Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m really enjoying the periodic forays I’ve been making into Leftie land regarding the current Israeli/Hezbollah war (you can see my previous posts here and here), so I thought I’d keep going. No survey would be complete without checking in with Howard Dean. I know it’s already old news (two
Continue readingI posted yesterday about the remarkable silence on the Left side of the blogosphere in the face of the huge developments in the Middle East. Indeed, the only liberal blogger who recognized the crisis for what it was eschewed analysis and simply went into blame George Bush mode. It occurred
Continue readingWith Israel at the epicenter of World War IV today, I thought I’d troll around to the top liberal blogs to see what they have to say on the subject. Crooks and Liars had only one post about what I believe to be the greatest geopolitical crisis of our time.
Continue readingNPR today had a story about Democrats seeking an issue to draw their voters to the polls. The issue they’ve picked is the minimum wage. Democratic strategists think that Republicans have repeatedly bested them by using ballot initiatives to draw out their base. In past elections, as in this one,
Continue readingI’m always fascinated, when visiting my favorite bloggers, to see the things they find on the liberal blogs. I’ve never had any success reading some of the most popular liberal blogs, though. Many are written in a kind of shorthand that reminds me of the bulletin board at my high
Continue readingAbout a year and a half ago, when I was still at Blogger, I wrote a post about the obsession with poop on the "Leftier" side of the political spectrum. It's short, so I'll repeat it here: Is it just me, or are people who come down on the liberal
Continue readingThe AP wrote a fairly comprehensive story about the latest Congressional scandal: Rep. William Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat, took a $100,000 bribe from an informant and boasted about other acts of corruption, all of which was caught on videotape. We've seen this kind of story before about Republicans, and
Continue readingHere's a list of names, and you get to guess what they have in common: Fabian Nunez, Howard Dean, Carol Liu, and Liz Figueroa. If you guessed that they're all Democrats, you're halfway there. But there are lots of Democrats around. These four fall into an even tighter group. They
Continue readingDems have, for decades, shown how little they think of the African-Americans who constitute their most loyal and reliable constitutents. In statement after statement, and policy after policy, they show that they believe African-Americans to be incapable of caring for themselves without government intervention; incapable of making educational strides without
Continue readingHere's the Little Green Footballs story: The creepiest political ad ever made, for Ned Lamont, features Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga sneaking around and peeping through a window as Lamont gives a cut-and-run speech, then bursting into the room with a bunch of weirdly jacked-up progressive pals and grinning into
Continue readingThe West Wing, the now defunct NBC show, is the ne plus ultra illustration of how Democrats think the world should be run. Indeed, you can amuse yourself with a list of top Left Wing scenes culled from all of the show's episodes. Last night, though, I was struck by
Continue readingThomas Lifson wrote a "right on the money" article about the intoxicating and damaging anger the Left currently experiences. I especially enjoyed the part where he pointed out, rightly, that the Left is bewildered by and hostile to the fact that someone they deem their intellectual inferior had the temerity
Continue readingI'm always sensitive to the way in which the MSM likes to use unflattering pictures of Republican policitians. In the interests of even-handedness, I thought it important to note, therefore, that Matt Drudge, as part of the link to a story about Nancy Pelosi's goal to be Speaker, has publicized
Continue readingPatrick Kennedy is a truly sad little guy. He's obviously combating some serious personal demons. I believe he should resign because I don't think someone so dysfunctional can adequately represent his constituents. That's really the end of the whole Patrick Kennedy story. As Gypsy Rose Lee used to say when
Continue readingLawrence O'Donnell is a "political analyst" for MSNBC (although his analysis often as not appears to be unrelated to any known reality, except rudeness). He also produces and writes The West Wing. Last night's episode was one of the last in the final season of the fantasy Democratic rule in
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