Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s another #NeverTrump attack on Trump’s rough-hewn style. Pfeh! Trump is the perfect American president: a heart-of-gold brawler who puts American first. In its endless competition with the Weekly Standard to be the outlet the drive-by media quotes most (and whose pundits get the most appearances on MSM outlets), National
Continue readingI want a job at the New York Times. It is clearly a place that pays people to be stupid. David Brooks gives Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 a very nice review. Coming Apart claims that there is a big divide between rich Americans and
Continue readingWhen I was at Berkeley, I had only a few decent professors. One of them (who was really wonderful) taught a British history class covering the period from 1760 to WWII. He taught us that the Industrial Revolution, though it started in England, petered out. It lacked the ferocity and
Continue readingMaureen Dowd is perplexed: How can Barack Obama, who grew up with a poor, single mother, keep appearing to be the black John Kerry, an effete Ivy Leaguer, out of touch with the ordinary voter? In her mind, it’s all the problem of a low class black kid have overlearned
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