Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In my previous post, I talked about the way in which the Left desperately tries to cubby-hole people, events and ideas, without any real understanding of what lies beneath those labels. Seconds after I finished writing that post, I read this newspaper article, which sounds like a parody, but isn’t:
Continue readingI was at my child’s school the other day, and happened to glance at the daily handout the children receive. It had the usual special announcements and ended with “Today’s Patriotic Quotation.” I was rather pleased to see that there was a patriotic quotation included (on a daily basis, yet).
Continue readingOne down, three to go: A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors. The contractors’ burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from
Continue readingI’ve gotten quite a few nice emails empathizing with my post about the fact that, as a mother, I often find myself running endless circular loops. I know that, ultimately, what I do is important, because I’m raising two good citizens, but that’s the macro view. The micro view is
Continue readingYou know me — I can resist news stories that simply deserve to be paired. This pairing requires no comment from me. You’ll draw your own conclusions. First, this little story about military sensitivity: The Army is considering whether to rescind an invitation to evangelist Franklin Graham to appear at
Continue readingI spent many years working in downtown San Francisco. Indeed, more to the point for this article, I spent many years working in the Transamerica Pyramid. I know the area well. It is entirely urban, in that it is an amalgam of high rises, low rises, and some trees planted
Continue readingI love the old Lerner and Lowe song: What a day this has been, What a rare mood I’m in, Why, it’s almost like being in love…. As I get older, though, the song has become somewhat bittersweet. One of the shames about growing older is that emotions don’t feel
Continue readingThe Council has submitted its nominations for this week’s vote and, whoo-hee!, are they good. (But they’re always good.) Please join me in reading the following articles. Then, check in at the end of the week to see whether the Council voted as you would have: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric
Continue readingLast night, I was speaking with a liberal friend who actually works in the insurance business. During the run up to the health care vote, she and I had politely vigorous conversations in which I explained, over and over again, that, if penalties are lower than the cost of insurance,
Continue readingTo me, it’s a good joke if I don’t see the punchline coming. In this joke, which Zhombre sent me, I didn’t: A tourist walked into a Chinese curio shop in San Francisco. While looking around at the exotic merchandise, he noticed a very lifelike, life-sized, bronze statue of a
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If you’d been around in 1894, you would instantly have recognized the name “Svengali.” He was the chief villain in George du Maurier’s blockbuster novel Trilby. The Svengali plot-line was a simple one: Trilby was an innocent (and tone deaf) laundress and model living in fin de siecle Paris. Svengali
Continue readingI’ve lived most of my life in California. When I was a child, it was one of the most prosperous places in the world, although the rot was already setting in. My child’s perspective placed the rot in the hippies and in the liberal takeover of the public school system.
Continue readingAs you recall, I did my little fundraising drive a few months ago, and was really pleased at how many of you contributed to that fund. I’ve had the money sitting in PayPal since then, because it actually is a little challenging to divert it to the account I generally
Continue reading[What a day, what a day! Not bad, just busy, busy, busy. But I’m back for at least a little while, at about 4:00 p.m. California time.] While I stood still last week, the world kept moving. I’m playing catch-up, reading cyber-stacks of articles. I thought I’d take you on
Continue readingTwo more hours and I’m airborne, my Las Vegas trip just another memory. Vegas is an interesting place, both quintessentially American in it’s hustle and abundance, and very foreign in it’s complete and total focus on sybaritism. My kids, bless their hearts, were impressed by the former and put off
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