Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m in the midst of listening to Terry Gross’s Fresh Air interview with Kevin Phillips, a former Nixon operative who is deeply hostile to the Bush family and to the religious right (and he’s just written a book about how the religious right is destroying American politics). I’m about ten
Continue readingToday, the SF Chron got around to acknowledging how pathetic the anti-War protests have been around the world. Indeed, the Chron mentioned this surprising little fact in both the lede and the first paragraph: Fewer Protest Iraq War’s 3rd Anniversary Protesters marking the third anniversary of the Iraq war made
Continue readingI just read a fascinating article about the anti-War march in San Francisco — fascinating, not for what it says, but for what it doesn’t say. The lede is “Anti-war protests in S.F., other cities draw thousands.” The first paragraphs again exude awe about the sheer numbers: On the third
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