Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There’s an emerging pattern in the administration, which is the willful refusal to acknowledge realities they don’t like, especially their mistakes. This goes for the whole administration: the White House and both sets of Congressional leaders. Examples of this are the refusal to acknowledge the tea parties, the refusal to
Continue readingI like how clearly Karl Rove sums up the economic pain the Democrats’ proposed health care plan will impose on the economy as a whole and on individual Americans: For starters, the bill is a lot more expensive than advertised. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pegs its cost at $1.055
Continue readingOne of my favorite books, and one I highly recommend, is Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. The title is self-explanatory, so I won’t belabor what you’ll find when you read it. I mention it here because I believe it was in that book that I read
Continue readingIn 1993, Clinton tried to raise taxes. Bad idea. In 1995, Gingrich tried to cut Medicare. Bad idea. Both of those moves set up a resounding rebuff from voters. As Kristol explains, Pelosi is setting herself up as a classic overachiever and trying to do both, plus a little bit
Continue readingA few weeks ago, I did a post asking if Barack Obama is anti-American. I liked the concept, but wanted to refine on it a bit. Well, that refinement turned into a very long post, which I passed on to American Thinker, and the editors were kind enough to publish
Continue readingJack, the ExPreacherman, emailed me a great joke: During a visit to the mental asylum, I asked the Director “How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized?” “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub. Then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket
Continue readingThe way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15L_TaolOqg[/youtube] I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year. (And we know from what happens in
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Continue readingThese stories have nothing to do with each other. I just thought each was interesting, and therefore pass them on to you: Americans are figuring out that global warming is a scam. That “missing link” is too distantt to be missing — and maybe it is connected to the first
Continue readingSadie sent me a great trio of stories today, and I want to pass them on to you: The UN wants to make sure that the Western nation’s efforts to protect themselves against cross-dressing jihadists (you know, those guys who don burqas to hide bombs) don’t offend transgendered individuals (who
Continue readingIBD has about as good a summary as any I’ve seen of the nuclear option the Congressional Democrats are planning. So good, in fact, that I’m reprinting it here, because I want to make sure everyone who visits my blog reads it. Please click on the IBD link, however, ’cause
Continue readingLast week, the weather forecast was wrong four days out of five, promising sun on rainy days and rain on sunny days. Today, we were warned of “showers.” So far, the non-stop rain has ranged from hard to the kind of downpour that would make Noah feel at home. The
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I included in a post the statement that Barack Obama is anti-American. A dear and respected friend suggested that I was exaggerating. Obama may have a different vision of or goal for America, he said, but that’s scarcely the same as being anti-American. I’ve been
Continue readingIn his latest opining about world events, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has certainly managed to assure that every one of his illustrious predecessors is rolling in his grave. Please recall that Williams is the same Church prelate who advanced Sharia law. He’s now calling for the end of
Continue readingOkay, Steven Chu wasn’t as explicit as my post caption suggests. Nevertheless, buried within his peculiar remarks about companies deserting the U.S. Chamber of Congress is a profound disdain for the American way of doing business: Our energy secretary applauds and encourages companies to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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