Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Looking for something to read this morning? I highly recommend Ed Driscoll’s neat little review of William McGowan’s Gray Lady Down: What the Decline and Fall of the New York Times Means for America. And after you’ve read Ed, you should probably get a copy of McGowan’s book. By the
Continue readingI never liked Jean-Luc Godard movies. I go to movies to be entertained, not bored. He failed my simple test. Aside from being (in my mind) a boring film maker, it turns out that he is, as well, a deep, blatant, vicious antisemite. Of course, if you’re a New York
Continue readingSince the Delaware media outlet that took Christine O’Donnell’s commercial (and, presumably, the payment for that commercial) somehow managed to “forget” to air it — twice — it’s up to “we, the citizen media” to air that ad for her. If you have an outlet (email, a blog, facebook, myspace,
Continue readingSome CBS affiliated reporters got together to figure out how to sabotage Joe Miller in the last days before Alaska’s election. Being horribly mean and vicious, though, doesn’t mean that one doesn’t make mistakes. After all, feral intelligence isn’t a complete intelligence. Here the mistake was that, somehow, the reports
Continue readingMy husband has, for years, castigated me for refusing to listening to Cat Stevens’ music. He makes two points, the first of which is valid, the second of which is not. First, he says, the music predates Stevens’ conversion. If I hear it on the radio, Stevens isn’t getting any
Continue readingWhen I left law school, a switch tripped in my brain. Whereas before I’d listened only to top twenty music, I suddenly got bored with music and switched to news. But not just any news. NPR news. Whenever I was in the car, I had my radio tuned to my
Continue readingIt turns out that Iowahawk isn’t the only gifted satirist in the conservative community. Zombie’s got the goods on O’Donnell (satirically, of course).
Continue readingThomas Friedman has a habit of making obvious statements in grandiose and portentous tones, only to ruin his credibility by following his astute grasp of the obvious with utterly fatuous and meaningless conclusions, bolstered by totalitarian-themed practical recommendations. His latest column is a perfect example. In the first paragraph, Friedman
Continue readingJuan Williams breached PC, group-think protocol by giving voice to a personal feeling, which is the fear of Muslims on airplanes. This is not an irrational fear. While the percentage of Muslims who will be threats on airplanes is small, the percentage of mass murderers who board airplanes and happen
Continue readingIf you haven’t already, please read Steve Schippert’s guest post on this blog about the animating anti-American forces driving WikiLeaks. If you don’t have time to click on over, here’s the money quote: Wikileaks is a small cabal of people who, in their own site description, “Publishes and comments on
Continue readingOne of my favorite lines in Gone With The Wind occurs when Scarlett, realizing that her unreasonable conduct started a chain of events that ultimately caused her husband’s death, falls into a fit of drunken, maudlin remorse. Confronted with a weeping, apologetic Scarlett, Rhett speaks these immortal words: “”You’re like
Continue reading[Despite being about the pompous and boring Tom Friedman, this is not an appropriate post for the under-18 crowd.] I don’t think that there’s any doubt BUT that Tom Friedman is an idiot. His worship for Communist China — which in typical Friedman fashion routinely takes the form of acknowledging
Continue readingI managed to get as far as writing a nasty letter to NPR about the Juan Williams firing, because my day self-destructed, and my blogging hopes ended. Fortunately, many of my blog friends have been very busy, so let me pass them on to you. You know, without my having
Continue readingTwo of my absolute favorite political writers, Peter Wehner and Jennifer Rubin, have chastised O’Donnell for her recently reported constitutional error. I think that, perhaps, they’re being unfair. It’s clear from reading the news reports that the Constitutional portion of the debate was intended to be a pile-up on O’Donnell:
Continue readingDon’t listen to what Chris Coons says, pay attention to what he does, and to the people who support the fruits of his labors. And if you’re a voter in Delaware, remember that the media has a vested interest in doing anything possible to destroy a Republican candidate with a
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