Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
David Denby is a New Yorker movie critic. He also fancies himself as a political commentator. To him, Hollywood is the real world, the template against which everything else is compared. Reading his reviews, it’s obvious that, like the yearning kid watching Fred & Ginger trip lightly across in the
Continue readingMy daughter went to our local library this weekend and brought home a bunch of the library’s recent acquisitions for teens. The inside jacket blurb describes them as fantasy or high school relationship books. My daughter said to me, “I don’t know why it is, Mom, but they all turn
Continue readingMy post title is somewhat misleading, because I actually don’t have an opinion about the artist Banksy. You can’t revisit what never existed. Up until about ten minutes ago, I didn’t care about him one way or the other, neither to like nor to dislike; nor to respect nor to
Continue readingThe vets descended on Washington. While there weren’t a million, there were a lot and they made their point. It’s another day where I’m not in control of my own time, so I can’t write about it, but others have. There’s a little overlap, but I think that link deserves
Continue readingFor at least a couple of hundred years in America, the “letters to the editor” section of any newspaper has been the one place where people can express views opposing a newspaper’s editorial content. Newspapers felt sufficiently strong in their viewpoints that they figured that a few crackpot letters wouldn’t
Continue readingWe tend to forget, but the big networks get to come to our TVs because they rent airwaves from the federal government. In other words, “we the People” are the landlords and the networks are the tenants. Do you think this video violates the lease? (Serious content warning — I’d
Continue readingI’ve posted this image before, but I think there’s a virtue to re posting it occasionally.
Continue readingEarl Aagaard caught something in the very first line of an AP report about the fact that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is about to be freed from prison. If Nakoula’s name doesn’t ring a bell, let me refresh your recollection. Nakoula posted on YouTube a short video that purported to be
Continue readingEarl Aagaard send me this wonderful image:
Continue readingWhat happened in Washington D.C. today (12 dead, apparently at the hands of a disgruntled employee) is desperately sad. I just want to ask two questions and comment on two things. First question: Was the shipyard a gun-free zone? And even if it wasn’t would it have mattered considering reports
Continue readingI haven’t seen CNN’s newly re-booted Crossfire, but Patrick Howley did. Howley does not think highly of Stephanie Cutter, who lied her way through Obama’s campaign and still land on her feet as a well-paid talking (or squawking) head on the “Obama mania media”. How much does Howley dislike Cutter?
Continue readingRich Lowry wrote a great article today about the Democrats’ enormous frustration with Ted Cruz: Cruz ought to be one of them, since he’s manifestly brilliant and hyper-educated . . . except that he refuses to be one of them. I especially liked this bit: Democrats and liberal pundits would
Continue readingThis post poses a very provocative, even inflammatory, question: “Is the mainstream media the spiritual heir of Charles Manson?” Will you be too surprised if I answer “yes”? Let’s start with Charles Manson. Manson had a goal: he envisioned a new world order, with himself and his followers as the
Continue readingConservatives attack a Democrat’s political ideas. Democrats, and their media lap-dogs, attack Conservatives. The attacks on Ted Cruz are, as could be anticipated, despicable. Exhibit A. Exhibit B. It’s entirely possible that Ted Cruz might not be presidential material. That rests on whether people like what he stands for and
Continue readingI wasn’t paying attention, but it seems that the New York Times now has a dedicated Hillary reporter, even though the elections is more than three years away. Does this mean that we can finally abandon the pretense of media impartiality? This far in advance, having that kind of round-the-clock,
Continue reading