Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
(Welcome, Best of the Web readers! James Taranto is correct that nobody’s asking this question, and my readers are correct that Specter’s doing this “because he can,” but it still drives me nuts that, as a taxpayer, I’m funding this old duck’s last political hurrah.) We all know who Arlen
Continue readingI’m still catching up, but this stuff caught my eye: Geert Wilders, on Islam and Western culture. This link, by the way, ties in tightly with the next link, since both involve looking at people’s actual words and acts, rather than suppositions about who, or what, they are. As I
Continue readingThis is a great picture. You can just feel the cat’s incredible relief.
Continue readingYesterday, I blogged about the eerily prescient episode of the Simpsons, from 1998, which saw Homer running as garbage commissioner on the slogan “Can’t someone else do it?” If you haven’t already read it, check out that post and then think of it as you view this video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmyCtGJ-FjE[/youtube]
Continue readingI listen to a whole lot of The Simpsons. Not watch, listen. You see, we have a DVD player in the car, because the kids spend a ridiculous amount of time being ferried around in big circles (to visit far away family) or small circles (after school activities). Whether the
Continue readingWhat America did to Guatemalans in the 1940s is indeed reprehensible. An apology is appropriate. This is how the White House apologized: President Obama this afternoon spoke with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to “express his deep regret” and “extend an apology to all those infected” following the revelation that the
Continue readingLet me say up front that Gandhi was an amazing leader. His non-violent approach to casting off the British empire was inspired (although he was helped by understanding that the British were unlike to use the jackboot to quell the movement he started). Having said that — having appreciated his
Continue readingNot militant Islam, not a resurgent Russia or China, not North Korea, not Iran….us! Conservatives, independents, and anyone else that disagrees with his agenda. Or, so says President Barack Hussein Obama. Why is it that Barack Hussein Obama and other Lefty presidents and presidential wannabees (Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Carter) feel
Continue readingEarlier today, I blogged about the problem of sourcing material: information is only as good as the publisher’s knowledge and honesty. It appears that Elizabeth Warren, whom Obama unilaterally (that is, without Congressional oversight) appointed to meddle in consumer financing, is guilty of letting ideology corrupt research. I wouldn’t doubt
Continue readingI think science supports my disbelief in man-made global warming (aka, AGW). I won’t go into the details now, but that’s the conclusion I’ve reached after reading a lot of the literature (including Brian Sussman’s Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes the Global Warming Scam). I didn’t reach that conclusion based
Continue readingThis is an open apology — I fell behind on my email, and started sorting like mad, to preserve the wheat, while archiving the chaff. Unfortunately, in my frenzy, I seem to have archived a bunch of substantive emails to you, my friends. So if you wrote me and I
Continue readingMistakes happen, but this was such a stupid mistake, from an organization tasked with knowing how to do these things correctly.
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6weDMH-SCOE[/youtube] BTW, Ben Howe, who created this video, is brother to Caleb Howe, who blogs at Red State. Their momma and daddy raised those boys right.
Continue readingForgive my long opening discourse. I need to set the stage. Most Americans don’t know much about Belgium and Flanders. It’s a shame. For a quick summary, Flanders is the region that stretches from Belgium’s northern border with the Netherlands, west to the English Channel and into northern France (including
Continue readingThe Palestinians have for years threatened Israel with a population bomb — except recent accurate counts showed that their numbers are grossly inflated. For years, America has been chastised for its high infant mortality rate — except it turns out that other nations report lower numbers because they don’t count
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