Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
On the one hand, we have a little man (figuratively speaking), sitting at a big, empty desk, speaking in deadened tones and flat words, as his eyes roam relentlessly back and forth between his teleprompter, desperately avoiding the single word that so aptly sums up American bravery and sacrifice: Victory!
Continue readingIn 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive. We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked
Continue readingI feel I should say something, so I will. Being me, of course, what I say will be discursive. Re McChrystal: An excellent general who didn’t hit it off with Obama from the git-go (blame lies, I believe, with Obama), and who failed utterly in the diplomatic discretion category —
Continue readingThe Gulf spill has shown Obama at his feckless worst. Or, perhaps, its shown him at his Machiavellian best, using passive aggressive behavior to destroy big oil entirely. I mean, after this mess, who’s going to want to drill anywhere at all? The Gulf spill is an environmental disaster (or
Continue readingLong before Obama appeared on the scene, we’ve all commented here (and I’ve written at some length) about the amazing parallelism between the Harry Potter world and the real world when it comes to the Western world’s approach to Islamic terrorism. There was almost an artistic perfection to the fact
Continue readingYesterday, White House officials were telling Jake Tapper that Obama would support Israel. Any minute moments of hope I cherished that the administration actually meant what it said were swiftly dashed. This is Obama’s version of support: The Obama administration considers Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be untenable and plans
Continue readingAmerican Jews supported Barack Obama in numbers second only to American Blacks. They still support Obama. This is because the soft life in America has sucked out their brains. How else can one explain that they continue to support him despite things like this: Washington’s unprecedented backing for a UN
Continue readingFor someone who is supposedly the most adept president at speechifying since FDR, Obama is a bombastic blowhard, whose occasional forays into real speech reveal ugly things about his thinking. Mark Steyn describes Obama’s linguistic approach: Like those of many great “thinkers,” words for Barack Obama and his coterie seem
Continue readingWith increasing frequency, we hear reports about the Left’s growing disaffection with Obama. The media, for example, is hostile to the fact that Obama doesn’t even bother to hide his disdain for them. This is not just media pique resulting from unreasonably high expectations. Obama is quite explicit about his
Continue readingI thought you’d like to see the face of some of Barack Obama’s most ardent supporters, shown here in San Francisco on the occasion of Obama’s visit to raise funds for Boxer (a visit clearly more important than visiting the beleaguered Gulf Coast, with that “damn hole“): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i85XdTEPJ8M[/youtube] For more
Continue readingFor the past two days, I’ve been gathering links that I’ve meant to use in stand-alone posts. That’s clearly not going to happen, though, so let me pass the links onto you, in the hope that you find them as interesting as I did. Here’s something of a public service
Continue readingRobin of Berkeley hits a home run — actually, she hits it right out of the park — in this post explaining the two different types of Jews who support Barack Obama. One type is the type I used to be, an unthinking liberal, who actually loves America and strongly
Continue readingIt’s not Memorial Day yet, but it’s time to start thinking about it, and this beautiful video, by wordsmith at Flopping Aces, is a good place to start. Be prepared with a hankie, though, ’cause you’ll need it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058VyI89QoQ[/youtube] I just want to add one thing now that you’ve spent
Continue readingPresidents get photographed hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of time. Each photograph captures a mere moment. Some are flattering; some less so. Many, however, go on to become iconic. My generation, the 1970s generation, is deeply imprinted with this photo of Richard Nixon flashing the victory sign: Then there is
Continue readingJ.C. Arenas on the laundry list of qualifications for Obama’s Supreme Court picks: Obama’s first Supreme Court appointment was Sonia Sotomayor, the Bronx-bred daughter of Puerto Rican parents, who supposedly was a valedictorian student with a deficiency in English and become an Ivy-League educated jurist credited with saving Major League
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