Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It looks like a real video, with John McCain really on camera, but it’s so funny, I’m not sure. Stick with it, because the first few seconds seem merely dumb. The humor picks up as you go along. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTuwBw9q3Sw] I’ll vote for McCain if he’s the last Republican standing at
Continue readingWhen I grew up, we used to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on February 12. This was before it got folded into a generic President’s day. In a lovely essay at Power Line, though, you can still read why President Lincoln was such a compelling intellectual figure by the time he
Continue readingI recently blogged here, here and here about my increasingly strong belief that we’re engaged in weather warfare. Noel Sheppard gives lucid life to my incoherent attempt to grasp at a core truth in the increasingly hysterical global warming debate: Don’t you love it when these sanctimonious socialists claim to
Continue readingIn a brilliant essay at The Weekly Standard, Matthias K FacebookTweet
Continue readingIf you force employers to pay wages higher than their market will bear, they will cut back on employment opportunities. It was intuitively obvious before the new Congress mandated a minimum wage increase, and in Arizona, you can see what happens when mandated wage increases go from theory to fact:
Continue readingAs I understand it, entropy is what happens when energy creating form flags. FacebookTweet
Continue readingWaPo writer said that part of what he loathes about our mercenary military is the “obscene amenities“ FacebookTweet
Continue readingThose on the New Left who think that Vietnam War vets are ineffectual old war horses are in for a big surprise. A group of these veterans, calling themselves “A Gathering of Eagles” is planning on countering the New Left’s planned march on the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Here, I’ll let
Continue readingI did mention that it’s worth reading all of the posts on which the Watcher of Weasels council votes because, without exception, they’re interesting and informative. Nevertheless, four of them (two written by council members, two written by non-council members) special attention, because they received the highest number of votes.
Continue readingAn Inconvenient Truth is fast becoming Gospel truth, and it’s being passed on to the next generation. Yesterday, as I was listening to Dennis Prager, he asked how many parents have heard from their children that An Inconvenient Truth is being shown at school. I haven’t heard that from my
Continue readingNormally, I wouldn’t blog about the death of a celebrity, even a young one. FacebookTweet
Continue readingWhen you accuse those on the Left of repeating the Vietnam era mistake of demonizing the troops, you’ll routinely hear that they love the troops, it’s just the war they hate. John Hawkins put together several quotations, many from writers who garner serious respect on the Left and who have
Continue readingElizabeth Kolbert is The New Yorker‘s most zealous proponent of man-made global warming. It’s such an article of faith with her that she’s gotten lazy. Take the opening paragraph of her “Talk of the Town” comment in the magazine’s latest issue: Except in certain benighted precincts FacebookTweet
Continue readingAfter 30 years, Harvard has revamped its curriculum. Or, at least, it says it’s revamping its curriculum. As you’ll see below, the powers that be at Harvard have simply made official an ethos that has become normative at Harvard — namely, the celebration of everything not American: Harvard University announced
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