Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It seems to me that, as a political watcher and self-appointed pundit, I ought to offer some words of advice to the incoming Republican-majority Congress. There are, after all, a lot of things it can do. Yes, Obama has the veto, but his cries of “do-nothing Republicans” start sounding pretty
Continue readingIt’s always the same: Over the weekend, because of family demands, I get almost no time at my computer, and my email starts to back up. By Tuesday, between my two email accounts, I have several hundred unread emails. I then do the logical thing: I cravenly avoid my computer.
Continue readingSorry for the downer title, but the news is anything but good, wherever one looks. At the home front we’ve had flat tires, broken bones, and dead phones. (The broken bone belongs to my exchange student, who is disappointed, but not too terribly damaged, thank goodness.) The past few day’s
Continue readingEbola in America is a failure of Big Government Yesterday I pointed out that, in all times and all places, protecting a population from epidemic disease is one of government’s core functions. (It’s irrelevant that these efforts often failed; government was still expected to make them.) Obama is failing that
Continue readingToday is Nakba Day, the day Muslims the world over violently commemorate the “disaster” that was Israel’s creation. (JoshuaPundit explains what nakba is really about and why it is such a loathsome commemoration.) But here’s something interesting: Even as anti-Israel sentiment burns ever brighter on America’s college campuses, most recently
Continue readingThe Left liked to call George Bush a “cowboy,” implying that there was no telling what he’d do. Even the Left, of course, must have understood that this was a rhetorical trope and that there was no possibility that Bush would ever push the red button and start a nuclear
Continue readingWhew! I was quite productive today. I think those iron pills I’ve been taking because of mild anemia have helped. I felt much less sluggish. I still have a lot of stuff in my inbox, but these articles are a good start: The always-astute Lee Smith has a surprising take
Continue readingFrom the time he hit the campaign trail in 2007, Barack Obama made it plain that he considered America to be too big for her britches when it comes to international matters. Looking at imperfect nations, you could see him mentally scolding America — “Haven’t you done enough already?” —
Continue readingFrom American Thinker: I called a hardheaded realist, a Harvard trained PhD who has been watching the Middle East professionally for decades, to ask him about Obama’s Iran deal. This is what he told me. It’s done. Iran will get a bomb. They want a bomb and they will not
Continue readingObama doesn’t like the Jews and the Jews don’t trust Obama. From the “Jews don’t trust Obama” file comes Jonathan Tobin’s excellent analysis, which ends with this compelling paragraph: The United States seems to be retreating from the Middle East, a position that frightens many Arabs as well as the
Continue readingTacitus (of the Romans): “They make a desert and call it peace.” Iran (on its dealings with Obama): “Our relationship w/ the world is based on Iranian nation’s interests. In #Geneva agreement world powers surrendered to Iranian nation’s will.” Barack Obama (on his dealings with Iranians): “What we want to
Continue readingI’m tired of pussy-footing around calling Obama merely dishonest, stupid, feral, leftist, etc. Let’s call it like it is: the man is evil. Only an evil man would say this (emphasis mine): There are times where I as President of the United States am going to have different tactical perspectives
Continue readingBefore I begin, how do you like this lovely Currier and Ives image of nature’s bounty? My webmaster, Trip, suggested that as part of my site upgrade, I try to have a few images that are strongly associated with posts that might not otherwise be image-rich. When I think of
Continue readingThere’s so much good stuff out there, I’m just going to spill it all here, a la Instapundit. Jonathan Tobin doubts that Obama’s upcoming three-week long “Sham-Wow” commercial for ObamaCare will miraculously turn around the public’s perception that the program is a failure and the president a liar. The success
Continue readingAlinsky rule No. 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Today’s news: Senior officials in the White House have said that Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “is desperate and weak,” in reaction to Netanyahu’s remonstrations against the deal struck with Iran over its nuclear weapons program.
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