Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I was ever so slowly inching my way up the TTLB Ecosystem when I switched to a new home for my blog. I’m now having two problems. To begin with, I can’t figure out how to show my TTLB status on WordPress, which is probably just as well considering my
Continue readingI’m in the midst of listening to Terry Gross’s Fresh Air interview with Kevin Phillips, a former Nixon operative who is deeply hostile to the Bush family and to the religious right (and he’s just written a book about how the religious right is destroying American politics). I’m about ten
Continue readingI also like columnist Debra Saunders, who has written eloquently why, despite his failings, she generally likes George Bush and believes him to be a good President. To everything she writes, I say “ditto.”
Continue readingIt’s easy to point the ideological finger of blame at today’s MSM — a finger deservedly pointed, I think. However, there’s more to shoddy reporting than just rampant belief systems. There are simply too many mistakes to be explained away that way. (For example, even anti-Bush hysteria couldn’t completely account
Continue readingDo you remember in the 1990s, the big hooha about allegedly recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse? I remember listening to a show on NPR back then that exposed some of the more famous recovered memory therapists as hypnotists who would ask their patients leading questions such as, “You remember
Continue readingI offer you this Power Line post in its entirety. It’s short, and there’s no way I can adequately summarize the fascinating point it makes: Last August, I did a post titled Some Thoughts on Casualties In Times of War and Peace, which later became an article in the Orlando
Continue reading‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,’ it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to
Continue readingWhy am I not surprised that a UC Berkeley professors claims to have scientific proof that unpleasant kids grow up to become conservatives, and the kids everyone loves grow up to become liberals? Here’s the story: Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone
Continue readingOne news outlet, picked up in today’s Drudge Report, excitedly reports that, since 2003, 100 people have died worldwide from bird flu. Just to get a little perspective, the world population stands at 6,504,897,740. Even I, a math nincompoop, can figure out that the death rate is infinitesimally small (which
Continue readingDoug Powers notes that comedian Richard Belzer came out and said what most Leftists imply and few admit: that they think the men and women serving in our American military are subnormal in intelligence and understanding. Certainly, that’s what I hear in my community, an accusation I’m always quick to
Continue readingIt’s up to the schools to keep our kids safe, right? It’s also their responsibility to stop bad drug habits before they start, right? That’s why it’s absolutely incumbent for a well run school district to place a 6 year old in detention and take it very, very seriously, when
Continue readingMike Adams wrote a great column today declaring his independence to act precisely as his students do: rude, careless, and irresponsible, just because it feels good. The reductio ad absurdum of this selfishness, of course, is what’s going on in France, where the students are perfectly happy to see the
Continue readingI’m heading into another insanely busy day, so won’t post until later. However, I couldn’t wait to tell you about a disturbing book I’m reading called Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, by Ariel Levy. In it, Levy takes on the raunch culture that is
Continue readingDoes anyone know how I get my Ecosystem code to display in WordPress?
Continue readingSometimes, someone writes an article that manages to touch upon more than one issue near and dear to me. Catherine Seipp managed to do just that when she wrote about Walkout, a new HBO film. Walkout is about historic injustice, circa 1968: You’d need a heart of stone not to
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