Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
“Schvitzer” is a wonderful Yiddish word. Its literal meaning, derived from German, is “to sweat.” Yiddish, however, has layered something entirely different on top of it: a Schvitzer is an empty boaster, one who doesn’t actually do anything, but who presents himself at the end of the project covered with
Continue readingMany have commented on the fact that Barack Obama, both in his race speech and in interviews he gave after the speech, threw granny to the wolves, painting the woman who raised him, not only as a racist but, negatively, as a “typical white person.” The way in which he
Continue readingI focused on the myriad details that were wrong with Obama’s speech, as did many other commentators. Victor Davis Hanson hones in on the core flaw in the speech, one that tells us more than I ever wanted to know about Obama and, indeed, our whole society: The tragedy of
Continue readingToday just hasn’t worked as a blogging day, what with one thing and another and another and another, ad infinitum (or do I mean ad nauseum?). I’m therefore going to take a page out Laer’s book, and just compile a whole bunch of posts into one big post. I’ll also
Continue readingThe AP is diving into damage control, assuring us that, not only is Pastor Wright just your ordinary black improvement activist, but his style of rhetoric is dying away anyway: As shocking as they may be, the provocative sermons of Barack Obama’s pastor come out of a tradition of using
Continue readingIn that portion of the speech in which he refused to disavow Wright by comparing Wright to his grandmother, Obama essentially “forgave” his grandmother for the “sin” of being worried about seeing black youths on the street as she walks by. I kind of ignored that attribution when I said
Continue readingIn my look-see at Obama’s speech, I sort of backed my way into saying that Obama’s speech basically just gives credence to the black sense of victimhood. Thus, at the end, I noted that I could bored and tuned out because Obama started bloviating about the same old cycle of
Continue readingAs is always the case with me for any speech, especially an Obama speech, I’ve opted to read it, not listen to it, so that I can have the best sense of the words themselves, without getting sidelined by someone’s rhetorical style (or lack thereof). Obama opens by talking about
Continue readingI love the Anchoress’ blog, which I think is amazingly well-written, intelligent, humorous, humane and full of insight. I therefore find myself in the peculiar position of disagreeing with her twice in as many days. The post at issue is one the Anchoress wrote in the wake of the “aha!”
Continue readingYesterday, the print news, the blogosphere, and the radio world were filled with stories about the MSM’s sudden discovery that Obama’s spiritual mentor is a very angry man, who speaks hatefully of whites and of the United States of America. The common conclusion: Jeremiah Wright is a racist, and it
Continue readingGod bless Geraldine Ferraro for pointing out the obvious, which is that a slightly corrupt, vapid (albeit intelligent) neophyte could never have risen as fast and as quickly as he did in politics if it hadn’t been for the fact that he has the skin color the media is looking
Continue readingEdward Whelan, after pointing out that a President Obama would have the potential to appoint up to six new Supreme Court justices, looks at Obama’s rhetoric about the Constitution and the law, and uses that information to explain clearly what type of justices Obama would appoint: [I]n setting forth the
Continue readingEvery morning finds a new batch of Barack Obama stories. These are some of the ones I found interesting today: 1. The Chicago Tribune finds that Obama committed what could be called “acts of artistic license” when he wrote his best-selling autobiography (h/t LGF). Interviews with people who knew him
Continue readingIt would be the usual New York Times puff piece about Obama being a hard worker in the Senate, and being intelligent, and being ambitious, if it weren’t for this exceptionally (and, I suspect, inadvertently) nasty introduction: They were the two competing elements in Barack Obama’s time in the Senate:
Continue readingSamantha Powers, Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisor, has been taking a lot of heat because of her bizarre pronouncements about Iraq (where she proposes ethnic cleansing), Israel (where she proposes taking over the country), and Jews (where she views foreign politics as being primarily all about “what’s good for the
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