Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Perhaps it really is true that Pelosi doesn’t have the votes for Obama Care. After all, if she did, why would the Democrats be considering the “Slaughter Option” something that involves bypassing votes altogether: The Slaughter Solution is a plan by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the Democratic chair of the
Continue readingI believe more and more strongly that reconciliation is a red herring, meant to induce the House to pass the Senate bill. Once that’s done, this so called “reconciliation,” an alleged second bill that will smooth away the differences between the two chambers (especially the House’s demand that abortion, which
Continue readingI truly intended to fisk algore’s op-ed at the New York Times, in which he explains why global warming is still so important that the world should continue its task of turning him into the first green-based billionaire. I was foiled, however, by the fact that I couldn’t step giggling
Continue readingSeveral years ago, when Bush Derangement Syndrome was at its peak, I tackled the “he’s got his finger on the button and he’s going to blow up the world” meme that anti-war activists were so shrilly screaming. I pointed out that there was no evidence whatsoever to indicate that George
Continue readingI’ve been reading Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem, by Simon Singh. Normally, I’d shy away from a book like this — after all, it’s about math! — but it was required reading for my book club, and it’s proven to be delightful. To
Continue readingI don’t know how people get these to market as fast as they do, but this is one of the funniest Hitler in the Bunker parodies (language alert): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-PI2vCA9ck[/youtube]
Continue readingI’d like to think that Climategate, this extraordinary winter, and myriad other evidence about the fraud that is Anthropogenic Global Warming will finally de-Gore-ize a scarred world. In a logical place, change should come about given information distributed in posts such as this one, at American Thinker, attacking IPCC methodology
Continue readingRod Serling was certainly a creative genius, but who knew he was a clairvoyant, with the ability to predict the future? Or, more specifically, who knew that, back in November 1961, he had the ability to predict the Winter of 2010, a record-breaking American winter playing out against the hysteria
Continue readingI think it’s pretty clear that Audi meant to show that its car is so environmentally pure, it can withstand any scrutiny. (Michelle Malkin shows just how committed to environmental “purity” Audi purports to be.) However, its Superbowl commercial very effectively (and probably inadvertently) managed to show precisely what life
Continue readingThe American intelligentsia has a love affair with Communism that will not die. The dead Soviets, the dead Hungarians, Czechs, Albanians, Poles, Bulgarians, etc., the dead Chinese, the dead Koreans, the dead Africans, the dead Cambodians, the dead Vietnamese, the dead Cubans, and the dead Latin Americans are all irrelevant.
Continue readingWhat do you get when you cross a Bratz doll with a Smurf? A Na’vi. Yup, folks, I finally caught up with my pop culture and went to see Avatar last night. Seeing it made me realize why I so seldom bother to catch up with pop culture. The movie
Continue readingFirst, this is what my background and has shaped my thinking, my starting point. I am a hard line conservative. I have been ever since gaining my maturity. I am well educated, two master’s degrees, one in Strategic Intelligence. I was born on the left coast, I am a practicing
Continue readingAs part of a longer post about the Democrats’ anti-democratic tendencies, Peter Wehner has this to say: If you wanted a sound bite that embodied much of what is wrong with contemporary liberalism, you could do worse than listen to the words of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on health care:
Continue readingThere were so many things wrong with Obama’s speech last night, whether because of dumb ideas, lies, vicious attacks against Constitutional guardians, etc., that criticism actually becomes difficult. It’s kind of like punching Jello, because you just get sucked in. Nevertheless, it is important to criticize, not just Obama’s untruths,
Continue readingI can’t resist fisking Helen Thomas’ post-election ruminations. The woman is a dummy, and yet she’s had enormous access to the halls of power for decades, and has always been a thorn in the Republicans’ collective flesh. And, of course, as her widely published post, below, demonstrates, the old media
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