Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Washington Post has picked up and expanded upon the story about Bonnie Bleskachek, the Minneapolis fire chief recently fired for all sorts of sexual and discriminatory shenanigans. It makes for fascinating reading if you don’t mind that your local fire house sounds like a lesbian Peyton Place with a
Continue readingWatch this, and you won’t be surprised that “progressives” are trying to ban it from YouTube: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Qx4u-Uua8] I’d like to add something profound, but I can’t. The video pretty much says it all. Hat tip: Flopping Aces del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingIn the wake of the Michael Richards scandal, Jesse Jackson has thoughtfully stepped forward to announce a new addition to the Orwellian NewSpeak pantheon: the deletion of a word from the English language (and you know which word I mean). I wasn’t really paying attention to this whole thing because
Continue readingOmeed Aziz Popal, the Fremont, California, man who went on a car fueled rampage in August, during which he killed one man and injured 18 others (including one woman who ended up paralyzed from the neck down) will be tried: Omeed Aziz Popal, 29, faces 18 counts of attempted murder
Continue readingAs you know, there is a big debate going on in England right now about the veil. Those who support the veil are framing this support in terms of religious freedom. However, veils are not an integral part of the Muslim religion. Instead, they are a product of Arab culture.
Continue readingWe Americans are very respectful of other people’s cultures. The old “ugly American” of 1950s stereotypes died on college campuses in the 1960s, to be replaced by the multiculturalist, PC American who would never dream of challenging the way in which another culture conducts itself. The most recent example of
Continue readingFrom Jonah Goldberg’s latest: The best book for illuminating what’s going on in the Muslim “street” isn’t some weighty treatise on Islam; it’s a short little tract called “White Guilt” by Shelby Steele. The book isn’t even about Islam. Steele focuses on white liberals and the black radicals who’ve been
Continue readingA nice companion piece to my (I hope polite) rant about the effect of quotas on the materials presented to California school children shows up in this Daniel Golden article about how school textbook publishers are desperate to meet their quota requirements. After describing the nice wheel and crutch props
Continue readingThere’s panic on the Left again at the thought of placing young Islamic males under extra scrutiny when they approach sensitive spots such as airplanes, trains, and nuclear missile silos. At the Patriot Post, we get a little reminder about why this is a good idea. I won’t run the
Continue reading(WordPress was good enough to save the post I was working on when my son got hurt, so here it is. Sadly, but not surprisingly, it’s not as good as I remembered….) Apparently I was not the only one to notice that the missing Egyptian students dispersed to some remarkably
Continue readingThe Terminator, merely by raising his eyebrows, managed to get the California legislature to back down on a bill that would have required all California textbooks, starting in first grade, to include materials focusing on famous homosexuals — not because of their fame, but because of their homosexuality. Instead, it
Continue readingSometimes, you stumble across an expert who has such manifest expertise, it might be a grave mistake to ignore him. And sometimes, if you’re not the stumbling kind, you’re lucky enough to have someone tell you how to find information from that expert. Thanks to Kevin, I can tell you
Continue readingThomas Lifson and Richard Baehr offer an excellent summary of the First Amendment matters at issue in Professor Thomas Klocek's suit against DePaul University. As you may nor may not know, DePaul summarily fired Professor Klocek after he engaged in Palestinian students manning a table at a student activities
Continue readingMany years ago, when I lived in England, I brought my roommates (or, should I say, flatmates) to convulsive laughter when I announced that the 1960s happened in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district — and nowhere else. In my parochialism, I was completely unaware of the whole "Swingin' London" scene of
Continue readingI still haven't been able to get the wonderful Day By Day cartoon to appear as a regular feature on my blog, but today's was so funny, I'll post it special:
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