Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Sometimes my liberal friends surprise me. Buried amongst the snarky, ill-informed pictures they routinely post, I’ll occasionally find something thoughtful and important. Very, very important — such as this short video explaining precisely why Iran poses such a threat, not just within the Middle East, but to the whole world,
Continue readingThe situation between Israel and Iran is heating up dramatically. Yesterday, Iran boasted it has a missile that can reach any Israeli city. For years, Iran has been loud and clear about it’s intense desire to incinerate Israel. The IAEA has conceded that Iran is on the verge of having
Continue readingA few days ago, the New York Times ran an article assuring everyone that Barack Obama isn’t a wuss, he’s a warrior. I have only a couple of points. First, considering that Obama has been and is such an aggressive President, one who has seen more troops die on his
Continue readingKarl Rove has written a WSJ op-ed, the title of which is “Obama’s Campaign Will Take the Low Road.” I haven’t even read Rove’s piece — which I’m sure is good — but I already know he’s right. Obama’s campaign will take the low road because there is no high
Continue readingOne of my favorite books is a tattered paperback tucked safely into my bookshelf, called The Book of Heroic Failures: The Official Handbook of the Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain. It’s a humorous compilation of things that just didn’t go right. Two of the more charming chapters introduce
Continue readingFor the last two days, I haven’t been blogging much, but I’ve been collecting stuff to read and share with you. In no particular order, my collection: Are you an old fart? I certainly am, and proud of it. There are several expressions that cover the need to make a
Continue readingOver the years, I’ve written more than 10,000 posts. (Yeah, that’s a scary thought, isn’t it.) They do tend to run together in my mind, but there are a few standouts. These are the posts in which I felt that I offered an insight or analysis that is genuinely helpful
Continue readingThe choice before the Cambridge Debating Society was whether one should choose war to stop Iran from going nuclear, or simply accept a nuclear Iran. Douglas Murray offers a devastating rebuttal to those who say, “Who cares if Iran goes nuclear?” The 11 minute video starts out good and, halfway
Continue readingAccording to Barry Rubin, who has forgotten more about the Middle East than most people (including State Department employees) will know in a lifetime, Ron Paul is Wrong Paul when it comes to Iran. First, what’s happened in the last decade is irrelevant, since Iran hatred long preceded that. The
Continue readingYes, that’s a wildly mixed, virtually unintelligible metaphor in my post title, but I can actually explain it. Iran is pranking the U.S. Considering the way in which we were assured that an Obama in the White House would inaugurate a new era of foreign policy, what the Iranians are
Continue readingWould anyone care to explain to Mr. Bookworm the difference between an extremist sect breaking its country’s laws by discriminating against women, and a country that has as an integral part of its law and culture murderous attacks on women, “witches,” children and gays? He professes to be bewildered.
Continue readingOne of the things we frequently bemoan here is the fact that American foreign policy tends to be naive. Perhaps because our culture is a fluid melting pot in which citizens, until quite recently, willingly changed themselves to assimilate into the broader culture, we’re very poor at understanding that other
Continue readingYesterday, I asked what Valerie Jarrett would tell Obama to do now that the administration, in an effort to save Holder’s delicate derriere from the Fast & Furious fallout, has gone public with a nefarious Iranian plot, one that is tantamount to a declaration of war, that Obama already knew
Continue readingNorth Korea assumes presidency of U.N. arms control conference http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/29/north-korea-assumes-presidency-of-u-n-arms-control-conference/#ixzz1Ql1gXN44 “Bare months after the U.N. finally suspended Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi from its Human Rights Council, North Korea wins the propaganda coup of heading the world’s disarmament agency,” the executive director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer said in a statement
Continue readingFollowing Book’s trendy new tradition of “spot the lie”, I had to include this article from that renown bastion of conservatism (you know, those people wedded to their confirmation biases), the U.K. Guardian, reports on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard gleefully anticipating the explosion of Iran’s first nuclear bomb: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/jun/08/iran-blogging
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