Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The media is back to trying to sex the President up. Despite three and a half years of governing ranging from inept, to embarrassing, to Bush-era replays, the President has been anything but cool. With another election coming up, however, the President’s friends in the media are doing whatever they
Continue readingFor the MSM, the George Zimmerman thing has turned out to be a bust. With the exception of the fact that Trayvon Martin is still dead, everything the MSM first reported about the case has proven to be untrue. Right about now, you’d think that the media would be engaged
Continue reading“Facts are stubborn things.” I love that quotation. John Adams said it back in 1774 when he took on the unpopular job of defending the British troops charged with the killings in the event now known as the Boston Massacre. Arguing off those same stubborn facts, Adams was able to
Continue readingFunnily enough, the MSM isn’t picking up on this story, the one that provides proof (proof that can easily be replicated) that the Obama campaign machine is set up to encourage completely fraudulent campaign donations. The same proof exercise shows that the Republican candidates have set up their donations to
Continue readingThe Science Channel’s Alien Encounters is a two-part pseudo-documentary that interweaves footage of real scientists and novelists talking about possible alien encounters, with faux footage of the world dealing with an actual alien encounter. Alien Encounters has gotten decent press from the usual suspects. I disagree. As a science show,
Continue readingThe caste system to which I refer in my post title is not the shrieks and threats arising from the media’s trial, judgment, and conviction of George Zimmerman. Instead, I’m talking about the way in which the media and establishment have different expectations depending whether Muslims are accused of killing
Continue readingSequestered here on the Left Coast I hadn’t paid any attention to the Trayvon Martin murder. Today, though, it forced itself into the forefront of my brain. As the media spins the story, it’s a horrific case of a very wholesome, very young black man cruelly executed in a “safe,”
Continue readingOver the weekend, I got a link to a story about Malia Obama heading off to Mexico for vacation with 12 friends and 25 Secret Service agents. The story is newsworthy because it implicates taxpayer concerns: Malia is going to a nation that the State Department warns is dangerous, and
Continue readingI always love it when Leftist idiocy highlights some sort of life lesson I just imparted to young people. Today’s life lesson is that fairness should be a reasonably objective standard, rather than one that, as Bill Maher would have it, depends on whether you, personally, are benefiting from the
Continue readingOn a regular basis, the New York Times launches an attack against the military. Or more accurately, against the men and women (especially the men) who serve in the military. We get stories about their high drug abuse rates, high crime rates, high insanity rates, and high suicide rates. Usually,
Continue readingWith a few stellar exceptions, the best way to tell a story is in chronological order. This is because, in the real world, cause and effect matter. I suspect that the AP knows this is true, which is why they had their latest report from the Middle East start with
Continue readingZombie has another superb photo essay, this one about the OWS protest of Shimon Peres’ San Francisco visit. If you haven’t already checked it out, please do. My favorite part is the bit with the San Francisco motorcycle cop. You go, guy! Please remember when you read Zombie that Zombie
Continue readingOne of the weaknesses in my abilities as a blogger is that I have very little patience for television, especially the talking heads on MSM television. To me, they’re all Max Headroom: My philosophy is that life is too short to spend time in Max Headroom’s company. My mistake, though,
Continue readingGrowing up, I never could understand why Vietnam Vets were all insane, while the vets of my father’s generation — WWII and the Korean War — were not. My parents, good people who subscribed to Time, Newsweek, and the San Francisco Chronicle — explained to me that it was undoubtedly
Continue reading“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Several friends have forwarded a story to me: Obama may have had a little campaign help back in 2008 from the Russians. Right now, for the vast majority of Americans,
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