Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Jeff Jacoby makes a good point about the fact that the lead Democratic candidates, while happy to challenge the War in Iraq, have nothing to say about the jihadist forces arrayed against the West, and hot in the rhetoric against America. FacebookTweet
Continue readingThere may be some of you wondering why I was completely silent about the President’s State of the Union Speech. FacebookTweet
Continue readingMarin County is one of the bluest of blue counties in America. Lynn Woolsey, the ineffectual and unintelligent Marin representative to Congress garnered close to 80% of the votes in the last election, if I remember correctly. But its easy to be Blue if you’re talking environmentalism and war. How
Continue readingAnn Coulter gives short shrift to the Hillary party claim that Hillary is another Margaret Thatcher: Mrs. Clinton’s acolytes are floating the idea of Hillary as another Margaret Thatcher to get past the question, “Can a woman be elected president?” This is based on the many, many things Hillary Clinton
Continue readingAngelina Jolie generally doesn’t even make it as a blip on my radar. To say I find her uninteresting is already to accord her too much space in my brain — except, that is, for today, when a headline in the New York Times piqued my interest, not because it
Continue readingBrent Bozell on identity politics on the road to the White House: The campaigns have just begun, and already, I’ve had just enough of this pandering. Is being black or being female a qualification, something that makes you a superior president? Or is the election of 2008 going to operate
Continue readingUPDATED AND BUMPED, BECAUSE I THINK THE UPDATE IS WORTH READING. Thanks to DB for bringing to my attention an op-ed Dinesh D’Souza wrote challenging the conventional wisdom holding that we should secularize all countries as fast as possible to rid the world of the menance of religious war. (Of
Continue readingCondi Rice was talking national policy and warfare, when Boxer attacked her for not having children. Everyone, including major media outlets, went into an orgy of analysis about how Condi’s non-parent status affected her decision-making. Would you like to know about a story where the main character’s childlessness might be
Continue readingIf you want to know what the question was that led to my answer in the post title, please read James Lewis’s American Thinker article. FacebookTweet
Continue readingIran’s apocalyptic rhetoric is heating up, with Ahmadinijad now predicting America’s end, as well as Israel’s. FacebookTweet
Continue readingFrom 9/11 forward, it appeared that the British Left — which encompassed most of the British intelligentsia — was implacably hostile to America and viewed Islamism through rose colored glasses. Certainly, to the extent that the BBC represents a low brow form of intellect, that statement is true. However, things
Continue readingOne of the most commented upon posts I’ve ever written had its genesis in an attack I made against Jimmy Carter. I think now, as I have thought for years, that he is a very bad man. I’m grateful that the vote I cast for him in 1980 came to
Continue readingRich Lowry, writing about Hillary’s announced candidacy, has some really nicely phrased thoughts: Thus, the great battle is joined between the ruthless, highly effective inauthenticity of Hillary Clinton and the vapid, feel-good authenticity of Barack Obama. *** But no one likes naked calculation, and Clinton worries Democrats traumatized by the
Continue readingAt American Thinker, Seth Cooper has written a very thoughtful article about the bestiality issue that’s now working it’s way through the PC crowd (helped by a new film at Sundance). I have to admit that I can never think of the bestiality debate without thinking about famed “ethicist” Peter
Continue readingThe Democrats, both the base and the politicos, have gotten a lot of mileage out of attacking the 2003 decisions that led to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. A multivolume book could be written about the events then, the revelations (and absence of revelations since then), and the way in
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