Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Do you have any spare change lying around? Yes? I thought you might. My dollar coins say “In God We Trust.” My dollar bills say “In God We Trust.” My quarters say “In God We Trust.” My dimes say “In God We Trust.” My nickels say “In God We Trust.”
Continue readingTed Rall, who is to the left of Left, reveals today’s dirty little secret: It feels a little weird to write this, like I’m telling tales out of school and ratting out the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. But it’s true: there’s less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama
Continue readingEveryone should read this speech. Everyone. While the media swooned about Obama’s Cairo speech (in which he lauded veiling women and ignored thousands of years of Jewish ties to Israel), and Obama’s race speech (in which he insulted white people), and Obama’s recent immigration speech (in which he demonized people
Continue readingThere is much breast-beating amongst the usual suspects about the fact that an Orthodox Jewish newspaper deleted all female images from the Situation Room picture the White House issued after bin Laden’s death. Hillary was one of those deleted. The deletion was technically a violation of federal policy, but given
Continue readingBarry Rubin sounds a tocsin at Pajamas Media about the way in which political correctness is slowly but steadily eroding free speech in America, leaving us to speech norms more commonly seen in repressive Middle Eastern countries. As he explains, there’s a reason “the authors of the American Constitution forbade
Continue readingI agree completely with Michael, who blogs at Political Commentator and is a Watcher’s Council member: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYSRsHElEok[/youtube] He’s a very solid speaker, sounding more controlled and stable than the gal interviewing him.
Continue readingIf you’re old enough to have lived through the 1970s, you recognize my post title: Gilda Radner’s famous character Roseanne Roseannadanna would let loose with a foolish tirade, and then wrap it up by saying “It’s always something — if it ain’t one thing, it’s another.” Someone needs to resurrect
Continue readingIf you feel like a little good news amidst the worries about fallout from Egypt, this might do the trick.
Continue readingThe Enlightenment was born in Europe and, clearly, will die there too: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEkelAsmcf4[/youtube] Hat tip: Small Dead Animals
Continue readingI really enjoyed the beginning of this opinion piece from the Guardian: When Barack Obama addressed a shocked nation in Tuscon, Arizona, yesterday, he deployed the only weapon left to a crippled presidency: the power of rhetorical cliche. He deployed it brilliantly. “Together we thrive,” he cried meaninglessly. “For all
Continue readingIs there a cause and effect between hate speech and violence? These tweeters are certain there is, and they believe that Palin should be tortured, given loathsome diseases and killed for having the temerity to engage in (unidentified) hate speech: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxgJKNpjSNI[/youtube] Hat tip: The Jawa Report
Continue readingI’ve been reminding people on facebook that censoring speech doesn’t censor ideas, it just allows governments to abuse people. That’s a point that’s worth remembering. Garry Hamilton makes another excellent point about the relationship between speech and action.
Continue readingIn the debate over the Ground Zero Mosque, the Left’s trump card has been the language in the First Amendment stating that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” All of us correctly understand this to mean that government cannot create a state faith, nor can it
Continue readingThe mosque debate in America has been instructive when it comes to Leftist rhetorical tactics. Ordinary Americans make an argument — “the mosque is inappropriate on secular sacred ground.” The Left then responds, not substantively, but with personal attacks — “you’re racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic and stupid.” If you think this
Continue readingSometimes, to their creator’s dismay, ideas take on a life of their own. In the wake of Comedy Central’s decision to censor a South Park episode that didn’t actually draw Mohamed, but merely suggested the possibility of doing so, Molly Norris came up with the idea of “everybody draw Mohamed
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