Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Not only does Mark Steyn get it, he does it with such great prose: The forces at play in the Middle East are beyond the Geopolitical Friars’ Club. The median age in Gaza is 15.8 years old. How likely is it that any of those bespoke Palestinian “moderates” who’ve been
Continue readingHezbollah has bombed major Israeli cities: A missile fired from Lebanon on Thursday evening exploded in the northern city of Haifa, officials said. Firefighters and rescue services who reached the scene of the attack didn’t report any civilian casualties. Earlier, six Katyusha rockets exploded in central Nahariya on Thursday evening
Continue readingApparently one of the best weapons Khomeni had in the Iran-Iraq war that raged during the 1980s was children. He organized units of children that were nothing more than religiously inspired cannon fodder: After Iraq invaded in September, 1980, it had quickly become clear that Iran’s forces were no match
Continue readingIf you have any interest in Iran's descent into madness regarding Israel, you must read the Captain's comments on the latest piece of genocidal thinking to emerge from this country. After detailing the loony thinking that characterizes the Mullahs, the Captain has this to say: All of this is window
Continue readingImagine a mother. Her child is busily involved in stripping her shelves of every piece of heirloom China she owns, and then hurling the stuff to the floor. The mother is ineffectually fluttering around the child saying, "Stop, please stop." Her neighbor walks in and says, "Why don't you promise
Continue readingHere's the Little Green Footballs story: The creepiest political ad ever made, for Ned Lamont, features Markos Moulitsas “Screw Them” Zuniga sneaking around and peeping through a window as Lamont gives a cut-and-run speech, then bursting into the room with a bunch of weirdly jacked-up progressive pals and grinning into
Continue readingI've had an unusually (and delightfully) lazy day today, and can't bestir myself to any serious blogging. Fortunately, others are willing to do the heavy lifting. For example, here is James Lewis, at the American Thinker, writing about the fallacy between the attacks on Israel's nuclear weapons that seek to
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Continue readingJust a quick observation. After 9/11, when Bush showed such strong resolve regarding Afghanistan, and his critics began to amp up the rhetoric about his religious beliefs, I used to joke that these insults might have an unexpected side effect vis a vis those hostile to America. While you and
Continue readingYou know the monkeys: The monkeys' message — see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — may be a useful one in the context of ordinary social relationships, where gossip is poisonous, but it's an utterly insane way to run the world. Nevertheless, that's precisely what the world
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