Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Several years ago, my family and I visited Pompeii, which is one of the most wondrous tourist destinations in the world. To maximize our experience, we hired a highly recommended guide who walked us over the grounds, explaining everything before us. This guide’s particular passion was plumbing. He had no
Continue readingThere’s still time to stop a mosque from being built at Ground Zero. People who pay attention to Islam understand that Islam always builds mosques at the site of military victories. This ad gets it. The media, some branches of which are refusing to run this ad, and the PC
Continue readingD.E. Stevenson, born in Edinburgh in 1892, wrote 42 novels in the years between 1923 and 1970. Most are out of print, so I’ve had the pleasure of reading only the small handful I’ve stumbled across in local libraries over the years. She writes about the British and Scottish middle
Continue readingI am, as always, assiduously reading political news. Every morning, compulsively, I check out mainstream papers (The Chron; the Times, both LA & NY; my local Marin IJ, etc.), as well as a ton of political blogs. Most are conservative, some neutral (Jake Tapper) or ostensibly so (Politico). Despite (or,
Continue readingBecause it’s summer, the family, rather than being at school and work, is still home. That certainly changes blogging dynamics. Really, really changes blogging dynamics. Really. But…. I still read stuff and, even though my thinking cap seems to have been misplaced, I still have information I want to pass
Continue readingEvery time I read one Iowahawk’s satires, I think to myself, “This is it. He cannot get better than this.” And every time I am wrong, as Iowahawk, over and over, publishes something new that is even funnier than his last outing. But honestly, it’s hard to imagine anyone topping
Continue readingAck! Having the family perpetually underfoot has left me several days behind in my blogging — including my responsibility (which is also a pleasure) to post the winners over at the Watcher’s Council. Last week’s winners are: Council Winners First place with 2 2/3 votes! – Wolf Howling – Obama’s
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I did a very short post bringing to your attention some peculiarities of sexuality when it comes to the far Left. Thinking about that — and thinking about the wonderful comments you all left — led me to create a much longer post about Sex
Continue readingOne of the brightest lights in the conservative blogosphere is now, and has for many years been, Chris Muir, who creates the Day by Day Cartoon. He is running his annual fundraiser, and I urge you to visit and drop some money in the jar. Using the money many of
Continue readingOnce again, no one around me is leaving, whether for work or school, so both my brain and my blog lie dormant. I thought you’d like to know about a couple of interesting internet sites to visit. The first is a new blog called “So the Blond Says.” Lorie Byrd,
Continue readingI saw the headline: Student driver hits 6 pedestrians in crosswalk That’s an awful tragedy, I thought to myself. I remembered incidents from my own family’s driving history. My grandmother, who didn’t learn to drive until she was 60, once backed into someone’s living room. She drove another 27 years,
Continue readingIt hasn’t been a bad weekend. It has been a very, very long weekend, and I’m still gearing up for another 5-8 hours of family activities and work. Tomorrow will be a great day! Also, I’m excited by the fact that something I’ve been working on will be published sometime
Continue readingI hate a whole row of tabs lined up in Firefox, with wonderful links I wanted to share with you. Then, the system crashed — and they all vanished. I think, though, that I can reconstruct at least some of them. The Left, our president included, is desperate to make
Continue readingI have had an absolutely lovely couple of days — and I will tell you more about them when I have time — but I have been up to my whatsis doing things both lovely and ordinary. This state of perpetual motion will continue through Sunday night. I may be
Continue readingSometimes it really pains me that I can vote for only two Watcher’s Council nominations in each category (Council and non-Council). This week’s nominations are a perfect example of that frustration. On both the Council and the non-Council side, the quality of the work submitted is extraordinary. When voting, I
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