Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Barry Rubin thinks he knows. I would say “what a sad, pathetic little man,” except for the fact that his “sad, pathetic little man” is one of the richest people in the world, and is using his personal pathologies to destroy a nation and its people.
Continue readingThey come from differing religious and political perspectives, but they come together for this: indict Ahmadinejad.
Continue readingBookworm recently asked, “is Europe trying to save itself?” To that question, I can only offer anecdotal evidence from family and business visits made to France and Belgium this summer, shortly after the Greece-precipitated financial crisis. Europe (witness the EU) is an uber-bureacracy. For centuries, Europe’s forms of governance have
Continue readingThe British government has proposed stealth communism: all paychecks go to the government first, which then doles out to the wage earner whatever amount the government feels is the wage earner’s due. Think about it. As Pat Sajak wrote yesterday, withholding is bad enough, because it deprives the worker of
Continue readingI don’t have a link yet (it was tweeted), but it appears that the Swedes elected a center-right government. I see this as a good thing, although I haven’t lost sight of two facts: (1) Europe is so far Left that, as we know from England, even center-right is Left;
Continue readingJosé María Aznar. It’s not a name that meant much to me in the past, since Spain’s internal politics weren’t of overriding interesting to me. It’s a name that interests me a great deal now, because it is the name of a man of extraordinary integrity, of true righteousness. It
Continue readingIn Der Spiegel, of all places, one finds an article bemoaning, loudly and strongly, the profound mistake inherent in the Democrats’ Europeanization of America: The Obama administration and the Federal Reserve want to fix the United States economy by spending more money. But while that approach might work for Europe,
Continue readingEdith Piaf sang often about Paris. I don’t think she envisioned this.
Continue readingAges ago, I can’t remember when, I was hunting around to find out if it was true that the Obama administration is refusing to sell arms to Israel. The information on that was inconclusive, so I abandoned that whole topic. What’s conclusive now is that, for boasting rights, the Obama
Continue readingJust random stuff that’s so good you shouldn’t miss it: Shirley Sherrod’s been on a roller coaster. Thanks to a video snippet that Andrew Breitbart posted, she got pilloried as the face of Leftist/NAACP racial intolerance. When it turned out the snippet was out of context, she got sanctified as
Continue readingIf you ever hear about the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement (BDS), do not fall for the advertised claims that it is about peace. It is intended to destroy Israel and is actively hostile to any peace between the two peoples: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZLk6Ei9-U[/youtube] Please watch this video and, if you are a
Continue readingThe popular meme amongst the unholy cabal that is Islam and the Left is that Israel is a murderous genocidal regime that is currently using the blockade to impose unimaginable suffering on the Gazans. Fortunately, modern communications allow us to see the full extent of that “suffering” (h/t Sadie): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-okjIj8MSY[/youtube]
Continue readingAlthough it’s been open for more than a year now, I went for the first time today to the newly rebuilt California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. My visit there was an interesting contrast to my first visit, some years ago, to the newly rebuilt De Young Museum
Continue readingWhen Ronald Reagan took on the Soviet Union, which he did through the simple tactic of announcing that he was taking on the Soviet Union, conventional wisdom, on both sides of the aisle was horrified. How could he? After almost 40 years of Cold War, we’d reached a tenuous balance
Continue readingStandWithUs is circulating a petition directed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the United Nations, aimed at putting pressure on Hamas to free Gilad Shalit. Given that those organizations are all rabidly antisemitic and anti-Israel within their own four walls, I think it’s an excellent
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