Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In my previous post, I talked about the way in which the Left desperately tries to cubby-hole people, events and ideas, without any real understanding of what lies beneath those labels. Seconds after I finished writing that post, I read this newspaper article, which sounds like a parody, but isn’t:
Continue readingI’m reading a very enjoyable novel right now that is completely on point about the way in which the Left operates, especially when it comes to the media and academia. The writer is tuned into the name calling that substitutes for informed debate. For example, when the book’s protagonist, Paul,
Continue readingThe UC regents voted for a steep increase in tuition. Some have pointed to the unedifying spectacle of whining middle class students taking to the streets to protest the tuition increase, since they prefer to have California’s working class, most of whom will not attend the school, bear the financial
Continue readingWe’re getting near the tail-end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that requires dawn to dusk fasting. Now, I’m a gal who enjoys noshing during the day, so I’m not thrilled about abstaining from food and drink for 10 hours. I’d be especially unhappy if it was a hot day,
Continue readingHere’s a bad, almost cruel, joke, but nevertheless a pointed and important one: Two men met on the street. One looked very angry. “What’s the problem?” asked the first man of his friend. “I’m r-r-really a-a-ngry,” he stuttered. “I app-ap-applied for a j-j-job as an an-an-announcer at the-the-the r-r-r-radio s-s-station
Continue readingWillie Brown is one of the smartest politicians out there. He’s been in the business since the 1960s and, not coincidentally, has broken a whole lot of color barriers. While he is a die-hard Democrat, he’s also nobody’s fool. Here’s his take on the Gates kerfuffle. America got a good
Continue readingYou can’t read a blog, attend a press conference, read a paper, or even think about Sotomayor without those 32 words popping into your head: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a
Continue readingI keep seeing headlines all over the place to the effect that Republican Senators will be afraid to vote against the first proposed Hispanic justice. This may certainly be true for Senators, who are a weaselly, unprincipled bunch, I suspect, though, that for many voters Obama himself is causing the
Continue readingIdentity politics turns people into one dimensional characters, who must act out a set script. If you’re black or Hispanic, you must be a Democrat, even if you oppose abortion, take a jaundiced view of gay marriage, and want school choice. If you’re a woman, you must support equal pay
Continue readingIs it only me, or is there a wonderful lunatic charm to Blago? I adored the way in which he appointed a megalomaniac black man to the Senate, forcing Reid either to seat someone he normally wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole, or risk opprobrium as a racist. Likewise,
Continue readingI hate identity politics. I hate the fact that currently powerful identity groups are lining up to tap into the goods flowing from the Obama administration. I hate the fact that Jews fail to recognize that there is a delightful secular element to American Christmas and that their little dears
Continue readingI’ve said before that I am not a racist — I’m a classist or values-ist. Always have been. I don’t care about your external color or sexuality or whatever; I do care about the beliefs you bring to the table. What this means is that I’m pretty hostile to identity
Continue readingIt turns out that Barack Obama might have been on to something with his bitterness speech. In case you’ve forgotten, he said: You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, a lot of them — like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been
Continue readingAt American Thinker, James Edmund Pennington definitively explodes the myth that Obama is a “post-racial” candidate. In other words, Geraldine Ferraro had it absolutely right when she said, without any of Pennington’s careful analysis, that Obama ascended as quickly as he did solely because of his race. And as Pennington
Continue readingWhat do you do when the person who matches you in the external identity calculus — say, she’s a woman and you’re a woman — proves not to be the women’s champion you hoped? Even worse, what do you do when the person who is the champion you hoped, doesn’t
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