Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Good stuff today. Really good stuff. Here goes: Kevin D. Williamson says that the IRS scandal is the worst scandal ever in American politics, since it fundamentally undermines our form of government. I’m inclined to agree with him and would even go so far as to wonder whether he’s been
Continue readingI know this is a politically incorrect thing for me to say, but I couldn’t care less about Michael Sam’s sexuality. If it were up to me, it wouldn’t be news at all, or it would be at the bottom of page three in the sports section. I’m not homophobic;
Continue readingLots of laundry to fold, but that doesn’t mean I can’t highlight a few things that caught my eye. *** Until our relatives moved away from Los Angeles, twice a year we used to make the trek from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and then back up again. In
Continue readingShe’s a high school senior, but damn! if she doesn’t give a stunningly good talk about the way in which the New York Times, despite knowing about the Holocaust, not only downplayed it, but effectively kept American policy away from helping Europe’s besieged Jewish population: There is no anti-Semite worse
Continue readingA friend sent me a very funny email. I don’t know if the numbers are precisely accurate, but I do know that they’re accurate enough to serve a larger truth, namely America’s overwhelming turn in 1942 from a peacetime nation into a fully armed, fully operational wartime nation. In this
Continue readingMy daughter went to our local library this weekend and brought home a bunch of the library’s recent acquisitions for teens. The inside jacket blurb describes them as fantasy or high school relationship books. My daughter said to me, “I don’t know why it is, Mom, but they all turn
Continue readingMy post title is somewhat misleading, because I actually don’t have an opinion about the artist Banksy. You can’t revisit what never existed. Up until about ten minutes ago, I didn’t care about him one way or the other, neither to like nor to dislike; nor to respect nor to
Continue readingI wasn’t paying attention, but it seems that the New York Times now has a dedicated Hillary reporter, even though the elections is more than three years away. Does this mean that we can finally abandon the pretense of media impartiality? This far in advance, having that kind of round-the-clock,
Continue readingI mentioned that the only news I get here comes from the New York Times digest that’s handed out to interested passengers. I don’t have a copy at hand, but if my memory serves me, this is what I read: 1. House Republicans are standing firm against the President’s effort
Continue readingI may have mentioned that just about the only news I have access to on this trip is the New York Times. I have Internet, but it’s so expensive that I write things offline (such as emails to family or posts to the blog) and then sign on just long
Continue readingIt may be one of the most famous quotations in the English language: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an allegory about the Soviet Union. His point with that quotation was that all totalitarian states, no matter their original
Continue readingScandals, scandals, and more scandals. My list so far includes: 1. Benghazi: politics before, politics and apathy during, and politics and a wall of lies and cover-ups afterwards. 2. Fast & Furious: a completely bungled effort to track cartels in Mexico or a deliberate attempt to gin up gun crime
Continue readingYesterday, Rand Paul embarked upon a nearly 12-hour-long standing filibuster. The filibuster’s ostensible purpose and practical effect was to delay a vote on John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA. It’s real purpose, though, was to force Attorney General Eric Holder to answer a straightforward question: “Does the President have
Continue reading[UPDATE: I should clarify here that, while Fish regularly writes opinion pieces for the Times, and while his beliefs and the Times’ beliefs harmonize more often than not, Fish is not a salaried employee of the Times. I’ve changed the title of this post to add the phrase “guest columnist”
Continue readingHot Air caught the New York Times public editor stating — with a straight face yet! — that she really has no idea what political viewpoint informs their writing. Maybe this screen shot, from today’s online edition, will help her: I’m sure both stories are true. That is, I don’t
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