Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of the things that T.S. raised in my original Scooter post was that Fitzgerald said that it was wrong to disclose Plame’s identity. Now, as a lawyer, I can tell you that the fact that Fitzgerald said something doesn’t make it so. In fact, nothing a lawyer says is
Continue readingThis kind of writing is why I’m not going to turn my back entirely on Ann Coulter, even when she makes inept (and, yes, offensive) jokes, not so much about John Edwards and gays (although they were caught in her misfire), but about a type of political correctness that has
Continue readingFrom Jay Nordlinger: Reading about John Edwards and what he thinks Jesus would think of us, I remembered the rule. You know the rule, don’t you? You can talk about Jesus and religion all you want, if you’re a liberal Democrat. That’s cool. But if you’re a conservative Republican, you
Continue readingBecause the Left is so exquisitely attuned to pejorative words, a Florida Democrat wants to ban the State government’s use of the phrase “illegal alien,” preferring the oh so much more polite and non-judgmental “undocumented immigrant.” Please pass me the barf bag. This attempt to dress up illegal conduct in
Continue readingAs you know, I agree with Ann Coulter, who considers Obama a singularly uninspiring orator. She thinks he’s given a pass because he’s black. I think he’s given a pass because, in our inarticulate age, he’s able to string sentences together (something, sadly, that President Bush can’t do). Take, for
Continue readingJohn Edwards is clearly attempting to attract the European vote. It was Europeans after all, who opined in large numbers that Israel is the most dangerous nation in the world. In a clear effort to attract Europeans to the polls in 2008, Peter Bart’s column reports on this gem: “Perhaps
Continue readingI’m no Stephen Sondheim fan, but I’ve always laughed at a song he wrote for his play “Into The Woods.” When things have gone wrong, all the characters turn on each other and begin to sing a song called “Your Fault,” in which each blames the others for the current
Continue readingAlthough I find the light they give too sterile and cool to be appealing, we have a bunch of the new compact fluorescent bulbs in our house, both because they are cheap to operate and they are long lasting.
Continue readingThe only problem with a Mark Steyn column is choosing which of the gemlike paragraphs to quote. It’s so tempting, paragraph after paragraph to say “Oh, I should include this in my blog. No, no, wait! This one too.” And on and on until I’ve highlighted each of them, ready
Continue readingJeff Jacoby makes a good point about the fact that the lead Democratic candidates, while happy to challenge the War in Iraq, have nothing to say about the jihadist forces arrayed against the West, and hot in the rhetoric against America.
Continue readingThe Democrats, both the base and the politicos, have gotten a lot of mileage out of attacking the 2003 decisions that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A multivolume book could be written about the events then, the revelations (and absence of revelations since then), and the way in
Continue readingWe’ve all laughed at Billy Crystal’s savage caricature of Fernando Lamas, a sketch character reportedly born when Crystal heard Lamas, on The Tonight Show, announce that “it is better to look good than to feel good.” That quotation popped into my mind when I read a New York Times style
Continue readingBy gaining control of Congress, the Democrats suddenly found themselves with a problem. It’s one thing, when you have to power to effect changes, to demand that the US withdraws from Iraq; it’s another thing, when power is yours, to have to figure out a way to make that withdrawal
Continue readingI was very impressed, as George Orwell would have been, with Barbara Boxer’s comeback when she was criticized for attacking Condi Rice personally during Senate hearings. Boxer let us, the Americans, know that her words weren’t spoken in terms of policy, ideas, or military strategy. No, no — nothing so
Continue readingAnn Coulter can be too mean sometimes, and I think she undermines her points when she is. Sometimes, though, she’s right on the money, as she is in this article, some of which I quote here: The “bipartisan” Iraq panel has recommended that Iran and Syria can help stabilize Iraq.
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