Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The debate about “which candidate treats dogs worse” inevitably descended into farce, with almost no intermediate steps. Putting aside the insanity of spinning a presidential campaign around decades’ old decisions about dogs, Americans are probably going to be sympathetic to putting a dog in a protected hutch on the roof
Continue readingThe Democrats are pointing to Romney’s wealth as a reason to vote against him. In keeping with their Marxist world view that the economy is a finite pie, they are arguing, both implicitly and explicitly, that he must have stolen his wealth from the little people. Republicans, rather than sneering
Continue readingRasmussen just came out with a pre-debate poll that shows Obama leading both Romney and Santorum by ten and seven points respectively. Couple this with headlines touting good news on the economy (some of which is definitely real and some illusory) and it’s enough to send something stronger than a
Continue readingI’m planning a trip this summer to Japan, a country about which I know nothing. Actually that’s an overstatement. I know some things: it’s beautiful, historic, and clean (I love that part), and comes complete with great food and well-mannered people. But that’s all I know. Toji Pagoda I don’t
Continue readingI’ve been corresponding with a group of conservatives who are very strongly divided between Romney and Gingrich. I’m pleased to say that, while the debate is substantively heated, it also never veers away from common decency and civility. My latest contribution to the email string, right after mention of a
Continue readingOne of the things my parents always told me was that there is no one more fired with zealotry than a convert. Paul of Tarsus is, of course, the perfect example of the truth behind that statement. One doesn’t have to look so far field, though, in time at space.
Continue readingBack in the late 1980s, early 1990s, when political correctness first floated into the realm of mainstream culture, everyone thought it was the same as being nice or having good manners. It’s not. Good manners, to my mind, means assuring that the people around you feel comfortable. Political correctness means
Continue readingWe can expect tomorrow night’s State of the Union address to be an action-packed hour (or so) of vitriol and self-pity. Obama will cherry-pick a few numbers about the 1% and then whine about how he’s been trying really hard to destroy that same 1%, but that a vast array
Continue readingYesterday, my sister emailed me a “cheer up” email that’s making the rounds. It’s intended for women, who tend to feel more strongly than men do that the mirror is their enemy. The tag line is “It isn’t just us who suffer changes over the years!” The rest of the
Continue readingDoes history repeat itself? I fervently hope not. Ok, I have grudgingly thrown my support behind Mitt Romney. It’s not that I am excited about Romney as a candidate, but I am genuinely excited about the need to get Obama out of office before he does irreversible damage to this
Continue readingI believe I’ve mentioned on several occasions here that the more I hear from Allen West, the more I like him. Is he ready to be President? Is there time for him to step into the fray? Allen West (Photo by Gage Skidmore) I don’t know the answer to those
Continue readingWhy, oh why, oh why can’t I get more excited about Mitt? On paper, he’s a very good candidate. Yes, there have been flips and flops, but it’s naive to expect perfect political purity from any candidate. Aside from that, he’s straight out of Hollywood’s central casting, circa 1944: well-educated,
Continue readingSince at least Reagan, the standard liberal trope is that Republicans, both voters and politicians, are stupid. That trope has, of course, emerged again this year. The joker in the deck is Newt Gingrich, a PhD and author who spokes with incredible fluency and has a masterful grasp of facts.
Continue readingLet’s see if I’ve got this right, based upon the evidence currently available: Obama is a grandiose narcissist Newt is an egomaniac Hillary is a compulsive liar Mitt seems vaguely asperger-ish, with a weather vane in place of his spine Herman is a serial womanizer (assuming, for the sake of
Continue readingBack in 1987, when he was campaigning for President, one of George H. W. Bush’s advisers suggested that he back off from spouting minutiae to the electorate and spend some time focusing on the big picture, So that he could better sell himself to Americans. According to contemporaneous reports, Bush,
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