Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Got another email: Bush Awards Gibson Presidential Medal of Freedom President: ‘Thanks for Taking the Heat off Me This Week’ In a stunning moment of redemption for the embattled actor Mel Gibson, President George W. Bush today awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, telling the star, “Thanks for taking
Continue readingAs you know, I’ve written before about the underlying conservative truths in the most popular pop culture products of recent times: Harry Potter, the Ring Trilogy and Narnia. While listening today to Mark Steyn’s brilliant interview with Hugh Hewitt last Thursday, August 3, I was reminded again of how true
Continue readingLet’s see. In the last week, Iran, an UN member nation, has (once again, ’cause it’s done it before) called for the destruction of Israel, another UN member nation. Now, Iran, an UN member nation (although God alone knows why) admits that it is supplying long range missiles to a
Continue readingWith Qana, which is beginning to look remarkably like a staged event, not an Israeli massacre of children, Hezbollah managed to switch wavering world sympathy to its side (not too hard a task, considering world hostility to Israel). Lee Smith, writing for the Week Standard, suggests that Hezbollah might have
Continue readingWhen countries are in decay, whether because of self-inflicted economic wounds or because of external factors, something is always better than nothing. Hitler, in part because of his rampant spending on weapons, was billed as having saved the German economy. Mussolini was touted for having gotten Italy’s famously flakey trains
Continue readingHezbollah claimed some more Arab lives, this time killing three Bedouin women from one family: Residents of Arab al-Aramshe find it difficult to comprehend disaster in which mother, her two daughters were killed as Katyusha rocket hit their house yard. One of daughter recently got engaged. ‘We can’t believe we
Continue readingIn June, my daughter crashed into me while wearing cleats and ripped off half my toenail. I refrained from fainting, and did a post wondering why my vasovagal syndrome is so much more profound when I hurt a toe than when I hurt any other part of me. Today, I
Continue readingIn a comment to one of my posts, someone suggested that there is proof positive that Israel is the bad guy in all this — Human Rights Watch has condemned it. Clearly, when an organization dedicated to watching out for Human Rights condemns Israel, Israel must be at fault, right?
Continue readingI’m still wondering when the NY Times will admit in its masthead that it’s the official newspaper of the Democratic party. Anyway, today’s partisan attack is a scathing denunciation of Donald Rumsfeld. It wouldn’t be notable in any way — just another day in the NY Times’ party warfare —
Continue readingVisit this PowerLine post to see a video that the Israelis periodically manage to get hacked into Lebanese TV. I know American soldiers would love to see something like this done in Iraq against Al Qaeda and Co., but we’re too PC. As John, at PowerLine says, he’s not sure
Continue readingForget all the UN/media garbage. This is disproportionate force. Hat tip: Little Green Footballs FacebookTweet
Continue readingEngland used to be a fairly wonderful place. For one thing, with that blessed wet climate, it’s just so doggone pretty. Spring in England is a sight to see. England also used to stand for a really high degree of civilization. It prided itself on setting high standards for its
Continue readingHat tip: From Neptunus Lex, via Best of the Web Today And, just in case anyone needs a reminder that this is not just Israeli propaganda, I direct your attention to a recent about Israeli soldiers protecting Lebanese women and children who were being hammered by Hezbollah file, and to
Continue readingI have noticed that, whatever WordPress did to make the colors more electric on my blog, to change the sidebars somewhat, and to allow author attribution, it also managed to mess with the formatting for quotations. When I do a block quote, I lose paragraph spacing. A little investigation has
Continue readingYou know the Occam’s razor principle, don’t you? Nowadays it’s boiled down to mean that, if you’ve got a simple answer, you often don’t need to look for something more complex. At medical school, students who are all excited about rare diseases they’ve read about in books often need to
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