Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Sorry for the blog silence today. In many communities, today is the last day of school before summer began. That's certainly the case where I live. I spent the morning and mid-day attending a very beautiful ceremony at my kids' school. Now, I've got my kids and a couple of
Continue readingYou probably won't see something like this emerging from the Palestinians anytime soon: Alzheimer's disease is degenerative and leads to a collapse of brain functions. A new Israeli computer program attempts to slow down deterioration in patients' brains. The computerized system, which was developed by students from the engineering faculty
Continue readingA news report that's whizzing about the blogosphere concerns the fact that the President teased a reporter about wearing sunglasses, unaware that the reporter needed to wear them due to a vision problem. The President immediately apologized. What's interesting about the story is how gracious both sides to this telephone
Continue readingI have a humiliating confession to make: I like reading romances. I got turned on to Georgette Heyer in the late 1970s, and have spent the subsequent decades looking for the current reincarnation of that wonderful and witty writer. For those of you who may not know, Georgette Heyer began
Continue readingThat someone who is so optimistic about the upcoming elections is Michael Novak. He is convinced that, all MSM huffery and puffery to the contrary, the Republicans will retain control in Washington. He paints a compelling picture of a political mindset that, although touting itself as "reality-based" remains unmoved by
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 readingIf you want to know that reductio ad absurdum of moral relativism, read Vasko Kohlmayer's short riff at The American Thinker. FacebookTweet
Continue readingIf you've been wondering about the unique magic of a Frank Rich column, Mark Goldblatt sums it up for you, as part of a larger, tongue-in-cheek article about what makes liberals tick: To consider the question of what makes a liberal a liberal, I’ll need to slide on my special
Continue readingWe all (or at least many of us) crave publicity for things we hold dear. We're convinced that, if we could just get more people to hear about a particular thing we believe is important and compelling, they'd all fall into line, nodding their heads like those dog toys in
Continue readingIs it only at my gas station, or have your pump prices been dropping too? The other day, I paid $2.99 a gallon, a $0.25 drop from the last time I pumped gas. (And a far cry from the $0.24 gas I remember from the gas wars in the 1970s….)
Continue readingI just looked at my calendar and suddenly realized that today is Flag Day. Hurrah! I think George M. Cohan said it best: You’re a grand old flag. You’re a high-flying flag. And forever in peace may you wave. You’re the emblem of the land I love, the home of
Continue readingYmarsakar, whom you know from the many interesting comments left on my blog, tipped me off to a post that looks ahead to the world in 2030, and tries to predict whether the U.S. will still be the world's superpower, or whether another country (which is, for purposes of the
Continue readingWe've now got a new Reuters entry in the most biased, dishonest, inflammatory reporting category, which is impressive given how short the article is. Here's the online versionof the article, with my comments: Israeli missile strike in Gaza kills 9: doctor [The headline is clear, isn't it? The Israelis killed
Continue readingWe live in a block and copy age. I know I do it when I write my blog. The opening sentence in a paragraph in someone's column or blog intrigues me, or even the whole paragraph intrigues me, and I block and copy the whole thing. It takes a second,
Continue readingI was thinking it, in an inchoate way; Dennis Prager was writing it, with his usual lucidity: Michael Berg is a Green Party candidate for Congress from the state of Delaware and a pacifist. According to The Associated Press and many other reports, Berg believes George W. Bush is more
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