Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Taliban has hit Marin County (indirectly). Marin County is headquarters for Roots of Peace, an admirable charity that seeks to advance agricultural development in poverty-stricken areas. It has an outpost in Afghanistan, where it seeks to enable the Afghani people to feed themselves. The Taliban can’t have that kind
Continue readingThe past hundred years have seen two worldwide ideological wars: The Cold War and the current war between the West and Islam, which Norm Podhoretz calls World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism. In both of these wars, the world has been a battle ground between opposing forces, one
Continue readingPalestinians smear their fallen enemies’ blood on their hands, dangle bodies outside of windows, and have candy-strewn parades celebrating the bloodshed when their enemies fall into their hands. Israelis teach their enemies to walk again. (I apologize for the long commercial before the video, but you may want to wait
Continue readingAs I was driving home from the swimming pool today, I heard that Russia’s representative was refusing to accede to John Kerry’s request that the Russians sit down for face-to-face negotiations with the Ukrainians. My first thought was that the report was way too polite. Kerry’s not requesting, he’s begging.
Continue readingIn the post immediately below, I wrote about the fact that Obama in this past week seems to have abandoned reality regarding Ukraine and the Middle East and opted, instead, for a fact-free fantasy. This chart summarizes some of what he’s missing:
Continue readingMano a mano, I’d bet on Netanyahu against Obama every time. Nation to nation, though, Bibi has the misfortune to be facing off against a spoiled, Leftist, anti-Israel, pot-smoking adolescent who nevertheless controls the world’s greatest military and economic power. I’m still betting on the Israelis, but it’s not a
Continue readingI’ve read so many excellent articles about the Ukraine, I wanted to pass them along: Every time a Leftist media rag has a momentary epiphany that Obama isn’t the messiah, all I can think is “Too little too late.” Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean that those epiphanies don’t make a point.
Continue readingBreaking news: The Obama State Department is blaming the Russian invasion of the Ukraine on this obscure YouTube video: (I’m very proud of my wonderful brother-in-law for coming up with this one.)
Continue readingSometimes things are so perfectly timed, you know that they were meant to be. Such is the case with three things that crossed my radar yesterday when I finally got a chance to spend a few hours at my computer. The first is a wonderful image from Michal: The second
Continue readingSPOILER ALERT!!! I’m going to be discussing last night’s episode of Downton Abbey. If you haven’t seen it yet, and are still planning on watching it, STOP READING RIGHT NOW. * * * * Okay. Are those of you still with me okay with a spoiler? Good. Let’s get going
Continue readingThe American media won’t touch Benghazi with a ten foot pole, since there is no way that either Hillary or Obama come out of it looking good. The Europeans, however, are not so squeamish. (Hat tip: Snoopy the Goon, a fellow Watcher’s Council member who blogs out of Israel at
Continue readingAlmost 140 years ago, Lewis Carroll created Humpty Dumpty, a malevolent, controlling, arrogant figure who maintained power in his relationship with Alice (of Wonderland fame) by denying her the ability either to speak her mind or to understand his. Whatever she said, he quarreled with her word choice, and whatever
Continue readingWhen I was at UC Berkeley, I had two good professors from whom I actually learned something. One of them was Sheldon Rothblatt, who then taught a class covering England from the Industrial Revolution to the dawn of World War I. He was a delightful teacher, able to infuse life
Continue readingFrom American Thinker: I called a hardheaded realist, a Harvard trained PhD who has been watching the Middle East professionally for decades, to ask him about Obama’s Iran deal. This is what he told me. It’s done. Iran will get a bomb. They want a bomb and they will not
Continue readingObama doesn’t like the Jews and the Jews don’t trust Obama. From the “Jews don’t trust Obama” file comes Jonathan Tobin’s excellent analysis, which ends with this compelling paragraph: The United States seems to be retreating from the Middle East, a position that frightens many Arabs as well as the
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