press was rocked for a few minutes a couple of weeks ago by the story of an Iraqi girl whose father murdered her quite brutally because she’d fallen in love with a British soldier. (There was no hint, by the way, that she’d done anything about the love;
Continue readingTo my mind, senior Republican leaders are digging the grave, preparatory to burying themselves: Senior Republicans expressed grave fears on Sunday about the prospects of Senator John McCain, their candidate, against Senator Barack Obama in November’s general election. The “senior Republicans” to which the article refers are Fred Barnes and
Continue readingWhen I was growing up, my best friend had the most wonderful grandparents. They were an incredibly flamboyant Polish couple who escaped the Holocaust because the woman was so charming she was able to talk the Nazis into letting them leave (with the help of some diamonds as bribes). He
Continue readingIn response to an earlier post I did about Obama’s habit of lying about easily verifiable events, beliefs and associations in his past, echeccone made the statement, one we’ve often heard, that “every politician lies.” There’s a kind of sweeping truth to that statement, but its very broadness hides the
Continue readingDespite stories of his explosive temper, there is absolutely no doubt that McCain has been playing it nice so far in this election season. It’s easy to do right now, of course, with Obama and Hillary acting as his surrogates against each other. They sling the mud so he doesn’t
Continue readingWith Obama as the almost-certain Democratic candidacy, the conservative punditry is very depressed. John Podhoretz summarizes it best, although he is by no means a lone voice: It is important for conservatives and Republicans, who have comforted themselves with the thought that Obama cannot possibly win because no one as
Continue readingMaureen Dowd is perplexed: How can Barack Obama, who grew up with a poor, single mother, keep appearing to be the black John Kerry, an effete Ivy Leaguer, out of touch with the ordinary voter? In her mind, it’s all the problem of a low class black kid have overlearned
Continue readingWe received in yesterday’s mail a warning (a very nice warning) that my 5th grader is struggling with geometry. As a former geometry struggler myself, I’m all sympathy. We did not get mad at her. What is infuriating, though, is her absolutely unwillingness to learn geometry. After 1.5 years in
Continue readingIn keeping with my prior post, about the callous illogical shown in one of the Times’ most recent articles, I’d like to highlight Obama’s insistence on a “windfall profits tax” — another “bright” idea showing a rather typical Democratic refusal to recognize cause and effect, not to mention a willful
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