Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
She helped kill nine people, she got five consecutive life sentences, she’s never shown the slightest remorse, and she’s walking after only 24 years in prison: A former member of the Baader-Meinhof gang has been released after serving 24 years for her involvement in kidnappings and murders in the 1970s.
Continue readingThe confessed crime — kidnapping a 9 year old girl, raping her, then burying her alive in garbage bags so she slowly smothered to death. They recommended punishment, thank God — death: A jury decided Wednesday that a convicted sex offender should get the death penalty for the kidnapping, rape
Continue readingBest summation I’ve seen (and read the rest of the article to which I’ve linked for the facts backing up this conclusion): This is a case that never should have been brought, originating in the scandal that never was, in search of a crime — violation of the Intelligence Identities
Continue readingOne of the things that T.S. raised in my original Scooter post was that Fitzgerald said that it was wrong to disclose Plame’s identity. Now, as a lawyer, I can tell you that the fact that Fitzgerald said something doesn’t make it so. In fact, nothing a lawyer says is
Continue readingThis kind of writing is why I’m not going to turn my back entirely on Ann Coulter, even when she makes inept (and, yes, offensive) jokes, not so much about John Edwards and gays (although they were caught in her misfire), but about a type of political correctness that has
Continue readingSome things make one yearn for good, old-fashioned medieval death by torture: A sex offender was found guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a case that led to a crackdown around the country on people convicted of sex crimes. Jurors deliberated about
Continue readingSan Francisco is the inclusive city. San Franciscans love everybody, except conservative and religious people. San Franciscans have always been in the vanguard of progressive thinking. That’s why San Francisco is surprised to find itself grappling with a big statistical problem: It’s arresting African-Americans at a rate disproportionate to any
Continue readingAnn Coulter can be too mean sometimes, and I think she undermines her points when she is. Sometimes, though, she’s right on the money, as she is in this article, some of which I quote here: The “bipartisan” Iraq panel has recommended that Iran and Syria can help stabilize Iraq.
Continue readingHalloween in a quiet Marin community got interrupted by a one man crime spree: The Marin incident began about 6 p.m. Tuesday, when a suspect was driving a white Honda Civic behind Corte Madera resident Mary Wall as she headed toward her home in Madrone Canyon. A young man sprang
Continue readingMark Steyn just got back from a Gitmo visit. In his most recent column, he describes what he saw there (better living than my “neighbors” in San Quentin, that’s for sure), and contrasts it with Leahy’s unhinged rant over trials for military terrorists: [I]t surely requires a perverse genius to
Continue readingSometimes, when children die in horrible accidents that could have been avoided if the parents had been responsible, I feel that the child’s death is punishment enough for the parent, and that imprisonment would be redundant. In the case of Maureen Faibish, however, who killed her son by pitbull, I
Continue readingI used to date a man who liked to blame me when things went wrong. Sometimes, of course, the blame would be merited, but as often as not, the matter at issue would be his fault or, indeed, no one’s fault. I got tired of the arguments. Eventually, when the
Continue readingMany, many years ago, I read a wry, sarcastic book called I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional : The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help. As the book's title indicates, Wendy Kaminer, the author, was tackling the competitive dysfunctionality that the whole therapeutic culture promoted. The chapter in her book that struck me
Continue readingThe West Wing, the now defunct NBC show, is the ne plus ultra illustration of how Democrats think the world should be run. Indeed, you can amuse yourself with a list of top Left Wing scenes culled from all of the show's episodes. Last night, though, I was struck by
Continue readingPatrick Kennedy is a truly sad little guy. He's obviously combating some serious personal demons. I believe he should resign because I don't think someone so dysfunctional can adequately represent his constituents. That's really the end of the whole Patrick Kennedy story. As Gypsy Rose Lee used to say when
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