Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
You recognize the famous words in my post caption. Boston lawyer Joseph Welch spoke them to Joseph McCarthy during the Army hearings, marking the long-overdue end of McCarthy’s political ascendancy: As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy’s career: “Until this
Continue readingAndrew McCarthy hits the nail on the head in these paragraphs: Obama sought the presidency as the candidate who would turn the clock back to the 1990s. He idealized the Clinton years, when terrorism was treated only as a crime, when preventing it was decidedly secondary to prosecuting it and
Continue readingIf you’re the powerful leader of a powerful nation, you tell the Chinese to release a jailed activist (who just won the Nobel Peace Prize) immediately. If you’re an empty suit who admires Leftist authoritarianism , you let the Chinese set the time table (emphasis mine): I welcome the Nobel
Continue readingAfter being dismissed and diminished by the media and administration as [fill in your condescending or derogatory epithet here], the Tea Party, which was a response to the Democratic tidal wave in 2008, has changed the face of politics into the foreseeable future. Sarah Palin is no small part of
Continue readingFor the past week, I have been bugged by Obama’s answer to the question about why he is a Christian. Here, mostly in his own words, are Obama’s thoughts on the subject: “I’m a Christian by choice,” Mr Obama said. “My family didn’t – frankly, they weren’t folks who went
Continue readingPeter Wehner describes the conduct, but I think, when you behave as Obama as, the word “contemptible” can apply, with equal aptness, to the man himself (emphasis mine): I have praised President Obama in the past for his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. New facts have come to
Continue readingI’ve heard from various people that, once the midterm elections are over, with the only real questions being (1) whether the Republicans also take the Senate and (2) by how much they take the House, Obama will change his tune. After all, Bill Clinton did, and he emerged from the
Continue readingDid you know that the last Sunday in September is Gold Star Mother’s Day, which is a day meant for Americans to honor mothers who have lost a son or daughter who was serving in the United States Armed Forces? It won’t surprise you, I’m sure, to learn that, on
Continue readingWhen President Obama actually said bad things about Ahmadinejad’s remark (“hateful,” “disgusting,” etc.), I ought to have been delighted. But I wasn’t. And J.E. Dyer perfectly articulates why Obama’s little moment of outrage about A-jad’s speech left me cold. Basically, we’re having government by a teenager. His speech was the
Continue readingCan’t get better than this analysis of Commander-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama: It is quite revealing that this most profligate of presidents — whose spending is nearly limitless when it comes to health care, stimulus packages, bailouts, and non-defense discretionary program — has found his inner Barry Goldwater when it comes
Continue readingYesterday I staged an imaginary Obama/Churchill match-up. Today I want to add a little commentary. As you had probably already figured out, I greatly admire Churchill. I understand that he was a difficult person (often); that he could be nasty; that he was more willing to let his own people
Continue readingMy kids — indeed all the kids I know — are enthralled by a show called “Deadliest Warrior.” In every episode, the show takes two types of warriors (Israeli Commandos v. Navy SEALS; Al Capone v. Jesse James; etc.), and compares their weapons and techniques to determine which will be
Continue readingObama’s getting ready to publish another book, this one purporting to be a letter to his daughters. Its content? “Of Thee I Sing,” which President Obama finished writing in 2008, describes thirteen “groundbreaking Americans and the ideals that have shaped our nation—from the artistry of Georgia O’Keeffe, to the courage
Continue reading[How many people caught the fact that I put the wrong year in the post caption (2008, instead of 2010, which I’ve now written in)? As I’m sure you’ve noticed before, I have problems with numbers. This is why I’m not an economist. What’s the excuse the Democrats have for
Continue readingPete Wehner looks at the creepy, whiny, bitter, self-centered, self-satisfied stuff that routinely oozes out of our president when he goes off the teleprompter.
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