Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It was like a battle scene in an old Hollywood movie, when Americans still knew in their arts that American soldiers are ordinary Americans — good people — only braver and more honorable: Fighting raged at two remote U.S. outpostsnear the Pakistan border this weekend, that left eight U.S. soldiers
Continue readingPaul Krugman is shocked! shocked! (albeit not surprised) that Republicans are exhibiting a certain amount of Schadenfreude when it comes to the rebuff the IOC delivered to Barack Obama: So what did we learn from this moment? For one thing, we learned that the modern conservative movement, which dominates the
Continue readingI’ve been thinking a lot about responses to my post regarding the gal who is running for town council, the one who donated to Obama, and who nevertheless seems to be a fiscal conservative. I asked how she can live with the cognitive dissonance. Several of you pointed out, in
Continue readingWe conservatives have tended to be “go along to get along” people. If the media says someone is crazy, we back off, ’cause we don’t want to scare ordinary Americans. Mark Steyn usefully reminds us that the media isn’t “ordinary Americans” and that media goals are antithetical to conservative success:
Continue readingIn this world of instant messages, communications, and news coverage, where nothing held back from the viewer and where the phrase “The public has the right to know” is seen as some sort of sacred trust, we have profaned our selves and our society to the god of success. When
Continue readingI have a bunch of open tabs on my monitor, so I’m just going to jumble all of the stuff here, in one post: On Obama, the UN, and the World: I noted yesterday that Obama seems to have a huge problem with the more democratic nations in the world,
Continue readingThe media repeatedly assures us that there is no question — and cannot be any question — about climate change. That particular bit of science is settled, with all the data collected, a position the media holds to strenuously despite significant amounts of data that contradict the claim that humans
Continue readingI like Kristin Chenoweth and I suffer from migraines, so this story caught my eye. And then the bad grammar in the second paragraph made my eyes roll: Meghan Prophet says Chenoweth felt a migraine coming on after winning an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a comedy series and
Continue readingAt Big Government today, Evan Coyne Maloney, another of the young conservative guns who uses modern media techniques to bring down Democratic dinosaurs, asks how it is that the media completely missed the ACORN scandal. Maloney thinks that political correctness created the blinders media figures wore. To the extent that
Continue readingOmri Ceren, who blogs at Mere Rhetoric, is a member of the Watcher of Weasels Council. He is as good a blogger as one can get, and someone with a real gift for ferreting out the truth behind the story. So it was no surprise that Omri, using what he
Continue readingHere was the story in today’s paper: Religious fanatic held in Aeromexico hijacking An Islamic religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City Wednesday, police said. All passengers and the crew were released unharmed. The Koran-carrying hijacker used a juice
Continue readingThanks to Sadie for putting me on to the latest Obama/media stunt, this time the conscious decision to mimic a famous series of en famille JFK pictures in the oval office. I guess when your numbers are tanking, imitating a dead president is one way to try to shore yourself
Continue readingHollywood and the media establishment as a whole are inescapable parts of American and, indeed, world culture. It’s fascinating, therefore, to think about the type of patriotism our American media now espouses and that which it embraced in the past. Depending on how one defines patriotism, whether as love of
Continue readingTell me honestly that this video wouldn’t have been the butt of a thousand MSM jokes and video replays if it showed either George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Dan Quayle, Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, or any other Republican White House occupant doing precisely the same thing: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZNc2imBgU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] I am,
Continue readingMy friend Zhombre was at the bookstore perusing the shelves when he came across a Penguin Press book entitled “The Inaugural Address, 2009.” That’s well and good. I’m sure there are some in America who want to clutch this banal speech as tightly to their chest as Chinese citizens were
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