Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My mind is full of Fleet Week events. As in the past two years, it promises to be a very exciting week for me and my family. I know I’m going to be on a Coast Guard boat on the Bay when the Blue Angels fly, I know I’m going
Continue readingObama’s foolish decision to pick a trade war with China has larger implications about his governing style, as Jennifer Rubin explains: [D]omestic political considerations and the good opinion of his base are more important to Obama than just about any other concern. That seems to be the motivating factor in a
Continue reading(Heated, perhaps overheated, rant to follow:) If you like Seinfeld, and especially if you like Bapu, watch the whole video. Otherwise, just watch from 2:14-2:22. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW_AcITbdiI[/youtube] “He’s a bad man. He’s a very, very bad man.” That’s all I could think of when I read that today, on the 70th
Continue readingWhenever I read the news, I’m being told that those who disagree with Obama do so based on his color. Ordinary Americans simply can’t handle a black man in a power position and reflexively disagree with him and wish him ill. It’s not even personal, we’re told. It’s just that
Continue reading“You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.” — Abraham Lincoln Obama lies, and lies, and lies again. Sometimes he lies directly, and sometimes he
Continue readingThe Wall Street Journal unsheathed its editorial knives in a slashing attack against the President’s health care speech. Some examples, although I really recommend that you read the whole thing: The thing about the bully pulpit is that Presidents can make the most fantastic claims and it takes days to
Continue readingI enjoyed the way in which James Taranto summed up — and eviscerated — Obama’s innocuous suggestion that mandatory insurance is entirely akin to uninsured motorist insurance: In his speech to a joint session of Congress last night, the president offered what presumably was meant to sound like an innocuous,
Continue readingMy daughter, who attends middle school, told me that she understood the the take-away message from Obama’s speech to be “The future is your responsibility,” a thought she found unpleasantly burdensome. Generally, she thought the speech was long and boring. As for the “tomorrow belongs to you” aspect of Obama’s
Continue readingThere’s an absolute gem in Jake Tapper’s question-and-answer session with Press Sec’y Gibbs. Before you read it, think of Einstein’s definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Okay. You got that? Here goes: TAPPER: Well, OK. One other question, then. You
Continue readingI belong to a wonderful — indeed, scintillating — email group. Today, the group has been having a healthy debate about comparing Obama’s latest decision to talk directly to children (no parents necessary) to Hitler’s deliberate plan to wean a generation away from its parents and into the Nazi party.
Continue readingThanks to Sadie for putting me on to the latest Obama/media stunt, this time the conscious decision to mimic a famous series of en famille JFK pictures in the oval office. I guess when your numbers are tanking, imitating a dead president is one way to try to shore yourself
Continue readingI am not at all pleased that Obama is going to descend upon an impressionable and captive audience on September 8. While I don’t expect him to do much more than mouth “lame” platitudes about education and service (meaning, of course, service to liberal causes not, God forbid, military service),
Continue readingI’m noticing an interesting pattern in Obama’s Muslim speeches. He thinks it’s a very good thing for women to cover up. In his Cairo speech, he made that point, not once, not twice, but three times. As I caught in the post I wrote at the time, he said: Moreover,
Continue readingMy children, despite having one liberal parent and one conservative one, have come down firmly and absolutely on the side of conservatism. They loath Obama. Thank God, too, because Obama is going to use the power of the federal government to speak directly to America’s children, bypassing their parents as
Continue readingI was thinking about the fact that, despite the disastrous start the Clinton administration had (“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”; Hillary Care), Clinton nevertheless managed to pull out a two term presidency. That thought, inevitably, led to me asking myself whether Obama can do the same. I don’t think so, for
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