Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In the wake of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, stories are popping up all over that Hezbollah, Iran and the New York Times have loudly been trumpeting a Hezbollah victory. Others say the opposite is true. And even I, while I don’t think Hezbollah won, don’t think Israel won
Continue readingOne of the things that makes my favorite sites so good isn’t just the fact that the bloggers are really good thinkers, writers and analysts. What also makes them good is the breadth and volume of the stories about which they write. And that last fact is due to their
Continue readingBritish Muslims are demanding a state within a state: British Muslim leaders meeting with government representatives to discuss ways of combating extremism are calling for the establishment of Islamic law (shari’a) to govern Muslims’ family life. “We told her if you give us religious rights, we will be in a
Continue readingA surprising bit of news out of Hollywood. A group of Hollywood names — both on the screen and behind it — got together and took out a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times taking a stand against terrorism. Webloggin has a copy of the ad. Interestingly, the
Continue readingIt’s stories such as this one that remind you why humans, unlike any other animals, have been able to survive in every part of the globe but for the extreme poles: Three Mexican fishermen have been rescued after drifting for about nine months across thousands of miles of the Pacific
Continue readingI’ve become very fond of David Denby’s movie reviews in the New Yorker, largely because he can’t resist letting his politics leak out all over the place. I’ve blogged before about his slobbering praise for Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, and his compulsion to use Garrison Keilor’s Prairie Home Companion
Continue reading(WordPress was good enough to save the post I was working on when my son got hurt, so here it is. Sadly, but not surprisingly, it’s not as good as I remembered….) Apparently I was not the only one to notice that the missing Egyptian students dispersed to some remarkably
Continue readingI’d started a really good post on something or other, when my daughter came running into the house screaming that my son was injured. I dropped everything and headed out the front door. I heard him crying before I saw him. What I saw was a white t-shirt stained with
Continue readingOne of the things the jihadists have been very good at is playing the MSM. I’ve always thought the turning point was when the Palestinians had the brilliant idea to make Hanan Ashwari their spokesperson. You remember that personable, educated, charming woman? She was everywhere, talking about freedom from the
Continue readingThis about sums it up: This is from The People’s Cube. Gates of Vienna picked it up, and I found it a Michelle Malkin. FacebookTweet
Continue readingMy mother and I put our heads together tonight and began bemoaning the absence of charm in our modern world. The subject came up when, a propos something in our conversation, I quoted a line from “Singing in the Rain.” We fell silent a moment as we thought of that
Continue readingSometimes I’m lucky enough to stumble across an unusually beautiful post, that takes a familiar subject, fleshes it out, and brings fresh insights to what has became nothing more than a faded Victorian post card. This time, believe it or not, that subject is the high mortality rate that plagued
Continue readingThis is the start of a Stratfor analysis I received today: An extraordinary thing happened in the Middle East this month. An Israeli army faced an Arab army and did not defeat it — did not render it incapable of continued resistance. That was the outcome in 1948, 1956, 1967,
Continue readingWhenever I do a gay marriage post, I feel like prefacing it by saying “some of my best friends are gay.” In fact, that statement is no longer true. I didn’t turn on my friends, but I did settle down to marriage with children in the suburbs. In this community
Continue readingI haven’t blogged about multiculturalism in quite a while, so those new to this blog may not know that it is one of my pet peeves, an enormous, angry bee buzzing in my intellectual bonnet. I think it is the root cause of the disuniting of America, with its effort
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