Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In a rather stumbling way, I asked why immigrants don't love America, and said that I wished our schools would be required to teach students what's great about America. Ironically, one day later, the Wall Street Journal published Peggy Noonan's elegant, lyrical reflection on the same point. She begins by
Continue readingThe Western Standard in Canada, as part of its reporting, published copies of the Mohammad cartoons. To my mind, that's good journalism. To the Alberta Human Rights Commission, it's a hate crime, and it initiated a government prosecution against Western Standard. The Western Standard has now put out an SOS
Continue readingRumors about organ harvesting surface constantly when it comes to China, and they probably have a good foundation given that, working through China, you can get any organ you need, any time. Now, Jay Nordlinger comes with a fairly detailed report (with lots of links) that China is using Falun
Continue readingIn a recent Weekly Standard article, Wesley Smith takes on the infant euthanasia that is gaining traction in Holland. His opening paragraphs are models of clear writing: At last a high government official in Europe got up the nerve to chastise the Dutch government for preparing to legalize infant euthanasia.
Continue readingJack, my favorite Retired Preacher, has republished in his blog, with the original publication's permission, a lengthy article about radical Islam's goal of creating a worldwide Caliphate governed by the purest expression of 7th Century Islamic law. Aside from generally being an interesting article, I found especially fascinating the way
Continue readingI wanted to let you know about a "blog collective"* that I was invited to join. It's called Webloggin, and it's sort of a clearinghouse for posts that Webloggin community members do on their own blogs. When I got invited, I checked it out and really jumped at the chance
Continue readingI haven't blogged about the immigration protests because, well, because I didn't feel like blogging about them. During a lunchtime conversation, Don Quixote and I decided we were in agreement: We believe the vitality of immigrants is good for the nation's health, and we strongly disapprove of those who break
Continue readingMuch ink has been spilled (or should I say, many bytes have been generated) about whether Islam can be modernized so that Muslims can integrate with the modern world. As many have pointed out, devout Muslims feel themselves absolutely bound to live by Mohammed's principles — principles that involve such
Continue readingMike, at The Deep Freeze, lives in Philadelphia. Doing something called geocaching, he headed out of town and went for a treasure hunt in his neck of the words — the treasure being a moment where one touches history. Here is what he found: It was a modest grave site
Continue readingJames Taranto (and Co., I guess), writing at Best of the Web Today, has an excellent mini-essay about the tortured relationship between the Left on the one hand, and President Bush and foreign policy (vis-a-vis terrorism) on the other hand: Al Qaeda and the former regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq
Continue readingThe Drudge headline is that Sharon Stone advocates oral sex, but that's not really the whole story. The real story is how this well-intentioned lady goes about carrying out her advocacy: She [Stone] explains, "I was in the store the other day and I watched a young girl trying on
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
Continue readingThis is a nice story about a man who did a decent thing (although he didn't realize, at the time, quite how decent it was): When Shahla Ghannadian's husband accidentally left her purse on a park bench during a visit to Sausalito, the family didn't have much hope of getting
Continue readingLowell Ponte spells out in sad, scary, excrutiating detail the world our children will inherit — not directly, if they stay in America, but indirectly by having a weirdly Arabized Europe as their planet neighbor. To begin with, the numbers are compelling: * In Brussels, Belgium, the most popular name
Continue readingYesterday, I did a post about how forgiving the judicial system is in Lithuania, where an 85 year old Nazi was given a free pass because of his age and because he no longer posed a risk to society. After reading my post, Kathryn, of Suitable for Mixed Company, shared
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