Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve taken a news story and put the facts in a different order. The story essentially starts with the last point, and organizes the facts based on that point. I’ve put the last point last, because it’s an after-the-fact conclusion that should not color the report. I wonder if you’ll agree
Continue readingThere’s a big hoo-ha going on down in Burlingame, an affluent community south of San Francisco. It seems that 8th graders were reading a book that included descriptions of anal sex and, when a parent complained, the superintendent had the temerity, on moral grounds yet, to pull the book out
Continue readingI’m reading Ann Coulter’s Godless : The Church of Liberalism. I actually didn’t intend to check it out of the library when I first saw it. I can take Ann in small doses, because I think she’s very clever, and her observations are often spot-on. I also think she’s very
Continue readingJames Taranto, in writing about the Pelosi/Lantos idea that the two them should begin dealing with Iran, caught John Kerry in a telling Freudian slip. (You know those: when your secret desires slip out in ill-chosen words.) Meanwhile at the Puffington Host, John Kerry* defends Pelosi’s junket to Syria: We
Continue readingLong time readers may recognize the following, which is a recycled post from February 2005 (when I was still on Blogger). At the bottom, I’ll explain why I’m resurrecting it: Remember from playground days how, when someone was picking on your little brother, you’d rush over to defend him, and
Continue readingI blogged about a world without cars when I put up the post about Critical Mass, the monthly anarchic bicycle takeover of San Francisco streets. There, I noted that one promoter of the critical mass idea wrote really longingly of a world without cars. I suggested that it would be
Continue readingI’ll be the first to admit that, as I slam out posts, I’m a lazy proofreader. You may have noticed more typos than usual, though, and I actually have an excuse: I have a Microsoft wireless keyboard, and for some reason it’s not forwarding to my computer full information about
Continue readingThe best WWII stories aren’t just about those who killed lots of Nazis. They’re about those who killed lots of Nazis and who managed to maintain their humanity despite the horrors around them, who went on to live successful lives, and who had children and grandchildren to offset the millions who
Continue readingI don’t have time to blog this morning, but did take a minute to check out today’s Drudge. Is it only Drudge, or is it the whole world that has elevated Imus’ big mouth to headline status, above just about everything else of actual importance? UPDATE: More time means more
Continue readingToday, the first day of Spring Break, has been a rather chaotic one for me, as I’ve had shifting plans regarding the children and, all the while, two legal deadlines to meet. As I always say, you know it’s going to be a bad day when you wake up at
Continue readingWe’re halfway through Happy Feet. Up to the halfway mark, I wasn’t really liking it. It’s got a lot of wailing soul style music, and that’s not my kind of sound. And considering that it’s a kids’ movie, I found the song choices rather surprising, since a lot of them
Continue readingI think you, my readers, will enjoy this interview with geneticist Francis Collins. What a joyous soul. It doesn’t take me away from being an atheist — I seem stuck there — but he makes me envy him his faith, especially the way he harmonizes faith and science. Even if
Continue readingFrom Mark Steyn: Tony Blair was at pains to point out that the hostages were released ”without any deal, without any negotiation, without any side agreement of any nature.” But he’s missing (or artfully sidestepping) the point: Tehran didn’t want a deal. It wanted the humbling of the Great Satan’s
Continue readingIgnatius Insight Scoop explains why you don’t want to go to The New Yorker for a reasoned critique of the Pope. (Hat tip: Paragraph Farmer.) Then, just to round things out, CDR Salamander offers a video explaining what the Pope actually said last Fall that excited so much Muslim outrage,
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