Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I grew up in the 50s & 60s, when “progress” was a popular and positive term. Indeed, progress was all around us — in our homes, our cars, our televisions, our hospitals, even our kitchen appliances. We were headed to the moon and beyond. Sometimes, progress was a little scary; we had
Continue readingHere’s a beautiful matched set: The first part of the set is Daniel Henninger’s truly brilliant article about the way in which President Kennedy’s 1962 executive order allowing federal workers to unionize “transformed the Democratic Party into a public-sector dependency.” Henninger thinks this dependency broke down yesterday in Massachusetts. The
Continue readingI can feel my brain cells vibrate and expand as they get supercharged with all the wonderful stuff I’m reading for this week’s Watcher’s Council vote: Council Submissions American Digest – Bring. It. On. Bookworm Room – A perfect statement about the balance of power between government, citizens and business
Continue readingMy daughter’s Spanish class has spent the last couple of days watching a movie. I know many people who learned English by watching American television, so I don’t have a problem with using movies as a teaching device. I do, however, have a big problem with the movie chosen —
Continue readingThe New York Times reports that, according to a Senate report, some American ex-prisoners who converted to Islam are heading to (or have already arrived in Yemen) to be part of terrorist forces against the U.S.: Some American former convicts who converted to Islam in prison have moved to Yemen
Continue readingAs I suspected, the answer to my thought a couple days ago established that we have very few liberal readers left here in the Bookwormroom (So glad you still drop by, Helen, insults and all). No wonder we have so few really good disagreements anymore. So, is this problem unique
Continue readingI can’t resist fisking Helen Thomas’ post-election ruminations. The woman is a dummy, and yet she’s had enormous access to the halls of power for decades, and has always been a thorn in the Republicans’ collective flesh. And, of course, as her widely published post, below, demonstrates, the old media
Continue readingA Mormon in Oakland who is seeking re-appointment to a city-run board is being turned away because he supported Prop. 8. There’s no indication that he is homophobic. Like me, he favors civil unions for gays, which would extend to them the full panoply of legal rights available under the
Continue readingWhat little we’ve seen of Scott Brown so far we like. Joshuapundit adds two more things to the equation: he’s no RINO and he’s a friend of Israel. Also, if you go here, you get a great video about the Brown win, plus a comprehensive round-up of posts about the
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Continue readingMy book club just read and discussed William F. Buckley’s Stained Glass: A Blackford Oakes Novel, which Buckley wrote in 1978, two years before the Reagan revolution. The book is sort of a spy novel, but it’s more a rumination on a particular type of political conundrum: When it comes
Continue readingThinking about it, Scott Brown’s election as the Senator for Massachusetts may be more significant than any election in my lifetime, including the Reagan Revolution and the 1994 Congressional takeover. I know this sounds silly. In 1980, the political shift involved a President, not a mere Senator; in 1994, it
Continue readingCoakley just conceded, with 75% of precincts reporting. I will blog tomorrow regarding this staggering sea change in American politics (and, yes, it is more significant than 1994 and 2008).
Continue readingI keep compulsively flipping between Drudge, which is updating about every ten minutes with numbers, and Hot Air, which is giving trends. The numbers are great, the trends are disturbing. The tension between the two is killing me. I can’t even imagine how Brown feels (and I don’t care how
Continue readingThe race in Massachusetts is ridiculously exciting, but we cannot let it overshadow the fact that Haiti has gone from appalling to apocalyptic. The Anchoress has details and urges all of us to continue doing what we can to help those poor people.
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