Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
D.E. Stevenson, born in Edinburgh in 1892, wrote 42 novels in the years between 1923 and 1970. Most are out of print, so I’ve had the pleasure of reading only the small handful I’ve stumbled across in local libraries over the years. She writes about the British and Scottish middle
Continue readingJennifer Rubin succinctly sums up Obama’s foreign policy failures, which range from the merely foolish to the dangerously epic.
Continue readingPhibian, who is one one of my oldest blog friends, explains at Big Peace how the President’s entirely artificial time line for withdrawing from Afghanistan not only emboldens the Taliban (and makes a negotiated peace impossible), but also destroys all good efforts at future planning in that theater. If you
Continue readingFrom Charles Krauthammer: President Obama’s National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy — how else do you define those seeking your destruction? — “a loose network of violent extremists.” But this is utterly meaningless. This is not an anger-management therapy group gone rogue. These are people professing a powerful
Continue readingIn 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive. We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked
Continue readingLast night, I had a dream in which I walked up to Obama and, a la a 19th Southern gentleman, slapped him across the face and called him an “unprincipled scoundrel.” If it was only that easy. Think about it: In 1994, American voters, fed up with Clinton’s and Congress’
Continue readingI feel I should say something, so I will. Being me, of course, what I say will be discursive. Re McChrystal: An excellent general who didn’t hit it off with Obama from the git-go (blame lies, I believe, with Obama), and who failed utterly in the diplomatic discretion category —
Continue readingObama has been in office roughly a year and a half. That’s long enough to get a handle on what motivates our president. He’s pretty binary. When he’s not partying with rock stars, he’s either apathetic or angry. Here, in no particular order, is a little list of Obama’s responses
Continue readingJustice Scalia states more eloquently than I ever could the difference between feelings and morality. [Sorry about this — while I was in the midst of editing a longer, pre-existing post, Comcast service died completely and deleted everything I’d written after the above sentence. Sigh. Nine hours later, Comcast is
Continue readingThe Gulf spill has shown Obama at his feckless worst. Or, perhaps, its shown him at his Machiavellian best, using passive aggressive behavior to destroy big oil entirely. I mean, after this mess, who’s going to want to drill anywhere at all? The Gulf spill is an environmental disaster (or
Continue readingIt’s the first day of summer for my kids, so I’ve been in mommy mode all day (expect when I was in martial arts mode, which was, frankly, more fun). Things cross my radar, though, and there are three things that came my way that I wanted to put onto
Continue readingReading the news today about, among other things, the Gulf oil spill, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Euro collapse, Iran, Israel, Turkey, the economy, the border, and illegal immigration, I’ve had two phrases that stuck in my brain and refuse to leave. The first is Janet Napolitano’s near-deathless bit of bureaucratese, “man-caused
Continue readingLong before Obama appeared on the scene, we’ve all commented here (and I’ve written at some length) about the amazing parallelism between the Harry Potter world and the real world when it comes to the Western world’s approach to Islamic terrorism. There was almost an artistic perfection to the fact
Continue readingThis one should go viral: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6urJsX3KX4[/youtube] Incidentally, we know now that this meeting, when it finally took place, was scheduled to last only 20 minutes and that, while it ran longer, Obama had left the building. And yes, I know that the White House managed to squeeze cash out of
Continue readingAccording to David McCullough, in his wonderful biography of Truman, Truman’s favorite book as a child was one called, if I remember correctly, Lives of Great Men. That book title perfectly exemplifies what I call “the great man” theory of history. This is history as it used to be taught,
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