Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I arrived in England months after Peter Sutcliffe, the terribly brutal “Yorkshire Ripper,” had been arrested. His last victim had been killed around the corner from the apartment in which I was to live for a year. Although I was happy and felt safe where I lived, only once did
Continue readingWhen I lived in England many, many moons ago, I met an English student who had spent the previous summer working, very, very hard, at the local zoo. The highlight of his work day was driving around the little kiddy train, and even that wasn’t much fun. He spent the
Continue readingIf you have a strong stomach, read this horrific report about two women in Iran who were convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning. This is entirely in keeping with the point I made in my article at AT that totalitarian states view sex, not as a private
Continue readingSeveral years ago, my family and I visited Pompeii, which is one of the most wondrous tourist destinations in the world. To maximize our experience, we hired a highly recommended guide who walked us over the grounds, explaining everything before us. This guide’s particular passion was plumbing. He had no
Continue readingPhibian, who is one one of my oldest blog friends, explains at Big Peace how the President’s entirely artificial time line for withdrawing from Afghanistan not only emboldens the Taliban (and makes a negotiated peace impossible), but also destroys all good efforts at future planning in that theater. If you
Continue readingFantastic article about the blackmailer’s paradox and Israel’s chronic negotiation failures in dealing with the surrounding Muslim/Arab nations. This feeds into the “for a nation filled with smart people, Israel sure acts dumb” paradox. Of course, when everyone hates you, so much so that they’re willing to warp the laws
Continue readingA moment in Hebron with the IDF. Please stick with the video to around the 50 second mark: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjsFExPOnM[/youtube] Hat tip: Sadie, who found it at The Muqata
Continue readingI spent yesterday at the Marin County Fair. It was, for the most part, a very pleasant experience and could have been any county fair, anywhere in America. The kids wanted to spend all their time on the midway, standing in long hot lines, spinning to the point of acute
Continue readingYou’ve probably noticed that I’ve had nothing to say about Kagan. There is nothing to say. She’s a bright, often charming, lady from the far Left who, entirely separate from her anti-Constitutional ideology, is grossly unqualified in terms of professional experience and intellectual heft to be a Supreme Court justice.
Continue readingMy (conservative) book club read Victor Davis Hanson’s A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. One of the points Hanson makes in the book is that Pericles embarked upon a new type of warfare: Periclean strategy . . . defined the new war
Continue readingStand With Us is an extraordinarily important organization. I cannot emphasize that enough. Its goal is to counter the calumnies that an unholy union of Leftists and Islamists spread against Israel, especially on college campuses. The Stand With Us founders realized something that American Jews and other friends of Israel
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Continue readingIn a market economy, the marketplace drives the availability of goods and services. If there’s a big demand, the market will create a big supply; if the demand dries up, so does supply, as the market sends its resources elsewhere. Supply and demand, however, have no place in government controlled
Continue readingIn 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive. We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked
Continue readingYou recognize that quotation, right? It’s one of Golda Meir’s most repeated sayings. However, if you’ve been paying attention to the blogosphere lately, you’ll see that the Palestinians, with a lot of help from the Jordanians, are still raising their children to be cannon fodder. Rick, at Brutally Honest, has
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