Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I kid you not — the language I put in quotations in this post caption is the precise language the BBC uses to describe those who are engaged in a little bit of urban unrest In France. You know, the kind of innocuous urban rioting that results in more than
Continue readingDennis Prager likes to say (and I’m paraphrasing here) that liberals and conservatives have entirely incompatible world views. They understand facts in such a different way that there are few points of intersection. I had a reminder of that truism the other day when I watched Oliver Stone’s World Trade
Continue readingFor those of you still wondering about what life will be like in the resurgent Islamic 7th century, here’s a bit more information, this time out of Saudi Arabia: A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and
Continue readingI firmly believe that military force should be the last option in dealing with Iran. But I also believe that, whether we talk with the Iranians, enact embargoes against the Iranians, threaten the Iranians, or whatever else the heck we decide to do vis a vis the Iranians (including an
Continue readingAmericans like to talk about ecumenicalism, which is an idea that concerns itself with “establishing or promoting unity among churches or religions.” We in America have proven to be very good at it, so much so that we think nothing of little news stories about the rabbi giving a talk
Continue readingAs you may recall, Hitler’s thugs made Munich their headquarters in the 20s, and were able to use it as their power base in the early 30s. Among other, equally unsavory tactics they used to consolidate power was thuggery to suppress speech. It’s really a simple tactic if you have
Continue readingRead this and then read this. Where was it written that the ignorant shall rule the earth?
Continue readingI’ve posted repeatedly about the fact that one of the main things Islamists fear about the West is the fact that the West has decided not to subjugate its women. So much of Islamic energy is spent on women’s issues — only not in the way NOW defines them. To
Continue reading. . . . a wonderful opinion piece that Cinnamon Stillwell wrote about the San Francisco drag queens dressed as nuns who took Holy Communion, not as an act of faith, but to ridicule the Church. Not only does Cinnamon expose the fundamentally anti-Christian attitude behind this attack on the
Continue readingA friend of mine who has, over the years, proven remarkably prescient in diagnosing global ills, told me after 9/11 that a significant element in Islam’s rage against the West has to do with women — Islam demands the total subjugation of women, and Islamists view the West as a
Continue readingI stumbled across a blog I hadn’t seen yet before, called Secularist Atheist Army. Strike that, I stumbled across three blogs,* all clearly the the same blogger, and all with the same message: Britain, stop killing yourself. Thus, the blogger, clearly writing out of Britain, has post after post after
Continue readingThere’s a new movie out about “homegrown religious fundamentalists who kill in the name of God” — and Manolah Dargis, who writes movie reviews at The New York Times really wants to like it. You’ve got to admire Manolah. After all, who in America doesn’t want a solid documentary about
Continue readingHere in America, we are (rightly) unhappy about illegal immigrants who instantly sign up for all the welfare benefits they can get. Of course, they’d be stupid not to, because only a fool says no to free money. Also, I don’t think any of us doubt that the immigrants who
Continue readingAll religions, at all times, in all places, have one of two goals: to give meaning to life, something usually tied to morality, or to allay the fear of death. Some religions, of course, serve both goals. It is the second goal — defusing death — that I write about
Continue readingDeborah Howell, the ombudsman at the Washington Post, bestirred herself to explain why the Washington post pulled the two Berkeley Breathed comic strips that had Steve Dallas grappling with girlfriend Lola Granola’s decision to convert to Islam. On first read, Howell’s explanation sounded logical, but the more I read, the
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