The Six Day War in real time

This June marks the 40th Anniversary of the Six Day War, a war that shaped Israel’s current geography and that continues to have a profound impact on the Middle East to this day.  Last year, I got hold of a copy of a 1967 Life Magazine that was rushed into press immediately after the War.  [...]

Another logic failure

Funnily enough, just after having written my post about your average liberal’s shaky grasp on cause and effect, I read the following two paragraphs in the New York Times‘ latest mean-spirited attack on Clarence Thomas:
In the last 100 Supreme Court arguments, Clarence Thomas has not uttered a word. Court watchers have suggested a variety of [...]

Stories that don’t inspire, they anger

AP is using its usual tactic of shilling for a political position by using a human interest story. This time, the human interest is a stellar student who has occupied space in a couple of major American education programs. The only problem is that she’s an illegal:
At 23, Mariana should be carefree. She [...]

Logic — liberals’ missing commodity

Periodically James Taranto likes to poke fun at headlines that say things along the lines of “Even as more people are sent to prison, crime rates drop.” You can just picture a befuddled liberal reporter scratching his head and thinking, “How is it possible that, even as we have more bad guys, we have [...]