Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Steve Schippert’s focus has been on national security (he was one of the founders of ThreatsWatch.org), so for that reason alone he’s viewed the Obama candidacy and the Democratic ascendancy with dismay. He’s now concerned that even more may be at stake, as an Obama presidency threatens to undermine completely
Continue readingWhat do I get? I get why people are voting Democrat. It’s all explained in this clever little film: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU-EpU13K_o[/youtube] And be sure to visit VerticalBlu’s website, if for no other reason than to show that a company that manages to put together a great little video like that deserves
Continue readingIn the “I wish I’d said that” department is this truly excellent post from Power Line, pointing out that this crisis (a) establishes that McCain, not Obama, is a leader and (b) that the Democrats cannot possibly be telling the truth when they try to blame McCain for the House’s
Continue readingI’m no Sondheim fan, but he did get the psychology of blame down well in a song from Into The Woods that has the constant refrain “It’s all your/his/her fault.” It’s human to assign blame. Sometimes, though, assigning blame is easy, and with the current economic crisis, history shows us
Continue readingOne of the things that’s been playing through my head lately is the distance between the liberal worldview and actual reality. The media arguments directed at Palin, especially those that deal with women’s issues, really highlighted that divide for me. Let’s begin with the way in which liberals distinguish themselves
Continue readingAnother long, hot day, this one augmented by a nasty little migraine that’s so far rebuffed treatment. Blogging has therefore been minimal and what blogging I’ve done has been for other sites to which I owe commitments. Nevertheless, what I blog there, I can reprint here, right? Here’s the start
Continue readingBear with me here, because I’m thinking out loud. It all started with the fact that today’s Chronicle had a sad, sad story that began like this: Expectant mother, fetus shot dead in Oakland Kennah Wilson, 18, was eagerly anticipating the birth of her daughter this fall. She was going
Continue readingWe weren’t looking for it, but Mr. Bookworm accidentally stumbled across Hillary’s speech on TV. I listened to a little and then, put off by her frenetic delivery, read the rest. I have just a few of comments, since I don’t think it merits more than a few. Hillary is
Continue readingI’m still happil figuring out all the bells and whistles on my new iPhone, so I’ll start off this Monday with a few quick picks: No wonder Putin still dreams of the old Empire: it turns out that, if the Soviet Union still existed, it would have left all the
Continue readingThere’s a rather excited headline in today’s NY Times: GOP Drops in Voting Rolls in Many States You can just hear the huzzahs all over liberal households in America: “Republicans are vanishing. The Dems are getting stronger.” Well, maybe. There’s something interesting, though, in the very first paragraph of that
Continue readingYou’ve all heard the question that is the title of my post, haven’t you? Is an audience necessary for a sound to have meaning or even existence? And what if, in our world, the intermediary to the audience bugs out? That’s today’s question, as Republicans vigorously debate the new drilling
Continue readingI’ve never been a David Letterman fan — his humor and mine have few points of intersection. Nevertheless, I think he (and his writers) hit the nail on the head with the Top 10 list of signs Obama is becoming over-confident. As you watch this, don’t just listen to the
Continue readingIBD does an enjoyably neat job of cutting Nancy Pelosi down to size: When challenged in an interview with Politico.com about her bullheaded refusal to let Republicans submit energy policies for approval, Pelosi resorted to risible hyperbole to justify her iron-fisted rule of the House parliamentary process. “I’m trying to
Continue readingAfter seeing the insanity unfold before his eyes, a visiting law professor felt compelled to say this: “I am really astonished at the mood in this room,” commented one witness, George Mason University School of Law professor Jeremy Rabkin. “The tone of these deliberations is slightly demented,” Rabkin said. “You
Continue readingIn light of the Surge’s manifest success, John Hawkins, of Right Wing News, has written a column that assembles many of the Democratic gloom and doom predictions about the Surge when it was first proposed. Makes for interesting reading in that it exposes the profound ignorance and ideological blindness coming
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