Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of the things I’ve noticed tracking my few conservative and my many Progressive friends over at my “real me” Facebook is the difference in their approach to government. My conservative friends are consistent: They want to confine the federal government to its traditional constitutional boundaries: national security, including managing
Continue readingA long time ago, I became friends with a man who worked as an electrical engineer in the aerospace defense industry. Beginning in the 1980s, he told me that the government was spying on us — and he knew, he said, because he worked on the technology that made it
Continue readingI knew she was smart, but I had no idea my friend Sally Zeliskovsky could sing so well. Put those two things together (great lyrics and a beautiful voice) and you’ve got yourself a new political Christmas classic:
Continue readingRahm Emanuel famous said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” As of today, Avik Roy explains that the Obama administration is facing a serious crisis when it comes to Obamacare: It’s hard to come up with new ways to describe the Obama administration’s improvisational approach to
Continue readingI’ve been trolling through my old posts with the idea of putting out another Kindle book, and I’m impressed by the number of my past posts that either predicted today’s political problems or explain them. As always, I’m not boasting about my exceptional perspicacity. All of us knew what was
Continue readingFrom Instapundit (not just the link, but his comments): CREEPY UNCLE SAM: FBI can turn on your Web cam, and you’d never know it. As I’ve said before, hardware on-off switches for cameras and microphones may come back into style. Plus this: “The FBI can also burrow into a suspect’s
Continue readingBill Whittle needs no introduction:
Continue readingCheck it out. Also, when you get there, please be sure to check out the URL. No private citizen ought to have been able to get that URL, which is an invitation for fraud. Thank goodness it was only a joke. It’s shocking that the government didn’t lock up in
Continue readingCharlie Martin, who has a real knack for simplifying fairly complex mathematical concepts, has a post today about the fact that, when it comes to Obamacare versus math, math wins every time. I’d like to add my mite to that, which is that, when you have no dog in the
Continue readingAJ Strata looked at Obama’s approach to American land — i.e., “This land belongs to me, not you” — and decided to revamp Woody Guthrie’s famous “This land is your land” a bit. I think he did a great job. More than that, though, he exposed a beautiful irony. Woodie
Continue readingNo introduction or conclusion is necessary for this one:
Continue readingWhen I was down in the doldrums the other day, a dear friend sent me a pep-talk email. Her point was the same that jj made in a comment: We have to seize the momentum now to reveal Obama, the Democrats, and the federal bureaucracy for what they are. Democrats
Continue readingYesterday, I told you about the Obama administration’s unconscionable decision to refuse death benefits to military families. Republicans are working on it but, in the meantime, private enterprise is stepping in, which leads a friend of mine to ask a good question: “So private organizations are taking care of the
Continue readingI was just talking to the kids the other day about the presumption of innocence inherent in the American justice system — and I said that this presumption is an absolute necessity when you have the vast weight of the government, punitive powers and all, arrayed against you. In this
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