Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In an earlier comment, Dagon called for mass conversion to ethanol as a way of ending our dependence on oil. I mentioned that he hadn't said where all that ethanol would come from. Little did I know that it turns out we are barely started on using ethanol in
Continue readingThomas Lifson and Richard Baehr offer an excellent summary of the First Amendment matters at issue in Professor Thomas Klocek's suit against DePaul University. As you may nor may not know, DePaul summarily fired Professor Klocek after he engaged in Palestinian students manning a table at a student activities
Continue readingThe following transcribes an NPR story, interspersed with my comments: Here's another story we're following. A Border Patrol round-up along Interstate 40 in California has prompted a call for a Federal investigation. A Los Angeles attorney says agents were only pulling over people with brown skiln, which he says is
Continue readingHi, DQ here. Dagon posted a comment to another entry so interesting I thought I'd post a new entry on it. In response to my question as to what he would do, Dagon said: [C]omplete independence from middle-east oil; a consistent foreign policy which advocates human rights everywhere and not
Continue readingThis is a terrible tragedy: U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim,
Continue readingI've been rather conspicuously silent about the whole Haditha thing. Until facts come out, rather than rumor, I don't really have anything to say. During times of war, even in the best regulated military, soldiers have been known to do some pretty awful things. You can't take young men, arm
Continue readingIn the West, courtesy of modern birth control, when most of us have children, it's because we want them. They, after all, didn't ask to be born. To me, this means that we have obligations to them far beyond the material ones of food, shelter and clothing, and even beyond
Continue readingFour against one is a totally unfair fight, especially if those on the four side are armed with guns, while the loner is armed only with a pocketknife. Oh! Did I mention that the lone fighter is an ex-Marine? With those facts, the fight's outcome is a foregone conclusion: Ex-Marine
Continue readingGotta run, and this is it for the day, but I leave with some thoughts for those in the Left-ward side of the world: Why is it that, the more the jihadists kill or maim us, the more you get apologetic, not angry? Aren't we the victims here? I thought
Continue readingThe following is from a Reuters news article. Here's a paragraph from about two-thirds into the article: The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, was shocked by the plan. Here's the issue that so shocked the Dutch: Dutch pedophiles are launching a political
Continue readingPeople bound and determined to hasten the destruction of Israel will always say "I'm not anti-Semitic; just anti-Zionist." Dennis Prager exposes this lie for what it is. This is just one strand of the argument: Judaism has always consisted of three components: God, Torah and Israel, roughly translated as faith,
Continue readingLaer, of Cheat-Seeking Missiles, took May off to work with his wife to help promote her campaign against illegal drug use. One of the fruits of this labor is a new website called The Drug Report. It's a compilation of drug-related news, with a lot of stories about people who
Continue readingAttention California voters: National Review has now run an online editorial explaining why Prop. 82, which promises universal preschool for 4 year olds, is such a bad idea. Read it, then Vote no on June 6. FacebookTweet
Continue readingDon Quixote, with his usual politeness, kindness and razor intelligence, disagreed with my saying that Harry Reid was himself being racist when he called racist the "English is the official American language" initiative. For one thing, DQ pointed out, rightly, that there's no mileage in throwing the phrase "racist" around
Continue readingI wrote here about my Dad's Italian POWs in North Africa, and how charming they were. One of the things he found especially memorably was how they coaxed gardens out of the desert. Since it's Memorial Day, it's probably no coincidence that I found this NPR story, complete with amazing
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