Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
One of the reasons I left private school for public school is that, as the kids got older, they had more and more after school activities. This prevented me from putting them in an after school care program and, instead, saw me driving all of the place to drop one
Continue readingThe usual family intense weekend, so blogging won’t resume until tonight. However, if you want to read something really, really good, check out Dr. Sanity’s post riffing off the revelation that Teddy Kennedy offered to work with the Soviets to advance their interests at America’s expense. (Will the subpoena against
Continue readingA liberal friend of mine who is genuinely fond of me is quite concerned that I’ve gone around the bend. Because I think the Republicans are now the better choice than the Democrats, he’s worried that I’ve become a groupie. When I press him, though, for ways in which the
Continue readingCan you parse this sentence? “Let me remove all doubt in anyone’s mind that there is no acceptance of any protection of a political future over the protection of children in the Congress of the United States.” I can’t. Nancy Pelosi used it in a speech the other day, and
Continue readingMark Steyn’s latest takes the Dem obsession with the Foley follies and broadens the focus so we understand that Dems are repeating a decades’ long pattern of playing in the bedroom so as to avoid the ugly world outside: Thomas Sowell says the question for this election is not whether
Continue readingWarren Harding was arguably one of the worst, most ineffectual, most corrupt Presidents in American history. Received wisdom was also that, with a huge influx of newly enfranchised women voters, he won 1920’s election because he was a pretty face. (Hard to imagine looking at that face now, but standards
Continue readingThe Germans have some interesting words that encompass deep philosopical ideas. The ones that spring easily to my mind are Weltanschauung (“a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it“); and Weltschmertz (“Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the
Continue readingOne could argue many reasons why the Republicans should lose Congress. I won’t agree with any of them, because no matter how weak or confused Republicans may be, I think Democrats leading today’s world would be a very, very dangerous thing. However, if the Republicans were to lose Congress because
Continue readingKudos to the AP for revealing that Democratic Leader Harry Reid was involved in an unethical financial deal that netted him money most of us can only dream of. Here’s the beginning of the AP’s report: Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas
Continue readingMichael Medved writes about Paul Krugman’s gleeful belief that the Foley affair (or, poor Foley, non-affair), will cause the tenous relationship between economic Republicans and religious Republicans to implode. Not so fast, says Medved. Here’s just a little of his analysis and I, as a non-religious Republican, completely agree: For
Continue readingHere’s the start of an amazing story: The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites. The action represents a sharp
Continue readingMy American Thinker article today was all about the fact that the Democrats are wilfully ignoring the dangers we face — and we cannot let the Foley follies blind us to the fact. I used over a thousands words and about fifty links to make that point. In a minute
Continue readingNo, I’m not calling you, my readers, stupid. I’m riffing off of James Carville’s message to Bill Clinton during the 1992 elections, in order to keep him on message. Everywhere Clinton looked were signs saying “It’s the economy, stupid!” I’ve just updated that thought, and I’ve updated it with a
Continue readingHere is the ultimate summation of why the Foley folly is irrelevant, except insofar as it highlights how stupid Congress is on both sides of the aisle: This was a honey trap (as they used to say in the Cold War) designed to leverage one peripheral figure’s squalid fantasies into
Continue readingJonah Goldberg writes compellingly about why this whole Foley thing may one day backfire on the Dems. I particularly appreciated this bit: What liberals don’t understand is that social conservatives actually believe their moral rhetoric, even when it’s politically inconvenient. That’s why GOP Rep. Bob Livingston of Louisiana had to
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