Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Much ink has been spilled (or should I say, many bytes have been generated) about whether Islam can be modernized so that Muslims can integrate with the modern world. As many have pointed out, devout Muslims feel themselves absolutely bound to live by Mohammed's principles — principles that involve such
Continue readingMike, at The Deep Freeze, lives in Philadelphia. Doing something called geocaching, he headed out of town and went for a treasure hunt in his neck of the words — the treasure being a moment where one touches history. Here is what he found: It was a modest grave site
Continue readingJames Taranto (and Co., I guess), writing at Best of the Web Today, has an excellent mini-essay about the tortured relationship between the Left on the one hand, and President Bush and foreign policy (vis-a-vis terrorism) on the other hand: Al Qaeda and the former regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq
Continue readingThe Drudge headline is that Sharon Stone advocates oral sex, but that's not really the whole story. The real story is how this well-intentioned lady goes about carrying out her advocacy: She [Stone] explains, "I was in the store the other day and I watched a young girl trying on
Continue readingYou know the monkeys: The monkeys' message — see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — may be a useful one in the context of ordinary social relationships, where gossip is poisonous, but it's an utterly insane way to run the world. Nevertheless, that's precisely what the world
Continue readingThis is a nice story about a man who did a decent thing (although he didn't realize, at the time, quite how decent it was): When Shahla Ghannadian's husband accidentally left her purse on a park bench during a visit to Sausalito, the family didn't have much hope of getting
Continue readingLowell Ponte spells out in sad, scary, excrutiating detail the world our children will inherit — not directly, if they stay in America, but indirectly by having a weirdly Arabized Europe as their planet neighbor. To begin with, the numbers are compelling: * In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name
Continue readingYesterday, I did a post about how forgiving the judicial system is in Lithuania, where an 85 year old Nazi was given a free pass because of his age and because he no longer posed a risk to society. After reading my post, Kathryn, of Suitable for Mixed Company, shared
Continue readingWhat is wrong with this picture? An 85-year-old Lithuanian was convicted for cooperating with the Nazis and persecuting Jews but he will not serve jail time because of his age, according to a BBC report.A court in Vilna ruled that Dailide will not go to jail "because he is very
Continue readingAs if the world weren't a scary enough place, it turns out that the "mullet" is back. What, you ask, is a mullet? A mullet is what happens when a man lets his hair grow in an undifferentiated block down the back of his neck. It has all the cool
Continue readingA few days ago, I posted about the Presbyterian Church USA — or, rather, I linked to an American Thinker article that highlighted major doctrinal changes in the Church that have crossed the line from rather silly anti-Israel posturing into old-fashioned anti-Semitism. That post sparked a lot of comments, and
Continue readingHave you heard of Joanne Jacobs? She's a former San Jose Mercury News editorial writer and Knight Ridder columnist whose beat (at least in recent years) has been education. I've consistently enjoyed her articles whenever I've read them, and you can track what she's writing here, at her website. A
Continue readingIt's not just remembering past events that helps us to avoid repeating past mistakes, it's also recognizing the foibles and mental tics of past enemies. As always, since we're engaged in another fight against true totalitarianism, it's useful to remember the German experience from both WWI and WWII. Let's begin
Continue readingI read this in US News and World Report: White House photographers last week got a lesson in presidential authority. Already in place for a Bush visit to a New York seniors facility, the newsmen were asked by the master of ceremonies if they’d take pictures of the crowd before
Continue readingImagine my surprise to learn that NPR — NPR! — gave airtime to Joe Loconte, who spent several minutes explaining what Islamofacism is, and why it’s so dangerous. You should take the time to listen to it. It’s good. And — another surprise — it’s one of the most emailed
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