Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In October 2004, the once respectable British medical journal, The Lancet, published an article in which it vastly overestimated Iraqi war deaths. Those who contended then that the article’s timing was purposeful, and was intended to affect the American elections, were pooh-poohed. I’ll concede, for the sake of argument, that
Continue readingMichael Medved writes about Paul Krugman’s gleeful belief that the Foley affair (or, poor Foley, non-affair), will cause the tenous relationship between economic Republicans and religious Republicans to implode. Not so fast, says Medved. Here’s just a little of his analysis and I, as a non-religious Republican, completely agree: For
Continue readingHere’s the start of an amazing story: The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites. The action represents a sharp
Continue readingHere is the ultimate summation of why the Foley folly is irrelevant, except insofar as it highlights how stupid Congress is on both sides of the aisle: This was a honey trap (as they used to say in the Cold War) designed to leverage one peripheral figure’s squalid fantasies into
Continue readingFrom Drudge: CLAIM: FILTHY FOLEY ONLINE MESSAGES WERE PAGE PRANK GONE AWRY **World Exclusive** **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT** According to two people close to former congressional page Jordan Edmund, the now famous lurid AOL Instant Message exchanges that led to the resignation of Mark Foley were part of an
Continue readingAnn Coulter nails the real game playing and hypocrisy behind the Foley scandal, and it goes far beyond one warped man’s abuse of his own power. I’ll say again: I’m not excusing Foley. I’m just saying that this scandal is about politics and not about his conduct. And to the
Continue readingYou remember the popular mean girl at high school, don’t you? Lots of people wanted to be in her ambit, but no one really liked her. I was irresistibly reminded of that iconic American high school figure when I read this article about Hillary polling in New Hampire (hat tip:
Continue readingI posted yesterday about the remarkable silence on the Left side of the blogosphere in the face of the huge developments in the Middle East. Indeed, the only liberal blogger who recognized the crisis for what it was eschewed analysis and simply went into blame George Bush mode. It occurred
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