Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
While Bush haters rant on about conspiracy theories in which people who dared to cross him vanished forever (despite a complete lack of any evidence, direct or inferential), we continue to get real world examples of horrible dictatorships in which daring to criticize the government results in punishment or even
Continue readingBurt Prelutsky today, in a longer column about Obama’s political failings, launches into a blistering attack against US aid to Africa: Speaking of Africa, when are we going to wean the dark continent? Are we ever going to get over this nutty notion that we have an obligation to keep
Continue readingJ. R. Dunn has a wonderful antidote to political despair. I have some optimistic predictions of my own: I think the current gas crisis, coupled with the holes being punctured into Global Warming, and China’s status as No. 1 C02 polluter, will create a popular ground swell that will force
Continue readingThe title of my post was a fatuous, smarmy expression during its heyday in the 1960s. With the UN “peacekeepers,” though, it’s taken on a whole, horrible new meaning: Sexual abuse of children as young as six by aid workers and United Nations peacekeepers has continued unchecked despite repeated promises
Continue readingI haven’t quite gathered my thoughts, but I found this an amazing story on so many levels: Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts By CELIA W. DUGGER Published: December 2, 2007 LILONGWE, Malawi — Malawi hovered for years at the brink of famine. After a disastrous corn harvest in
Continue readingDespite the fact that we live in a vaccine age, Britain is facing an outbreak of measles, a disease can cause life long damage to its victims: Parents were urged today to give their children the MMR jab before they returned to school after figures showed measles cases have more
Continue readingAll the early reports of the riots at Paris’ Gare de Nord train station — and most of the subsequent ones, as well — have referred to those ubiquitous “youths” as the troublemakers. (And if you’ve ever seen the movie “My Cousin Vinny,” every time you hear the word “youths,”
Continue readingSoccer Dad ruminates about the different ways in which at least one Ethiopian and all Palestinians handle the tools of war.
Continue readingMy blog title is an exaggeration. The hardline Islamists in Nigeria who are denying children polio vaccinations are not planning on creating a worldwide polio epidemic, or even a pan-African epidemic. They are just operating on a paranoid, anti-Western intellectual model that doesn’t have a problem with sacrificing children to
Continue readingThe popular image of the peacekeepers who travel to troubled regions is of a legion of selfless Mother Theresas, putting aside the comforts of their First World lives to aid those most in need. And that image may well be true for the greater number of them. Unfortunately, one of
Continue readingI don't have any conclusions to draw, or insights to offer. I'll just offer, in no particular order, a short laundry list of some of the horrors visited upon so much of the African Continent. The Ethiopian famines The slaughters in Sudan Idi Amin Robert Mugabe The Civil War in
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