Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As I’ve noted before in this blog, John McWhorter is one of my favorite writers, especially when he tackles race issues. Indeed, I started reading and enjoying his books long before I realized that I was a conservative. When I first read his take on race issues, McWhorter was still
Continue readingThe Popal plea hearing is being continued so as to allow further psychiatric evaluations. He may indeed be crazy, and that would be an effective end to the newsworthiness of this tragedy (although it will continue to resonate forever for his victims and their families). I found interesting, though, local
Continue readingThe ambulance story matters because it’s the perfect example both of the dishonesty that permeated the Israeli/Hezbollah war reporting and, as Zombie demonstrates in her update to her original post, because the press assiduously keeps trying to spin the story rather than doing the decent thing and conceding that it
Continue readingI think this is a pretty cool story about codes and code breaking: German spies hid secret messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War Two, according to British security service files released on Monday. Nazi agents relayed sensitive
Continue readingI blogged myself into exhaustion yesterday keeping up with the development (or, should I say, degradation) of the Popal story, as it went from being about random terror, to an Islamic perpetrator, to a crazy guy. Today, believe it or not, I should be working, not blogging. I’ll therefore leave
Continue readingYesterday, I heard on NPR that at least one of the soldiers charged with murdering an Iraqi man will not be subject to the death penalty. It was an interesting story in that it talked about the evidence, or lack thereof. At the heart of the case is a body
Continue readingToday, we all know that the principle purpose behind journalism is pretty close to what it was at America’s inception — to spread rumors and bring down governments (something that becomes obvious when you read David McCullough’s biography about John Adams). Certainly, both of these are activities that the First
Continue readingMy Mom was quite the packrat. In addition to the Life magazine that I quoted from in the two previous posts (here and here), which was published at the end of the War, my Mom also saved the June 16, 1967 edition of Life magazine, which was written within days
Continue readingI’m still going through my 1967 Life magazine special edition about the 1967 war, and would like to highlight two more articles within the magazine, one about the refugee situation, one about Russia’s involvement in events. First, here, in its entirety, is Life’s, June 23, 1967 editorial, which is both
Continue readingWhen my mother was going through her stuff, she came upon a 1967 issue of Life magazine entitled “Israel’s Swift Victory.” It’s a 100 page special edition, so I won’t attempt to retype all of it here. I’ll just cherry-pick my way through those bits of coverage I found most
Continue readingGood news out of Anarchy-land: Two Fox journalists kidnapped by militants two weeks ago in Gaza have been released and appear to be in good health. Fox reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig were released shortly after noon Sunday and dropped off at the Beach Hotel in Gaza City,
Continue readingHere’s the headline: “Israelis kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza.” The picture that Yahoo News is currently showing with this headlined story is of an injured boy in a hospital bed with an elderly woman sitting next to him. Sort the whole thing out and this is what you get: the
Continue readingJust as the Soviet Union’s fingerprints were all over the local wars that were the testing areas for the Cold War, it’s becoming apparent that both the Soviet Union’s and Russia’s fingerprints are all over the Middle Eastern wars that the testing areas for World War IV (the War Against
Continue readingThe shame just keeps piling up as a credulous Western media, which is simultaneously intimidated by Arab thuggery and blinded by Arab tricks, abandons its responsibility to provide actual news in the Middle East. Joel Mowbray does an excellent job summarizing how the Western media is either frightened by, duped
Continue readingI’ve become very fond of David Denby’s movie reviews in the New Yorker, largely because he can’t resist letting his politics leak out all over the place. I’ve blogged before about his slobbering praise for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and his compulsion to use Garrison Keilor’s Prairie Home Companion
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