Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I have been keeping abreast of the news, and I do know that there’s a cascade of information about Benghazi rolling out now. Yesterday I posted about Edward Klein’s claim that Hillary had tried to get security for Benghazi but that higher-ups (presumably in the White House) had simply ignored
Continue readingHere’s today’s Progressive Facebook offering: Point by point, let me show why this poster is really, really stupid: His support of the middle class by encouraging the auto-industry to go bankrupt? If you’re not living in Victorian England, when bankruptcy meant that the man of the family ended up in
Continue readingHow reliable is Edward Klein? I don’t know. I don’t believe anyone challenged the facts in his book The Amateur, even if they disagreed with their import. One thing that was immediately clear from reading The Amateur was that Klein got a lot of his information from Hillary Clinton’s camp.
Continue readingA picture is making the rounds amongst my liberal Facebook friends, complete with the caption that “This says it all to me.” I’m actually not sure what “all” the picture says. That Romney smiles at people performing a service for him while Obama gives them a fist bump? If the
Continue readingThe editor of a Jewish newspaper — let me repeat: a Jewish newspaper — has endorsed a Republican. Because we’re discussing Jews, it may be wrong to analogize this to pigs flying, but I guess it’s okay as long as we’re not eating those pigs for breakfast. I was at
Continue readingWe all know crazy people. I don’t mean the kind of crazy people who believe that cats rule the world and that Satan is living in the begonia. I mean the people with personality disorders who assiduously work to shape reality so that it matches their own warped and damaged
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I pointed to a college-era photograph of Obama, showing him with unusually long nails on his thumb and forefinger. Based upon his own admission of cocaine use in high school, plus a recently published story about Carrie Fisher’s possible “coke nail,” I suggested that perhaps
Continue readingWhen it became obvious that Mitt was going to be the Republican nominee for President, I started doodling around with my strong sense that the November match-up would look very much like a contest between Ward Cleaver and Eddie Haskell, of Leave it to Beaver fame. In May, I put
Continue readingWhat one can say with certainty about the last presidential debate is that it is not a game-changer — which is good for Romney, because the game is currently scoring in his favor. In that way, it was a nothing of a debate. Nevertheless, there were aspects of the debate
Continue readingIf this election was a romance novel, Barack Obama would be the bad boy who promises that, if you just let him have his way with you, you won’t get pregnant (honest!). He then tells you that his friend Eddie will pay for your birth control. Eddie doesn’t follow through,
Continue readingSometimes my liberal friends surprise me. Buried amongst the snarky, ill-informed pictures they routinely post, I’ll occasionally find something thoughtful and important. Very, very important — such as this short video explaining precisely why Iran poses such a threat, not just within the Middle East, but to the whole world,
Continue readingIf you’ve been hearing good buzz about Romney’s performance at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner, that’s because he did a stellar job. Here is his star turn: Obama wasn’t bad either. I just don’t like him, which makes it harder for me to laugh at his jokes:
Continue readingI continue to be fascinated with the things that my Progressive friends post on Facebook. I feel like a cultural archaeologist. Here’s today’s offering: For once, my commentary can be summed up in a single sentence: We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. — Barack Obama,
Continue readingRomney’s main problem is a chronic one. While he intuitively understands what Bush Sr. used to call “the vision thing,” he can’t articulate it. He’ll spell out all the details, but he’s incapable of explaining to Americans that, if the government takes all their money, not only does it mean
Continue readingI just got me a new computer, and I want to set it up, so I have only a couple of quick comments. Obama was much better in this debate, although no less dishonest. (More about that later.) Romney was almost as good in this debate, although he didn’t appear
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