Napkins
This afternoon, my daughter went around the house singing “Can I get a napkin, please?” Now I know why: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=dkYZ6rbPU2M[/youtube]
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College for sale — rich conservative sought
If you’ve got a few million lying around, have I got a deal for you: Antioch College, the little liberal Ohio school that has fallen on hard times, is for sale for $12.2 million, a spokeswoman said Sunday. The 156-year-old private college — which counts civil rights activist Coretta Scott
Continue readingThe seeds of hatred
The accepted wisdom is that the intense hatred the Palestinians feel for Jews is a direct result of Jewish annexation of the West Bank and Gaza after the 1967 War. Of course, as with most propaganda, this is false. Aside from conveniently ignoring the 1956 and 1948 Wars, not to
Continue readingMore on un-freedom of speech *UPDATE*
Do you recall that, on the day I posted the Fitna video, I wrote the following? LiveLeak explains why it is showing this video, despite the fact that some at LiveLeak strongly disagree with its content. I note two things. First, LiveLeak understands free speech. Second, the LifeLeak discussion about
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Homebody: a person who prefers pleasures and activities that center around the home; stay-at-home. I’m back, and so glad too. It was a very pleasant weekend up in what my kids still call “the snowy mountains,” but I’m a homebody and I’m so glad to be home. I’m getting the
Continue readingBlog free day . . . sigh
I love blogging. So, on days like this when I’m hitting the road for an out-of-town weekend, I feel somewhat bereft that I won’t get the chance to sit down and opine to my heart’s content. But that’s the way it’s got to be. Whether I blog over Saturday and
Continue readingAnd the winners are….
Watcher’s results are in, and this time I’m on top of things. On the Council side, first place went to Done With Mirrors for the best post I’ve seen about the media’s “Grim Milestone” watch: Get Your Grim Milestone Today? Second place was for my post, “What Would You Do?,”
Continue readingOnce a Marine
I loved this short, but true, story: A teenager learned it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, no matter how old he is. Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said an 84-year-old man was walking on Fourth Street with a grocery
Continue readingFitna is here *UPDATED*
Geert Wilders’ 15 minute film about Islam is available now. While the Dutch government is afraid to show it, bloggers are not. Those who are anti-American, those who hate Israel, those who are completely invested in multiculturalism, try to downplay the conservatives’ concern about Muslim violence by analogizing conservatives to
Continue readingSalah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury update
Bangladesh, having done the wrong thing when it arrested Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury and threatened him with death for having the temerity to suggest that Israel ought to be allowed to live in peace and for pointing out the Islamist threat in Bangladesh, is now trying to prove that, if
Continue readingReality check for the economic equivalence argument
In today’s Guardian, there is a glowing review of Ron Paul, particularly with regard to Paul’s stance on American support for Israel: If that weren’t enough, when the House of Representatives was recently passing another denunciation of Palestinian violence, Paul refused to support it. He abhorred all attacks on civilians,
Continue readingJust a little nap after dinner
I don’t know why, but I found this a tremendously amusing and rather charming story.
Continue readingA scathing indictment of modern liberalism
Writing at the American Thinker, J.R. Dunn has a scathing indictment of modern liberalism, starting with the 1968 Democratic convention. I think the whole article is worth reading, especially the bit about the Clinton-esque corruption of Governors Spitzer, McCreevy and Paterson, but I was especially taken with this run-down, which
Continue readingI believe them, but….
Here’s the story: Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The three anti-war Democrats made the trip in October 2002, while the Bush administration was trying to persuade Congress to authorize military
Continue readingServer problems
Hey, everyone! Welcome back and thank you for your patience yesterday. The server that hosts my web has been dying slowly, and yesterday was a bad day. A new server is going into effect over the next two weeks (these things take time), but the transition should be fairly seamless.
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