Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The BBC is worried because one of its reporters has gone missing in Gaza, and some groups have already stepped forward to claim that he’s been kidnapping. This bad news all around. First, I sincerely hope that the reporter is safe and has not been forced to convert. Second, this
Continue reading“Oh, my gosh,” I said to myself. “Reuters is actually writing an article about Islamic violence.” I mean, what else was I to think when I read this headline: Misery tempts Palestinian Christians to flee. After all, to the extent Christians are dying or being burned out of their homes,
Continue readingSomehow I can’t work up any sadness, only fear, when I read this bathetic New York Times article about the current crop of young Palestinians, many of whom are stone-cold killers. Perhaps it was the second paragraph that put me off, since it shows that the Times has bought completely
Continue readingAre you already acquainted with Neo-Neocon? If you are, you might not know that she has a new address, here (so update your blogroll). If you’re not, you’re in for a treat, because Neo has some of the most thoughtful, learned posts around. One of the things she tackles today,
Continue readingHere’s Lorie Byrd, who also blogs at Wizbang, on the disconnect between liberal myths in the media and the reality: In liberal fantasyland, George Bush is not only the “biggest terrorist in the world,” as Cindy Sheehan proclaims, but Bush and his administration are the only people who said Saddam
Continue readingFrom Jay Nordlinger: Reading about John Edwards and what he thinks Jesus would think of us, I remembered the rule. You know the rule, don’t you? You can talk about Jesus and religion all you want, if you’re a liberal Democrat. That’s cool. But if you’re a conservative Republican, you
Continue readingLet me open by saying that I know that the Hillary/Barack showdown is almost Hollywood perfect: she’s the constantly morphing, much hated, incredibly powerful and wealthy wife of a still loved ex-President; he’s the telegenic, deep voiced, wunderkind, with so little experience that he has no political dirt attached to
Continue readingThe mainstream American media is in trouble, big trouble. Whether in TV land or in print, the big outlets are seeing their market share dropping and dropping, to the point where it almost looks like free fall. Not only have people stopped watching and reading the news, reporters have dropped
Continue readingWe finally got around to watching something TV captured for us last week: a PBS program profiling the Marines. What was amazing about the show, considering the source, was how laudatory both Mr. Bookworm and I thought it was. It could not emphasize enough the rigors of training, the camaraderie,
Continue readingWhat’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. –William Shakespeare Have you ever noticed that, while conservative publications refer to the “Left” and the “Right,” and to “Liberals” and “Conservatives,” liberal publications never do? They refer to the “Right,” but
Continue readingAs you know, I agree with Ann Coulter, who considers Obama a singularly uninspiring orator. She thinks he’s given a pass because he’s black. I think he’s given a pass because, in our inarticulate age, he’s able to string sentences together (something, sadly, that President Bush can’t do). Take, for
Continue readingOne of the best ways to mask a bad argument is to conflate similar, yet entirely separate ideas, one of which is valid, one of which isn’t. Juggle these ideas around often enough and your reader will lose track of their separate identity and eventually give to both a status
Continue readingThe story of Dunkirk is an amazing one. In May 1940, about 250,000 British troops (as well as about 120,000 French troops) found themselves stranded there, victims of the spectacularly successful German Blitzkrieg. They had virtually no weapons, no organization and nowhere to go: the seemingly unstoppable Nazis were to
Continue readingRuth Wisse puts her fingers on Israel’s problem with the “paper of record”: The New York Times took notice yesterday of a pamphlet-sized essay posted on the website of the American Jewish Committee. Written by Alvin Rosenfeld of Indiana University and titled
Continue readingThe Houston Chronicle has a story about a Texas’ families outrage over the fact that the New York Times used a picture of their son dying on Haifa street to spice up a story: A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York
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