Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Mexico’s Leftists took a page out of the post-election Democratic guidebook — protest, deny, accuse and whine — and ended with the same result: the candidate who was declared the victor will, in fact, win: Mexico’s electoral court will name ruling party conservative Felipe Calderon president-elect on Tuesday, rejecting claims
Continue readingI’ve never really focused too much on the concept of the Bush Doctrine — President Bush’s spoken pronouncements about his foreign policy goals in a post-9/11 world — instead focusing on what Bush has actually done. I therefore seemed to have missed the fact that the Middle Left is crowing
Continue readingThis is London calling, and it’s not a place you want to go. First, from Melanie Phillips, we get a view into how the media, especially the British media, reported the war (hat tip: Crossing the Rubicon): In short, much of the most incendiary media coverage of this war seems
Continue readingRadical Islamists in England sought to blow up at least ten transatlantic flights. Britain’s so-called “moderate” Muslims did not condemn this manifest act of terror. Instead, they sought to be capitalize on it, in order to advance the same Muslim agenda the terrorists wanted to impose through mass murder: Islamists
Continue readingHere’s a bit of good news: An ambitious military sweep appears to be dramatically reducing Baghdad’s homicide rate, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday — even as violence nationwide killed at least 80 people, including six U.S. soldiers in and around the capital. Last month, the Baghdad morgue received more
Continue readingMy Mom was quite the packrat. In addition to the Life magazine that I quoted from in the two previous posts (here and here), which was published at the end of the War, my Mom also saved the June 16, 1967 edition of Life magazine, which was written within days
Continue readingI’m still going through my 1967 Life magazine special edition about the 1967 war, and would like to highlight two more articles within the magazine, one about the refugee situation, one about Russia’s involvement in events. First, here, in its entirety, is Life’s, June 23, 1967 editorial, which is both
Continue readingWhen my mother was going through her stuff, she came upon a 1967 issue of Life magazine entitled “Israel’s Swift Victory.” It’s a 100 page special edition, so I won’t attempt to retype all of it here. I’ll just cherry-pick my way through those bits of coverage I found most
Continue readingHere’s the headline: “Israelis kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza.” The picture that Yahoo News is currently showing with this headlined story is of an injured boy in a hospital bed with an elderly woman sitting next to him. Sort the whole thing out and this is what you get: the
Continue readingJust as the Soviet Union’s fingerprints were all over the local wars that were the testing areas for the Cold War, it’s becoming apparent that both the Soviet Union’s and Russia’s fingerprints are all over the Middle Eastern wars that the testing areas for World War IV (the War Against
Continue readingThere’s been so much talk about and anger towards Israel because of the wall Israel built in an effort to protect her citizens from suicide bombings. Only occasionally, though, does one hear that Egypt also built a wall — and the Palestinians are as determined to do away with the
Continue readingGil Troy writes an enormously uplifting article about Israel’s victory, both in Lebanon and at home. I won’t summarize. You should read it yourself.
Continue readingHis language is a bit more colorful than mine, but Ron Down Under complete nails the fact that the UN buffer is illusory (something already being demonstrated by the fact that no UN member states want to put their troops there), as well as the dangerous dilemma facing the Arab
Continue readingI mentioned before that I watched The Long Way Home, a documentary about the Jewish experience in the years between the liberation of the camps and the founding of the State of Israel. One of the things that movie reminded me about was the similarities between the tactics Jewish militants
Continue readingThe meme has been that Israel lost. Hezbollah still exists, Israel had to cede control of her fight to the UN (blech), and so on and so on. However, winning or losing is often described in terms of what the parties to the engagement sought to achieve. Hezbollah sought to
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