Immigration check reality debate

In the swirl of arguments surrounding the immigration plan — a plan that now looks on the verge of collapse — a lot of important truths are disappearing. Thomas Lifson, however, resurrects these truths, and in clear language explains why they matter, and why they shouldn’t be ignored as we grapple with a three [...]

How we tell the story of the war

All reporting is story telling. True neutrality is difficult, especially because it tends to be boring. “The red car hit the blue car” may be true, but it makes for numbing reading. “The red car, while speeding through the intersection, smashed into the blue car, which was filled with young people heading [...]

Warped perspectives

Richard Baehr sent me a link to a horrible Chris Hedges article painting Israel as a fascist state, with its hands dripping with the blood it wrenches from the innocent Palestinians over whom it exerts the most evil imperialist control. A couple of preliminary comments before I get to the meat of my own [...]

A really good bad movie

I’m watching, with great pleasure, a very bad movie.  It’s the original Broadway Melody from 1929, and I’m enjoying it because it’s a perfect little time capsule of a world almost 80 years away.  The dialog is drab, the acting is slack, the musical numbers are primitive, the relationship between men and women seems so [...]