Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Since I was a child, I’ve enjoyed a very specific type of book or movie, of the kind that I call the “Getting it Right” genre. Getting it Right entertainment involves a protagonist who is making big mistakes, and who figures out how to — yes — get it right.
Continue readingIf you haven’t already, please read Steve Schippert’s guest post on this blog about the animating anti-American forces driving WikiLeaks. If you don’t have time to click on over, here’s the money quote: Wikileaks is a small cabal of people who, in their own site description, “Publishes and comments on
Continue reading“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” — Lewis Carroll I was struggling to figure out how to write my annual post about the Admiral’s Reception that closes out Fleet Week festivities, until it occurred to me that
Continue reading(Welcome, Best of the Web readers! James Taranto is correct that nobody’s asking this question, and my readers are correct that Specter’s doing this “because he can,” but it still drives me nuts that, as a taxpayer, I’m funding this old duck’s last political hurrah.) We all know who Arlen
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Continue readingThere are two storm warnings I want to give you, one of which requires action on your part, the other of which, depending on where you live, falls into the “sit, watch, and thank God you’re far away” category. First warning: Drastic cuts to the military, courtesy of Bawney Fwank,
Continue readingI feel I should say something, so I will. Being me, of course, what I say will be discursive. Re McChrystal: An excellent general who didn’t hit it off with Obama from the git-go (blame lies, I believe, with Obama), and who failed utterly in the diplomatic discretion category —
Continue readingIs this really the Gene Simmons of KISS fame? Having read his bio, I think it is. (By the way, it’s a surprisingly interesting and impressive bio. Who knew?) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MtdIO23MKM[/youtube]
Continue reading[I’ll keep this at the top through Memorial Day. Scroll down for lots of new posts.] Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words as part of a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished
Continue readingAs I’ve mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. A liberal I know flipped through the book’s first few pages and had a very different reaction.
Continue readingI love kid logic. I was telling my pre-teen daughter about the Navy SEALS (having just finished Lone Survivor), and I mentioned the incredible physical strength and mental stamina the men had. “And the women….” she prompted me. “Nope,” I said. “No women.” She stared at me. “But don’t the
Continue readingFrom a local newspaper, the Twin Cities Times: THREE CHEERS, YTD! For the CHiP who stopped my friend John Gulick the other day. John was speeding on his motorcycle when a CHiP hailed him to pull over, but John missed the exit so sped up to the next one, which
Continue readingReturn of the heroes in Canada: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2q_SLSMA9k[/youtube] H/t: American Thinker
Continue readingIt’s not Memorial Day yet, but it’s time to start thinking about it, and this beautiful video, by wordsmith at Flopping Aces, is a good place to start. Be prepared with a hankie, though, ’cause you’ll need it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058VyI89QoQ[/youtube] I just want to add one thing now that you’ve spent
Continue readingI’d like to analyze a Harvard’s law prof’s defense of a Harvard law dean. The Prof (and ex-dean himself) is Robert Clark, who wrote an op-ed in the WSJ defending Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s approach to the military during her tenure as dean of Harvard Law. He spells out
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