Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Do you feel the need to be depressed today? You do? Good, because I’ve got just the thing for you (h/t Ricochet): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEtBcBDgkKA[/youtube] Bottom line: it’s the end of the world as we know it, and no matter who we elect (Obama or someone else), it’s not going to matter.
Continue readingOn the heels of Bookworm’s excellent, hard-hitting essay on narcissism comes a nice coda on man-made global warming that is emblematic of Bookworm’s theme. Because of major discoveries involving the interaction of atmospheric aerosols and cosmic radiation, “climate models will have to be revised,” stated a communication from CERN that
Continue readingA Liberal friend had an epiphany of sorts, recently. She recounted to me how she saw a townhall meeting of senior citizens furiously protesting plans to cut back on their (state) health care insurance benefits. One speaker tried to point out to these senior citizens that they had pretty much
Continue readingHaving done a flying visit through the Mediterranean, I’m scarcely in any position to make far reaching comments about the towns or countries I visited. Nevertheless, I do feel competent to offer two very specific comments, one about Greece and one about Italy. Throughout our visit to Greece, there was
Continue readingMy favorite entry from Power Line People’s Choice awards: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYZiHWdPv0[/youtube] You should check them all out.
Continue readingHere I am, sneaking in one last post before I head off. (I’ve also set the blog up for some random Open Threads.) Over at Salon, an unabashedly liberal webzine, an article examines the dreaded possibility that Obama might be a one-term president. I found the article a little bit
Continue readingJeremy Fordham wrote me and asked if I would consider publishing a guest post. I said that, provided I got to be judge, jury and execution (meaning I could accept or reject a submission at will), I would be interested. Jeremy was willing to live with those terms, and submitted
Continue readingThe increasing disconnect between reality and Paul Krugman’s New York Times opinion articles was one of the things that led me to examine conservativism more closely. In addition to disliking Krugman’s ideas, I’ve come to dislike Krugman himself, as his anger, embittered, accusatory, demonizing style is the antithesis of reasoned
Continue readingWe have an odd family friend. Fundamentally, she is a nice person and sports a very unconventional view of the world that occasionally emotes great insights into the human condition. She has a major flaw, however, one that she admits as a character flaw: she is an unabashed hater. Despite
Continue readingOh dear, it appears the CBO has turned a tad pessimistic about its earlier prognostications on the economy, stimulus and ObamaCare, heralded as dogma and chiseled in stone tablets on the alters of the Left’s Temple of Orthodoxy. Drinks all around for the Bookworm Room denizens that correctly anticipated
Continue readingDo you ever listen to Frank Caliendo? He’s a talented impressionist who spends much of his time ragging on John Madden. One of the things Caliendo claims that Madden does is restate his premise as if it’s a different conclusion, i.e., “Here’s a guy with mud on his jersey. When
Continue readingClear and funny. I wish everyone would watch these short videos: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9pAsH-1Ao[/youtube]
Continue readingWe political junkies know this. Are ordinary voters catching on? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfdqCmRlbW0[/youtube] And as you read that, you might want to read this, which looks as the overreaching EPA and the wall it seems to have it.
Continue readingSince my detailed knowledge of economics is small, I’m wondering if this SF Chronicle article that tries to put this endless recession into an ordinary pattern, rather than treating it as an American anomaly, is spin or accurate? All I know is that we bounced back faced under Reagan, and
Continue readingYesterday I blogged about the Obama economy in wealthy Marin. Today’s story on the Obama economy concerns a business in Cleveland Toledo, one that caught Obama’s eye….
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