Bookworm on Jan 31 2013 | Filed under: Constitution
Tweet Fellow Weasel Watcher Greg, at Rhymes with Right, came up with a good poster likening every woman’s right to have a gun to a black woman’s right to sit anywhere she wants in the bus. That poster, combined with a discussion I had with some young ‘uns about the Bill of Rights got me [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2013 | Filed under: Children, Culture, Education
Tweet I know I’m just grumpy, but this promotional mailing from Ithaca College rubbed me the wrong way: Ready to write environmental wrongs. Ithaca College will turn your academic passions into unforgettable experiences — and make you ready for the adventure of your life. I know that the first sentence is meant to be a [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2013 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet Here they are: Council Submissions The Colossus of Rhodey – Ah, a gun control Dopey WNJ Letter of the Week Joshuapundit-How The UK Sunday Times Observed Holocaust Memorial Day… The Political Commentator – What does our future hold: Jim DeMint and Heritage in New York City for the Presidents’ Tour! The Noisy Room – [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2013 | Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Libya
Tweet Every time I watch a Bill Whittle video, I think to myself “This is incredibly good. It can’t get better than this.” And every time I’m wrong, because Bill Whittle’s astounding gift for powerful, honest insight and analysis keeps growing. Whittle reaches the top of his game — again! — in this video “What [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2013 | Filed under: Abortion, San Francisco
Tweet If you’d like to see a wonderful, fascinating compare-and-contrast photo essay, you’ve got to read Zombie’s Walk for Life vs. Roe v. Wade birthday party: Abortion showdown SF. To begin with, I love Zombie’s writing style, which is an invigorating blend of erudition, true humanism, and snark. Additionally, the post is a very useful [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2013 | Filed under: Congress, Law, Tipping Points
Tweet (To win over the electorate, conservatives have to be seen as a party with fresh ideas that benefit all Americans. This is the first in a series of Tipping Point posts, promoting ideas that will appeal to all voters, while becoming signature initiatives for conservatives and Republicans.) Did you know that the Code of [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2013 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet I have been remiss, since I haven’t yet posted the winners for last week’s Watcher’s Council vote. Before I do, though, I’d like to encourage you to check out this week’s forum, which sees the Weasel Watchers (plus some friends) try to look into the future and predict whether the Republican party will still [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2013 | Filed under: Elections
Tweet All the talk lately is about talking. Tune in to any conservative outlet, and you’ll see that the politicians and thinkers are scratching their heads, trying to figure out how to get voters to support conservative values. Conservatives are talking about their lack of a clear narrative. Conservatives have an ideology, and a good [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2013 | Filed under: Identity politics, Judges, Race
Tweet Justice Sotomayor came to San Francisco and inadvertently made the case that affirmative action terribly unfair — and, moreover, that people are right if they believe, not that it gives qualified minorities a chance, but that it handicaps non-minorities at the expense of any minorities, qualified or not. Let me unpack that first sentence. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2013 | Filed under: Economics, Law
Tweet I wrote last week about the fact that the lapdog media is finally catching up with Obama’s claim that the problem with America’s economy is that ATMs are job destroyers, and that’s why our economy is a mess. Many of you commented that, in your own industries, you’ve seen automation chip away at jobs [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet In my latest newsletter (which you can view here and subscribe to here) I asked whether Republicans will be the only unhappy people over the next four years. My starting point is that Republicans are deeply depressed right now, while Progressives are gloatingly triumphant. Their man won. Their agenda is the one he’ll enact. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet When it comes to clothes, I settled into my color palette in junior high school. My favorite color is black; my next favorite is gray. This is not because I’m a depressed person or into Goth. It’s because I have absolutely no ability to match colors. That’s where black and gray come in: everything [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet Big 5 is a sporting chain that spreads across the 12 western states. It has a couple of stores in Marin County. I went into one a few days ago and saw this notice posted on the front door: If you’re reading this on a small screen it says: Due to unprecedented demand for [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: Africa, Barack Obama
Tweet The Malians are thrilled, as they should be, and the French should be pretty darn proud themselves: Residents of Mali’s northern town of Gao, captured from sharia-observing Islamist rebels by French and Malian troops, danced in the streets to drums and music on Sunday as the French-led offensive also drove the rebels from Timbuktu. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: California
Tweet The San Francisco Chronicle has an article that both praises Governor Jerry Brown’s “balanced” budget and notes that California is in desperate financial shape. Clearly, the Chron is lowering expectations in case Brown’s “balanced” budget doesn’t do what it promised. The Chron is wise to keep its readers from getting too excited. I heard [...]
Bookworm on Jan 27 2013 | Filed under: North Korea
Tweet A few months ago, I read a wonderfully written, totally depressing book called, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. In it, author Timothy Snyder graphically described the way in which, during the 1930s and 1940s, the lands to the East of Berlin and West of Moscow were turned into killing fields the likes of [...]
Bookworm on Jan 25 2013 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet I have to be honest here: Before I read After the Crack-Up, Lee Habeeb’s and Mike Leven’s article urging the Republican party to develop a strong and appealing narrative line, I’d heard of Lee Habeeb, because he’s published at NRO before, but I’d never heard of Michael Leven. I got curious about him, though, [...]
Bookworm on Jan 25 2013 | Filed under: Economics
Tweet The newest Ivy Tower Leftist explanation for the economy’s disastrous jobless recovery riffs off of Obama’s remark a couple of years ago about the disastrous effect of ATMs. You remember that, don’t you? President Obama explained to NBC News that the reason companies aren’t hiring is not because of his policies, it’s because the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 25 2013 | Filed under: Media matters, Military, Religion
Tweet Hot Air caught the New York Times public editor stating — with a straight face yet! — that she really has no idea what political viewpoint informs their writing. Maybe this screen shot, from today’s online edition, will help her: I’m sure both stories are true. That is, I don’t doubt that a specific [...]
Bookworm on Jan 25 2013 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet Thanks to beefrank for making me aware of these new Glock commercials. The first is funny, while the second is unnerving and should, I think, be watched by every parent in America.
Bookworm on Jan 25 2013 | Filed under: Open Threads
Tweet David Mamet’s post about the danger of a government that tries to take your guns. The National Review editor’s sterling take on Obama’s devious attack on the military’s integrity as a fighting organization. Mark Steyn. (Do I need to say anything more, or is his name alone a sufficient inducement for you to read?) [...]
Bookworm on Jan 25 2013 | Filed under: Blogfriends
Tweet Yesterday, I received this email query from one of my world’s smartest readers: I assume you have seen the pictures of Hillary Clinton testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Cmte. Her glasses look odd. I’m wondering if her illness/head injury was not more serious or other than what was disclosed. Hmmm. That’s interesting. So [...]
Bookworm on Jan 24 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet You undoubtedly saw this Drudge photoessay/headline: Looking at it, I kept thinking, “Gosh, that reminds me of something.” I finally figured out that it reminded me of a 1953 Isaac Asimov short story called “Flies.” Here’s a bare-bones plot summary from Wikipedia: A group of former college students meet at a reunion twenty years [...]
Bookworm on Jan 24 2013 | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
Tweet Good stuff. For the Watcher’s Council, bad times make for good social and political commentary:
Bookworm on Jan 24 2013 | Filed under: Second Amendment
Tweet Honestly, you’d think that, after weeks of information flooding the Fox TV and the internet, that some liberals would finally figure out just a little, wee bit of actual information about guns. (And yes, I’m being extremely sarcastic here.) I just found this gem on Facebook, showing the loony Left trying to attach Ronald [...]
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