Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Before you start hammering away at me, let me explain what I mean about my claim that the sacrifice the SEALS and their rescuers made during Operation Red Wings was indeed a waste. I am referring, of course, to Jake Tapper’s asking Marcus Luttrell whether his comrades died in vain.
Continue readingTacitus (of the Romans): “They make a desert and call it peace.” Iran (on its dealings with Obama): “Our relationship w/ the world is based on Iranian nation’s interests. In #Geneva agreement world powers surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.” Barack Obama (on his dealings with Iranians): “What we want to
Continue readingA friend sent me to JewNews, which has the following Facebook poster. Pretty telling; pretty compelling: It’s a visual reminder of Golda Meir’s famous statement that “We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” Sometimes it seems as if the only
Continue readingI found incredibly amusing the Facebook post a very Progressive friend of mine wrote about her daughter. During her gap year (a break between high school and college), the daughter wanted to do the very Marin thing of going to work on an organic farm natural habitats in Africa. When
Continue readingWhen I was in law school, I applied for to myriad law firms for a job. I had good grades (and ultimately ended up with offers from prestigious law firms), but what remains in my memory forever is a rejection letter I got from one rather insignificant law firm: Dear
Continue readingIn September 2011, I wrote a post about the way teachers constantly present themselves as the hardest working, most underpaid people in America. I have a great deal of respect for teachers and, to the extent I deliver my kids to their care, I want them to be decent, knowledgeable,
Continue readingYesterday, I suggested that you get a good laugh by watching a slobberingly loving Obamacare rap. Today, I insist that you watch this powerful, hypnotic video about the manifest antisemitism that drives the “Boycott, Divest and Sanction” (or “BDS”) movement against Israel, the world’s only Jewish nation: And if you’re
Continue readingI’m tired of pussy-footing around calling Obama merely dishonest, stupid, feral, leftist, etc. Let’s call it like it is: the man is evil. Only an evil man would say this (emphasis mine): There are times where I as President of the United States am going to have different tactical perspectives
Continue readingI agree with every word in David Solway’s article about Obama’s continued efforts to destroy Israel. The one word I disagree with occurs in this paragraph: The speech [that Obama gave in Sderot in 2008, promising his support for Israel’s right to exist and defend herself] was a stirring one
Continue readingI’m still honest enough to give Nelson Mandela major kudos for electing not to turn South Africa into a racially-charged bloodbath when he became president. He could easily have chosen another tactic, and it speaks well of him that, for whatever reasons, he elected to go the way of peace
Continue readingI didn’t like Nelson Mandela’s communism, but in all other ways he was a truly admirable, dignified, and iconic figure, who stared down a tyrannical system, mouldered for decades in prison and, through the strength of his personality, ensured that South Africa transitioned fairly peacefully from an apartheid nation to
Continue readingBoth my children can sing, which is something of a surprise considering that my own caterwauling sends dogs running from the room. One of the little Bookworms performed at a choral concert just yesterday and, at the close of the concert, the choir sang “Let There Be Peace on Earth.”
Continue readingAlinsky rule No. 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Today’s news: Senior officials in the White House have said that Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “is desperate and weak,” in reaction to Netanyahu’s remonstrations against the deal struck with Iran over its nuclear weapons program.
Continue readingA “perfect storm” occurs when circumstances that normally operate independently from each other occur at the same time, with each heightening the other’s impact. Starting at sunset tonight, we are about to see the nexus of four circumstances that normally operate independent of each other, especially since two of those
Continue readingI’ve noticed something interesting. While serious thinkers are likening what John Kerry and Barack Obama did vis a vis Iran to Neville Chamberlain’s disastrous Munich Agreement, they’re not using the world “appeasement” as the dominant trope. (E.g., Charles Krauthammer and Bret Stephens.) They’re just saying that, in terms of giving
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