Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
From American Thinker: The French will flex military their “military muscle” to shoot down Israeli observation jets. After years of ignoring Hezbollah preparations to terrorize Israel, after hiding a video that could have helped Israel find out what happened to soldiers murdered by Hezbollah in 2001 (the kidnappers used trucks
Continue readingBecause the comments section in my blog has seen a lot of activity about the Lancet report positing almost 700,000 Iraqi war dead in a few years, I thought it would be useful to direct your attention to the fact that an anti-War website, Iraq Body Count, has had the
Continue readingCan you parse this sentence? “Let me remove all doubt in anyone’s mind that there is no acceptance of any protection of a political future over the protection of children in the Congress of the United States.” I can’t. Nancy Pelosi used it in a speech the other day, and
Continue readingHere’s today’s Opinion Journal on Gerry Studds’ death, and it says everything I want about Democrats, Foley, Studds, PC reporting — you name it: Links and Studds “Former U.S. Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay person elected to Congress, died early Saturday at Boston Medical Center, several days after
Continue readingMy Dad told many war stories, most of which have stuck because they were so vivid. One story was about training he underwent during the Israeli War of Independence. For my Dad, this was a review class, since he’d spent five years in combat during World War II. The class
Continue readingIf you want to learn a little bit more about North Korea, which seems to have something at least approximating real nuclear bombs, check out all the information Laer has gathered on the subject. I’m still feeling green around the gills and emotionally horrible from reading it. This is a
Continue readingMark Steyn’s latest takes the Dem obsession with the Foley follies and broadens the focus so we understand that Dems are repeating a decades’ long pattern of playing in the bedroom so as to avoid the ugly world outside: Thomas Sowell says the question for this election is not whether
Continue readingWe Americans are very respectful of other people’s cultures. The old “ugly American” of 1950s stereotypes died on college campuses in the 1960s, to be replaced by the multiculturalist, PC American who would never dream of challenging the way in which another culture conducts itself. The most recent example of
Continue readingMore from the public school front. My daughter today told me that, during P.E., she got a special commendation for the fact that she didn’t care if she won at kickball or not. Apparently the modern notion of good sportsmanship is no sportsmanship at all. I went ballistic. I told
Continue readingWarren Harding was arguably one of the worst, most ineffectual, most corrupt Presidents in American history. Received wisdom was also that, with a huge influx of newly enfranchised women voters, he won 1920’s election because he was a pretty face. (Hard to imagine looking at that face now, but standards
Continue readingI am way too old to be drooling over pictures of gorgeous, ripped young men. However, when you have this kind of thing placed before your eyes, and you still have a few red corpuscles left, what the heck are you supposed to do? Add to that two more facts:
Continue readingYou’ll recall that, when I commented on the Reid scandal — and it is a scandal, because he used Government power for private profit and then hid that fact — I said the real story would be whether the MSM embraced the story. If it didn’t, I said, that would
Continue readingThe Germans have some interesting words that encompass deep philosopical ideas. The ones that spring easily to my mind are Weltanschauung (“a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it“); and Weltschmertz (“Sorrow or sadness over the present or future evils or woes of the
Continue readingOne could argue many reasons why the Republicans should lose Congress. I won’t agree with any of them, because no matter how weak or confused Republicans may be, I think Democrats leading today’s world would be a very, very dangerous thing. However, if the Republicans were to lose Congress because
Continue readingSteve Feldman, who hosts and produces “The ZOA Middle East Report”, gives us the back story on the beating Shoaib Chourdhury sustained when he attempted to be a pro-active moderate Muslim. (You can read more about Choudhury here.) You’ve often heard me (read me?) ask where the moderate Muslims are hiding,
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