Following through on a decision
Jonah Goldberg expresses my sentiments exactly when it comes to today’s situation in Iraq. (And read the whole thing, not just the first two paragraphs.)
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Jonah Goldberg expresses my sentiments exactly when it comes to today’s situation in Iraq. (And read the whole thing, not just the first two paragraphs.)
Continue readingA liberal friend of mine who is genuinely fond of me is quite concerned that I’ve gone around the bend. Because I think the Republicans are now the better choice than the Democrats, he’s worried that I’ve become a groupie. When I press him, though, for ways in which the
Continue readingIf there’s anyone left who still thinks the numbers in the Lancet study are valid, he should read Steven Moore’s op-ed explaining why the study’s methodology is invalid by any standard: After doing survey research in Iraq for nearly two years, I was surprised to read that a study by
Continue readingBecause the comments section in my blog has seen a lot of activity about the Lancet report positing almost 700,000 Iraqi war dead in a few years, I thought it would be useful to direct your attention to the fact that an anti-War website, Iraq Body Count, has had the
Continue readingCan you parse this sentence? “Let me remove all doubt in anyone’s mind that there is no acceptance of any protection of a political future over the protection of children in the Congress of the United States.” I can’t. Nancy Pelosi used it in a speech the other day, and
Continue readingMark Steyn’s latest takes the Dem obsession with the Foley follies and broadens the focus so we understand that Dems are repeating a decades’ long pattern of playing in the bedroom so as to avoid the ugly world outside: Thomas Sowell says the question for this election is not whether
Continue readingWarren Harding was arguably one of the worst, most ineffectual, most corrupt Presidents in American history. Received wisdom was also that, with a huge influx of newly enfranchised women voters, he won 1920’s election because he was a pretty face. (Hard to imagine looking at that face now, but standards
Continue readingThe Germans have some interesting words that encompass deep philosopical ideas. The ones that spring easily to my mind are Weltanschauung (“a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it“); and Weltschmertz (“Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the
Continue readingOne could argue many reasons why the Republicans should lose Congress. I won’t agree with any of them, because no matter how weak or confused Republicans may be, I think Democrats leading today’s world would be a very, very dangerous thing. However, if the Republicans were to lose Congress because
Continue readingIt’s nice when someone who understands medical journals and statistics has the same reaction you do to the ridiculous Lancet story that claimed 655,000 Iraqi war-related deaths in a mere two years. Medipundit puts it all in perspective: The researchers spent two months canvassing households in various regions of Iraq
Continue readingKudos to the AP for revealing that Democratic Leader Harry Reid was involved in an unethical financial deal that netted him money most of us can only dream of. Here’s the beginning of the AP’s report: Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas
Continue readingIn October 2004, the once respectable British medical journal, The Lancet, published an article in which it vastly overestimated Iraqi war deaths. Those who contended then that the article’s timing was purposeful, and was intended to affect the American elections, were pooh-poohed. I’ll concede, for the sake of argument, that
Continue readingMichael Medved writes about Paul Krugman’s gleeful belief that the Foley affair (or, poor Foley, non-affair), will cause the tenous relationship between economic Republicans and religious Republicans to implode. Not so fast, says Medved. Here’s just a little of his analysis and I, as a non-religious Republican, completely agree: For
Continue readingHere’s the start of an amazing story: The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites. The action represents a sharp
Continue readingI’ve got work to do, but I wanted to get a thought off my chest (or out of my head). Many in the anti-War movement try to cut debate off at the knees by claiming that their opponents are slandering them by calling them unpatriotic. The notion is that to
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