Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Do you remember the show Good Times, the one that made Jimmy “J.J.” Walker a star? It was a spin-off of Maude which, in turn, was a spin-off of All in the Family — all Norman Lear productions. The show revolved around a black family living in the Chicago housing
Continue readingYou don’t really have to work hard to know what a “Progracist” is. Indeed, it’s surprising, once you think about it, that nobody invented this neologism before. I mean, it would have applied as perfectly to Woodrow Wilson and Margaret Sanger as it does to today’s Progressives. Please check out
Continue readingA week or two ago, I put this poster on my site: I think it’s an un-racist poster. It reminds people that government will always be a minority’s worst enemies. What I didn’t know was that, in Greeley, Colorado, someone put up a billboard echoing that sentiment: The friend who
Continue readingI’ve written before about one of my favorite writers, Paul Fussell. He wrote a wonderful essay entitled Thank God for the Atom Bomb, about the righteousness of dropping the atom bomb. He was in the Army when Truman dropped the bomb, so Fussell wholeheartedly approved — and had the data
Continue readingAlec Baldwin was in the news this morning for having another rage attack on New York’s streets, this one complete with foul racial epithets. The easy line to take with this is that Alec Baldwin is a racist. I’m not sure it’s quite that simple, though. Instead, I see Baldwin’s
Continue readingOne of my high school friends is black, pro-union, devoutly Christian and (to my surprise, given her San Francisco upbringing) apparently pro-Second Amendment. She passed this along from one of her Facebook friends (who is a big numbers conservative Christian Facebooker): San Antonio Theater Shooting On Sunday December 17, 2012,
Continue readingIn America today, especially in America’s media, the worst thing you can call someone is “racist.” In our Obama-era people who oppose Obama are racist; people who support the Constitution are racist; people who use the word “Chicago” are racist; people who comment about the president’s lean physique (unless they’re
Continue readingMy father, alev ha-shalom, had forgotten more about English — his third language — than most people will ever know. In addition to reading novels and non-fiction for pleasure, he would amuse himself reading dictionaries, grammar books, and stories about the English language. (In that last genre, my favorite was one
Continue readingThere’s nothing I enjoy more than seeing someone slice and dice Paul Krugman’s latest idiocies. Randall Hoven does a magnificent job. The only sad thing about it is that he’s preaching to the choir. The ones who really should read his article — namely, the ones who think Krugman is
Continue readingBlack and Right has produced a brilliant video to help you understand how racism works in Obama’s America: As Homer Simpson would say, “It’s funny because it’s true.” Oh, wait! The fact that it’s true makes it singularly unfunny. Is this the way our nation is choosing its president? Will
Continue readingMorgan Freeman, a man who lets his periodic acting roles as God and other authority figures go to his head, has now announced that it’s okay to castigate Barack Obama, because Obama isn’t really black. Instead, he’s half white. It seems cavalier at this junction to point out that Morgan
Continue readingI’m finding some wonderful gems hidden in my inbox. This one goes back to April, but is too good not to share now. It’s a news story about the way in which the Swedish cultural elite — including the Minister of Culture — celebrate. Here’s a hint about what you’ll
Continue reading“Facts are stubborn things.” I love that quotation. John Adams said it back in 1774 when he took on the unpopular job of defending the British troops charged with the killings in the event now known as the Boston Massacre. Arguing off those same stubborn facts, Adams was able to
Continue readingThe post title, of course, is a quotation from President Obama, who couldn’t resist wading into, and personalizing, an already inflamed faux racial issue. Maybe if Obama had a son, he’d sound like Trayvon, too.
Continue readingSequestered here on the Left Coast I hadn’t paid any attention to the Trayvon Martin murder. Today, though, it forced itself into the forefront of my brain. As the media spins the story, it’s a horrific case of a very wholesome, very young black man cruelly executed in a “safe,”
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