Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
At the Weekly Standard, Irwin Stelzer explains that, while we don’t know how deleterious global warming might be, we do know already how damaging, for the poor, efforts to stop global warming already are. This is especially true for ethanol, which turns food crops into fuel. Turns out the remedial
Continue readingMost of us envision mass killers as stone cold nut jobs, like Cho Seung Hui, who carried out Monday’s Virginia Tech carnage. By all accounts, he was an angry, lonely person, obsessed with violent death. Small wonder that, given the means and the opportunity, he would act out his vengeful
Continue readingGive Obama twenty years and, with his native intelligence, he may yet prove himself. Right now, though, he’s callow. How callow? Read Richard Baehr’s analysis of Obama’s “official” comments in the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy to see. I wouldn’t trust as ill-formed as Obama with the job of
Continue readingNews is coming that Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech killer, had written ISMAIL-AX on his arm, which may have been a reference to the story of Abraham’s son Ishmael who, in Muslim Arab mythology, is believed to be the progenitor of all Arabs. While that may well be true, it
Continue readingLittle Bookworm used to leap out of bed every morning, anxious to go to school and work on whatever project was engaging her attention at the time. After six months in public school, I struggle to wake her up as she pleads “Do I have to go to school today?”
Continue readingRalph Peters has written a great, straightforward analysis about the purpose and costs to society of terrorism. I don’t know that it says anything we don’t already know, but it ties the threads together so beautifully that I think it’s definitely worth reading. Here’s the intro, which I hope will
Continue readingThe deaths at Virginia Tech are a staggering tragedy. Thirty-two people got up and began an ordinary day, only to be cut down with terrible savagery. All of us are shaken. “How did it happen?” “How can something like that happen?” We try desperately to imbue this violence with meaning,
Continue readingMy deepest condolences to the families of the 21 students killed at Virginia Tech. UPDATE: The most complete updating I’ve seen on this story is at Hot Air. It’s also the most disturbing, insofar as it claims that 32 (!) people are dead, and that the killer, searching for his
Continue readingLittle Bookworm went off to school today with her “motor project.” It began a month ago, when she came home with a small motor — a small cylinder with two wires sticking out the bottom and a little spindle coming out of the top. If you press the wires to
Continue readingToday is Holocaust Remembrance Day. The war ended 62 years ago, and the vast majority of the survivors and perpetrators are dead. Why do we still care? Is it, as the Muslims want the world to believe, a Zionist ploy to garner the sympathy vote in world politics? Aside from
Continue readingAs I already knew from my legal contacts, as to fired S.F. U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan, there was nothing nefarious going on. He was simply a bad manager (which has nothing to do with whether he was a good lawyer) and needed to be replaced: Newly released Justice Department documents
Continue readingI’d never heard of ABC’s Terry Moran but, aside from now having learned that he’s a co-anchor on Nightline, I figured he must be someone, because they’ve given him his own blog page. (Wooo-ey!) The powers that be at ABC might have done him more of a favor if they
Continue readingThis is a follow-up to my post a couple of days ago about my decision to read, in order, both Ann Coulter’s Godless : The Church of Liberalism and Susan Estrich’s Soulless : Ann Coulter and the Right Wing Church of Hate, with the latter meant to be a takedown
Continue readingI’m pleased to say that, as to both winners in this week’s Watcher of Weasel’s contest (council and non-council) are posts I voted for. I thought that they were that good and so, apparently, did everyone else. On the council side, the top two winners were Cheat-Seeking Missiles’ Don’t Know
Continue readingBack in 1987, before the fall of Communism, I went to Czechoslovakia. It was awful, something I would have realized then if I hadn’t been so hopelessly naive about the horrors of Communism. Everything was shabby and dirty. The food was vile. The lodging was so primitive we stayed in
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