Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The following is the entire text of Frédéric Bastiat’s magnificent Parable of the Broken Window, which is as relevant today as it was when he wrote it in 1850. As you read it, please note carefully the highlighted language: Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James
Continue readingI promise that this post will be about what Sheldon Adelson had to say in an interview with Alana Goodman of Commentary Magazine. Before I get there, though, I need to begin with a little story of my own. Readers of my newsletter know that I had lunch last week
Continue readingA lot of people who showed up at the polls this past November actually had very parochial concerns. They weren’t worried about the economy, or national security, or illegal immigration. Blacks were concerned with racial solidarity, unions were concerned about union strength (and to hell with the economy on which
Continue readingIn 1973, the United States Supreme Court created a federal right to abortion by finding that abortion falls into an unstated Constitutional dimension called “the right to privacy.” (Note: British and American common law has always recognized a right to privacy, but the Constitution makes no mention of it.) Thus,
Continue readingIf you’re on the political Left, have we created a world without consequences? I first started thinking this when someone I know called Bristol Palin a slut because she had a baby. Not because she had premarital sex or got pregnant, but because she had a baby. Girls in Marin,
Continue readingThis keeps cropping up on Facebook and every time I see it, I find it irritating. There’s something horribly medieval about reducing women to their sexual organs. After all, when you think about it, the only thing that Obama has done for women is to order employers to provide insurance
Continue readingMatthew Continetti garnered some much deserved praise for his article about the way that sarcasm and insult took over the Democrat party, replacing anything of substance. It all started with the attacks against Bush: The criticism of Bush, of Bush Republicans, and of the war took on a specific character.
Continue readingWith the election nearing, the Facebook frenzy is accelerating. I got this from a Facebook acquaintance: Lots of food for thought, there: Ryan voted to end funding for Planned Parenthood. Ryan’s vote is completely in line with Romney’s insistence that a broke U.S. government should repeatedly ask itself “Is this
Continue readingNobody ever accused Joe Biden of being coherent. Peter Heck, however, realized more quickly than I did that Biden was being exceptionally incoherent — or hypocritical or held tightly in the grip of cognitive dissonance — when he was asked to explain the relationship between his faith and his politics.
Continue readingThe day after Mitt Romney gave his speech, Jon Stewart went to town. It was a typical Jon Stewart exercise, replete with out-of-context snippets, juvenile sarcasm, and endlessly bleeped obscenities. One part of it, though, the very first part, stayed with me. If you watch just the first couple of
Continue readingRep. Todd Akin of Missouri is refusing to step down, despite the fact that everyone in the Republican/conservative establishment, from the RNC, to Rush, to Mark Levin, to Ann Coulter, to every major blog known to conservativism, is hollering that he must leave. Akin’s arrogance and selfishness is depressing. Or
Continue readingOne of my favorite silly jokes goes as follows: A man runs into a friend. “Oh, my God!” he says. “I just made the most terrible Freudian slip.” His friend asks “What did you do?” The man answers, “Well, I was having lunch with my mother. I meant to saying
Continue readingI don’t do well around gore, whether real or fake. I cover my eyes when the dyed corn syrup flows in movies and, unless my children need me, I tend to faint when someone becomes sanguinary in my presence (myself included). In other words, I have a pathetically weak nervous
Continue readingI left a trail of hostile professors in my wake when I graduated from UC Berkeley. I didn’t do that intentionally. I never set out to be obnoxious or disruptive. Back in the day, I marched in ideological lock-step with my professors. (Although even then I couldn’t stomach the hypocrisy
Continue readingThe Anchoress examines Obama’s peculiar devotion to abortion, one that sees him put it ahead of all other policy considerations and that allows him to violate freely the consciences of others. As I’ve said here repeatedly, while I have not yet made the journey to being whole-heartedly pro-Life, after a
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