Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of my pet peeves is bullying. I’m not talking about bullying amongst students, although I certainly don’t like that. I’m talking about the bullying from school districts and Progressive parents who work overtime to ensure that children are brainwashed into fearing self-defense so much that they would rather be
Continue readingTwo people sent me a link to stories about Naomi Wolf castigating singer Katy Perry for making a “shameless” piece of video “propaganda” celebrating the U.S. Marines. One sent me the link because he knows that, I went to school with Naomi. The other sent me the link because he
Continue readingThere was another anti-war rally in San Francisco, but the gloss of all Americanism with which the movement covered itself during the early years of the Iraq War is gone. With that gloss ripped away, the truth comes out: The glory days of the 21st-century anti-war movement were in 2003
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 readingI love my dojo. The teachers are, without exception, top quality and, also without exception, they are just about the nicest people you’ll ever meet. Oh, one other thing: without exception, they’re pro-Obama and anti-War. What this means is that you have people who dedicate their lives to teaching fighting,
Continue readingThere’s yet another movie coming out about the way in which the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq destroy lives and turn young men into pathetic losers: There is a grim timeliness to the release of “Brothers,” Jim Sheridan’s movie about the effects of war on the family of a Marine
Continue readingDespite giving the generals almost 75% fewer troops than the 80,000 they really wanted (and even significantly less than the 40,000 they sort of wanted), and despite telling the Taliban and Al Qaeda exactly when the field is theirs, and despite dwelling morbidly on death in front of the men
Continue readingBruce Kesler sent around an email asking whether we thought victory was possible in Afghanistan. My reply was that I don’t think the Democrats can conceive of victory as a possible outcome. As I wrote to him, I’m the child of parents who fought in WWII and the Israeli War
Continue readingMovie review one: The movie is a viscerally exciting, adrenaline-soaked tour de force of suspense and surprise, full of explosions and hectic scenes of combat, but it blows a hole in the condescending assumption that such effects are just empty spectacle or mindless noise. [snip] Ms. Bigelow, practicing a kind
Continue readingTreason is a pretty simple concept. Here are a few choice definitions: A violation of allegiance to one’s sovereign or to one’s state. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid
Continue readingBefore today, I hadn’t heard of Frank Turek. After today, I’m going to keep an eye out for his articles. He’s written a really splendid article explaining how deeply, terribly wrong Obama’s every position is regarding Iraq. Frankly, for those who are well-informed, there’s nothing in this article you haven’t
Continue readingI was out this morning getting my oil changed — and learning that it will cost almost $2,000 to fix my car from its recent run-in with a low post. When I got home, I found an interesting message on my answering machine. It’s the recorded voice of Dennis Kucinich
Continue readingIn light of the Surge’s manifest success, John Hawkins, of Right Wing News, has written a column that assembles many of the Democratic gloom and doom predictions about the Surge when it was first proposed. Makes for interesting reading in that it exposes the profound ignorance and ideological blindness coming
Continue readingThe story is amazing and the source — the normally anti-American Spiegel (a German magazine) — is equally amazing. According to this story, things in Baghdad are going really well, and the citizens have a renewed sense of well-being and purpose: There is an unexpected air of normalcy prevailing in
Continue readingI mentioned the famous Walt Kelly phrase (“we have met the enemy and it is us”) the other day in connection with a post I did about Sweden’s national suicide pact. My point then was that, if a culture is determined to self-destruct, that suicidal urge becomes the most powerful
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