Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A few things have crossed my radar this morning that I hope you’ll find as interesting as I did: Is Michelle Obama depressed? One of my friends thinks she is. That is, she thinks Michelle has moved beyond anger and arrogance and landed in sheer misery. She sent this link
Continue readingNever assume stupidity when malevolence can apply — words that aptly characterize the Obama administration’s approach to Israel. Evelyn Gordon takes a look at the new “proximity” talks between Israel and the Palestinians, talks that no one expects to yield any results. After all, the predicate is that the Obama
Continue readingFrom James Lewis’ must-read article today about the effect of Iran’s ICBM’s (which it has spread throughout the Middle East) and its future nuclear arsenal: Mahmoud Ahmadijenad is the aggressive chess player behind all these missiles surrounding Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Iranian strategy has been to move its missile assets
Continue readingWhenever it comes to mentioning presidential policy, this New York Times article about the collapse of AIDS care in Africa is studiously neutral. Read between the lines (and make it almost to the end of the article), though, and you’ll see the truth peek out: Bush, the quintessential “white man,”
Continue readingOne of the frustrating things about conversing with liberals is that, even as they’ll concede that socialism in Russia and China and Cuba and North Korea is not, or was not, a good thing, they’ve always got Europe to fall back upon. European socialism works, I am told. Europeans have
Continue readingIn 1931, Nancy Langhorne Astor’s son Robert Gould Shaw III was arrested for committing a homosexual act (in a park, I believe). This was a continuation of a long-standing British public policy of prosecuting “sodomists.” Arguably the most famous prosecution was that against Oscar Wilde, for public indecency. The trial,
Continue readingAm I suffering from historical amnesia, or is this the first time in American history that an administration has made a coup attempt against an ally? The administration of President Barack Obama has launched what officials termed a psychological warfare campaign meant to topple Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Sources
Continue readingIf you want to see what modern socialism looks like, look no further than Britain. I cannot urge you strongly enough to read this article. If it is the only thing you read this week, read this article. Because I read the British papers daily, I can attest to the
Continue readingIn his excellent post about the myriad flaws in the administration’s probable (and inchoate) containment plan for Iran, Max Boot makes a very important point, one I’ve somehow missed when reading others on the same subject. He argues that Leftist nostalgic for the realpolitik of the Cold War, which saw
Continue readingIsrael is beleaguered right now. If you want a good rundown, just read today’s Commentary Contentions posts, which cover everything from the ambush planned for Netanyahu, to the insanity of Obama’s nuclear plan (which hits Israel, which is not a nuclear treaty signatory, so it is a US target), to
Continue readingA lot of you read the same things I do, so maybe one of you knows where I can find an excellent opinion piece I read the other day urging the Obama administration to stop providing nuclear educations for Iranian engineers. Iran, after all, has committed itself to our imminent
Continue readingWe all know that Palestinians are victims, right? That’s why they get a free pass for eating up billions of dollars in foreign aid without establishing viable communities, for launching tens of thousands of missiles aimed at Israeli civilians, and for periodically boarding Israeli buses or entering Israeli restaurants to
Continue readingYou and I know the incredible peculiarities of the Leftist world, which sees feminists ignoring sharia’s worst outrages and gay activists who are out in full cry trying to establish a fully Muslim Middle East, a place in which the only good gay activist will be a dead gay activist.
Continue readingAs the Soviet Union showed, by the time medicine is fully nationalized, careers in medicine have been reduced to the lowest status level, somewhere around street cleaning. Learning medicine and practicing medicine (including nursing, pharmacy, technical jobs, etc.), is incredibly time-consuming and, in a society that still has the gloss
Continue readingUPDATE: Thanks to the amazing power of the internet, a reliable source has let me know that this is a rumor, pure and simple. No truth to it. I’m leaving this post here, however, just in case anyone follows up on it, so that there is no confusion about the
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