Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I'm disgusted with the coverage of Al-Zarqawi's death, which focuses obsessively on how meaningless it is and how it will do little if nothing to make a difference in the President's war for oil. Oh, by the way, try telling that to the wildly celebrating Iraqis. The worst I heard
Continue readingI talked to a liberal friend today who was up in arms at the fact that, in California's Central Valley, Rep. Richard Pombo beat former congressman Paul Norton "Pete" McCloskey Jr. for the Republican nomination. He's evil, disgusting, he has a horrible record on the environment. How could they vote
Continue readingLast week (or was it two weeks ago?) a CBS reporter was seriously injured, and two of her crew were killed. This was a front page story for a couple of days. It was a real tragedy. Did you know, though, that there was someone else involved too? I didn't
Continue readingThe New York Times has come up with an editorial that contains a perfect bootstrapping argument, one that works off the premise it is supposed to prove. It's an almost impressive piece of dishonest rhetoric, whether or not one agrees with the sentiment expressed. The context for this amazing piece
Continue readingThis is a terrible tragedy: U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim,
Continue readingThis Memorial Day, the MSM, as usual, will focus vigorously on the ones who didn't make it, or who barely made it. I will say a prayer for them too, but, as does the WSJ, I'll also remember the ones who do make it, and who every day display their
Continue readingOne of the trends I've seen in the years I've been out in the workforce is the one that has employees do self-evaluations. You know the kind of thing: "My strengths are…. My weaknesses are…." I've never been a fan of this approach. I don't mean this an insult (although
Continue readingThe AP wrote a fairly comprehensive story about the latest Congressional scandal: Rep. William Jefferson, a New Orleans Democrat, took a $100,000 bribe from an informant and boasted about other acts of corruption, all of which was caught on videotape. We've seen this kind of story before about Republicans, and
Continue readingI bet someone — not someone famous, just someone — in your State, town, city or county died a violent death today, or yesterday, or the day before. I bet, too, that the death got local news coverage. But I'm pretty sure that, unless your local decedent lived in Israel
Continue readingI'm always careful to distinguish between censorship — which is government suppression of speech — and corporate decisions to suppress speech. The latter may be irritating, but it's not classic censorship. What gets me is businesses that pretend that they don't have biases or that they don't engage in censorship.
Continue readingHere's the Little Green Footballs story: The creepiest political ad ever made, for Ned Lamont, features Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga sneaking around and peeping through a window as Lamont gives a cut-and-run speech, then bursting into the room with a bunch of weirdly jacked-up progressive pals and grinning into
Continue readingI'm a little late to the party, but I'm finally reading Ann Coulter's wonderful 2002 book Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right. In it, in her wonderful snarky way, she exposes the media's relentless push to demonize conservatives — and, especially, to portray all conservative politicians as stupid.
Continue readingVasko Kohlmayer, who writes regularly for American Thinker, hits a home run with today's article explaining why liberals will never be able to match Rush on the radio. In it, he really nails the difference between the varying degrees of success the different political ideologies have in different formats: The
Continue readingThe West Wing, the now defunct NBC show, is the ne plus ultra illustration of how Democrats think the world should be run. Indeed, you can amuse yourself with a list of top Left Wing scenes culled from all of the show's episodes. Last night, though, I was struck by
Continue readingDoes it strike anyone as strange that the same paper that advocated Universal Health Care, which would have placed every bit of our most personal information in the Government's hands, is now shrieking about a computer program that impersonally scans millions of numbers — numbers that big business possesses in
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