Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I used to admire the BBC. It’s role during WWII was stellar. In the 1960s, it brought us Monty Python and other cutting edge, very silly comedies. In the 1970s, it began making a series of marvelous historic dramas, many of which still represent the finest viewing TV has offered.
Continue readingThis is a follow-up to my post a couple of days ago about my decision to read, in order, both Ann Coulter’s Godless : The Church of Liberalism and Susan Estrich’s Soulless : Ann Coulter and the Right Wing Church of Hate, with the latter meant to be a takedown
Continue readingI blogged in the past couple of days about SF’s probable decision to “re-educate” its police as the preferred way of addressing the very real fact that, on a per capita basis, more blacks are committing crimes in San Francisco than they are in other California cities. I also
Continue readingA month ago, I wrote about dhimmitude run amok at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, where the University had announced its intention of persecuting college Republicans who had stamped on butcher paper representations of Hezbollah and Hamas flags, unaware that those flags had Mohammed’s name written upon them.
Continue readingLast night, I did a long post that covered, among other things, the long, drawn out death of Free Speech at San Francisco State University, a place so radically Left that Angela Davis is a faculty member there. As is so often the case, immediately after I’ve done a post,
Continue readingSan Francisco has been in the press a lot lately (and inspired some pretty funny Jay Leno riffs) because of Gavin Newsom’s sexual misconduct with his ex-campaign manager’s wife. It’s sordid, it’s sexy, and, at bottom, it’s not troubling. That is, as with all good sex scandals, we can purse
Continue readingMarin is one of America’s bluest bastions, and San Anselmo is one of the bluest parts, with a lot of grown up (sort of) hippie types, but there are still little dots of red, some of whom are very assertive in their beliefs. So it is that in San Anselmo,
Continue readingThomas Sowell asks “Can we talk?” in light of efforts from the Left to shut down debate. It’s a great article and I urge you to read the whole thing.
Continue readingI found intriguing a Reuters story entitled “Imams in Denmark seek to cool cartoon row.” Based on that headline, I thought it would be a story in which thoughtful Imams, looking at the anarchy abyss their followers created during the cartoon riots, stepped back from the precipice, and urged their
Continue readingI’ve now watched two episodes of Aaron Sorkin’s new show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Well, to be completely honest, I sort of watched two episodes, sinced I slept through most of the second. The show has the usual Sorkin trademarks — incredibly rapid-fire dialogue, some of it clever;
Continue readingMuslims societies are honor based. While we may tie the concept of “saving face” to the Japanese, they’re pikers when it comes to the Muslims. That’s because Japanese, when they lose face, turn on themselves; Muslims turn on others (hence the prevalence of honor killings). This is true of even
Continue readingMr. Bookworm rented a movie called Tigerland the other day, about men being trained to go off to the Vietnam War. I found it unwatchable, in large part because every other word was a filthy obscenity. There was almost no substance to the dialogue, just foul language. Thinking back, this
Continue readingThomas Lifson and Richard Baehr offer an excellent summary of the First Amendment matters at issue in Professor Thomas Klocek's suit against DePaul University. As you may nor may not know, DePaul summarily fired Professor Klocek after he engaged in Palestinian students manning a table at a student activities
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