Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My son, 7, is much taken with Superman. After his bath tonight, he styled his wet hair so that he had a little curly lock on his forehead, a la Superman. He then turned to his older sister and asked, “Don’t I look dashing in my hair?” She peered at
Continue readingJews all over the world have expressed outrage at the decision by Information, a Danish newspaper, to publish the Holocaust cartoons out of Iran — cartoons that either deny the Holocaust, celebrate it, or analogize the Jews to the same Nazis who attempted to annihilate them. Jewish groups are planning
Continue readingThe Popal plea hearing is being continued so as to allow further psychiatric evaluations. He may indeed be crazy, and that would be an effective end to the newsworthiness of this tragedy (although it will continue to resonate forever for his victims and their families). I found interesting, though, local
Continue readingI never believed Hezbollah when it pronounced itself the victor in its war with Israel, but I was dubious about whether Israel itself had won. In the weeks since the ceasefire, however, I’ve been reading more and more articles claiming that Israel did achieve a great deal and that Hezbollah
Continue readingFirst there was syphillis, then AIDS and now there’s . . . phthalates. It turns out that even assisted autoeroticism is becoming a dangerous activity: Environmental group Greenpeace called on the European Union to ban the use of chemical plastic softeners in sex toys because they contained dangerous substances known
Continue readingWhen Dianne Feinstein starts wading in the partisan political waters, she as icky as the next politician. When she puts her head down and does her job, I often like her: Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California proposed legislation Friday to crack down on animal rights activists who make threats or
Continue readingIt’s fall, and my life is once again bounded by soccer. Four times a week, I’m dragging at least one of my children, and at least one of the neighbor children, up and down my community to various soccer practices and games. Today is one of those days where both
Continue readingWhen my children were at a Montessori school and I attended back to school nights, I wished that I could go back to school too. Now that my children attend a public school (and a really excellent public school at that) and I attend a back to school night, I’m
Continue readingTrish, who often comments here, sent me an interesting list: The Jewish/Islamic Score Card The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1988 – Najib Mahfooz Peace: 1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 – Yaser Arafat: 1990
Continue readingAfter a long morning away from my computer, I’ve got a couple of minutes just to say “hi,” and then I’m back to being away. I’ll be back tonight, though, and should have some good, pent-up blogging energy! In the meantime, if you’re looking for something interesting to read and
Continue readingSo far, Europe has had three major phases of anti-Semitism: The first was the long-standing anti-Jewish sentiment that characterized the early Christian church. The second was socialist-based anti-Semitism. This reach its ugly apogee in Germany, when it got blended with ideas about racial purity that led to the gas chambers.
Continue readingThe ambulance story matters because it’s the perfect example both of the dishonesty that permeated the Israeli/Hezbollah war reporting and, as Zombie demonstrates in her update to her original post, because the press assiduously keeps trying to spin the story rather than doing the decent thing and conceding that it
Continue readingI haven’t forgotten the Popal rampage, and thought I’d update you on a couple of stories that are still filtering through. First, the tragedy: Popal’s rampage left a 43 year old woman a quadriplegic: It was Susan Rajic’s birthday Friday. The 43-year-old massage therapist was supposed to go out to
Continue readingI got the following email from a friend. Can you help with suggestions? My daughter started school today as a high school senior. Over the summer, for her first class in Politics and Government in the U.S. and the World, she had to read What’s the Matter with Kansas. My
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