Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Marriage is not, and never has been, a personal right. In Western society, it operates at two levels. First, it functions at a religious level. This is a deeply personal level, because in every religion, marriage is, or is equivalent to, a sacrament. In America, you have the Constitutional right
Continue readingEschewing all domestic issues, Joe Lieberman carefully explains the decline and fall of the Democratic party’s foreign policy: Beginning in the 1940s, the Democratic Party was forced to confront two of the most dangerous enemies our nation has ever faced: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. In response, Democrats under
Continue readingI purposely didn’t read the news stories headlined “McCain’s wife sells off” something, something, something Sudan. I knew what I’d find there, once I got passed that smear headline implying that McCain & Co. are profiting off of people’s misery in Africa. The actual facts would show that Mrs. McCain
Continue readingIf I had to pick one article to recommend for today’s reading, it would have to be Dennis Prager’s explanation about why voting Democrat would truly put the country on the wrong track. I would go slightly further and say that we have to guard against the same outcome —
Continue reading…how’s Obama going to talk to Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-Il and all those other bad guys he’s said he’ll speak with unreservedly? As for the afraid of John McCain, that comes from this: John McCain’s campaign is strongly considering presenting Barack Obama with a proposal for a completely new kind
Continue readingOne of Mr. Bookworm’s colleagues asked for my opinion of the “10 Things” list MoveOn.org did attacking John McCain. I fired off an email in response that is not polished (and is a little disorganized), but I think it hits the main points. What do you think? 1. John McCain
Continue readingTo my mind, senior Republican leaders are digging the grave, preparatory to burying themselves: Senior Republicans expressed grave fears on Sunday about the prospects of Senator John McCain, their candidate, against Senator Barack Obama in November’s general election. The “senior Republicans” to which the article refers are Fred Barnes and
Continue readingIt’s interesting to compare Michelle Obama’s angry, self-involved whining with McCain’s true heroism. It tells you a bit about the two candidates.
Continue readingDespite stories of his explosive temper, there is absolutely no doubt that McCain has been playing it nice so far in this election season. It’s easy to do right now, of course, with Obama and Hillary acting as his surrogates against each other. They sling the mud so he doesn’t
Continue readingOne of the Democratic selling points — and it was certainly one that Monsieur John Kerry tried to hit hard — is that American conservatism is out of step with Europe, and that Democrats, with their advanced European attitudes, will help us be friends again with the rest of the
Continue readingMarin is about as liberal a community as one can possibly find. That means that the analyst for the local political newspaper is a liberal too. Right now, he’s a very depressed liberal, since he’s absolutely certain that the Democrats are imploding, leading to the inevitability of a McCain victory:
Continue readingYou all know Aesop’s class tale of the race between the tortoise and the hare: At the starting gate, the hare picks up so much speed that it soon vanishes completely, while the tortoise plods on behind. Within sight of the finish line, however, when the hare looks backwards and
Continue readingOn the liberal side of the American political world, one of the lingering horrors of the McCarthy era is “guilt by association.” Certainly that was the lesson I, a young liberal, took away from teachings about that era. As I learned it, it wasn’t that the HUAC hearings were aimed
Continue readingIt’s becoming increasingly clear that John McCain is going to have to cope with something I call PT-BDS — or Post Traumatic Bush Derangement Syndrome. Let me explain and, as is so often the case with my explanations, let me start with a personal anecdote. I’m visiting with the in-laws
Continue readingThe MSM is going after McCain, but the fact is that, the more they dribble out details about the man, the more I admire what I learn. Regardless of his sometimes flawed political instincts (that campaign financing thing, again), he is a very good human being, and an honorable one
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