Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I exhausted my self with last night’s lengthy Bookworm Beat, but I have two points — one about Betsy DeVos’s qualifications to be Education Secretary and the other about Oakland’s fund for illegal immigrants — that I believe go a long way to summing up so much of what’s wrong
Continue readingFor decades now, the Left has been excusing crime with the old “root causes” argument: criminals are made, not born, and they’re made by a confluence of poverty, racism, peer pressure, etc. Because white Leftists feel guilty about this, they’ve tended to give ghetto-based criminals a pass. It’s not their
Continue readingNot only is the Occupy movement ugly, divisive and violent, it’s also expensive: The news spotlight has moved elsewhere, but Oakland continues to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for the Occupy protests. Every week for the past month, more than 100 cops, or roughly one-fifth of
Continue readingAs I was up early, I listened to KSFO’s Brian Sussman show. A man called in, identified himself as someone who works at the Port of Oakland, and described with some amusement the eight or so luxury buses that pulled up, disgorging a bunch of people in their 30s and
Continue readingI present to you, without comment, a collection of headlines from today’s Bay Area news section of the San Francisco Chronicle: Many Oakland stores close for strike Jill Tucker,Carolyn Jones, Chronicle Staff Writers Many businesses in downtown Oakland are closed during today’s Occupy Oakland general strike, whether in support of
Continue readingLast year, an Oakland transit police officer, Johannes Mehserle, killed Oscar Grant, in a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station. Grant was being, to put it mildly, obstreperous. Mehserle’s defense is that he meant to taser Grant but, instead, shot him. Video footage made at the time indicates that Mehserle
Continue readingThere are two storm warnings I want to give you, one of which requires action on your part, the other of which, depending on where you live, falls into the “sit, watch, and thank God you’re far away” category. First warning: Drastic cuts to the military, courtesy of Bawney Fwank,
Continue readingA Mormon in Oakland who is seeking re-appointment to a city-run board is being turned away because he supported Prop. 8. There’s no indication that he is homophobic. Like me, he favors civil unions for gays, which would extend to them the full panoply of legal rights available under the
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