Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Wag The Dog was a clever black comedy about a president hiring a Hollywood producer to trick the public into believing there was a war in Albania in order to distract the public from a sex scandal right before an election. The movie came out in 1997, and became forever
Continue readingJust a few deserving links, before real life catches up with me. StandWithUs, which may well be the most effective pro-Israel group I know, is sending around an emergency alert asking people to protest the newest front in the BDS movement: getting Israeli architects expelled from international organizations: On March
Continue readingIt’s Easter Sunday, and that means all family all the time. No complaints here, though. It’s been a lovely day so far and I anticipate an equally pleasant afternoon and evening. Full blogging will not happen today, but here are a few (a very few) links that intrigued me: I’ve
Continue readingI know this is a politically incorrect thing for me to say, but I couldn’t care less about Michael Sam’s sexuality. If it were up to me, it wouldn’t be news at all, or it would be at the bottom of page three in the sports section. I’m not homophobic;
Continue readingThe American media won’t touch Benghazi with a ten foot pole, since there is no way that either Hillary or Obama come out of it looking good. The Europeans, however, are not so squeamish. (Hat tip: Snoopy the Goon, a fellow Watcher’s Council member who blogs out of Israel at
Continue readingThe only information I wish I had is whether these students accurately represent all the students at NYU. That is, did Turning Point USA have to talk to 5, 50, or 500 students to get these abysmally ignorant responses. I suspect 5 is the correct answer, but it’s appropriate to
Continue readingI haven’t been much of a Chris Christie supporter lately. In the beginning, I admired his ability to stand up to the teacher’s unions. Since then, I’ve decided that this was less a principled position and more a reflection of a highly aggressive personality. Outside of the unions, he’s too
Continue readingA friend sent me a very funny email. I don’t know if the numbers are precisely accurate, but I do know that they’re accurate enough to serve a larger truth, namely America’s overwhelming turn in 1942 from a peacetime nation into a fully armed, fully operational wartime nation. In this
Continue readingEarl Aagaard caught something in the very first line of an AP report about the fact that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula is about to be freed from prison. If Nakoula’s name doesn’t ring a bell, let me refresh your recollection. Nakoula posted on YouTube a short video that purported to be
Continue readingDarryl Issa has tweeted out one of the most appalling photographs I’ve ever seen emerge from the United States House of Representatives. Today the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing about events in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. You remember what happened on that day, don’t you?
Continue readingI’m juggling family and work right now, so cannot blog at length (something that plagued me yesterday as well). Still, I have four articles I think you might like to read. One: I’ve ruminated often here about the nature of heroism. I’m not talking about the Leftist version of heroism,
Continue readingGood ad? I think so:
Continue readingI really love Facebook. It helps me hone my epigrammatic skills, since I believe it demands some brevity; it allows me, in sneaky fashion, to expose my liberal friends to articles and ideas that don’t normally appear on their horizons; and it allows me to get a window into what
Continue readingScandals, scandals, and more scandals. My list so far includes: 1. Benghazi: politics before, politics and apathy during, and politics and a wall of lies and cover-ups afterwards. 2. Fast & Furious: a completely bungled effort to track cartels in Mexico or a deliberate attempt to gin up gun crime
Continue readingI wrote a lovely post, right here, last night. Cheerfully hit the “publish” button and went to bed — only to wake up this morning to discover that the post not only didn’t get published, it vanished entirely. I’m not sure I can replicate it, but I’ll try. The point
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