Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Yes, that’s a wildly mixed, virtually unintelligible metaphor in my post title, but I can actually explain it. Iran is pranking the U.S. Considering the way in which we were assured that an Obama in the White House would inaugurate a new era of foreign policy, what the Iranians are
Continue readingOn Facebook the other day, one of my friends offered her services as an English tutor — and included a grammatical error in her offer. Admittedly, it was an error that involved a usage that has been changing over time, but I still expect an English tutor to avoid this
Continue readingI’m very suspicious of “studies.” As a liberal, I was ready to trust anything that came out of academia. As a conservative, I’m suspicious of academia, because I know it’s more interested in specific outcomes than in the scientific method. A good example of this is a survey that was
Continue readingYou’re not imagining it. I haven’t had a dang thing to say about Barack Obama’s brazen constitutional violation, which was also an indirect repudiation of the 2010 mid-term elections. His decision unilaterally to declare the Senate on a “recess” and then to make “recess” appointments has been analyzed to death
Continue readingIt is tempting, when reading the morning headlines, to think “Isn’t it a nasty coincidence that all this dislocation in the world happened during Barack Obama’s unusually weak presidency? Couldn’t the Arab Spring have taken place while Bush was president? And it’s just too bad that the Euro collapsed on
Continue readingThere’s nothing like a Progressive who’s not worrying about reelection. If you thought Barney Frank’s moobs were repellent, wait until you get a look inside Lynn Woolsey’s brain. The 10-term House Democrat from Marin County is retiring this year, so she finally feels that she can speak freely. It’s not
Continue readingWell-known Leftists in the media and academia are puffing how scandal-free the Obama administration has been. Michelle Malkin points out that the only way they can make that statement with a straight face is if they’re playing the three monkeys game:
Continue readingIt doesn’t feel very merry if you watch Bill Whittle (but you should still watch): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWmsoAP-HoE[/youtube] (Or view it here.)
Continue readingI am buried under laundry, house cleaning, caring for parent and children, organizing photos to be digitized (half price, thanks to a Groupon), getting out Christmas cards created and sent, and paying bills. Coherent thought eludes me. Cogent essays are an impossibility. But, all is not lost! Even as I
Continue readingI came of age in the post-Vietnam era. Let me amend that: I came of age in San Francisco in the post-Vietnam era. Although Fleet Week, which started in the City about 20+ years ago has done a lot to turn things around, San Francisco has not been a military
Continue reading“Facts are stubborn things.” — John Adams. “Ideologues are even more stubborn than facts.” — Bookworm A few nights ago, Mr. Bookworm watched the movie Shattered Glass with the children. It’s a fairly good retelling of the way in which Stephen Glass, a young feature writer at The New Republic,
Continue readingA friend sent me a link to a post at Whatever, a blog that John Scalzi runs. Scalzi, who describes himself as a “pinko commie socialist,” is interested — truly, not snarkily, interested — in the views Republicans/conservatives/libertarians currently hold when looking at the Republican primary field. Having the luxury
Continue readingI get Obama campaign emails because I signed up for them. It’s always interesting to see what the opposition is doing. That’s why I got to enjoy this “classy” email from Obama’s 2012 campaign: Friend — Everyone’s got that special conservative in their life. Maybe it’s your dad, who forwards
Continue readingWhy, oh why, oh why can’t I get more excited about Mitt? On paper, he’s a very good candidate. Yes, there have been flips and flops, but it’s naive to expect perfect political purity from any candidate. Aside from that, he’s straight out of Hollywood’s central casting, circa 1944: well-educated,
Continue readingMy morning just got a wee bit complicated, so I won’t write the long, elegant post I’d imagined in my head when I read that Obama was pledging U.S. dollars to making the world safe for gays. There’s nothing wrong with making the world safe for gays. I heartily approve.
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