Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Newsweek dove in with the best of them last week to smear the Marines regarding Haditha. Its readers, apparently, weren't buying it: Readers, while deeply troubled by our June 12 report on the alleged civilian massacre in Haditha, overwhelmingly chose to stand by the Marines. One said, "These Marines deserve
Continue readingMy post on the Geneva Convention got two great comments from Patrick about the phrase "cycle of violence." Be sure to check them out. I seem to have cycles on the brain today. I was driving home from a meeting, struggling to share a narrow road with three bicyclists. To
Continue readingFor those on the Left atwitter about the fact that George Bush doesn't feel obligated to extend to Islamofascist terrorists (a) any rights under our Constitution; (b) any rights according to our own military men/women under a court martial; or (c) even the full panoply of rights accorded signatories to
Continue readingMany years ago, I had a good laugh watching two young men, dressed in faultless gang attire, run for a bus. The funny part was that, as they ran, their lowrider pants get lower and lower. One of them eventually ended with his pants around his ankles. Undaunted, with the
Continue readingI'm actually being a bit generous using the world "science" here, and I only use it because the newspaper article I'm going to savage uses the word — in the title of the article, no less. In fact, this is pseudo science being bent to make a political point: Bush
Continue readingMy vote for best song title ever (with a pretty damn good song attached): "How could you believe me when I said I love you when you know I've been a liar all my life," from the 1951 movie, Royal Wedding. Take a minute to check out the lyrics from
Continue readingApparently one of the best weapons Khomeni had in the Iran-Iraq war that raged during the 1980s was children. He organized units of children that were nothing more than religiously inspired cannon fodder: After Iraq invaded in September, 1980, it had quickly become clear that Iran’s forces were no match
Continue readingWell, it's official and it's dreadful: The bodies of two U.S. soldiers reported captured last week have been recovered, and an Iraqi defense ministry official said Tuesday the men were "killed in a barbaric way." The U.S. military said the remains were believed to be those of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca,
Continue readingDo you remember the music of the 1980s? I listened to it obsessively right up until 1987, when a switch turned off in my brain and I tuned off music and onto news. Music from that era, though, triggers a gazillion memories in my brain (mostly pretty good ones, fortunately),
Continue readingA few weeks ago, I noted that astute bloggers had figured out that the NY Times' Bob Herbert has been stuck in a rut for years, often recycling sentences and, even, whole paragraphs. It turns out Herbert isn't the only Times writer who has dug himself a shallow little rhetorical
Continue readingNot to put too fine a point on it, where the heck is everybody? I only got three comments on my blog today. I know that I wasn't putting forth my most scintillating writing (it's one of those days) but I still expect some scintillation from you guys. I love
Continue reading. . . from the Best of the Web Today: Having Already Achieved the Decline "Democrats Outline a Platform for the Fall"–headline, New York Times, June 17 FacebookTweet
Continue readingJason Lee Steorts, writing at the National Review Online, suggests the possibility that Iran, like Poland in 1980, could be poised for a worker-triggered regime change. Apparently despite the vast oil wealth pouring into Iran, the Iranian economy is in chaos — something not uncommon under a regime that stifles
Continue readingIt seems as if, just about every week, one of the MSM outlets has a story about an Israeli attack on the Palestinians. You know, the stories where you hear that this bomb builder, or that Hamas leader, was killed while driving in his car. Or perhaps you'll hear that
Continue readingI mentioned attending a graduation on Friday. One of the speakers gave a beautiful speech about his hope that the children leaving the school would become leaders, not necessarily by becoming famous, but by doing the right thing. His point was that those who act morally are inevitably leaders. I
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