Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I have some familiarity with Church history and doctrine, owing to my background as a European history major. I am woefully ignorant, however, about modern Catholicism — or, more specifically, modern American Catholicism. I therefore have a question for those of you who are Catholic: Does it matter to a
Continue readingI’m too much of a self-control freak ever to have been attracted to recreational drugs (or even alcohol, for that matter). Add to that the fact that my first childhood memories involve the Haight-Ashbury after the Summer of Love fell apart, when the neighborhood had turned into one giant, drug-ridden
Continue readingI’m pleased to announce that I discovered, purely by accident, that one of my neighbors is a Republican. She thought she was the only one in the neighborhood; I thought I was the only one. Now we’re two, and wondering if there are more.
Continue readingUp in Arms, from 1944, was Danny Kaye’s break-out movie. The musical number supporting the war effort starts at 4:30: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujVoqGp7FQ0[/youtube]
Continue readingI have felt a great heaviness and sadness this week. Five separate news stories have been an unpleasant reminder about how depraved and amoral the human being can be and how elusive is justice. Like many others, the death of Ted Kennedy has reminded me of his culpability in the
Continue readingKennedy’s treasonous conduct in the 1980s is finally getting some play (see here and here, for example), but this email is a sufficient indictment of the “liberal lion” even without the treason. Honest to God, you’d think that Democrats would want to elevate a different standard bearer for their party:
Continue readingDuring the November 2008 election, Black Panthers appeared on video standing in front of polling places with billy clubs: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94b78rnWMP4[/youtube] Eric Holder, however, was unconcerned, and dropped the voter intimidation case against the Black Panthers. Having learned that they get a free pass for egregious behavior antithetical to democratic government
Continue readingThe original video says that socialized medicine is great: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jng4TnKqy6A[/youtube] The rebuttal interlineated video shows all the errors in the argument: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPq6_7AFsp4[/youtube] I want to throw two more things into the mix: First, the fact that, in a head-on comparison, the government is vastly more inefficient, dollar-for-dollar, than private business
Continue readingApropos my post about patriotism during Hollywood’s golden age, Bruce Kesler sent me this great video showing both Jimmy Cagney and Mickey Rooney doing their George M. Cohan impressions: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlPR97oYOBA[/youtube] Since I’m an avid fan of old musicals, I may, for a few days, scatter throughout my posts video links
Continue readingIf I ran for office, whether state or federal, my promise to my constituents would be to cut one government program per month for my entire term of office. The New Editor reminds me that another useful promise might be to cut wages as well, to make them commensurate with
Continue readingI am extremely fond of Vera Lynn’s music. I was therefore delighted to read that (a) she is still alive and, at 92, looking wonderful and (b) she is still a chart topping hit in England: Dame Vera Lynn yesterday became the oldest living artist to make it into the
Continue readingHollywood and the media establishment as a whole are inescapable parts of American and, indeed, world culture. It’s fascinating, therefore, to think about the type of patriotism our American media now espouses and that which it embraced in the past. Depending on how one defines patriotism, whether as love of
Continue readingI’m still recovering from a day spent running errands with the kids and taking care of my mother’s health needs. (Mom’s okay but, after a brief hospitalization, needed some help sorting out meds.) The straight-jacket reference isn’t to my mom’s situation, though, it’s to being the sole target of unrelenting
Continue readingTell me honestly that this video wouldn’t have been the butt of a thousand MSM jokes and video replays if it showed either George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Dan Quayle, Gerald Ford, Betty Ford, or any other Republican White House occupant doing precisely the same thing: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTZNc2imBgU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] I am,
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