Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There’s yet another movie coming out about the way in which the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq destroy lives and turn young men into pathetic losers: There is a grim timeliness to the release of “Brothers,” Jim Sheridan’s movie about the effects of war on the family of a Marine
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgPUpIBWGp8[/youtube] I don’t find Stewart at all amusing — but I love the fact that, through his leaden efforts, a generation that relies on him for the news is being told that they’ve been force-fed Kool-Aid.
Continue readingDespite giving the generals almost 75% fewer troops than the 80,000 they really wanted (and even significantly less than the 40,000 they sort of wanted), and despite telling the Taliban and Al Qaeda exactly when the field is theirs, and despite dwelling morbidly on death in front of the men
Continue readingLaer Pearce, who blogs at the wonderful Cheat-Seeking Missiles, is on temporary hiatus right now as he works on a big writing project (which I can’t wait to read when it’s completed). Meanwhile, he sends me interesting emails, including the following, which I publish with his blessing: Director of East
Continue readingThe whole sordid story of the corruption of science at one of the world’s premier institutions that has been pushing the man-made global warming theory sounded vaguely familiar to me, but I couldn’t figure out why. It was only last night that I finally realized that the debate perfectly parallels
Continue readingI realize that, with readers all over the world, speaking about “morning” is a bit silly, but I can only function according to the rules of my own time zone. I’m up, but so are the kids, and the “getting ready for school” drill is in full swing. It’s definitely
Continue readingI think we’re all agreed that global warming alarmists have used fraud, blackmail, and blackballing to advance their global warming agenda. The liberal media, if it acknowledges these tactics, is saying that they were simply over aggressive, but that the underlying facts remain true. AJ Strata, however, begs to differ.
Continue readingYes, it is old news now that Tim Geithner and a whole lot of other Obama officials forgot to pay their taxes. Nevertheless, when I heard this monologue that Steve Martin did on Saturday Night Live back in 1977, I just had to include it here. It’s perfect: You .
Continue readingFrom The Weekly Standard: With the release of hundreds of emails by scientists advocates of global warming showing obvious and entirely inappropriate collusion by the authors — including attempts to suppress dissent, to punish journals that publish peer-reviewed studies casting doubt on global warming, and to manipulate data to bolster
Continue readingAm I the only one who has had it up to here and more with the relentless imperative that I buy green? I have this incredible urge to pollute and waste. I do not like being bullied, and I am being bullied. When I’m at the store, surrounded by all
Continue readingI just had to laugh. The New York Times report on the hacked climate change documents starts off pretty honestly: Hundreds of private e-mail messages and documents hacked from a computer server at a British university are causing a stir among global warming skeptics, who say they show that climate
Continue readingIt’s a story that broke first in Europe, but is making its way here. (I heard about it on NewsFifty, which is constantly adding links.) Here’s the story, briefly: Hadley GRU is one of the major climate change advocacy organizations. Hackers broke into its database and discovered more than a
Continue readingI’ve been saying for some years that the biggest mistake the Islamists made was impatience. Demographically, between their fecundity and the sterility of Western culture, Muslims were headed towards societal tipping points all over Europe within a couple of decades. Had they set tight, they could have completed what they
Continue readingIn the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.
Continue readingThere is a lot of talk about whether, looking ahead to the 2010 elections, we’re looking at 1980, or 1994, or 1932 or some other American political year that I can’t even think of right now. I actually think we’re looking at a different year altogether: 1989. As you may
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