Entries from April 2008
Michael Hirsh has written an excellent piece for Newsweek in which he boldly observes that Barack Obama is “being turned into John Kerry”. Obama “may be mostly right about national security but … will lack the Red State street cred to carry his point — and the election.”
Hirsh then explains why.
While (Democrat) candidates are urging […]
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Tags: Punditry
No one is a larger proponent than I of telling it to kids straight.
Tell them that grownups lie sometimes. Tell them that the world can be a dangerous place. Tell them exactly what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, including what happened inside those airplanes as they were hijacked, and what happened to people caught on […]
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Tags: Punditry
I received an email containing a “true story” about an Arkansas high school teacher who went above and beyond to make a point to her students without using a textbook, a chalkboard or a stern lecture.
Turns out the true story is true. It has been vetted by a credible web site called snopes.com, and there […]
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Tags: P.C. Filtering