Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I know this is going to surprise those of you used to my usual output of posts, but I’m suffering from writer’s block. The last few weeks have been so chaotic, my opportunities to write so random and infrequent, and the news of the world so overwhelming that, now that
Continue readingMove over Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Rand Paul, and all the rest of you Republican contenders for the 2016 presidential election. There’s a new kid in town:
Continue readingThis is it — the ultimate round-up, consisting of more than 20 links that I’ve collected over the past couple of days and wanted to share with you. Nothing works better at squeezing a nice long blog post than a series of legal pleadings I really don’t want to write.
Continue readingA temporary diminution in my overwhelming work load has finally given me a window to blow about Ted Cruz’s candidacy. Briefly, I’m for it. Obama has taught us that, in today’s world, it’s not experience that matters, it is indeed being a standard-bearer for an overarching ideology. Americans have now had six,
Continue readingIn 2013, Ted Cruz was the only one who wholeheartedly, bravely, boldly, took a stand against Obamacare. The GOP was appalled. I, of course, am appalled by the GOP — quislings, all of them. Today, Ted Cruz announced that he’s running for President: I’m running for President and I hope
Continue readingAt George Washington University, a toxic combination of identity politics and ignorance:
Continue reading[UPDATE: Because I have some of the smartest readers in the world (and yes, maybe I’m a little biased), may I strongly recommend that you read not just my post, but their comments, which raise objections and suggestions.] Last night, I got to hear Trevor Loudon, the New Zealander who
Continue readingMy son, who is taking a general science class, explained to me why I’m aging. “Mom,” he said. “Your cells keep reproducing over and over again, but they’re like a bad photocopy of the original. You see, the original was good, but if you make a photocopy of that, the
Continue readingCPAC brought to the front the ideological war Ted Cruz, a committed Tea Party conservative, and Rand Paul, a libertarian conservative, are waging against each other. I think both have many virtues and serve the constitution very well in Congress. Indeed, I thought Ted Cruz did a good thing when
Continue readingCan you imagine how different American history would have been if Edward Kennedy had read The Art of Manliness blog and learned how to escape from a sinking car? There’s a very good chance that, without a negligent homicide in his past, he might have been president. After all, in
Continue readingAs is too often the case, Republicans are busy snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Despite the fact that the Obamacare debacle has been playing out before Americans’ eyes for more than three weeks, the RNC has done absolutely nothing to capitalize on the fact. Jonah Goldberg suggests at
Continue readingThe two top names currently being bandied about for the Democrat presidential slate in 2016 are Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. Democrats are saying that Hillary is “inevitable.” I recall them saying the same thing in 2008, and that was before she had the Benghazi albatross hanging about her neck.
Continue readingYesterday I directed your attention to one of the angriest editorial opinions I’ve ever seen in the normally temperate Wall Street Journal. What I missed was that Daniel Henninger, who’s also a normally temperate writer, also leveled a huge mortar round of ugly facts against our President: We should admit
Continue readingRich Lowry wrote a great article today about the Democrats’ enormous frustration with Ted Cruz: Cruz ought to be one of them, since he’s manifestly brilliant and hyper-educated . . . except that he refuses to be one of them. I especially liked this bit: Democrats and liberal pundits would
Continue readingSometimes distance provides perspective. My travels meant that, rather than being enveloped by news as I usually am, I read it only intermittently, and often through the New York Times’ filter, since that was the only news to which I had access for many days at a time. The few
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