Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Bush has shown remarkable courage in sticking to his guns in the war. However, his actions are not matched by his words. He’s too polite, too worried, to well-counseled, too restrained for whatever reason to call things as they are. John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister, is not so constrained, as
Continue readingAnn Coulter nails the real game playing and hypocrisy behind the Foley scandal, and it goes far beyond one warped man’s abuse of his own power. I’ll say again: I’m not excusing Foley. I’m just saying that this scandal is about politics and not about his conduct. And to the
Continue readingI think it’s time for me to explain why, after a life as a Democrat, I’ve turned my back so vehemently on my former party, and why I reject the word “liberal,” even though I once embraced it, and still hold to the classic ideas for which is stands. However,
Continue readingThe phrase “habeas corpus” is being thrown around with abandon, both in the press and on my blog. It’s useful to understand what it means, and how the Courts and Congress have treated the doctrine over the past 225 years, especially with regard to enemy detainees. That’s why you should
Continue readingSleazy Foley’s IMs may have been, but underage shenanigans don’t seem to have been the problem: the page who was involved in the much publicized IMs was 18 at the time Foley played his little IM games. UPDATE: Oh, dear! It turns out that the first of the IMs went
Continue readingRepublicans have been big spenders. They’ve been weak on social security issues and immigration. They’re disorganized. They’re beset by scandals. We should definitely throw the bums out — except that doing so may end up with our cutting off our noses to spite our faces. Quin Hillyer argues convincingly that,
Continue readingConsidering that it is a manic polemic, I’m not surprised that Studio 60 is not doing well in the ratings. FacebookTweet
Continue readingThis is one smart family (and apparently, this year at least, America is one smart country): American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins. The
Continue readingEuropean feminist activists are apparently terribly upset that the European Court of Justice had the temerity to hold that it’s okay to pay people more for more time spent on the job, even if that affects women who take time off for children. The IWF, of course, has a good
Continue readingThe Captain says that the earth itself just reminded us of yet another horrible Nazi practice: euthanizing those Aryans whom the Nazis deemed physically or mentally unfit to live. In a Western Germany town, relying on sixty years of rumors, authorities dug up a mass grave that included skeletons of
Continue readingDid you ever think that, if we mandated a five mile per hour speed limit, there probably would no longer be fatal car accidents? I think that would be true, but the American economy would collapse along the way? And I bet that, if we required people to eat only
Continue readingDaveed Gartenstein-Ross and Nels Peterson write about Harvard’s newest effort to affect legal debate: the Harvard Law & Policy Review. Here’s how they summarize it: According to the letter, the new journal “will be a forum through which many esteemed legal scholars, advocates and policymakers will rigorously engage and discuss
Continue readingThe other day, I asked if I was unreasonable to find it inappropriate for a curriculum-driven teacher to take classroom time to go hiking. It occurred to me after asking the question that, in relying on my child’s take on events, I could be doing the teacher a disservice. The
Continue readingSince I’ve been griping so much lately about education, I had a good laugh when a friend sent me this joke: The Evolution of Math… Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $3.58. The counter girl took my $4.00 and I pulled 8 cents from my pocket
Continue readingIsrael has been a very lonely country for a very long time. But for the United States’ continuing support, nation after nation has abandoned Israel to her fate, little caring that she is a bastion of enlightened Western thought in the midst of a churning battlefield of Islamist fascism. Things
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