Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If you read the post caption and thought “Kim who?”, you haven’t been following the news lately. Kim Davis is the Rowan County, Kentucky clerk who has chosen to go to jail rather than issue a marriage license to gay couples. She is being pilloried on the Left as an
Continue readingYou’ve probably noticed I have very few links in my essay about the morality of Israel’s conduct. I was really in the groove, and didn’t want to slow myself down with links. Now, rather than retrofitting, I’m just being lazy. What I also didn’t include in the essay was a
Continue readingGandhi is revered because his policy of peaceful resistance brought down the British Empire’s century’s old rule over India. It’s true. It did. But what few are willing to acknowledge is that this tactic worked only because he was using it against a moral nation, one that had been financially
Continue readingDuring the Bush era, a lot of Progressives engaged in faux civil disobedience. They marched and screamed, periodically hanged or burned Bush effigies, and even allowed gay marriage, secure in the knowledge that they’d suffer virtually no consequences. Actual vandalism might get imprisonment or a fine, but everything else allowed
Continue readingThe Dalai Lama spoke today in Berkeley, and reminded me strongly of Gandhi. This was Gandhi’s approach to the Nazis, as expressed to the English (who were, you remember, the nation against which he was rebelling): “I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless
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