Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I found myself in the unfortunate position last night of having to watch HBO’s hagiography . . . oh, sorry — documentary about Herbert Block, who was a political cartoonist for the Washington Post for several decades. Although the show’s ostensible premise was that Block (known professionally as Herblock) was
Continue readingAll of the predictable people are expressing predictable outrage about the revelation that Roger Ailes once proposed what he thought was a clever way to keep the new World Trade Center from being the target of another Islamist terrorist attack. What he allegedly said was, “We should fill the last
Continue readingI haven’t been much of a Chris Christie supporter lately. In the beginning, I admired his ability to stand up to the teacher’s unions. Since then, I’ve decided that this was less a principled position and more a reflection of a highly aggressive personality. Outside of the unions, he’s too
Continue readingShe’s a high school senior, but damn! if she doesn’t give a stunningly good talk about the way in which the New York Times, despite knowing about the Holocaust, not only downplayed it, but effectively kept American policy away from helping Europe’s besieged Jewish population: There is no anti-Semite worse
Continue readingA friend sent me a very funny email. I don’t know if the numbers are precisely accurate, but I do know that they’re accurate enough to serve a larger truth, namely America’s overwhelming turn in 1942 from a peacetime nation into a fully armed, fully operational wartime nation. In this
Continue readingIn random order: 1. A&E is not a government entity and is within its rights to make insanely stupid, bigoted decisions. 2. Phil Robertson doesn’t need A&E but, judging by his show’s popularity, A&E needs him. 3. GLAAD is a fascist organization. A friend of mine who was watching CNN
Continue readingAt the National Journal, disillusioned Obama supporter Ron Fournier had this to say about the WaPo’s report that the Obama administration slow-walked unpopular regulations in order to affect the outcome of the 2012 election: “Obama’s apologists will say that every president plays politics with policy in elections years. Two problems
Continue readingWhen I was at Cal, one of the great inconveniences was bomb threats against Sproul Hall, which was then (and I presume is now) Cal’s administrative building. From my point of view, the scenario was unchanging: I’d stand in an endless line in order to get or return some piece
Continue readingI trace back to Dennis Prager one of my favorite expressions: “I prefer clarity to agreement.” Too often, agreement can be like Tacitus’s definition of a Roman peace (“they make a desert and call it peace”). In the years since Obama’s election, I’ve frequently argued that, with a weak American
Continue readingI could have done this as myriad small posts, but I was in the mood for something big. I’ll separate the different ideas and issues with asterisks (after all, Obama’s promise with his unspoken asterisk has made asterisks the hot new thing in writing). My friend (I like say that
Continue readingObama is tanking in the polls, but NPR says not to worry. While Bush’s tanking in the polls was a sign that he was a lame duck, Obama’s tanking in the polls is meaningless. The reasons given are insanely stupid: He’s never been effective with Congress; bad poll numbers are
Continue readingHere’s the AP, an unofficial arm of the Democrat party, telling us that Obama had to simplify his Obamacare promises to the point of fraud because the American people are too unintelligent and uninformed to deal with the Act’s complexities: President Barack Obama’s early efforts to boil down an intricate
Continue readingThis is a just a beautiful moment, as MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer exposes the ignorance underlying her Leftist condescension during an argumentative interview she conducted with a GOP Congressman:
Continue readingThe WaPo’s Richard Cohen wants you to know that 12 Years A Slave is an extremely important movie because it gives Americans a surprising new message that they need to hear: Slavery is bad. I don’t know under what rock Cohen has been living, but the last major American movie
Continue readingThe other day, I wrote that David Denby, a soggy leftist film reviewer at The New Yorker was trying his hands at political commentary with a hate piece against Ted Cruz — one based entirely on the fact that Denby, no beauty himself, finds Cruz physically unattractive. I’m not the
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