Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The popular meme amongst the unholy cabal that is Islam and the Left is that Israel is a murderous genocidal regime that is currently using the blockade to impose unimaginable suffering on the Gazans. Fortunately, modern communications allow us to see the full extent of that “suffering” (h/t Sadie): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-okjIj8MSY[/youtube]
Continue readingAlthough it’s been open for more than a year now, I went for the first time today to the newly rebuilt California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. My visit there was an interesting contrast to my first visit, some years ago, to the newly rebuilt De Young Museum
Continue readingWhen Ronald Reagan took on the Soviet Union, which he did through the simple tactic of announcing that he was taking on the Soviet Union, conventional wisdom, on both sides of the aisle was horrified. How could he? After almost 40 years of Cold War, we’d reached a tenuous balance
Continue readingStandWithUs is circulating a petition directed to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the United Nations, aimed at putting pressure on Hamas to free Gilad Shalit. Given that those organizations are all rabidly antisemitic and anti-Israel within their own four walls, I think it’s an excellent
Continue readingFantastic article about the blackmailer’s paradox and Israel’s chronic negotiation failures in dealing with the surrounding Muslim/Arab nations. This feeds into the “for a nation filled with smart people, Israel sure acts dumb” paradox. Of course, when everyone hates you, so much so that they’re willing to warp the laws
Continue readingA moment in Hebron with the IDF. Please stick with the video to around the 50 second mark: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqjsFExPOnM[/youtube] Hat tip: Sadie, who found it at The Muqata
Continue readingI spent yesterday at the Marin County Fair. It was, for the most part, a very pleasant experience and could have been any county fair, anywhere in America. The kids wanted to spend all their time on the midway, standing in long hot lines, spinning to the point of acute
Continue readingYou’ve probably noticed that I’ve had nothing to say about Kagan. There is nothing to say. She’s a bright, often charming, lady from the far Left who, entirely separate from her anti-Constitutional ideology, is grossly unqualified in terms of professional experience and intellectual heft to be a Supreme Court justice.
Continue readingStand With Us is an extraordinarily important organization. I cannot emphasize that enough. Its goal is to counter the calumnies that an unholy union of Leftists and Islamists spread against Israel, especially on college campuses. The Stand With Us founders realized something that American Jews and other friends of Israel
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Continue readingIn 1989, when it became clear that the former Soviet Union could no longer stop the spread of Democracy in the Eastern Bloc countries, many of us naively assumed that a new dawn of peace and harmony was about to arrive. We envisioned lions and lambs frolicking together, all bedecked
Continue readingYou recognize that quotation, right? It’s one of Golda Meir’s most repeated sayings. However, if you’ve been paying attention to the blogosphere lately, you’ll see that the Palestinians, with a lot of help from the Jordanians, are still raising their children to be cannon fodder. Rick, at Brutally Honest, has
Continue readingFriends of Israel, an organization started by such pro-Western figures as John Bolton and former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar, has authored a petition that you can sign. It’s a strange petition, not in what it says — is is honest, logical, factual and moral — but in that
Continue reading[Prepare yourself; this is a long one. Long-time readers may also recognize that I’ve cannibalized old posts in the service of a new point.] A friend sent me a link to a 1951 video, showing a popular American singing group celebrating the creation of the State of Israel, something that
Continue readingIt’s the first day of summer for my kids, so I’ve been in mommy mode all day (expect when I was in martial arts mode, which was, frankly, more fun). Things cross my radar, though, and there are three things that came my way that I wanted to put onto
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