Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Readers of my blog know that one of my personal bête noires is liberal indoctrination in public schools. I blog about it frequently. My last outing on that subject was here, and I’ll get back to that in a little bit. First, though, I’d like you to see how one
Continue readingMuch as been written by many great writers in the past few days about Obama’s extraordinary foreign policy, one that sees him crudely alienating old allies, while pandering to every totalitarian leader who comes along. Mark Steyn sees Obama’s approach as part of a larger Leftist syndrome, inflated by Obama’s
Continue readingShortly after I started practicing law, the California State Bar decided mandated that all lawyers must comply with annual “Minimum Continuing Legal Education” (“MCLE”) requirement. I was instantly incensed, because it was immediately obvious to me that this had nothing to do with improving the practice of law and everything
Continue readingSometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. And when you have two pictures you can compare, the meaning multiples exponentially. First, from the White House’s own Flickr site, here’s Obama greeting the troops: Let me reiterate that this is the image the White House itself chose to represent the
Continue readingI had another fascinating conversation with a liberal who offered this take on the situation with Israel: Because everyone hates Israel, it’s a brilliant strategy for Obama to attack it to raise his standing in the world. Israel wants this too. I bet you $100 that we’ll learn that this
Continue readingSo many brilliant people have written about Obama’s full frontal attack on Israel. Each has said something important, and all are very worrisome. Peter Wehner, however, has most neatly nailed the moral component, the personality issue, behind Obama’s disgraceful behavior (behavior so disgraceful even the London Times caught on). Here’s
Continue readingI have to admit that my political memory isn’t that long. The first president I remember is Johnson, and I have only the vaguest recollection of him. I know now that he was a sharp political operator, a vicious enemy and a complete fruit loop in his day to day
Continue readingI warned people close to me (mother, sister, etc.) that Obama was a socialist and they laughed at me and (quite lovingly, because they’re my mom and my sister) called me “extreme.” I wonder if they would have laughed at Al Sharpton too, now that he’s finally let the cat
Continue readingThe title of my post arises because of something I read in the NY Times this morning: But there is no doubt that in the course of this debate, Mr. Obama has lost something — and lost it for good. Gone is the promise on which he rode to victory
Continue readingCaroline Glick spells out what Obama has done: Obama’s ultimatum makes clear that mediating peace between Israel and the Palestinians is not a goal he is interested in achieving. Obama’s new demands follow the months of American pressure that eventually coerced Netanyahu into announcing both his support for a Palestinian
Continue readingVictor Davis Hanson sums everything up in one paragraph: The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian
Continue readingLouis XIV, a despotic monarch, famously said L’etat c’est moi — I am the state. Obama is inching in that direction. He clearly does not see himself as part of a constitutional republic. Instead, he views America’s “winner takes all” approach to elections, not as a two party process that’s
Continue readingYou’ve all heard by now about the 2300 “reconciliation” bill that the House won’t vote on but will simply deem passed, thereby, in a completely unconstitutional way, making the bill a law. (Ahem.) But did you know that Pelosi has been busy sticking in more than just student loan relief
Continue readingSome things are timeless, and I think Sir Francis Bacon, writing almost 500 years ago, pretty much nailed what constitutes an intellectual and a wit: “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” In modern English, an intellectual can be described as someone who
Continue readingI believe more and more strongly that reconciliation is a red herring, meant to induce the House to pass the Senate bill. Once that’s done, this so called “reconciliation,” an alleged second bill that will smooth away the differences between the two chambers (especially the House’s demand that abortion, which
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