The reason that the West remains ignorant of the views and goals of the likes of Hamas and Iran is not that the latter have hidden their views and goals. It is because the leading political leaders and foreign policy practitioners in the West refuse to listen to them and deny the significance of their actions.

A great op/ed from an Israeli writer concerning the Iran/Hamas vs. Israel conflict.

“When I started doing research on charity,” Mr. Brooks wrote, “I expected to find that political liberals – who, I believed, genuinely cared more about others than conservatives did – would turn out to be the most privately charitable people. So when my early findings led me to the opposite conclusion, I assumed I had made some sort of technical error. I re-ran analyses. I got new data. Nothing worked. In the end, I had no option but to change my views.”

Excellent op/ed by a surprised and disappointed liberal.

“You wanna know another key to success? … Dress every day like you gonna get murdered in those clothes.”

- Tracy Jordan, 30 Rock

I just listened to Joel Kaplan, White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, on the Hugh Hewitt Show try to say that this auto bailout should make conservatives happy. Why? Because the money will help forestall Detroit’s experiencing of market forces while at the same time appointing a car czar with the kind of leverage to force the car companies to properly restructure. Yes, propped up industries taking orders from the government is very Conservative. I can’t see anywhere this plan could possibly go awry.

Sigh… and this is the White House we’ve been dealing with for 8 years. Seriously libs, please don’t go thinking this President was Conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

[O]ur bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the mail-order-catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay. It will be remembered as pouring billions of dollars into the CD music business on the eve of the birth of the iPod and iTunes.

If we miss the chance to win the race for Car 2.0 because we keep mindlessly bailing out Car 1.0, there will be no one to blame more than Detroit’s new shareholders: we the taxpayers.

Great Op/Ed. Read the whole thing.

“The Italians have a saying, Lemon. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And although they’ve never won a war or mass-produced a decent car, in this area they are correct.”

- Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”

- G.K. Chesterton

“When people ask me why I’m going to vote for McCain rather than Obama, it’s because I prefer disaster to catastrophy.” – Thomas Sowell