Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I may have mentioned that just about the only news I have access to on this trip is the New York Times. I have Internet, but it’s so expensive that I write things offline (such as emails to family or posts to the blog) and then sign on just long
Continue readingIt may be one of the most famous quotations in the English language: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an allegory about the Soviet Union. His point with that quotation was that all totalitarian states, no matter their original
Continue readingI don’t know ho useful the people in this video will prove to be, but I can assure you that they are idiots:
Continue readingI haven’t forgotten the collaborative post I put up after the election regarding the need for conservatives to create an alternate media challenging liberal paradigms. I was therefore delighted to see that the Kochs are thinking of buying up old Leftist media outlets and reconfiguring them as honest news outlets
Continue readingIn fits and starts, Bill Maher is creeping towards an understanding that the enemy isn’t America when it comes to terrorism. He’s unable to square the circle, though, because he’s so hung up on gun control. That is, he’s incapable of appreciating that the best way for Americans to depend
Continue readingStill working on coordinating my stiff, unresponsive brain this morning, so I have nothing interesting to say. I mean, my dog is perfect, and that’s always of interest to me, but it makes for very limited blog posts. Fortunately, as is always the case with the internet, even when my
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 readingAs was to be expected (and all of you predicted), the media is rushing to indict . . . America for having failed to give two Chechen immigrant brothers the love they needed. Because of this, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 years old, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 old, became disaffected losers longing to
Continue readingThe day the bombing took place, I looked at the MO and thought it more likely than not to be a Muslim attack. I stated: There are two ways Boston can go. It can be a liberal mugged by reality and get over its delusional belief that, if America will
Continue readingAs of this morning, the Washington Post earnestly tells us that, with one bomber in custody and one dead, we still have no idea why they did it. We know that they’re brothers and that they come from Chechnya, a region that’s been having unnamed troubles leading to terrorism. One
Continue readingI’m not 100% pro-Life. It’s hard for me to shake off the vestiges of spending 40 years in a pro-Choice world (the SF Bay Area) — and that’s despite the fact that I know that the pro-Life position is intellectually and morally the better position. I haven’t yet shaken a
Continue readingI’ve noticed that the mainstream media keeps calling Colorado moderate when it reports on the fact that a Democrat legislature and a Democrat governor are trying hard to up-end Coloradan’s Second Amendment rights. I haven’t paid much attention to Colorado over the years, but I can say this with certainty:
Continue readingYesterday, Rand Paul embarked upon a nearly 12-hour-long standing filibuster. The filibuster’s ostensible purpose and practical effect was to delay a vote on John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA. It’s real purpose, though, was to force Attorney General Eric Holder to answer a straightforward question: “Does the President have
Continue readingYesterday, regarding Bob Woodward’s openly stated claims that Obama’s White House bullied him and that Obama’s conduct amounts to madness, I made this prediction: Woodward is very much mistaken if he thinks the current generation of media types will support him in the long run, if he continues to
Continue readingObama is proving to be quite the chess player (especially because he’s got the media to help him cheat . . . er, play the game). Meanwhile, Republicans are still trying to figure out the intricacies of Chutes and Ladders. Obama is also showing his Chicago-political roots. Woodward, moving very
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