Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I have written often at this blog about the wise words a friend of mine told me more than a decade ago. I can no longer remember his precise words, but I can summarize them: Islam’s problem with the West, he said, boils down to sex. Muslim men are terrified
Continue readingI do believe that one of the funniest things ever shown on TV is the episode of Fawlty Towers (a show that ran from 1975-1979) in which Basil Fawlty welcomes four German guests to his seaside hotel. He’s told not to mention the war, lest he offend the Germans, but he
Continue readingMy 9th grader asked for help today with a required reading about Mexico. Before helping with this assignment, I’d never heard of Brown University’s Choices Program. Having seen just a bit of its “lesson” on Mexico, I’ll be on the lookout for it. In just a few pages, it pretty
Continue readingEarl Aagaard caught something in the very first line of an AP report about the fact that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is about to be freed from prison. If Nakoula’s name doesn’t ring a bell, let me refresh your recollection. Nakoula posted on YouTube a short video that purported to be
Continue readingOf course, this superb video will not put to rest the slander against Israel, because the slanderers are entirely unconcerned with truth. Nevertheless, for those who may still have open minds, this is an interesting and instructive video comparing faux apartheid Israel to real apartheid South Africa:
Continue readingDarryl Issa has tweeted out one of the most appalling photographs I’ve ever seen emerge from the United States House of Representatives. Today the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. You remember what happened on that day, don’t you?
Continue readingIf you’re a true believer, it’s very hard to admit that your idol has feet of clay. For some, it may be impossible. Andrew Sullivan currently falls into the latter category. He has written an almost pathetic post assuring his followers that Obama cleverly baited a trap for Putin and
Continue readingMark Steyn looks at what was going on in Obama’s brain‘ when he drew the “red line” and at the fall out from that moment: Charles Crawford, Britain’s former ambassador in Serbia and Poland, called last Monday “the worst day for U.S. and wider Western diplomacy since records began.” Obama
Continue readingSome people are gracious winners. Russian President Vladimir Putin is not one of those people. After humiliating President Obama before the world when he pulled Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire regarding Syria (a move, incidentally, that turned a leader of a third-world nuclear nation into a Middle Eastern power
Continue readingI am indebted to Jose for the perfect solution to Obama’s moral dilemma regarding dead children in Syria: Obama says he wants to protect Syrian children. He should just pretend they are fetuses. I liked that so much, I made a poster:
Continue readingPeggy Noonan, who can be very good, talks about how Obama got us into this mess and the contortions in which he engage to save face. Peter Wehner talks about just how bad this mess really is, even with Putin having given Obama an out. A Politico article about the
Continue readingYmarsakar nailed our brave new world so perfectly, I have to share: It’s a strange world when it is the Russians seeking peace and weapons control, and the US is the evil empire bombing civilians to dust for fun and giggles.
Continue readingIn case you hadn’t already seen them, I wanted to bring to your attention two excellent articles about Obama’s Syria implosion and the untenable position in which he’s placed America. The first is from my friend Thomas Lifson, writing at American Thinker: Why Obama Is Floundering. The second is from
Continue readingYesterday, I asked if the military will follow Obama’s Syria orders. In both public comments and private emails, the answer to that question has been a unanimous “yes.” Our military is under civilian control and, if the American people elect an idiot, our military is still under civilian control. So
Continue readingHere’s my take on Syria: While it’s utterly tragic that 1,400 people got gassed, and while gas is a heinous weapon of warfare, especially when loosed against civilian populations, the true weapon of mass destruction in Syria is the combatants: Muslims from different tribes and with opposing takes on Islam
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