Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Wag The Dog was a clever black comedy about a president hiring a Hollywood producer to trick the public into believing there was a war in Albania in order to distract the public from a sex scandal right before an election. The movie came out in 1997, and became forever
Continue readingTwo news reports today that offer a problem and a solution. Story 1: Michelle Obama has vanished from the scene during the shutdown. Without her ginormous staff, and without TV cameras aimed at her, she’s idle and useless. Story 2: Michelle Obama’s White House garden is going to rack and
Continue readingThe White House was apparently worried that Valerie Jarrett wasn’t getting the love she deserved, so it prepared a memo preparatory to Jarrett’s New York Times profile in 2012. just to make sure that everyone at the Times fully understood that, unlike Mary Poppins, Jarrett isn’t just practically perfect in every
Continue readingThis morning, I linked to a very clever post that Bad Catholic put up, chastising the Obama administration for doing a sleight-of-hand, completely fake “compromise” regarding its demand that religious organizations fund birth control, sterilization and abortifacients. At the end of the post, Bad Catholic invites readers to sign a
Continue readingI received something peculiar in my email yesterday: A few things to note: 1. The email informs me that someone left a comment on “bookwormroom.wordpress.com,” a blog that has lain dormant for four years. 2. The Author’s name is an obvious nom de cyber — Trimegistus. 3. The Author leaves
Continue readingMay I quote myself, writing about the beautiful and moving Battle of Midway Commemoration in San Francisco last year? The event was a formal one, which is much more beautiful than a civilian black tie affair. The women, of course, presented a familiar and pleasing picture. They had on lovely
Continue readingI didn’t even have to read Dick Morris’ article to know that I liked it. Here’s the tag for the article at Front Page Magazine: “Only gutless Republicans could turn the U.S. Attorney firings into a budding constitutional crisis.” Well, yeah. The Democrats scream bloody murder over the political equivalent
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