Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There are no good people or bad people. There are only people who have different cultural values. My deep and abiding respect for the multicultural principles underlying moral relativism demand that I accept as culturally reasonable the fact that terrorists in Iraq strapped a remote-controlled bomb to an eight year
Continue readingTwo stories from today’s British news: I Two young men pounced on a stranger on a London street, stabbed him, slit his throat, and ran off, leaving him to bleed to death on the street. That’s sad, but that’s not the news. This is the news: Britain’s most senior judge,
Continue readingIn an interview for Atlantic Monthly, Obama got hit with two direct questions about Israel, both requiring a yes or no answer. Obama couldn’t do that. Instead, he blathered on and on and on, leaving discerning viewers to parse his bloviating and conclude that, perhaps, he thinks that maybe Israel
Continue readingThe British press was rocked for a few minutes a couple of weeks ago by the story of an Iraqi girl whose father murdered her quite brutally because she’d fallen in love with a British soldier. (There was no hint, by the way, that she’d done anything about the love;
Continue readingWhen I lived in England, the mail arrived twice a day, six days a week. (Maybe only once on Saturdays; I can’t remember.) Within town, you could mail something in the morning, and know that it would arrive at its destination in the evening. It put the American postal service
Continue readingWhile the ordinary English resident freely ignores the fact that his every move is being monitored by CCTV, so that crime remains unaffected by the government’s watchful eye, police are hard at work treating as hardcore criminals people who drop apple cores — an unsavory, untidy act, perhaps, but not
Continue readingMona Charen has a short, lucid column that nice exposes the myth that Jews were a minority in the Promised Land who deliberately and brutally exiled the majority Arab population. (What’s interesting is how those same people exercised about the mythical Arab expulsions from Jewish land never seem particularly perturbed
Continue readingThere is a belief that the “mutually assured destruction” deterrence that worked during the Cold War will work in Iran. Hillary certainly believes it, which is why she promised that, if Iran hits Israel with a nuclear bomb during her presidency, she will hit Iran with a nuclear bomb. She
Continue readingI am a huge Georgette Heyer fan. I consider her one of the most amusing, sophisticated novel writers ever, and think it’s a shame that she got labeled as a pure romance writer, a genre that puts her in the “I browse that section wearing sunglasses and a scarf” category
Continue readingOn the occasion of her 60th birthday, Bret Stephens, writing in the WSJ, has written one of the best, pithiest articles I’ve seen about the continued attacks on Israel’s existence, about the illogic of those attacks, and about the reality behind her conduct — a reality utterly at odds with
Continue readingIn Britain, it’s impossible to go anywhere without being spied upon. England has spend billions of pounds setting up the densest CCTV (close circuit TV) network in the world. Or perhaps I should say in the semi-free world, because I’d go odds that North Korea has a pretty good CCTV
Continue readingWe received in yesterday’s mail a warning (a very nice warning) that my 5th grader is struggling with geometry. As a former geometry struggler myself, I’m all sympathy. We did not get mad at her. What is infuriating, though, is her absolutely unwillingness to learn geometry. After 1.5 years in
Continue readingThe New York Times periodically pops up with articles in which its perplexed employees report that the incarceration rate in the US is up but, for reasons they cannot fathom, crime is down. Life is so difficult if you’re absolutely certain that “A” and “B” can’t possibly be related or,
Continue readingOne of the Democratic selling points — and it was certainly one that Monsieur John Kerry tried to hit hard — is that American conservatism is out of step with Europe, and that Democrats, with their advanced European attitudes, will help us be friends again with the rest of the
Continue readingLongtime readers know that one of my favorite book series is C.S. Lewis’ Narnia series. In the Narnia series, my favorite book has come to be The Last Battle — which is the Biblical end of the world, Narnia style. Within that book, my favorite scenes take place after the
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