Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Americans’ very different reactions to COVID make me wonder how much our vanishing Judeo-Christian heritage factors into those reactions. America embarked on two diametrically opposite paths once the first COVID panic ended. Leftists embraced an approach intended to do anything and everything they could to avoid the possibility of dying
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I was not familiar with Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity, so I found this video fascinating and thought-provoking. A friend sent me this video about Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity, a theory Bonhoeffer developed after being imprisoned for speaking out about Germany’s turn to Naziism. I found it fascinating and thought-provoking:
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The GOP poohbahs’ belief that they can save the party by bowing before the ascendant left shows how disconnected they are from voters. One thing that’s become clear in the past week is that the Republican party in Washington, D.C., is completely disconnected from the ordinary Americans that, of necessity,
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With the Wuhan Virus, Leftists’ and conservatives’ responses to opening up America reveal that they are responding to very different emotional imperatives. After selecting my groceries at Walmart yesterday, I ended up with a checkout clerk who was a young woman, maybe in her early 20s. She was wearing gloves
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In America, the term Right Wing is misused to imply that conservative Americans are fascists lusting for world domination; in fact, the opposite is true. Irrelevant intro: As my regular readers (to whom I am endlessly grateful) know, I was away from my blog for some time caring for a
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If being conservative isn’t a choice but is, instead, a genetic imperative, you can shame your Leftist friends when they attack you for being born this way. The Left is insistently telling us that, except for gender, which is apparently infinitely mutable, the two most important things about us are
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I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the whole idea of Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican candidate for president in the 2016 election. In analyzing his (to me) unexpected victory, it’s easy enough to point fingers at the media, which gave him unlimited air time; at Fox, which
Continue readingOne of the striking paradoxes in Marin is that the same people who reliably vote for Democrat candidates actually have quite conservative values. In my Marin world, people are educated, ambitious, hard-working, married, and family-oriented, and they happily live in almost entirely white communities. As to that last, it’s not
Continue readingThe Wall Street Journal has penned what may be the most savage editorial opinion I’ve ever seen in those pages. The sentiments aren’t new, but the blood-drawing is: President Obama likes to invoke his predecessors in the Oval Office, as all Presidents do, but in one sense he is unlike
Continue readingWith news that the Immigration “Reform” Act (which has the distinct potential to create a permanent Leftist voting bloc) is getting all sorts of approval from the Republican Party, JoshuaPundit’s post couldn’t be more timely.
Continue readingDuring the past week, whenever I found myself alone in the car during good drive-time talk radio (i.e., Rush), I did something unusual: I didn’t listen. Instead, I turned to mindless pop music. I was thinking about this peculiar behavior on my part, because I truly love Rush. I think
Continue readingI’m still reading scattered posts castigating Mitt Romney for being a bad candidate or running a bad campaign. I understand the need to analyze failures to identify remediable errors, but we’re making a huge mistake focusing on the end of the campaign, rather than the beginning. One could say the
Continue readingPaul Scott challenged us to look at what Eric Garland, a Progressive blogger, has to say and to take it seriously as a way to win the White House. Paul is right — we cannot make a convincing argument unless we know what our opponent in the argument believes. Insulting
Continue readingBill Whittle explains very clearly why it’s a mistake in this election for those who dislike Obama to a protest vote for a third party, or not vote at all, in order to protest the fact that Republicans are so far from perfect. It’s a principled stand, certainly, but it
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I posted about the fact that “the most brilliant president ever” doesn’t know the difference between an endorser and an endorsee. As you may recall, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator showed up at Obama’s campaign event, leading Obama to say “‘My homeboy from Illinois,’ Obama said,
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