Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Thomas Lifson writes a remarkably sanguine article in which he posits that the recent fizzle-pop out of N. Korea was not a show of strength, but a last ditch effort to keep the N. Korean army in line: Any dictator who can allow a million or two of his 20 million countrymen
Continue readingIt’s nice when someone who understands medical journals and statistics has the same reaction you do to the ridiculous Lancet story that claimed 655,000 Iraqi war-related deaths in a mere two years. Medipundit puts it all in perspective: The researchers spent two months canvassing households in various regions of Iraq
Continue readingBack in the 1980s and early, early 1990s, when I was young and frivolous, I used to enjoy Vanity Fair, a magazine that allowed you to sneer at and envy the rich and famous, and that had eyeball popping ads. I thought Tina Brown was a good editor for Vanity
Continue readingKudos to the AP for revealing that Democratic Leader Harry Reid was involved in an unethical financial deal that netted him money most of us can only dream of. Here’s the beginning of the AP’s report: Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid collected a $1.1 million windfall on a Las Vegas
Continue readingIn October 2004, the once respectable British medical journal, The Lancet, published an article in which it vastly overestimated Iraqi war deaths. Those who contended then that the article’s timing was purposeful, and was intended to affect the American elections, were pooh-poohed. I’ll concede, for the sake of argument, that
Continue readingConsidering it manna from Heaven, the Dems have been beating the values drum in the wake of the Foley kerfuffle. They, not the Republicans, are the party of values, they assure us, especially when it comes to protecting children. Brent Bozell argues otherwise, and compellingly too. FacebookTweet
Continue readingMichael Medved writes about Paul Krugman’s gleeful belief that the Foley affair (or, poor Foley, non-affair), will cause the tenous relationship between economic Republicans and religious Republicans to implode. Not so fast, says Medved. Here’s just a little of his analysis and I, as a non-religious Republican, completely agree: For
Continue readingHere’s the start of an amazing story: The Justice Department has chosen this no-stoplight, courthouse town buried in the eastern Mississippi prairie for an unusual civil rights test: the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites. The action represents a sharp
Continue readingOn its face, it looks like an article in the New York Times that points out something we have figured out already; namely, that the Europeans have been nursing a viper to their bosom: Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the
Continue readingThis is a copy of an important CAMERA press release about a brave Muslim man who is being persecuted to death for taking a stand against Jihad: Letters and calls do matter; they can save a life. Even if you rarely write letters due to a busy schedule, we urge
Continue readingI’ve got work to do, but I wanted to get a thought off my chest (or out of my head). Many in the anti-War movement try to cut debate off at the knees by claiming that their opponents are slandering them by calling them unpatriotic. The notion is that to
Continue readingMark Steyn has written an about-to-be-released book: American Alone : The End of the World as We Know It. NRO runs him through some questions about the book and about his world view. Since it’s Mark Steyn, even the interview is interesting. A lot of what he says is familiar
Continue readingMy American Thinker article today was all about the fact that the Democrats are wilfully ignoring the dangers we face — and we cannot let the Foley follies blind us to the fact. I used over a thousands words and about fifty links to make that point. In a minute
Continue readingI was in San Francisco today on business, and chanced to glance at a new local paper, “The San Francisco Daily” — or at least I think that’s what it is called. Sadly, I didn’t take a copy home with me, because it had a story I can find anywhere
Continue readingNo, I’m not calling you, my readers, stupid. I’m riffing off of James Carville’s message to Bill Clinton during the 1992 elections, in order to keep him on message. Everywhere Clinton looked were signs saying “It’s the economy, stupid!” I’ve just updated that thought, and I’ve updated it with a
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