Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I was meant to post this video because, just today, it came to me in three separate emails and Sadie linked to it in a comment. I knew some of these facts, but only a small portion. The sheer volume of charmingly presented information will amaze you: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbIQto3KPUM[/youtube]
Continue readingIsrael stopped a contingent of Hamas supporters who tried to run a blockade bringing money and supplies into Gaza. Cynthia McKinney figures prominently in their number: The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists – including a San Rafael woman – trying to break a blockade of Gaza
Continue readingI got this email from Steve Schippert: It’s graphic. There is no nuance. And it’s why I am done debating otherwise intelligent friends on the aptness, nay brilliance, of our president’s near silence in condemnation of the Iranian regime which today executed its own Tienanmen Square in central Tehran. http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2009/06/unimaginable-horror-in-tehran/
Continue readingRob Miller, who blogs at JoshuaPundit, thought that, because I support the protesters in the Iranian streets, I would disagree with his American Thinker article pointing out that much of what’s going on in Iran at the higher echelons is a sham: Are Mousavi and his followers in Iran an
Continue readingObama was so sure that his magisterial silence alone would bring peace to the streets of Tehran. He’s right, in that the mullah’s are summarily ending the protests, but it’s a peace that only Tacitus would recognize.
Continue readingI wish that those of us who worried last year about Obama’s hostility towards Israel had been wrong. It seems, however, that we were right — and it’s only going to get worse.
Continue readingRiffing off the news that Obama intends to go ahead with a July 4 barbecue for Iranians, even though his guests hands are soaked in blood, a very upset Max Boot has this to say: It’s bad enough that the president is deliberately refraining from being too outspoken in favor
Continue readingI got this from a fairly reliable source: If you’re on Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying
Continue readingWhen Polish dockworkers stood against the might of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan spoke immediately and loudly about absolute principles, such as freedom and the dignity of man: The Polish nation, speaking through Solidarity, has provided one of the brightest, bravest moments of modern history. The people of Poland are
Continue readingThe Anchoress has a swift, comprehensive analysis of the situation in Iran, along with an amazing collection of links (including one to yours truly). Check it out, since it is a pathway to Iran enlightenment. UPDATE: Andrea Shea King has another great round-up (again with a kind link to me),
Continue readingIn the email giving the heads up about this post, Steve Schippert had one word, which he practically yelled: “H.U.G.E.” As you may recall, early on in this Iranian thing, I wondered if the protest would coalesce around anything. Without a focus, it would just drift away. With a focus
Continue readingOne of the major problems conservatives face is the limitations of their own nature. We’re conservative after all. Our passion is putting our heads down and getting on with the work of life: earning a living, raising our families, serving our communities. We tend not to be protesters. Or more
Continue readingPeople of Iran: Traditionally, the president of the United States has been the spokesperson for the people of the United States — or, at least, for a majority of the people of the United States. For the first time in modern history, however, we have a president who appears incapable
Continue readingDuring the campaign, Biden warned that Obama would be tested in his first six months in office. We all assumed that Biden knew about a planned terrorist attack on the US. That could still happen, of course, although I devoutly hope it won’t. At exactly the five month mark, however,
Continue readingThings are not going well for Mr. Obama in Washington. (Please note the studied lack of an honorific in the way I am referring to the man in the White House. I don’t think he worked hard enough to earn it. The things we learn when we listen to our
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