Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As they do every election year about this time, the polls strongly favor the Democrats, which is very disheartening. Right around now I find it especially worrisome, because I think that Obama, emboldened by media adulation, is being more and more forthright about his political agenda, and it’s one that
Continue readingRobert Avrech, watching Obama struggle mightily to be coherent when he’s unplugged from the teleprompter, has figured out who Obama reminds him of. Check it out and have a very good laugh.
Continue readingNo, Obama has not spoken lovingly about mass murderer Che Guevara. However, another prominent Obama supporter has made the two equivalent in a very obvious way: he has displayed in his office side by side posters of Obama (that socialist, artsy-fartsy looking poster) and (who else?) Che. Check out this
Continue readingChristopher Hitchens has written a post-mortem on the alleged sexism characterizing Hillary Clinton’s abortive race to the top. Aside from scathingly examining both Hillary’s and the media’s myriad failings, he has this wonderful point to make about the double-edged sword her gender became in the race: Going as far as
Continue readingI highly (really highly) recommend that you read Paul Kengor’s piece in today’s American Thinker, Return of the Dupes and the Anti-Anti-Communists. In it, he describes a struggle I remember well from the 1970s (when I became politically aware during the end of the Vietnam era) through the 1990s (during
Continue readingI love Noemie Emery’s take on why the media may be a little too optimistic in thinking McCain’s age (which used to be a valued commodity in a world leader) is a problem: McCain does look old, and this is a problem. On the other hand, he looks like a
Continue readingIt’s becoming increasingly clear what the Democratic campaign strategy is going to be this election season: Vote for Obama or you’re a racist. I’m not sure I think too much of this approach to bullying the American electorate into selecting a candidate. Aside from the fact that, if you’re a
Continue readingNow that Obama is official (assuming he passes Constitutional muster), it’s time to come up with his official theme song. Ocean Guy came up with a Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Weber ditty, No Bama. That song works for me on principle, even though I’m not actually familiar with it. As for
Continue readingI’ve got a deadline, so blogging will be nonexistent this morning (which offsets the manic blogging of the past two days, I guess). I’ll leave you, however, with a link to my favorite post of the day: Peter Schweizer’s National Review rumination about the Days of Whine and Poses we
Continue readingObama refuses to release his birth certificate. I’m with the Campaign Spot in believing that it shows nothing more than some embarrassment about the fact that his birth name was a Motown sounding Barry, rather than the hip, foreign sounding Barack. Be that as it may, given that a prerequisite
Continue readingFrederick Kagan has a fascinating comparison of the specific Iraq policy plans McCain and Obama advanced before the Surge. McCain actually envisioned a surge-like event, and described all the positive benefits that would flow from it — and his predictions proved to be completely accurate. Obama, of course, demanded retreat
Continue readingThanks to LGF, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Obama has plans for his predecessors, and they should worry all of us. Thomas Lifson, harking back to other plans Obama has expressed, and the media world ignored, explains why: Barack Obama’s plan for imposing unity on the nation after he takes
Continue readingI first became aware of Kyle-Anne Shiver as an occasional contributor at American Thinker. She’s now writing much more than occasionally, and she’s expanding her venues beyond the American Thinker. This is a good thing for all of us, as she’s a solid researcher and a wonderful writer. I therefore
Continue readingThere is an absolutely staggering editorial in today’s Washington Post — it admits that, John Rockefeller’s “official” indictment to the contrary, Bush did not lie. If anything, Rockefeller, in his official Senate Intelligence Committee report is lying by reaching conclusions at odds with his own evidence: Search the Internet for
Continue readingMy dog is the sweetest dog in the world — and totally submissive. When you call her, she comes running, then drops into a submissive crouch, body canted slightly sideways, to show that I can do with her as I will. She trusts me not to harm her. Unfortunately, Obama
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