Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Chris Hayes got himself a great spanking because of his inability to acknowledge military heroism: CHRIS HAYES: Thinking today and observing Memorial Day, that’ll be happening tomorrow. Just talked with Lt. Col. Steve Burke [sic, actually Beck], who was a casualty officer with the Marines and had to tell people
Continue readingJack Kelly, the well-known columnist who writes for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade of Toledo, Ohio, has taken on the claim that Barack Obama is the smartest president ever. Those of us at the Bookworm Room have always derided this contention, which is built on fairy dust and unicorn
Continue reading1988: A serial liar, bomber, drug dealer, and criminal claims, without any corroborating evidence, that he sold pot to Vice Presidential candidate Dan Quayle. Despite these allegations (which were almost certainly false), the Bush-Quayle ticket wins. 1992: Governor William Jefferson Clinton contends that, while he put a joint to his
Continue readingFor several years, every Tuesday and Wednesday morning, my sister has regaled me with stories about Dancing With The Stars, which is not just her favorite television show, it’s actually the only show she watches. For those unfamiliar with DWTS, the premise is simple: every season, a group of TV
Continue readingIf you read only one thing today, read Edward Klein’s answer to the question “Who is Valerie Jarrett?” (Edward Klein is the highly respected political writer and author of The Amateur.) Klein’s article can be broken down into two parts: Part One concerns Jarrett’s unfailingly bad political instincts; Part Two
Continue readingObama has been going after traditional American capitalism with a vengeance. He’s graduated far beyond his Joe the Plumber kerfuffle, and his vague murmurings about the fact that it’s possible for people to earn too much (excluding, of course, Obama himself and all his rich friends). With his attacks on
Continue readingA few days ago, I posited that Obama might have come up with the faux Kenyan identity because, in 1979, when he was graduating from high school, the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision Regents of the University of California v. Bakke had done away with affirmative action. (Universities eventually developed workarounds,
Continue readingRev. Wright has surfaced in 2012, just as he did in 2008. In 2008, though, John McCain not only refused to mention Wright, but told his minions they couldn’t either. This time around, Romney’s minions want to raise the Reverend again, especially as more and more information is emerging about
Continue readingClick on image to enlarge: Hat tip: Ron Radosh UPDATE: Welcome, Ace of Spades readers. Here’s a little more food for thought about our President’s mysterious origins.
Continue readingBarack Obama has kept carefully hidden all of his college records. Many of us have assumed that this secrecy is because those papers show that he took nothing but Leftist Mickey Mouse classes and ended up with lousy grades. Now that we know that Obama marketed himself to publishers as
Continue readingThe San Jose Mercury News talked to fifteen teenage student journalists about issues ranging from texting while driving to Trayvon to politics. As journalists-in-training, these students are presumably better informed and more engaged than their peers. That presumption could be wrong. The students’ responses to the Trayvon matter fascinated me
Continue readingEd Driscoll has the best wrap-up I’ve seen of the bombshell report that Barack Obama either told his literary agent that he was born in Kenya or, when she made a mistake to that effect, was happy to let that mistake sit around, uncorrected, until 2007. Ed’s point, like mine,
Continue readingBreitbart.com dropped a bombshell: Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief
Continue readingEarl sent me a link to an article about the shameful corruption that characterizes Argentinian politics. Earl included in his email a reference to the Perons, whose malevolent aura still hangs over the Argentinian political scene: Argentina’s government has become a massive racketeering operation. The list of international swindles the
Continue readingYesterday, I wrote about European fairy tales versus American fairy tales. Of the former, I said: That’s the theme in the majority of fairy tales that originated in the old world: be good, be passive, and some deus ex machina figure, usually magical, will come and rescue you. Passivity is
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