Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The current charge from Democrats (who control the White House and both houses of Congress), is that Republican operatives are engaging in fear mongering by sending either complicitous or naive little old men and women to town halls to harrass innocent Congress people with mean questions. Bad Republicans! Bad! But
Continue readingIn one of his usual delightful articles, Jonah Goldberg exposes the logical fallicies in the mean-spirited attacks our elected representatives (and their minions) are making against the American people: Nancy Pelosi, who will get her own bound volume in the annals of asininity, has outdone herself. When asked by a
Continue readingAllahPundit explains what’s really and truly going on in Washington, D.C.: Let me remind you again: They can pass any bill they want any time they want. Conservatives can scream their heads off at these things and there’s not an ounce of good it’ll do if Democrats are united. This
Continue readingOrwell understood the totalitarian mindset. That’s why he invented Newspeak, a language with the specific goal of making anti-governmental thought impossible. The Wikipedia article on the subject sums it up nicely: Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell‘s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being
Continue readingThe Democrats, corrupted by power, are now seeking absolute power. Here’s the story from the horse’s mouth, the horse in this case being Minority Whip, Eric Cantor: In a completely unprecedented fashion, House Democrats have used their power as the majority party to shut out floor amendments from the minority party
Continue readingThe Politico headlines reveal that the Dems are picking a direct fight with the CIA. Pelosi says they lied to her, while the Dem leadership is accusing the CIA of breaking laws. My idle question is this: Is it wise to pick a fight with those who ferret out and
Continue readingI’m always amazed that the Democrats can, with a straight face, present themselves as the party of the little people and as opposed to big business. I guess their deal is that, as long as a corrupt capitalist system exists, they should exploit it to the max, all the while
Continue readingIf you were wondering what Obama and the maniacal Democrats were doing, James Lewis finally puts a name to it. It’s the Great Leap Forward: Even the Europeans are resisting hyper-deficits, because Europe always has that memory of the 1920s and 30s: hyperinflation, unemployment, crushing poverty and despair, followed by
Continue readingIn the old days, when someone was a substance abuser, the entire onus for the abuse lay with that person. At a certain point, however, someone figured out that, in many relationships, the abuser’s partner was part of the dance of drug or alcohol dependency. A new term entered the
Continue readingAlan Dershowitz gives us some insights into the evil that is Hamas (and I use the word evil deliberately and without any artistic hyperbole), and then explains how, under international law, the concept of “proportionality” properly works in the face of that kind of evil. Incidentally, it’s not far from
Continue readingPalin has the AP, not just running scared, but spinning lies. I’m careful about quoting the AP, because their stuff is proprietarial, but to the extent they have the public ear, they better damn well be honest, and the following story, which I print and fisk in relevant part, is
Continue readingWhat do I get? I get why people are voting Democrat. It’s all explained in this clever little film: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-EpU13K_o[/youtube] And be sure to visit VerticalBlu’s website, if for no other reason than to show that a company that manages to put together a great little video like that deserves
Continue readingIn the “I wish I’d said that” department is this truly excellent post from Power Line, pointing out that this crisis (a) establishes that McCain, not Obama, is a leader and (b) that the Democrats cannot possibly be telling the truth when they try to blame McCain for the House’s
Continue readingI’m no Sondheim fan, but he did get the psychology of blame down well in a song from Into The Woods that has the constant refrain “It’s all your/his/her fault.” It’s human to assign blame. Sometimes, though, assigning blame is easy, and with the current economic crisis, history shows us
Continue readingOne of the things that’s been playing through my head lately is the distance between the liberal worldview and actual reality. The media arguments directed at Palin, especially those that deal with women’s issues, really highlighted that divide for me. Let’s begin with the way in which liberals distinguish themselves
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