Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
At the Augean Stables, Richard Landes has posted a brilliant essay about the role the fake Mohammad Al-Durah video played as a catalyst for unleashing the worst modern anti-Semitism around the world, and about the fact that both the video’s creation and its effect are microcosms of the poisonous alchemy
Continue readingThe movement is afoot — despite Pelosi’s claim that impeachment is not on the agenda, the rank and file is beginning to call for Bush’s impeachment (posts about this trend are here and here). It’s easy enough to lay the blame on Bush Derangement Syndrome, but I think the problem
Continue readingThe San Francisco Chronicle uses the occasion of Jean-Claude La Marre’s new movie, “The Color of the Cross,” to reexamine the way in which Jesus’ race is shown in Western iconography. The movie is a good starting point for this discussion, because it has as its central character a black
Continue readingJames Q. Wilson carefully explains that the MSM is no longer reporting the news, but is actively attempting to shape events — in this case, it is working assiduously to ensure that the US backs out of this war, precisely the same way it backed out of Vietnam. His article
Continue readingThe internet is an amazing thing. Within one day, that hilarious National Guard photo rebuking Kerry was everywhere. It deservedly got all that attention, but how about a little attention for some other things too? American Thinker points to a story from Investor’s Business Daily explaining that Nancy Pelosi, who
Continue readingThere’s nothing wrong with a newspaper being partisan. There is something wrong, though, with a partisan newspaper pretending that it has no ideological bias. Now that the New York Times has refused to endorse any Republicans in the upcoming election — a first in more than 30 years — do
Continue readingBarack Obama, bright though he may be, strikes me as nothing more than a media creation. Patrick thinks so too.
Continue readingIn a lengthy article about increasingly aggressive rioting in the Paris suburbs, the AP manages only reference to “Muslim” and that with an oblique reference to France’s failure to give Muslim’s economic opportunities. The article carefully refrains from identifying by religion the current crop of gun-wielding, bus-burning “youths.” If you
Continue readingNews reports facts (in theory). Editorials expound upon opinions. Tell me if this opening paragraph if from a news story or an editorial: The divisive debate over gay marriage, which played a prominent role in 2004 campaigns but this year largely faded from view, erupted anew on Thursday as President
Continue readingIf you have time, read Michael Fumento’s entire article about Iraq War correspondents who opine about events all over Iraq, but seldom leave the comfort of their Baghdad hotel rooms. If you don’t have time, you’ll still get the point from this single paragraph: Vietnam was the first war to
Continue readingI like movies about characters who grow and reform. That’s why one would have thought it a no-brainer that I would like 2004’s Maria Full of Grace, which we finally got the other day, via Netflix. After all, the critics raved about its main character achieving the “grace” of the
Continue readingSpeaking of Popal, the Fremont, California Muslim man who ran down every pedestrian in sight, remember how quick everyone, including the mayor of San Francisco, was to reassure us that there was no evidence this was a religiously-motivated hate crime (never mind that the fellow went 40 miles out of his
Continue readingI found intriguing a Reuters story entitled “Imams in Denmark seek to cool cartoon row.” Based on that headline, I thought it would be a story in which thoughtful Imams, looking at the anarchy abyss their followers created during the cartoon riots, stepped back from the precipice, and urged their
Continue readingYou’ll recall that, when I commented on the Reid scandal — and it is a scandal, because he used Government power for private profit and then hid that fact — I said the real story would be whether the MSM embraced the story. If it didn’t, I said, that would
Continue readingIt’s nice when someone who understands medical journals and statistics has the same reaction you do to the ridiculous Lancet story that claimed 655,000 Iraqi war-related deaths in a mere two years. Medipundit puts it all in perspective: The researchers spent two months canvassing households in various regions of Iraq
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