Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The San Francisco Chronicle is busy hyperventilating about Gavin Newsom’s tacky pecadillos and forlorn apology. Frankly, I think the doom and gloom prognostications about the political fall-out from Newsom’s behavior are over-the-top. The Chronicle goes on and on about the fact that Newsom has destroyed his political future and will
Continue readingOh, you silly, naive Christians who actually think Jesus is the Messiah and you unenlightened Jews who are still waiting for the Messiah. You’re wrong, all wrong! How do I know this? Because I’m about to join the Church of Tom Cruise: TOM Cruise is the new FacebookTweet
Continue readingRuth Wisse puts her fingers on Israel’s problem with the “paper of record”: The New York Times took notice yesterday of a pamphlet-sized essay posted on the website of the American Jewish Committee. Written by Alvin Rosenfeld of Indiana University and titled FacebookTweet
Continue reading[I revamped this post entirely from my “first thing this morning effort” so it now makes more sense.] The Watcher’s Council has cast its votes. FacebookTweet
Continue readingI spoke with someone from Bookboy’s school yesterday and learned that things are not as grim as they first appeared. Indeed, the person who got me all a’flutter in the first place may have been exaggerating somewhat. Nevertheless, I view the whole thing as a wake-up call. Bookboy has gotten
Continue readingAren’t the Palestinians supposed to be having a ceasefire? Apparently word didn’t reach the valiant troops on the ground, who are still busy wiping out their political opposition: Palestinian Hamas gunmen ambushed what the Islamist group said was a convoy carrying weapons to Mahmoud Abbas’ presidential guard unit in the
Continue readingI wonder where she’ll go from here? It’s a tough (impossible?) act to follow. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the last of seven installments of the boy wizard’s adventures, will be published July 21, authorJ.K. Rowling said Thursday. Rowling announced the publication date on her Web site. FacebookTweet
Continue readingI’m bummed today, because I just learned that Bookboy is behaving badly at school. FacebookTweet
Continue readingIn San Francisco circles, there were long-time rumors that SF Mayor Gavin Newsom is gay. Even when he married the pretty Kimberly Guilfoyle, there was always the suspicion she was more beard than wife. I think we can put all those rumors to rest now: San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s
Continue readingI thought Molly Ivins was a great writer — when she wrote about Texas. FacebookTweet
Continue readingThanks to Danny Lemieux, I got to read a beautifully written, funny, absolutely on-point article from a Brit analyzing Hillary’s candidacy: Only a few days have passed since Hillary Clinton announced she is running for president, but already it is clear that much forbearance will be required from us all
Continue readingThe Houston Chronicle has a story about a Texas’ families outrage over the fact that the New York Times used a picture of their son dying on Haifa street to spice up a story: A photograph and videotape of a Texas soldier dying in Iraq published by the New York
Continue readingIf any of you bloggers are getting disheartened, don’t. The internet does matter, even if gains are slow and grudging. Case in point: the bombed out mosques in Baghdad. The story began in November when the AP reported that Shiite fights had destroyed four Sunni mosques in Baghdad and burned
Continue readingIn the long ago past, Jews were accused of heinous acts such as kidnapping Christian children and using their blood to make matzoh, or of poisoning wells, accusations that existed entirely separate from actual fact. That is, there was never any evidence that Jews actually engaged in these heinous acts.
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