Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Read here John McCain’s 1973 account of his plane crash and his 5 1/2 years at the mercy of the North Vietnamese. It may not tell you whether he’ll be a good president, but it certainly tells you something about the man, all of it good.
Continue readingObama has a pattern when a person or institution proves problematic: First, loyally, he tries to defend the troublemaker. Second, when his poll numbers show that the defense is futile, he ruthlessly jettisons the troublemaker, whether it’s Samantha Power, Jeremiah Wright or Trinity Church. But what about this troublemaker (assuming,
Continue readingI was speaking with a liberal this weekend who opined that McCain will win, something he found inconceivable in a match between Obama and McCain. “Why,” I asked? “Because McCain’s never done anything,” he replied. Rather than defend McCain’s record, I asked a different question: “What’s Obama done?” A millisecond
Continue readingI’ve been finding very disturbing the intense hostility that conservatives direct against John McCain. So much so that I wrote a very long rant on the subject, which American Thinker was kind enough to publish and which I reprint below: Perhaps because I’m a neocon, and not a dyed-in-the-wool, native-born
Continue readingMarriage is not, and never has been, a personal right. In Western society, it operates at two levels. First, it functions at a religious level. This is a deeply personal level, because in every religion, marriage is, or is equivalent to, a sacrament. In America, you have the Constitutional right
Continue readingEschewing all domestic issues, Joe Lieberman carefully explains the decline and fall of the Democratic party’s foreign policy: Beginning in the 1940s, the Democratic Party was forced to confront two of the most dangerous enemies our nation has ever faced: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In response, Democrats under
Continue readingI purposely didn’t read the news stories headlined “McCain’s wife sells off” something, something, something Sudan. I knew what I’d find there, once I got passed that smear headline implying that McCain & Co. are profiting off of people’s misery in Africa. The actual facts would show that Mrs. McCain
Continue readingIf I had to pick one article to recommend for today’s reading, it would have to be Dennis Prager’s explanation about why voting Democrat would truly put the country on the wrong track. I would go slightly further and say that we have to guard against the same outcome —
Continue readingOne of Mr. Bookworm’s colleagues asked for my opinion of the “10 Things” list MoveOn.org did attacking John McCain. I fired off an email in response that is not polished (and is a little disorganized), but I think it hits the main points. What do you think? 1. John McCain
Continue readingTo my mind, senior Republican leaders are digging the grave, preparatory to burying themselves: Senior Republicans expressed grave fears on Sunday about the prospects of Senator John McCain, their candidate, against Senator Barack Obama in November’s general election. The “senior Republicans” to which the article refers are Fred Barnes and
Continue readingIt’s interesting to compare Michelle Obama’s angry, self-involved whining with McCain’s true heroism. It tells you a bit about the two candidates.
Continue readingThere is a belief that the “mutually assured destruction” deterrence that worked during the Cold War will work in Iran. Hillary certainly believes it, which is why she promised that, if Iran hits Israel with a nuclear bomb during her presidency, she will hit Iran with a nuclear bomb. She
Continue readingDespite stories of his explosive temper, there is absolutely no doubt that McCain has been playing it nice so far in this election season. It’s easy to do right now, of course, with Obama and Hillary acting as his surrogates against each other. They sling the mud so he doesn’t
Continue readingMichelle Malkin takes on Michelle Obama’s endless flow of whining and bile. It’s not surprising. As I pointed out in my Anger on the Left post, Leftism once seemed logically congruent with anger because Leftism was the politics of the underclass. In recent years, though, Leftism has shifted to become
Continue readingOne of the Democratic selling points — and it was certainly one that Monsieur John Kerry tried to hit hard — is that American conservatism is out of step with Europe, and that Democrats, with their advanced European attitudes, will help us be friends again with the rest of the
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