Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There’s a certain romance to a dramatic flame-out. When a celebrity simply becomes passe, though, that person becomes as much a joke as Andy Williams or the Bay City Rollers. Enter Obama, according to Rich Lowry: Barack Obama’s vibe used to be a cross between JFK and Beatlemania. Now it’s
Continue readingFor reasons that make no sense to me, I don’t go to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government site as often as I should. Wait, I take that back. I know precisely why I don’t go: it’s an incredible repository of closely researched and factually supported articles detailing the way in which
Continue readingDo you ever wonder what it’s like to live in Iowahawk’s brain? I do. Brilliant satire flows out of him so effortlessly that I know that his brain functions in a very different, and much more sophisticated, way than mine does. Take the Nanny State approach to war. Unable to
Continue readingWhen I was a very little girl, back in the hard drinking 1960s, an expression I frequently heard was that someone or something needed a bit of “the hair of the dog that bit you.” I used to think that actually meant people would consume dog hair to cure their
Continue readingDespite giving the generals almost 75% fewer troops than the 80,000 they really wanted (and even significantly less than the 40,000 they sort of wanted), and despite telling the Taliban and Al Qaeda exactly when the field is theirs, and despite dwelling morbidly on death in front of the men
Continue readingAs I write this, Obama hasn’t spoken yet, but he has released excerpts from his speech. These are my first thoughts on his words: “The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they
Continue readingI realize that, with readers all over the world, speaking about “morning” is a bit silly, but I can only function according to the rules of my own time zone. I’m up, but so are the kids, and the “getting ready for school” drill is in full swing. It’s definitely
Continue readingWhy didn’t they figure out before November 2008 that there was no there there? The parody is good, but is it too late?
Continue readingMake new friends But keep the old The one is silver And the other gold. —Song that every school child in my (and Obama’s) age group learned growing up. It’s becoming very apparent that Obama either wasn’t paying attention in school or that he is willfully disregarding one of the
Continue readingLiberals assured us back in 2008 that, after the horrible Cowboy Bush years, we needed someone charming to bring rogue governments back into the American fold. So far, these same rogue governments have been resistant to Obama’s charm, whether in Russia or the Palestinian territories* or Iran, just to to
Continue readingJennifer Rubin has a very good post today about the reasons that the “smart” Obama may be struggling so mightily to be a good president. She offers three basic reasons that may explain Obama’s ineptitude, whether it touches economics, diplomacy, or national security: First, the punditocracy confused credentials with knowledge
Continue readingHere’s our Commander in Chief speaking of the situation in Afghanistan while he was running for office: “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”
Continue readingIn the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.
Continue readingThe Emperor of Japan is not a totalitarian dictator, thank goodness. Indeed, he seems like a very sweet little man. But what in heaven’s name is up with our president going around the world bowing? We’re Americans! We show respect, but we don’t bow. And there’s something really weird, too,
Continue readingI’ve now received five emails bringing to my attention a post at Hillbuzz, a blog that (as best as I can tell) is written by two gay Hillary supporters. (And thanks to all of you who did bring it to my attention.) What makes the post at Hillbuzz so unusual
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