Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I really shouldn’t pick on Tom Friedman. If he was the average idiot holding forth in a bar or living room, I probably wouldn’t. But this average idiot has a forum — the New York Times — that gives him license to spread his stupidity to a much wider audience
Continue readingI struggled for a few minutes to find a clever title for this post that would convey the volume of information I’m about to download from my brain, but realized I couldn’t. A laundry list description will just have to do. You see, last night, I had the pleasure of
Continue readingThis past summer, I blogged about the fact that the Marin YMCA had created a brand new country called East Jerusalem. That was foolish but, in terms of reach, relatively innocuous. The Marin County Fair, while well attended, is not quite big enough to change the way people think. But
Continue readingYes, you read that post caption correctly. British Liberal Democrat Jenny Tonge, in a speech in the House of Lords, claims that terrorism around the world is Israel’s fault, because Israel treats the Palestinian’s badly: On the issue of world conflict prevention, Tonge then said: “It is a disgrace to
Continue readingI mentioned in passing how revolting I thought it was that Obama bashed Israel from a podium set up in a Muslim country. Andrew McCarthy expands on just how bad the president’s choice of forum was.
Continue readingJudo, which I don’t do, is a beautiful martial art predicated on using your opponent’s own momentum against him. Gabriel Latner, a 19 year old Canadian, has proven himself to be a master of intellectual judo. You can read here the overall context within which he exercised his intellectual martial
Continue readingI’m not the only one who found Obama’s Muslim venue a disturbing place from which to launch an oral attack against Israel. Jonathan Tobin notes the venue too, as well as the fact that Obama, after having gone quiet for a while when his previous mad Mideast adventures failed, has
Continue readingApropos my apparent fascism, one neocon, an former Communist, and also an Italian Jew, suggests that supporting Israel may be enough to earn that appellation from the Left. (H/t Soccer Dad) Speaking of Soccer Dad, at his blog we have another reminder that Ataturk‘s western nation is vanishing, to be
Continue readingWhen I left law school, a switch tripped in my brain. Whereas before I’d listened only to top twenty music, I suddenly got bored with music and switched to news. But not just any news. NPR news. Whenever I was in the car, I had my radio tuned to my
Continue reading[Despite being about the pompous and boring Tom Friedman, this is not an appropriate post for the under-18 crowd.] I don’t think that there’s any doubt BUT that Tom Friedman is an idiot. His worship for Communist China — which in typical Friedman fashion routinely takes the form of acknowledging
Continue readingJust two posts I really wanted to bring to your attention, written by two bloggers whose intelligence and good sense I admire: First, Elizabeth Scalia (the Anchoress), with a lovely, polite savagery, gives NOW the pounding it deserves. Second, Bruce Kesler reports on a speech that Barry Rubin gave (Rubin
Continue readingBarry Rubin thinks he knows. I would say “what a sad, pathetic little man,” except for the fact that his “sad, pathetic little man” is one of the richest people in the world, and is using his personal pathologies to destroy a nation and its people.
Continue readingJosé María Aznar. It’s not a name that meant much to me in the past, since Spain’s internal politics weren’t of overriding interesting to me. It’s a name that interests me a great deal now, because it is the name of a man of extraordinary integrity, of true righteousness. It
Continue readingAges ago, I can’t remember when, I was hunting around to find out if it was true that the Obama administration is refusing to sell arms to Israel. The information on that was inconclusive, so I abandoned that whole topic. What’s conclusive now is that, for boasting rights, the Obama
Continue readingJust random stuff that’s so good you shouldn’t miss it: Shirley Sherrod’s been on a roller coaster. Thanks to a video snippet that Andrew Breitbart posted, she got pilloried as the face of Leftist/NAACP racial intolerance. When it turned out the snippet was out of context, she got sanctified as
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