Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Paul Scott challenged us to look at what Eric Garland, a Progressive blogger, has to say and to take it seriously as a way to win the White House. Paul is right — we cannot make a convincing argument unless we know what our opponent in the argument believes. Insulting
Continue readingMy Facebook friends are besides themselves with delight about Obama’s victory. I get that. What I don’t appreciate is the “kick ’em while they’re down” attitude that these enlightened people show. Herewith, the latest offerings from the sore winners on Facebook. Progressives conflate truly stupid statements about human biology (that
Continue readingMaybe I’m in denial, but I’m feeling less depressed than I felt last night and this morning. Part of my more sanguine attitude is based upon a Taranto principle, which is that Obama now owns the events of the next four years: Obama has spent the past four years explaining
Continue readingThe other day, Joe Biden used a figure of speech: Ryan has written a book called The Young Guns with two other fellows, members of the house . . . no, these are the Republican leaders in the house. You had . . . . You had . . .
Continue readingI continue to be fascinated with the things that my Progressive friends post on Facebook. I feel like a cultural archaeologist. Here’s today’s offering: For once, my commentary can be summed up in a single sentence: We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. — Barack Obama,
Continue readingOne of my old high school classmates, who is gay and Progressive, posted a heartfelt plea today that all of his Facebook friends do whatever is necessary to keep the “evil” Romney out of office. Evil? That’s an awfully strong word. Hitler was evil. Mao was evil. Stalin was evil.
Continue readingJohn Hinderaker caught a very funny statement from Jen Psaki, who is one of the president’s official spokesmen. She was responding to a reporter’s question regarding the fact that PBS asked the Democrats to take down an add using Big Bird (emphasis mine): We have received that request [from PBS].
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I posted about the fact that “the most brilliant president ever” doesn’t know the difference between an endorser and an endorsee. As you may recall, an Abraham Lincoln impersonator showed up at Obama’s campaign event, leading Obama to say “‘My homeboy from Illinois,’ Obama said,
Continue readingThe SF Chron had an article about the mountains of rubbish that revelers left in San Francisco’s Dolores Park on July 4. I can tell you with absolute certain that the Dolores Park partiers were liberals or, as they would call themselves, Progressives. That City and, more specifically, that neighborhood,
Continue readingI haven’t yet finished Jonah Goldberg’s The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, which is unusual for me, given that I’ve had it since Friday. It’s the kind of book one gobbles up — but that assumes time to gobble. Since I bought the book
Continue readingMy husband and I are current watching The Ides of March. That I am staying awake during a movie that stars the bovine George Clooney, the insipid Ryan Gosling, the obscenity-spouting Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and the “I don’t get why he’s famous” Paul Giamatti and that, forty minutes into the
Continue readingFrom Drudge: Harbinger or anomaly? I say the former. It’s not just that the voter tide is turning. It’s that the Obama-ites, who once looked invincible, now have the stench of failure and incompetence settling in around them. That becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Continue readingBest of the Web posts a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times in which Obama defines sin, not along traditional Christian or Muslim lines, but along self-referential lines: Falsani: Do you believe in sin? Obama: Yes. Falsani: What is sin? Obama: Being out of alignment with my
Continue readingThe Kochs received an interesting phone call from Jesse Lava, someone who affiliated with Brave New Foundation, a Progressive organization that is peculiarly obsessed with the Koch brothers. Jesse ostensibly called to ask for some information from the Kochs to include in a “documentary” that Brave New Foundation is putting
Continue readingIn 1965, the United States Supreme Court decided Griswold v. Connecticut, the first case to enunciate a “right to privacy” under the U.S. Constitution. Before Griswold, notion of a right to privacy had only existed as a common law doctrine, applicable to ones fellow citizens. This was the first time,
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