Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve been reading the New York Times’ movie reviews for decades now. I don’t know if they were always so politicized and laden with PC instruction, and I just didn’t notice, or if they’ve gotten more and more liberally pedantic with the passage of time. I do know, though, that
Continue readingIf you’ve been thinking that I haven’t been blogging very vigorously the last couple of days, you’re right. I’ve had a big work project, that started out grim and got rather interesting, and I’ve been getting ready for a trip. I’ll probably blog during the trip, so I’m not signing
Continue readingI used to admire the BBC. It’s role during WWII was stellar. In the 1960s, it brought us Monty Python and other cutting edge, very silly comedies. In the 1970s, it began making a series of marvelous historic dramas, many of which still represent the finest viewing TV has offered.
Continue readingYou all remember Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, don’t you? It is a book so good that even high school and college English classes can’t spoil the pleasure of reading it. If you haven’t read it, or no longer remember it despite having read it, let me refresh
Continue readingI don’t need to tell you how about Islamism (that is, extreme Islam aimed at reinstating Sharia law worldwide), nor how dreadful I think it is. I also don’t need to tell you how I admire Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Nor do I need to tell you that many in the
Continue readingI’d never heard of ABC’s Terry Moran but, aside from now having learned that he’s a co-anchor on Nightline, I figured he must be someone, because they’ve given him his own blog page. (Wooo-ey!) The powers that be at ABC might have done him more of a favor if they
Continue readingIgnatius Insight Scoop explains why you don’t want to go to The New Yorker for a reasoned critique of the Pope. (Hat tip: Paragraph Farmer.) Then, just to round things out, CDR Salamander offers a video explaining what the Pope actually said last Fall that excited so much Muslim outrage,
Continue readingIt’s hard to believe it’s been 23 years since Ghostbusters came out. I’ve always liked that movie, particularly the seen where Bill Murray’s character is trying to convince New York’s mayor that he’s got a problem on his hands: Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical
Continue readingThe MSM loves human interest stories about profoundly damaged military personnel returning from Iraq; or stories about the families left behind when a member of the armed forces was killed in Iraq. (Today’s NY Times story is but one example of many.) I fully appreciate that pathos and bathos sell,
Continue readingI like Jonah Goldberg’s take on ABC’s deafening silence in the face of Rosie’s rantings: Granted, The View isn’t 60 Minutes, so why should we care that much if the girl talk gets a little silly? After all, Walters has spent much of her career muddying the distinction between entertainment
Continue readingI write here often about what I perceive to be Leftist bias in the American media. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the same Leftist bias permeates the Israeli media as well. Nevertheless, I found it deeply saddening to know that, for the past 20 years, this bias has
Continue readingThe title of this post describes how I felt when I read this fawning article in the SF Chronicle about Bore’s appearance on Capitol Hill, especially since its ultimate paragraphs have Babs Boxer practically eulogizing Bore without his having to go through the bother of dying first. This is not
Continue readingWhat do you get when you put a deep and wide fund of knowledge, a logical mind, and a profound intellect into the service of a single article? You get Richard Baehr’s article at The American Thinker entitled “The War in American against Israel (part one).” Unsurprisingly, Mr. Baehr does
Continue readingAn Israeli is shot at and wounded, and the Palestinian coalition is “embarrassed” that it managed, once again, almost instantly to breach a cease fire. Guess which gets the headline? (And you’re right if you bypassed that poor Israeli man.) Somehow this strikes me as different from those endless stories
Continue readingDoes anyone pay attention any more when one of the fluffy dames in network television has a cozy, non-confrontational fireside chat with a megalomaniac?
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