Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I knew without reading it that Anna Diggs-Taylor’s decision striking down the surveillance program would be a poorly written, poorly reasoned, legally and factually unsupported bit of garbage. Did I know this because I’m intimately familiar with the legal issues involved? No. Because I know all (or even any) of
Continue readingOne of the things that makes my favorite sites so good isn’t just the fact that the bloggers are really good thinkers, writers and analysts. What also makes them good is the breadth and volume of the stories about which they write. And that last fact is due to their
Continue readingA surprising bit of news out of Hollywood. A group of Hollywood names — both on the screen and behind it — got together and took out a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times taking a stand against terrorism. Webloggin has a copy of the ad. Interestingly, the
Continue readingI heard bits and pieces of Mike Wallace’s creepy interview with Sean Hannity regarding the Ahmadinijad interview 60 Minutes scored. I knew how Wallace praised Ahmadinijad’s shoes and admired how well-spoken he was. I knew that these superficial attributes so impressed the superficial Wallace that he was unable to see
Continue readingThe past couple of days have seen two huge stories — Ned Lamont’s victory and the foiled terror plot in England — and I’ve had little to say about either. Part of it is that they managed to occur during a week when my plate is way too full anyway,
Continue readingI always assumed that the Left’s hostility to any efforts in the war against terrorists (“can’t we all get along?”) was a byproduct of Bush Derangement Syndrome, a la Groucho Marx’s “Whatever you’re for, I’m against it.” Ann Coulter, however, sees Ned Lamont’s election as proof of the opposite: As
Continue readingThe MSM has fallen into the comforting (to it) rote of “land for peace” regarding the Israel/Hezbollah conflict. After all, this worked wonderfully in the media for the past 20 years when they were reporting about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. So well, that they were utterly unperturbed when Israel gave
Continue readingThe Hydra of mythology was a fearsome multi-headed monster. One of its great strengths was the fact that, if you severed one of its heads, another head (or maybe more than one) would grow in its place. Nevertheless, the Hydra could be defeated. Here’s one version of how Hercules defeated
Continue reading[NGA, as opposed to the familiar NGO, is not a typo. I’ll explain in a minute.] I had lunch with DQ today and, at his request, gave him a run-down of Israel’s history, starting with Herzl and modern Zionism. I took him through the Eastern European pogroms; the declining Ottoman
Continue readingToday, in my mail, I found our local free paper, the Pacific Sun. This week’s cover story is on the cover as “A Farewell to Arms : Iraq war veterans reject their mission– and now may have to fight for their own freedom.” In the body of the magazine, it
Continue readingI started a series of posts aimed at examining what the Left side of the blogosphere had to say about what I think is one of the biggest stories of our day: Israel’s major military initiative against Hezbollah. What I discovered, and why I’ve sort of dried up on checking
Continue readingNot a day goes by that we don’t hear a drumbeat of stories about the “civilians” being killed in Lebanon and the growing “civilian” crisis there. But what is a civilian? If Israel bombs the home of a civil Hezbollah leader and kills the leader, his wife and his four
Continue readingThose who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. It’s been said so often, it’s hackneyed, but it deserves repeating in the face of the neo-peace movement. Those of us who remember the lead-up to WWII also remember that it was the peaceniks who gave Hitler the room he
Continue readingSometimes, a picture is worth way more than a thousand words. Michael Ramirez gets it. This goes to the point I’ve been trying to make, which is that the anti-American/anti-Israel groups are willing to countenance a war only if they can assure that there is no possibility that the USA
Continue readingOne of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces is being turned over to the Iraqi government: MOSUL, Iraq – Task Force Band of Brothers will turn over control of the former Saddam Hussein presidential compound here to Iraqi government officials in a ceremony in Mosul July 20. The Mosul VIP Residence site,
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