Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Do you think electronic scanning at grocery stores has increased or decreased magazine sales? In the pre-electronic age, when grocery stores had long lines, I used to read the magazines kept near check-out. If what I was reading was interesting, and I wasn’t going to get a chance to finish
Continue readingToday, we all know that the principle purpose behind journalism is pretty close to what it was at America’s inception — to spread rumors and bring down governments (something that becomes obvious when you read David McCullough’s biography about John Adams). Certainly, both of these are activities that the First
Continue readingA madman ran amok all over San Francisco today, targeting pedestrians with his car and deliberately running them over: As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said. Seven of those injured were
Continue readingThe UN, in Resolution 1701, agreed to help pay for damages Lebanon sustained in the recent war, but has not even considered doing so for Israel. You could argue that Lebanon is a non-combatant that got caught in the middle. I think, though, this is a difficult argument to sustain
Continue readingRadical Islamists in England sought to blow up at least ten transatlantic flights. Britain’s so-called “moderate” Muslims did not condemn this manifest act of terror. Instead, they sought to be capitalize on it, in order to advance the same Muslim agenda the terrorists wanted to impose through mass murder: Islamists
Continue readingKarr was a perverted poser, but Warren Steed Jeffs is the real thing — a genuinely bad guy — and he was just arrested. If you’ve read or seen anything about the radical polygamist sect Jeffs headed, and about the horrible abuses he’s forced on young girls for years in
Continue readingI never watched morning news shows and I stopped watching the network news about 20 years ago. All I know is what I read on the internet and in news magazines. I have therefore been mercifully unaffected by the hoopla surrounding Katie Couric’s imminent ascendancy to the nightly news. This,
Continue readingDavid Horowitz and Richard Poe have written a book about George Soros and the negative effect he’s having on American politics. It’s called The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. FrontPage Magazine has interviewed Poe about the book. I can’t
Continue readingAndrew Bostom, who has written a detailed, erudite treatise entitled the Legacy of Jihad : Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, weighs in on the Fox reporters’ forced “conversion.” Forced conversions in Islamic history are not exceptional—they have been the norm, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—for over
Continue readingHere’s a bit of good news: An ambitious military sweep appears to be dramatically reducing Baghdad’s homicide rate, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday — even as violence nationwide killed at least 80 people, including six U.S. soldiers in and around the capital. Last month, the Baghdad morgue received more
Continue readingMy Mom was quite the packrat. In addition to the Life magazine that I quoted from in the two previous posts (here and here), which was published at the end of the War, my Mom also saved the June 16, 1967 edition of Life magazine, which was written within days
Continue readingI’m still going through my 1967 Life magazine special edition about the 1967 war, and would like to highlight two more articles within the magazine, one about the refugee situation, one about Russia’s involvement in events. First, here, in its entirety, is Life’s, June 23, 1967 editorial, which is both
Continue readingWhen my mother was going through her stuff, she came upon a 1967 issue of Life magazine entitled “Israel’s Swift Victory.” It’s a 100 page special edition, so I won’t attempt to retype all of it here. I’ll just cherry-pick my way through those bits of coverage I found most
Continue readingAs part of a superb article about Hezbollah, the war with Israel, and the larger ramifications of that war and its outcome, Dan Gordon properly identifies Hezbollah and its goals: Hezb’allah is not your father’s terrorist organization. This is not a group of loosely affiliated cells of would-be hijackers or
Continue readingGood news out of Anarchy-land: Two Fox journalists kidnapped by militants two weeks ago in Gaza have been released and appear to be in good health. Fox reporter Steve Centanni and photographer Olaf Wiig were released shortly after noon Sunday and dropped off at the Beach Hotel in Gaza City,
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