Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
“Six By Sondheim” is a new, well-produced HBO documentary that stitches together the many interviews Stephen Sondheim has given over the years since the late 1950s and then ties those interviews in with six of his best-known or (to him) most important songs. NPR enthused that the show leaves viewers
Continue readingTwo stories today about internecine warfare on the Left: Fight! Fight! On the Left: An Update Google bus blocked in San Francisco gentrification protest I am gleefully wallowing in schadenfreude.
Continue readingLong-time readers know that I’m hostile to bicyclists. In 2007, I devoted an entire post to mob bicyclists. Although I didn’t blog about bikes after my trip to Amsterdam, one of the things I just hated about the city was the bicyclists. Collectively, the bicyclists make up a brutish mob
Continue readingArne Duncan defended common core by verbally assaulting “white suburban moms.” He’s now issued the standard Obama-era apology, which is to say that he’s not sorry for what he said, he’s just sorry that he got caught saying it: “I used some clumsy phrasing that I regret.” I was
Continue readingIf you’re looking for a unifying principle of everything, at least everything Democrat, Victor Davis Hanson has it: What is the common denominator of the Obama administration’s serial scandals — the Justice Department’s spying on AP, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, the NSA surveillance, the lies about Benghazi and
Continue readingObamacare fails at so many levels it’s hard to count them. It fails because it’s the only piece of significant legislation in American history to be passed on strict partisan lines, using procedural tricks and bribes, and with a majority of American people disapproving of it. It fails because its
Continue readingMy liberal friends have been absolutely silent about Obamacare. Not a whisper . . . until today: I know Obamacare has been totally fucked up. I still feel like i’m gonna puke, though, when i hear republicans blaming democrats and yelling for Sibelius to resign. Where were they when Bush
Continue readingLast week, Emily Yoffe, who writes regularly at Slate set of a firestorm when she wrote a post that offered what normal, non-politically correct people, recognize as extremely good advice: Tweens and young women, if you don’t want to get raped, don’t get drunk. Yoffe wasn’t giving rapists, even drunk
Continue readingPutting aside all the racist rhetoric flying around from the Left, the uncontroverted evidence coming out of the Zimmerman trial proved that (a) a hooded figure was sitting on top of another man brutally beating him and (b) the man being tried for murder showed all the signs of someone
Continue readingI enjoy reading my Liberal-Lefty friends’ Facebook posts because they are so insightful into the mindsets of the Left. One insight that I have gained over time is that the differences between us conservatives and the Progressive/Left are so profound that they are unlikely to ever be bridged, barring some
Continue readingTraditionally, one of the things to remember about “justice” is that “justice” isn’t always fair. Sometimes doing the right or “just” thing means that someone gets hurt or left out or punished. A friend of mine sent me an image that tries to pervert language so that “equality” means “unfair,”
Continue readingWith three exceptions, those members of the British public on the scene when jihadists murdered Lee Rigby and then beheaded him showed that they still had the capacity for horror, but that they had lost their ability for action. They tweeted, they photographed, they videotaped, they exclaimed, they emoted .
Continue readingDavid Remnick, writing at The New Yorker has a very interesting article about “The Brothers Tsarnaev” (and yes, we all appreciated the little Dostoyevsky reference there). It’s interesting at two levels. At the first level, the beginning is an elegant piece of journalism that looks at the region and at
Continue readingI’ve written before about one of my favorite writers, Paul Fussell. He wrote a wonderful essay entitled Thank God for the Atom Bomb, about the righteousness of dropping the atom bomb. He was in the Army when Truman dropped the bomb, so Fussell wholeheartedly approved — and had the data
Continue readingA high school classmate of mine who is a staunch conservative posted this on Facebook: It’s not hard to see why: Leftism inculcates people with an overarching sense that they are being treated unfairly, stokes their anger, and removes all moral constraints. With that toxic combination, no wonder they kill
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