Needed: A Dose of Humility?

President Bush is finishing up his trip to Latin America, where his road show highlighted US aid to Latin America, especially with regard to poverty, education and medical assistance. For his (and by extension, our) trouble, he was greeted with chanting, sometimes violent mobs, who think the USA is an evil, warmongering nation of thugs.  [...]

The Post has clarity?

It’s been pleasantly suprising to see the Washington Post editorial page acting like a responsible paper, for a change.  The typically left-leaning editorial pages are, more often than not, riddled with standard left-speak.  Not recently, however.  Several times over the past few months, the Post has come down on the side of common sense, something [...]

He lied, but…

The left seems to have a memory problem.  Retrograde amnesia typically follows a head trauma – perhaps the elections of 2000 and 2004 are responsible?  Here’s an idea - maybe we can get the Feds to create a new program: MedaMem will deliver counciling and psychotherapy to any liberal who comes down with symptoms, but pardon me, I [...]

Cerebral Genocide pt. 2

I’ve spoken with many different people about the Scooter Libby verdict and I’ve commented on scores of blogs, where battle lines have been drawn.  It seems to boil down to this: Liberals think that the guilty verdict points to a much larger scandal, involving the mishandling of intelligence by the White House, while conservatives believe [...]

It’s Hard to Understand

Just to join the chorus of all the other conservative bloggers…  It’s hard to understand what happened to Scooter Libby.  Best I can figure, the verdict was due to very good lawyers, very dumb jurors, or a very guilty Libby.  No matter how hard I try, I can’t conclude the latter.  To re-cap: Guilty on count 1 – [...]