Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Rodney King got his 15 minutes of fame for (a) getting beaten up while resisting arrest; (b) having his name attached to some horrific riots; and (c) plaintively asking “Can we get along?” The last is a great thought. I’d like to get along with people better myself. “Getting along,”
Continue readingRicky Gervais distinguished himself well yesterday by savaging the same people who usually savage us, the ordinary Americans. The video makes for somewhat uncomfortable viewing, since the victims of Hollywood’s barbs are usually sitting anonymously in theaters and living rooms, not in the same room in which the insults are
Continue readingOne of my oldest blog friends is Patrick O’Hannigan, a devout Catholic and a true humanist. He has written a simply gorgeous article over at the American Spectator, about religion’s role in the public square. Being Patrick, he manages to take this often challenging subject, and weave into ruminations about
Continue readingLiam Neeson, who does the voice of Aslan the Lion in the Narnia movies, has upset people by claiming that Aslan could as easily be Allah or Buddha as he could be Christ: Ahead of the release of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader next Thursday, Neeson said: ‘Aslan symbolises
Continue readingThe Chris Coons-Christine O’Donnell debate over the First Amendment has cast into stark relief the fact that the Left believes the First Amendment’s purpose is to keep religious people out of the public square. I’ve blogged on this point before, so I won’t belabor it. I’ll only say briefly that
Continue readingTwo of my absolute favorite political writers, Peter Wehner and Jennifer Rubin, have chastised O’Donnell for her recently reported constitutional error. I think that, perhaps, they’re being unfair. It’s clear from reading the news reports that the Constitutional portion of the debate was intended to be a pile-up on O’Donnell:
Continue readingI have to admit to being a little suspicious of an AP report that has O’Donnell appropriately saying that there’s nothing in the constitution about separation of church and state (that, as you know, comes from a letter Jefferson wrote), but then states that she does not know that the
Continue readingYou’ve all heard by now about the group of Massachusetts school children taken to a mosque where they were taught utterly fallacious history about Islam and America, and then led in prayer: A mosque spokesperson is seen teaching the children that in Mohammed’s 7th century Arabia women were allowed to
Continue readingAbercrombie & Fitch is all about “the look.” I mean, the whole point of the store is to get people, especially young people, to cough up money for “the look.” To this end, the ads are soft porn, all aimed at showing the ultimate sexy cool. Have I mentioned that
Continue readingIn the debate over the Ground Zero Mosque, the Left’s trump card has been the language in the First Amendment stating that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” All of us correctly understand this to mean that government cannot create a state faith, nor can it
Continue readingSometimes, to their creator’s dismay, ideas take on a life of their own. In the wake of Comedy Central’s decision to censor a South Park episode that didn’t actually draw Mohamed, but merely suggested the possibility of doing so, Molly Norris came up with the idea of “everybody draw Mohamed
Continue readingWolf Howling has put together just a stellar post about the ongoing attacks on the Catholic church (along with a very nice link to yours truly). If this is a subject that interests you — and it should, whether or not you’re a Catholic, because it goes to attacks on
Continue readingThe media is making hay of the pedophilia scandal involving the Catholic Church. I think that Leftists see issue this as the single brick, down at the bottom of the wall, that, if pulled at hard enough, will bring the whole edifice tumbling down. Just as Jews are persecuted because
Continue readingReaders of my blog know that one of my personal bête noires is liberal indoctrination in public schools. I blog about it frequently. My last outing on that subject was here, and I’ll get back to that in a little bit. First, though, I’d like you to see how one
Continue readingShortly after I started practicing law, the California State Bar decided mandated that all lawyers must comply with annual “Minimum Continuing Legal Education” (“MCLE”) requirement. I was instantly incensed, because it was immediately obvious to me that this had nothing to do with improving the practice of law and everything
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