Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As regular readers may know, I haven’t done so well in the last two weeks of the Watcher’s Council — and deservedly so, since the other posts were better than the ones I submitted. I’m a bit competitive, though, and I’d like to get back in the running, so that
Continue readingIf you’re like me, and would rather see a Republican, than a Democrat in the White House, you may agree with me that it’s unnerving, to say the least, that Democrats now outnumber Republicans in poll responses: A recent Pew poll showed a sharp change in Americans’ political-party identification: Democrats
Continue readingAs the press likes to remind us, 2,621 American troops have died in Iraq as a result of hostile action, with a total of 3,253 dead. (I assume that the differential is because, at any given time in a large organization, especially one that trains with deadly weapons, a certain
Continue readingLast week, in what I now think was a foolish burst of optimism (in my defense, it was a lovely, sunny day), I noted that the Arabs were resurrecting the Saudi peace plan. It’s a lousy plan for the Israelis, which is why, despite the New York Times‘ urging, they’ve
Continue readingI have no idea how long the following has been circulating — I only got it today — but I did confirm that the author is a real person, so this is probably really a letter he wrote to Sen. Harkin: The Honorable Tom Harkin 731 Hart Senate Office Building
Continue readingA liberal friend told me today that it’s okay that Al Gore lives high on the energy hog because, while his message is important, you can’t really expect him to change his lifestyle: “He’s entitled to expect a certain standard of living.” Same friend was unfazed by the fact that
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[I haven’t had the chance to think this busy weekend, let alone blog. For some reason, though, I can’t get out of my head the WWII stories of a few people I met, long after the war, when they were old and gray. I’m therefore resurrecting this post because I
Continue readingI didn’t blog much today (sorry), but I did take time out from an insanely busy schedule to do something nice: I had lunch with Neo-neocon. She was in town visiting, and we got together for some Chinese food and conversation. Both were excellent. Neo is precisely what you’d expect
Continue readingIn some way, the intellectual differences between moonbats and me can easily be distilled down to thoughts about 15 captured British sailors. Rosie O’Donnell, an exhibitionist lesbian who would quickly be put to death were she an Iranian citizen, earnestly opines on American television that the Iranians acted in good
Continue readingFolks, the votes are in at the Watcher’s Council and the winners are: In the Council-authored category are Eternity Road’s Demographics and the Medicalization of Human Existence (first place) and Colossus of Rhodey’s Student Press Rights (second place). In the non-Council category, the winners are Michael Yon’s Tabula Rasa (first
Continue readingIt seems as if, to the extent the administration still retains cajones, they’re put to a single (and laudable) service: we will not arbitrarily withdraw from Iraq. As to everything else, I think Ann Coulter’s latest screed is correct: Democrats have the breathtaking audacity to claim that Bush’s replacing his
Continue readingIt’s no surprise to me that Iran is reneging on its promise to release the single woman amongst the captured British sailors. That was never more than a feint, intended to buy time while Iran keeps the pressure on a paralyzed Britain. What irks me is something different, and petty,
Continue readingA few days ago, based on a post in Little Green Footballs, I included in my blog a video of Hillel Neuer, of UN Watch, politely blasting the UN Human Rights Council for consistently supporting the world’s most murderous regimes while equally consistently demonizing Israel, the only Democracy in the
Continue readingAccepted wisdom is that one of the reasons the voters gave Republicans the boot was that the Republicans, although they did lower taxes and increase federal revenues, spent money like it was going out of style. The Democrats, for the first time in their political history, positioned themselves as the
Continue readingHere’s an old joke from the Soviet era: Rumor in Moscow has it that the grocery store has cans of meat. Despite the fact that it’s a very cold day, a long, long line instantly forms outside the store. After a couple of hours, a Communist official comes out of
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