Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I was at my child’s school the other day, and happened to glance at the daily handout the children receive. It had the usual special announcements and ended with “Today’s Patriotic Quotation.” I was rather pleased to see that there was a patriotic quotation included (on a daily basis, yet).
Continue readingGood ideas, thankfully, don’t just squirm away and die. The best of them take on a life of their own. This year’s good idea, one that has been in vogue for a while, but that is taking on heightened importance now, is the core nature of being an American. My
Continue readingAs is always the case with an Andrew McCarthy article, he efficiently marshals vast numbers of relevants to make a compelling argument, with today’s argument being that Holder’s decision to “investigate” CIA interrogators is not merely a sop to the radical Left in the U.S., but is actually part of
Continue readingI have two wonderful things for you to read on the subject of patriotism. The first is from Zabrina, at Thought You’d Never Ask, in which she dispenses some words of wisdom to a child about to head off to college. The second is from Jonah Goldberg, who explains why
Continue readingI asserted the other day that it was a “fact” that America built the greatest society the world has ever seen and Ozzie reasonably asked me to prove this was a fact and not merely my opinion. He has a point, but let’s see what facts we can offer. It
Continue readingBarack Obama has had a weird life, but not a bad one. Yes, his father abandoned him, but he’s certainly not the only person, of any race, to experience that. His mother loved him, his grandparents loved him, he grew up in the mellow, racially-mixed world of Hawaii (barring his
Continue readingI’ve been mentally debriefing myself in the 36 hours since my return from a fairly intense Disney vacation and wanted to share some of those thoughts with you. I’ve always loved Disneyland. When I was young, I was taken in by the apparent magic. I didn’t notice the motors and
Continue readingI had noticed today, when I checked out the British paper the Telegraph, an article in which people were asked to summarize their lives in six words. What I didn’t realize is that there is something of a meme going on out there, not in the internet so much as
Continue readingI did something fun tonight: I went to a moderated talk concerning Israel. The speakers were Dennis Prager, John Podhoretz and Mona Charen, with Michael Medved moderating. As you can imagine, the discussion was informed, vigorous, amusing, intelligent and opinionated. I enjoyed every minute of it and I gathered from
Continue readingKen Burns’ new series about World War II is off to a good start although his stately pace can often be somewhat sleep inducing. It’s one of those slightly bizarre situations where it’s worth your while to force yourself to stay awake. Part of the first episode includes a run-down
Continue readingWith the resurgent charge that there is a pro-Israel lobby destroying U.S. interests around the world, I’d like you to read this essay, from George Friedman, of Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence organization. I’m publishing it with permission of Stratfor, which included this message in the email I receive regularly with
Continue readingFor six hours this Sunday I watched my TIVOed copies of Christiane Amanpour’s God’s Warriors specials. Amanpour’s biases clearly showed through, especially when she tried to portray Muslim radicals as some kind of a small fringe group, or when she spoke to fundamentalist Christian leaders in a tone dripping with
Continue readingOne of my favorite of the many conservative slogans printed on products sold at Protest Warrior is the one that says “Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War Has Never Solved Anything.” To me, it’s always been self-evident that there are good wars, just as there are bad
Continue readingThank you as always for your insightful and thoughtful comments. I always love throwing out topics and seeing the wonderful places you take them. Today, I’d like to ask another question that relates to faith. One thing that cannot be denied about the Islamists is that they have a deep
Continue readingFrom Mark Steyn: Tony Blair was at pains to point out that the hostages were released ”without any deal, without any negotiation, without any side agreement of any nature.” But he’s missing (or artfully sidestepping) the point: Tehran didn’t want a deal. It wanted the humbling of the Great Satan’s
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