Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I will admit that we’ve all committed social faux pas. We forget names, stare blankly as friends wave to us, give inappropriate gifts, and a thousand other thoughtless things that we later come to regret. None of us, however, are president of the United States. He gets less slack then
Continue readingBy now you’ve heard about Obama’s 1983 nuclear disarmament op-ed in the student newspaper at Columbia. Because it’s a turgid piece of Leftist collegiate writing, Tom Elia has gone through and excerpted some of the more telling passages. What’s so horrifying is that in the 26 years since he wrote
Continue readingOn July 4, 1776, American citizens made their Declaration of Independence known to the world. Although the bulk of the document is a catalog of very specific grievances against George III, the document is remembered for its stirring beginning, describing “unalienable” rights inherent in all human beings, as well as
Continue readingOne of the hallmarks of a modern totalitarian government is stagecraft. Leni Riefenstahl made a whole movie dedicated to glorifying a totalitarian government’s meticulously staged extravaganza. As a child in the 1960s and 1970s, I vividly remember footage of marches in the Soviet Union, with soldiers in perfect goosestep order.
Continue readingIsrael stopped a contingent of Hamas supporters who tried to run a blockade bringing money and supplies into Gaza. Cynthia McKinney figures prominently in their number: The Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying foreign peace activists – including a San Rafael woman – trying to break a blockade of Gaza
Continue readingI consider this a must-read, both because the premise is fascinating and because it is a fresh, and believable, look, at the psyche of a man who seems determined to turn America into a pseudo-Marxist style third world nation: My friends, despite what CNN and the rest are telling you,
Continue readingI haven’t banged the gong very much about Obama’s birth certificate, proving that he’s a natural born citizen. He’s authorized the production of a copy of a document from a Hawaiian hospital, and that seems to have set the matter at rest. In any event, there’s no getting around the
Continue readingObama was so sure that his magisterial silence alone would bring peace to the streets of Tehran. He’s right, in that the mullah’s are summarily ending the protests, but it’s a peace that only Tacitus would recognize.
Continue readingAmericans were promised that Obama had a perfect temperate: cool, calm and collected at all times. And certainly, in every interview, he was cool, calm and collected. Could that be because every interview was a fawning love-fest? It’s easy to control your temper and keep your head when everything’s going
Continue readingBack in May 2008 2007, I examined the way in which Obama tells lies: Obama is also a fairly compulsive liar, something that highlights myriad other problems. That is, whenever he’s caught in a problematic situation (ah, those friends of his), rather than making a clean breast of it, or
Continue readingTraditionally, in arguing cases to the court, there have been a very limited number of available types of legal authority: cases, statutes, administrative rules, and law review articles (with the last being advisory only) have pretty much made up the universe of things the court needs to consider. In this
Continue readingI wish that those of us who worried last year about Obama’s hostility towards Israel had been wrong. It seems, however, that we were right — and it’s only going to get worse.
Continue readingRiffing off the news that Obama intends to go ahead with a July 4 barbecue for Iranians, even though his guests hands are soaked in blood, a very upset Max Boot has this to say: It’s bad enough that the president is deliberately refraining from being too outspoken in favor
Continue readingWhen Polish dockworkers stood against the might of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan spoke immediately and loudly about absolute principles, such as freedom and the dignity of man: The Polish nation, speaking through Solidarity, has provided one of the brightest, bravest moments of modern history. The people of Poland are
Continue readingPeople of Iran: Traditionally, the president of the United States has been the spokesperson for the people of the United States — or, at least, for a majority of the people of the United States. For the first time in modern history, however, we have a president who appears incapable
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