Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If you haven’t already read Heather MacDonald’s debunking of the “Rape Epidemic” on college campuses, you must. The whole article is replete with gems such as this one: The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable
Continue readingOne of the things that puts the Kumbi-ya crowd into an absolute frenzy is President Bush’s refusal to deal directly with murderous dictators. Forgetting the example set by Neville “Peace in Our Time” Chamberlain, this crowd is certain that, if they can just wrest a smile from someone evil, they’ll
Continue readingSpengler, writing at Asia Times Online, has one of the more fascinating attacks I’ve seen on Barack Obama, and one that exposes some Obama history about which I was blissfully unaware. I knew that Michelle Obama, in her role as candidate’s wife, has forced herself to speak positively about America,
Continue readingDQ here. While Bookworm is on a well-deserved vacation, let’s see if we can get some good discussion going and, maybe, learn a little from each other. Let’s start with a topic I doubt BW would ever blog on — Roger Clemens. Several commentators have pointed out that most (though
Continue readingI found Berkeley a desperately unpleasant place when I attended University there in the late 70s/early 80s. It shocks me to realize that, unaware of it though I was, those were the good years. In a report filled with photos and text, Zombie walks us through the depths to which
Continue readingWhether we forget or remember the past, sometimes we seem doomed to repeat it. Certainly with all the candidates, the analogies to historic times flow freely. The two big analogies, of course, are World War II and the Vietnam War, depending on whether voters view Islamists or fellow Americans as
Continue readingHere’s the Wall Street Journal on yesterday’s overwhelming bipartisan vote to protect from lawsuits telecommunications companies that, in good faith, cooperated with the government to help apprehend terrorists: Now and then sanity prevails, even in Washington. So it did yesterday as the Senate passed a warrantless wiretap bill for overseas
Continue readingYesterday morning, in Berkeley, they were saying this: “Murder, rape, torture, war. That’s what the Marines are for.” and this: “These are very dangerous people. They’re lying to their children, talking them into becoming killers.” I noted that the mask had slipped, revealing that the “we support the troops, but
Continue readingIn an earlier post, I asked how America in the 60s managed to swing over to and completely accept its enemy’s way of defining the situation. That is, the logical American point of view should have been that we were defeating Communism, which is an evil scourge that was trying
Continue readingBarbara Lee, a Democrat who represents Oakland in the House, gave her State of the District speech. It’s useful because the story that quotes from and summarizes her speech gives as perfect a précis as you’re ever likely to see of about 80% of the Democratic “to do” list, something
Continue readingIf you’re interested in up close pictures and eye-witness reporting from the goings-on in Berkeley, check out ProtestShooter. The pictures are from early in the day, so I can’t wait to see the next installment. My favorite photo was one that really didn’t have to do too much with the
Continue readingSince the Iraq War began, the Left has attempted to disassociate itself from the ugliness of 1960s anti-War protests by repeating, over and over, “We love the troops. It’s just the War we hate.” That line always had a stilted quality, especial since we have a volunteer army, and our
Continue readingI’m about to show my youth and ignorance here with regard to the Vietnam War (’cause even though I lived through it, I was truly a child then). But first, let me back up a bit. Mr. Bookworm rented Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe. If you haven’t heard of it,
Continue readingLittle things mean a lot, and some Cuban voters in Florida, who might otherwise have been leaning towards Obama, may back off if they get a gander of his fellow travelers — Obama campaigners who are loud and proud in their support for Castro-ite Cuba and Che Guavara. There is
Continue readingIt took me a while, but I finally figured it out. First, CNN explained to me the single greatest cause of global warming: Cutting down trees is pretty much one of the worst things you can do when it comes to climate change. Deforestation, by varying accounts, contributes anywhere from
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