Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Does the administration’s decision to arm the Libyan rebels remind you of anything? It does me. It reminds me of the Reagan administration’s decision to arm the rebels in Afghanistan. Back then, the rebels were not our enemy, and they were fighting a sworn enemy against whom we’d been engaged
Continue readingUnder George Bush, our troops were told that they were going to Iraq and Afghanistan to protect American interests. One can, of course, quibble with whether those wars have served American interests (which is not a quibble I want to have at this post). But the point I want to
Continue readingYears ago, in another life, I dated a man who had worked for Rolling Stone and personally knew Jann Wenner. (My ex-boyfriend claimed that a well-known Rolling Stone photographer was the one who introduced him to and got him hooked on cocaine. I have no idea if he was telling
Continue readingEd Morrissey has put together a very useful post summarizing various liberal media attempts to understand the Obama doctrine. Morrissey concludes at the end that, try as hard as one likes, “There really is no doctrine.” Morrissey is correct that there is no doctrine if one is looking for a
Continue readingOut in the wide world, every day is hate and boycott Israel. Among the sane people, Wednesday, March 30 is buy Israeli Day, when we make an effort to purchase Israeli products. If nothing else, get some Passover matzoh or some Ahava skin care products. Trader Joe’s is also always
Continue readingAs I said yesterday, part of my blog silence has been that I was very actively engaged in wrapping up my book for e-publishing. It’s been an amazing amount of work. Starting last August, I went back and reviewed all 6,500+ of my old posts. A lot of them are
Continue readingThe whole thing is good (of course), but I enjoyed this bit especially: “That’s why building this international coalition has been so important,” [Obama] said the other day. “It is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but
Continue readingActually, it’s not a new face at all — it goes back to Mohammed himself, and his paranoid, resentful rants when the Jews refused to accept him as a prophet. What makes it new is that, thanks to the modern age and the Leftist media, these messages, which used to
Continue readingThe world’s useful idiots never get it. Israel targets Palestinian soldiers, and is terribly troubled when she inadvertently kills the civilians amongst whom the fighters hide. The Palestinians deliberately target civilians, and try to kill the largest number possible. Today, they succeeded: A bus explosion in Jerusalem has caused dozens
Continue readingGlenn Reynolds has been enjoying himself pointing out the hypocrisy of many of those on the Left when it comes to Obama’s new war (“Watching the people who savaged Bush and called his supporters warmongers and so on now faced with watching the Lightbringer doing basically the same thing, only
Continue readingPoor Cassandra was cursed by the Gods with the gift of making accurate prophecies that no one would believe. The disasters she foresaw always came true, but she was helpless to stop people (and nations) from racing towards their doom. The endings were always so terrible — and Cassandra was
Continue readingMr. Bookworm, New York Times reader, was telling the children that there was a total catastrophe in Japan, with the Japanese and the world exposed to the possibility of massive radiation poisoning. I calmed the children’s fears by telling them that the paper could be right, but it could be
Continue readingThe earthquake/tsunami/potential nuclear meltdown in Japan is one of the great disasters to hit the Western world. It’s worth remembering, however, that the media is a visual engine that lives to convey disaster. This post is an excellent antidote to that media tendency, as it carefully explains why the world
Continue readingIf there is one defining characteristic of liberals, it is their sense that they are better than everyone else. Nowhere was that more explicitly illustrated than in Ron Schiller’s comments: In my personal opinion, liberals today might be more educated, fair and balanced than conservatives. Schiller wasn’t unique, just unguarded.
Continue readingIs our President a EUrolander wannabee? Yes. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard my fellow Americans spout utter nonsense about EUroland. Hey, they may have visited there and after visiting all the tourist spots and wining and dining in the best tourist restaurants afforded by American
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