Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Forward and back he goes, depending on which way the focus group blows. Before being elected, Obama promised to close Gitmo. Then, with the reins of power almost in his hands, he panicked and backed off from the promise. Then panic instantly set in again when his focus groups
Continue readingIt’s been an incoherent day, one that never gave me the opportunity for contemplation and writing. Instead, I’ve been bopping here and there, and dealing with one thing and another. Nevertheless, I have been tracking the news, so I thought I’d just write up a mish-mash of thoughts about current
Continue readingAs we were driving back to the ‘burbs from an outing in San Francisco today, we saw a rare sight: an older lady nattily attired in furs. Standing near her was a young woman, screaming into the lady’s face. The children were mesmerized. First, they’d never seen furs and, second,
Continue readingObama’s infatuated followers have taken to referring to him as a second FDR. They envision him lifting us out of the coming depression, blithely unaware that FDR’s economic policies almost certain extended the Great Depression far beyond its natural lifespan. What people also forget — or, if they’re true Progressives,
Continue readingI received an email from someone commenting on the bizarre fact that, in the wake of the November elections, it’s the winners who are whining, not the losers. Putting aside the fact that the losers this time around (that would be conservatives) are a different caliber from the losers in
Continue readingI think I’m processing history wrong, and I need your help filling in the gaps. As you know, Obama invited Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration (a much better choice, I might add, than Wright would have been). Some in the gay community, however, are very
Continue readingI got a very funny email from someone today, although the humor was entirely unintentional. Read the email, and then, if you like, stop to read my comments at the end. CHICAGO – President-elect Barrack Obama and his wife took their daughters to work at a food bank on the
Continue readingThe other day I was speaking with a man who commented that the proliferation of Obama bumperstickers on luxury cars (not to mention the fact that the very rich in blue communities had flocked to the Obama banner) comforted him that Obama would not destroy the US economy by trying
Continue readingBob Owens slices and dices the various arguments that Obama is ineligible to serve based on problems with his birth. I would like to see Obama produce his birth certificate, not because I think it would establish that he should be stripped of his presidency elect status, but because being
Continue readingDuring the campaign, I blogged repeatedly about the Obama lie pattern, which is to begin with an outright denial and then, when confronted with incontrovertible fact, to start leaking out teeny concessions. This approach always reminds me of the way in which doctors used to (and maybe still do) break
Continue readingThe liberal press and “economists” such as Paul Krugman are so excited: Obama is looking to FDR for guidance. Before Obama gets too carried away with that notion, conservatives should send him copies of Amity Shlaes’ The Forgotten Man : a New History of the Great Depression, in which she
Continue readingI was reading Powerline the other day and discovered that I’m not the only one to have noticed that when Obama signals that he’s following precisely in Bush’s footsteps, whether making policy or appointing people, the same decisions that were derided as evil or stupid under Bush’s aegis are hailed
Continue readingConservatives have two stark choices right now: they can self-destruct or they can create a workable paradigm for moving forward. The self-destruction possibility is playing out before our eyes. Kathleen Parker fired the opening salvo with her screed about the evil oogedy-boogedy Christians that are tainting conservatism. Charles Johnson is
Continue readingIs this a recommendation for Obama’s education advisor? Darling-Hammond, a teacher-friendly educator, has been tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to head his transition team on education policy. I thought education was supposed to benefit the children. I’m feeling a little sour on the subject right now because I went to
Continue readingObama finally came out from hiding to talk a bit about the economy. One of my liberal friends found this the most exciting aspect of his speech: “We’ll be working out the details in the weeks ahead, but it will be a two-year, nationwide effort to jumpstart job creation in
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