Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I told my friend Don Quixote about the way in which liberals were boasting that the crowds at One Union exceeded those at Restoring Honor, despite the fact that the pictorial evidence showed the opposite to be true. Don Quixote, a lifelong conservative, responded by asking “Do liberals really believe
Continue readingOver at Michelle Malkin’s site, Doug Powers reports that the New York Times is trying to dig up dirt on Boehner — specifically, sexual dirt. In a post entitled “Had An Affair With John Boehner? Please Call 1-866-NYT-DEMS,” Powers links to a New York Post story that has the Times
Continue readingTo appreciate how the headline gave me the information I needed, you have to be familiar with Sherlock Holme’s concept of “the dog that didn’t bark.” In other words, sometimes the absence of evidence is all the evidence you need. In this case, the AP headline was a lean, mean
Continue readingI admit it — I didn’t read the whole thing, because the obscene relativism permeating Nicholas Kristof’s first couple of paragraphs so disgusted me, my brain shut down. Anyway, because of fair use concerns, I don’t want to quote more than the first two paragraphs, which more than adequately make
Continue readingCalif. State Sen. Roderick Wright was indicted on eight felony counts related directly to his term in office. If I tell you that this allegedly corrupt politician’s party affiliation wasn’t mentioned until eight paragraphs into the AP article reporting on that same indictment, does that give you an adequate hint
Continue readingI was much struck by how earnest and concerned Meredith Vieira was when she interviewed Ines Sainz about the sexual harassment the latter allegedly experienced in the New York Jets locker room: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Vieira wasn’t quite so restrained last
Continue readingCool, very cool: TV for conservatives, and it’s not Fox. Not that there’s anything wrong with Fox, of course (although I’m not excited about the Saudi ownership). But we shouldn’t have just one conservative media outlet, ranged against the rest of TV, not to mention Hollywood. I’m also feeling smug,
Continue readingOne of the dominant PC d0ctrines is that you’re not allowed to dislike people based upon race, religion, creed, country of national original, sexuality, gender, etc. This is one step beyond federal law, which merely says that you cannot discriminate against people on those grounds. I heartily agree with the
Continue readingDuring a moment of procrastination, I checked out the Telegraph, which is the British newspaper least unfriendly to Israel — which isn’t saying much. Given its lack of the usual British venom, I was therefore a little taken-aback by the ambiguity displayed in its headline about the cruel murder Hamas
Continue reading[UPDATE III, bumped: The Weekly Standard says that a religious tone was the underpinning for the whole event (and I’m sure I’ll hear about that from Mr. Bookworm). I will therefore give the Post and Times a full pass for emphasizing religion, although they would have done better to mention
Continue readingSomething weird happened at the BBC, which apparently did an honest journalistic investigation into the Jihadist Flotilla aimed at Israel earlier this year. Trend or anomaly? Only time will tell.
Continue readingYou’ve probably seen the headlines saying that Alabama Rep. Bobby Wright “joked” that Pelosi might get sick and die before he’s called upon to vote for her next year as the House leader. I think that the “joke” is in exceptionally bad taste, but that’s not the issue. What makes
Continue readingJust random stuff that’s so good you shouldn’t miss it: Shirley Sherrod’s been on a roller coaster. Thanks to a video snippet that Andrew Breitbart posted, she got pilloried as the face of Leftist/NAACP racial intolerance. When it turned out the snippet was out of context, she got sanctified as
Continue readingIf you ever hear about the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement (BDS), do not fall for the advertised claims that it is about peace. It is intended to destroy Israel and is actively hostile to any peace between the two peoples: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZLk6Ei9-U[/youtube] Please watch this video and, if you are a
Continue readingI was thinking of headlines to rival the one I saw this morning: Landmark vote opens door to Ground Zero mosque For true parallelism, you can’t have as the new occupier the same person or entity that caused the deaths at the site. Instead, you have to have the fellow-travelers,
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