Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When I was first in France, in 1982, Israel had just invaded Southern Lebanon. Already then, Parisian citizens made their views on the subject known, since grafitti on every surface flowered with vile, anti-Semitic threats and descriptions. Surprisingly, I didn’t see that type of grafitti this time around, perhaps because
Continue readingSomething interesting happened in England the other day, and I’m not quite sure what to make either of the original incident, or of what I learned based on the incident. Let me begin at my beginning. I was scanning The Telegraph, when a story about a ballerina at the center
Continue readingMy own empirical observations have led me to conclude that, in America, those who are most PC are also those who are most likely to be Europhiles. That is, the political left loves Europe. (John Kerry would be Exhibit A in this category.) That’s why I was surprised to see
Continue readingI’m one of those who didn’t agree with the ISG’s conclusions, especially those that suggested making Israel the sacrificial animal in hopes of placating the ravening Islamic hordes. I’m wondering, though, whether the ISG didn’t end up having its uses. This is so because its recommendations opened up an abyss,
Continue readingThe Muslim Brotherhood dreams of bringing shari’a law to America. It’s occasionally useful to remember what that would mean for Americans on a daily basis: Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the
Continue readingIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looks to have been thwarted from keeping his ultra-conservative allies in control of key offices despite efforts to “cook the books” in weekend elections, the State Department said. The elections for municipal councils and a powerful religious assembly saw Ahmadinejad loyalists suffer setbacks at the hands
Continue readingIt seems as if every year we read about a few dozen people getting trampled in Mecca during the Hajj, the giant pilgrimage to that shrine. James Lewis, writing at American Thinker, speculates that this year, with tens of thousands of Iranians heading for Mecca, many of them trained Iranian
Continue readingOne of the things Jimmy Carter has accused the Israelis of is despoiling Palestinian lands. All may not be as it seems. I got a tip that some Palestinians are trashing their own lands, in the hopes of receiving compensation from the Israeli government and of maligning the settlers. It’s
Continue readingMore news about the troops Kerry and Rangel casually insult. Again and again we learn that the same people Kerry and Rangel, safe in their offices, think are lazy slackers are, in fact, the best type of people: Private First Class Ross A. McGinnis packed only 136 pounds into his
Continue readingI’ve been following with a certain detached interest the Holocaust (or, rather, anti-Holocaust) convention that Ahmadinejad has convened in Iran. Certainly, I recognize the virulent anti-Semitism that drives it. Along with other people who are well-informed humanists, I view with repugnance the fact that Reuters, casually disregarding David Duke’s white
Continue readingI have a deadline that’s going to keep me hopping for a couple of hours, but I’ll share with you two things I learned this weekend. First, I learned that, in my very blue neighborhood, there are surprisingly large numbers of gun owners, wannabee gun owners, and hunters. Who knew?
Continue readingSomething weird’s going on regarding a story that, as first reported, had secret meetings between Hamas and the Democrats. The weirdness is both about the reporting and about the implications of the Democratic conduct. Here’s what I know. The first I heard of the story was at LGF: Are officials
Continue readingI don’t think Charles Johnson, at LGF, is Jewish, but that fact doesn’t prevent him from being Israel’s staunch supporter. I think he is, not so much because he’s in love with Israel (and no one asks him to be), but because he recognizes that (a) Israel is the only
Continue readingI think for many of us, England is one of the old world countries inextricably entwined with images of Christmas. When I think of England, I think of Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol; of the Christmas tree, which the Germanic British royals elevated from a quaint German custom into a
Continue readingIsrael has usually, although not always, been adept in the battlefield. She’s been a total failure in the media. However, for the first time, I’m seeing signs that she’s fighting back: Israel’s military, which has been accused of abuses in its war against Hezbollah this summer, has declassified photographs, video
Continue reading