Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My friend Richard Baehr spotted this gem in a New York Times article announcing a new executive editor: Ms. Abramson, 57, said that as a born-and-raised New Yorker, she considered being named editor of The Times to be like “ascending to Valhalla.” “In my house growing up, The Times substituted
Continue readingThe Anchoress quite correctly identifies Palin’s bus trip as game-playing. Palin, having been harassed unmercifully by the MSM since she burst upon the national political scene, is finally having her nyah-nyah-nyah moment. She’s turned the tables and is now harassing the MSM, which is very satisfying. The Anchoress suspects that
Continue readingCNN just released its latest poll, showing climbing support for Obama. Ed Morrissey is suspicious, since it’s hard to reconcile the low poll numbers on specifics (economy, national security, etc.) with the high numbers for Obama himself. Suspicions, though, are all Ed’s got, because CNN has withheld demographic data. This
Continue readingI’ve often heard people use the expression “he saw the handwriting on the wall.” I wonder, though, how many know that it originates in the Book of Daniel, which is a part of the Old Testament. I’m reasonably sure that most of my readers are familiar with the story of
Continue readingI forget in which thread it arose, but someone tried to argue that Israelis were disappointed by Netanyahu’s performance, because the liberal media concluded they were. Barry Rubin challenges that line of thinking.
Continue readingLast night, after Andrew Breitbart had already left to catch his plane, a few of us hung around to chat and to try to answer one question: what was the takeaway from Breitbart’s talk? Eat their eyeballs? Women’s dominance in the Tea Party means that men are eunuchs? The fact
Continue readingBy now you’ve probably heard the uproar about Michelle’s decision to invite the rapper Lonnie Rashid Lynn, aka, “Common”, to the White House. The Daily Caller has an example of one of Common’s raps. I won’t sully my blog by quoting from it, although I can tell you that it
Continue readingMy husband insisted last night that we watch BHO’s 60 Minutes interview with Steve Kroft — and then promptly fell asleep because, as he later said, “that was really dull.” My husband was right. I managed to stay awake, but it was an effort. This was my takeaway from the
Continue readingJohn Hinderaker, in writing about the kvelling the media has engaged in regarding Obama’s “gutsiness” when he ordered the bin Laden hit, nails something — the shrieking reveals that, despite the media’s slavish devotion to the man, in their own (white, racist) minds, they’ve been holding him to the lowest
Continue readingIn the past week and a half, I’ve had a couple of vigorous go-arounds with Jesse Kornbluth regarding his sycophantic Andrew Sullivan article in the Harvard Rag, er, Mag. My take was that Kornbluth either carelessly missed or, worse, actually supported Sullivan’s shoddy journalism. Kornbluth, as you may recall, anointed
Continue readingJesse Kornbluth, whom I took to task for his Sullivan hagiography, has responded to my rebuttal to his defense of that same hagiography. True to my lawyer’s credo, I’m trying here to have the last word, although I certainly don’t mean to preempt Kornbluth from doing the same, if he
Continue readingI wrote a post taking Harvard grad Jesse Kornbluth (class of ’68) to task for his carelessly flattering portrayal of “journalist” and blogger Andrew Sullivan. It’s fine to like Sullivan, although I would question a person’s judgment in doing so. What bothered me was that Kornbluth failed to discover that
Continue readingOne of the hallmarks of the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Nazi Revolution (because, although the ballot was used in 1932, it was a revolution), the Hussein Iraq takeover (which was also a form of revolution), and other totalitarian takeovers is that the paranoid leadership style inherent in totalitarianism
Continue readingSpeaking of Harvard, I just got a gander at Harvard Magazine, which has a smugly grinning Andrew Sullivan on the cover, as the exemplar of “The New Media.” I thought the article would be about bloggers generally, but the table of contents tells me I’m wrong: “World’s Best Blogger?” it
Continue readingI’ve been a practicing lawyer for more than twenty years. My legal briefs are pretty much like my blog writing: I develop an argument, and support it with facts (or, in the case of a legal brief, legal cites) that are directly on point. Often, to show my honesty to
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