Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The WaPo’s Richard Cohen wants you to know that 12 Years A Slave is an extremely important movie because it gives Americans a surprising new message that they need to hear: Slavery is bad. I don’t know under what rock Cohen has been living, but the last major American movie
Continue readingAs you’ve gathered, I do not support President Obama’s promised “show” strike against Syria to protest the Assad regime’s alleged use of toxic nerve gas against a community that presumably supported the al Qaeda rebels. To justify my position, I’ve pointed to the fact that there is no benefit to
Continue readingLast year, Obama and his acolytes were boasting about his “lead from behind” approach, one that saw him place America (and her interests) behind a UN-led line when it came to the Arab Spring. At the time, people at home and abroad wished that America, which still had something of
Continue readingYesterday, I asked you what you thought of Bret Stephens’ belief that the risks of letting the Syrians fight it out amongst themselves are too great. Reading your responses, I have the sense that most of you feel, as I do, that containment, not intervention, is the way to go.
Continue readingThe one good thing about bad news is that it sparks the creative juices in those who obsessively follow the political scene. No wonder, then, that the Watcher’s Council submissions this week were so good, and the winners so deserving of that honor: Council Winners *First place with 4 votes!
Continue readingEvery week, you think “It can’t get better than this,” and then every subsequent week . . . it’s better. This week, from the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Policing the Schutzstaffel The Razor – Why I Oppose the Nomination of Susan Rice to Secretary of State
Continue readingI wish I could get paid $100 for every time I’ve ended up in fourth place on the Watcher’s Council list. I’d be a much richer woman today if those payments had happened. As always, though, it’s all good and the top winners truly deserve the recognition they received from
Continue readingThis is what I’m reading right now, and with great pleasure too: Council Submissions The Independent Sentinel – A Moral Dilemma Simply Jews – The Pillar of Defense fiasco The Political Commentator – James Clapper – Why does this man still have a job in the Obama administration? The Noisy
Continue readingIn this, the Passover/Easter version of the Watcher’s Council, we have some mighty fine reading, all designed to tell the kinds of truth that set you free: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – American Bolsheviks – The Second Act The Independent Sentinel – Governor Jerry Brown Trippin’ on His Psychedelic
Continue readingSubject to a very few exceptions, I don’t see movies during their first runs in movie theaters. Instead, I see them when they’re released on DVD. That’s why I’m only watching The Help now. (The Help is a movie about black maids in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi.) Before
Continue readingOver the years, I’ve written more than 10,000 posts. (Yeah, that’s a scary thought, isn’t it.) They do tend to run together in my mind, but there are a few standouts. These are the posts in which I felt that I offered an insight or analysis that is genuinely helpful
Continue reading“Killing a fetus in utero is not the same thing as killing a sentient human being. When the right gets around to facing scientific facts and abiding by what they say, then we can have an intelligent discussion on the issue. The US killed tens of thousands of people who
Continue readingTonight marks the first night of Passover, the ancient Jewish holiday celebrating the Jews’ release from bondage and, I think, their reaffirmed commitment to God. I wrote the following post last year for Passover, and republished it once more a few months ago. It focuses on Iran, but I think
Continue readingGaddafi is not going gently into the good night. With the bitter end staring him in the face, he’s bombing his own countrymen and threatening to kill them by the thousands and tens of thousands if they don’t leave him his throne. In his honor, I reprint my Passover post
Continue readingLet’s think about Israel from the Israeli viewpoint for a minute, shall we? It is, by any standards, an extremely small country. Within its own borders, it is a sophisticated Western-style nation that leads the world in scientific innovation. Its political system is a parliamentary style democratic republic. Although its
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