Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
You all know Aesop’s class tale of the race between the tortoise and the hare: At the starting gate, the hare picks up so much speed that it soon vanishes completely, while the tortoise plods on behind. Within sight of the finish line, however, when the hare looks backwards and
Continue readingYesterday, I write a long post opining that the attacks against Obama because his friends would automatically trigger in liberals an urge to analogize the situation to the 1950s anti-Communist hearings, which would, of course, raise the “guilt by association” mantra. I also explained why, in Obama’s case, guilt by
Continue readingIf a store routinely cheats its customers, its customers begin to go elsewhere. If the district attorney gets wind of the cheating, a criminal prosecution can result. It’s only in the wonderful world of TV news, however, that lying and cheating seem to have very limited repercussions. People like you
Continue readingThe news story was the beating the Iranian thugs and terrorists took in Basra. But there was another type of thuggery going on, too, and Ralph Peters attacks it with a righteous zeal: LIKE many Americans, I get angry at biased “reporting” about Iraq and the spin from dishonest pundits.
Continue readingIn the old days — pre-internet — politicians were able to get away with a lot of lies. This wasn’t because they lied better than they do now. It was because it was more difficult to suss out the truth and, even if one was successful in doing so, it
Continue readingYes, yes — it really happened . . . in movieland. The Times raves about a movie in which a depressed white man is lifted from his funk by sharing his life with two illegal immigrants whose arrest (for being illegally here), lifts him out of his torpor and, in
Continue readingA couple of nights ago, I watched a Frontline show entitled Bad Voodoo’s War, which followed a platoon of National Guard soldiers who were deployed to Iraq at the beginning of the Surge in 2007. The show’s editor/producer did not go to war with the men. Instead, she gave them
Continue readingThe MSM is going after McCain, but the fact is that, the more they dribble out details about the man, the more I admire what I learn. Regardless of his sometimes flawed political instincts (that campaign financing thing, again), he is a very good human being, and an honorable one
Continue readingI was trolling through the internet this morning and came upon a New York Times article entitled “In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace.” Hmm, insults . . . . Are those things like “You’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny,” or “Those jeans make you look fat,”
Continue readingIn the Leftist world of moral equivalence, there is no right or wrong, there are just cycles, with everything being a meaningless tit-for-tat. In this world, you simply assign blame, not by conduct and intent, but by Leftist assigned “level of oppression.” HonestReporting has a good little video exposing the
Continue readingAs is the rest of the media, the Times is making much of the fact that 4,000 American troops have died during more than five years of war in Iraq. I won’t repeat here (or, at least, I won’t repeat at length) my oft-stated belief that, while each death is
Continue readingIf nothing else proves that most MSM journalists are hacks, it’s their inability to break free from the phrase “grim milestone” whenever they talk about a new reportable number of American deaths in Iraq. They’ve taken a phrase that should give a sense of tragedy and, instead, turned it into
Continue readingAlmost two weeks ago, the famed American playwright, David Mamet, pronounced his intellectual Declaration of Independence by writing in the Village Voice (quite a prominent liberal publication), that he’d had it with American liberalism, a political sea change he explained carefully and with verve. As did many in the conservative
Continue readingToday just hasn’t worked as a blogging day, what with one thing and another and another and another, ad infinitum (or do I mean ad nauseum?). I’m therefore going to take a page out Laer’s book, and just compile a whole bunch of posts into one big post. I’ll also
Continue readingThe AP is diving into damage control, assuring us that, not only is Pastor Wright just your ordinary black improvement activist, but his style of rhetoric is dying away anyway: As shocking as they may be, the provocative sermons of Barack Obama’s pastor come out of a tradition of using
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