Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
But this time I don’t think anyone is too upset: Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Hastings are feeling lucky this year. The 30-county area they serve in central Nebraska and north-central Kansas hasn’t had a confirmed tornado for the first six months of this year. That hasn’t
Continue readingI periodically check out Yahoo’s Most popular news stories site, which only seems to carry articles from the Left side (and Ann Coulter, although I never know how she creeps in there). When I checked just now, the most emailed story was an AP story entitled “Scientists okay Gore’s movie
Continue readingI was reading the latest Greenhouse news report (earth hotter than it's been 400 years), and was all prepared to blog about that. Then, I discovered that my WordPress was down. So, I read around a bit more and discovered that The Anchoress has already said what I planned to
Continue readingI'm actually being a bit generous using the world "science" here, and I only use it because the newspaper article I'm going to savage uses the word — in the title of the article, no less. In fact, this is pseudo science being bent to make a political point: Bush
Continue readingI mentioned attending a graduation on Friday. One of the speakers gave a beautiful speech about his hope that the children leaving the school would become leaders, not necessarily by becoming famous, but by doing the right thing. His point was that those who act morally are inevitably leaders. I
Continue readingWe all (or at least many of us) crave publicity for things we hold dear. We're convinced that, if we could just get more people to hear about a particular thing we believe is important and compelling, they'd all fall into line, nodding their heads like those dog toys in
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 readingWhen Tina Brown took over The New Yorker, it got hip, edgy and, to me, boring. We continue to subscribe, though, in large part because Mr. Bookworm has always subscribed. And I still read it because it's there, which is how I got to read two movie reviews that give
Continue readingI'm disgusted with the coverage of Al-Zarqawi's death, which focuses obsessively on how meaningless it is and how it will do little if nothing to make a difference in the President's war for oil. Oh, by the way, try telling that to the wildly celebrating Iraqis. The worst I heard
Continue readingLast week (or was it two weeks ago?) a CBS reporter was seriously injured, and two of her crew were killed. This was a front page story for a couple of days. It was a real tragedy. Did you know, though, that there was someone else involved too? I didn't
Continue readingI've been rather conspicuously silent about the whole Haditha thing. Until facts come out, rather than rumor, I don't really have anything to say. During times of war, even in the best regulated military, soldiers have been known to do some pretty awful things. You can't take young men, arm
Continue readingIn the West, courtesy of modern birth control, when most of us have children, it's because we want them. They, after all, didn't ask to be born. To me, this means that we have obligations to them far beyond the material ones of food, shelter and clothing, and even beyond
Continue readingOne of the trends I've seen in the years I've been out in the workforce is the one that has employees do self-evaluations. You know the kind of thing: "My strengths are…. My weaknesses are…." I've never been a fan of this approach. I don't mean this an insult (although
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 readingPhyllis Chesler writes movingly about the fact that Western women, obsessed as they are with abortion and Palestinian rights, have been shockingly silent regarding the treatment the Dutch have meted out to Ayaan Ali Hirsi. Among other things, Chesler has this to say: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has offered
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