Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I 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 readingI just got to my computer now, which has me many hours behind early risers, let alone those early risers on the East Cost. I’m therefore only just assimilating the news about the foiled plot to blow up multiple US-bound British planes in the air. My first thought on hearing
Continue readingI don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure that Fidel Castro is not in some luxury Cuban hospital suite recovering from surgery. If he were, the press would be inundated with pictures of him, propped him in his hospital bed, holding a cigar, and waving to the camera. I
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 readingEarly reports from Drudge are that Lamont (with a third of precincts reporting) is winning and McKinney (with a tenth of precincts reporting) is losing. McKinney’s probable loss is scarcely surprising because she had a viable opponent and was becoming too nutsy to be of any value to her constituents.
Continue readingYou remember the popular mean girl at high school, don’t you? Lots of people wanted to be in her ambit, but no one really liked her. I was irresistibly reminded of that iconic American high school figure when I read this article about Hillary polling in New Hampire (hat tip:
Continue readingAs I know because I spent the majority of my life on the Democratic side of the political divide, the conservatives still can’t shake the reputation as haters that they picked up during the 1950s, thanks to the John Birchers. Interestingly, the conservatives also got tangled in the reputation of
Continue readingI’ve been getting a fair amount of hostile comments regarding an earlier post in which I discussed an AP story that accused half the American population for being delusional because it belived that Iraq did have WMDs. I’ve updated that post to support my belief that Iraq had WMDs at
Continue readingI distinctly remember the laughs ordinary people had decades ago when a Harvard study for the then ridiculously high sum of $50,000 established that mother’s milk is good for babies. I had the same “duh” feeling when I read that a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist has written a book, based on
Continue readingI’m reading two really wonderful books right now, each of which has gotten me thinking about my own history. My starting point for this post is David Horowitz’s Radical Son, about his journey from Red diaper baby to outspoken conservative. He describes a childhood completely defined by party doctrine, intrigue
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 readingI don’t ordinarily read Time Magazine, since I decided years ago, even before my political transformation, that it held little interest for me. (Although I distinctly remember, in 1982, a “hip” young man I worked with castigating it as a conservative mag fit only for parents.) The only reason I
Continue readingOver at the Independent Women’s Forum, they’ve had a series of amusing posts about the shenanigans at the NOW annual meeting. So much about the NOW worldview, but this particular loonines, which Allison Kasic reports, really caught my eye: At the “I’m not a feminist, but…” workshop at the NOW
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
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