Bookworm on Nov 29 2012 | Filed under: America
Tweet I thought about Margaret Thatcher today. Lord knows, she was something. Brilliant, indomitable, focused, feisty, witty, and absolutely convinced of her right-ness and righteousness. She was the un-RINO. Her unswerving commitment to her principles enabled her to turn England around. We forget that sometimes, because the Labor party managed to take her legacy and [...]
Danny Lemieux on Nov 12 2012 | Filed under: America, Freedom
Tweet For a bleak look at America’s future as the “New France” and a ray of sunshine called hope, a Frenchman comes a-blowing the clarion call to resistance against the Progressive barbarian Left. The key take-away: “Once again, you don’t need a lecture from this Frenchman, but it seems to me that some of you, [...]
Bookworm on Sep 11 2012 | Filed under: America, Egypt, Free speech, Islam, Muslim violence
Tweet Yes, I understand that the embassy in Cairo is besieged but it does strike me as cowardly to abandon core principles as this juncture (emphasis mine): U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement September 11, 2012 The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings [...]
Bookworm on Aug 07 2012 | Filed under: America, Japan
Tweet Spending two weeks in a country does not make one an expert on that country. Indeed, I’m sure the opposite is true, which is that one learns just enough to be dangerous. One sees the country without understanding it. Nevertheless, both from looking at the Japanese in action and from speaking to myriad people, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 04 2012 | Filed under: America
Tweet The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, [...]
Bookworm on Jul 04 2012 | Filed under: America, Constitution
Tweet With a birthday that falls very close to July 4, I’ve always been quite proprietorial about this holiday. One small part of my brain, while watching fireworks, always thinks “For me? Why thank you!” Fortunately, that’s only a smart part of my brain at work. The bigger part of my brain has a more [...]
Bookworm on Jun 21 2012 | Filed under: America
Tweet Regular Bookworm Room readers know that we travel a lot. Mr. Bookworm inclines towards Europe, while I hew to the good ol’ U.S. of A. While having lunch with Don Quixote today, I said that I’d love to take the kids Boston (which I’ve been to once and they’ve never been to), New York [...]
Bookworm on May 15 2012 | Filed under: America, Children, Hollywood
Tweet I love fairy tales. I’ve always loved fairy tales. Growing up, I devoured fairy tale books, with special emphasis on the Disney movies, with their beautiful princesses. My personal favorite was Disney’s Cinderella. I saw it once when I was a child and then, in a pre-video era, all I could do was replay [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2012 | Filed under: America
Tweet If St. Patrick’s Day had fallen on a school day, every child at the bus stop, whether Irish, Jewish, Asian, East Asian, or Black, would have been wearing something green. No one would have found this peculiar. Today, I know that when I go out to run errands, I’ll see adults from every end [...]
Danny Lemieux on Mar 03 2012 | Filed under: America, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Europe, Liberal Fascism, Self-reliance
Tweet This article that just appeared in Bloomberg.com, regarding Stockton-writ-California-writ-USA-writ-large’s pending bankruptcy, is just so absolutely jaw-dropping crazy…uh, no, wait….it isn’t really so crazy after all. Never mind. If Stockton Is Broke, Why Isn’t San Diego?: Steven Greenhut http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-02/if-stockton-is-broke-then-why-isn-t-san-diego-steven-greenhut.html Here’s the money take-away: referencing the fact that, for the past 20 years, city employees could [...]
Bookworm on Feb 04 2012 | Filed under: America
Tweet For almost a thousand years, Catholics around the world, as part of their mass, have taken responsibility before God for their own failings: Confíteor Deo omnipoténti et vobis, fratres, quia peccávi nimis cogitatióne, verbo, ópere et omissióne: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa. Ideo precor beátam Maríam semper Vírginem, omnes Angelos et Sanctos, [...]
Danny Lemieux on Nov 26 2011 | Filed under: America, Freedom, Leftist morality, Liberal Fascism, Occupy Wall Street, Uncategorized
Maybe what we see today is a final struggle for America between those that want to be free and those that don’t.
Bookworm on Sep 20 2011 | Filed under: America, Barack Obama
Tweet I kept reading about Obama’s Rose Garden speech, but it wasn’t until this morning that I actually sat down and read the speech. Aside from the obvious factual and ideological problems (not to mention how pedantic and vulgar it is in its expressions and ideas), what jumps out at me about the speech is [...]
Bookworm on Sep 07 2011 | Filed under: 9/11, America
Tweet The murderous frenzy unleashed on 9/11 is an awkward size. Had it been smaller — a handful of people, or even a hundred people, killed at a mall or a hotel — we would have noted it as a tragedy powered by a crazy person (or two) in thrall to bad ideas. We would [...]
Bookworm on Jul 04 2011 | Filed under: America, Anti-Americanism
Tweet As I do every year, I went with my family to our town’s Fourth of July Parade. It’s a great parade, with all sorts of community groups participating, including the various chambers of commerce; Little League baseball teams; bagpipers (Marin is home to a thriving bagpipe community); an impressive selection of WWII vehicles from [...]
Bookworm on Jul 03 2011 | Filed under: America
Tweet Every July 4th, I feel it’s incumbent upon me, as a freedom-loving blogger, to write something meaningful. And every July 4th, I fail to do. Somehow, instead of golden prose about our nation, I invariably end up posting a picture of a waving flag and wishing everyone a “Happy July 4th.” It’s not the [...]
Danny Lemieux on May 23 2011 | Filed under: America, Environmentalism, National Security, Uncategorized
Tweet Cheap fuel is an important key to peace, human welfare and prosperity. We have the key. The world can’t do without fuel and the scramble for world fuel resources lies at the root of most of our current geopolitical problems. The high price of fuel affects the environment (e.g., 3rd world deforestation) and the [...]
Danny Lemieux on May 21 2011 | Filed under: Activism, America, Anti-Americanism, Environmentalism
Tweet Here’s a good example of American imperialism, whereby rich and greedy American billionaires fund the sabotage of democratic institutions in foreign countries to further their own ideological and economic interests. Via: smalldeadanimals.com.
Bookworm on Mar 29 2011 | Filed under: America, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama
Tweet Whether or not one liked him, Ronald Reagan got “the vision thing.” He had an extremely strong sense of America and her place in the world, and was never afraid to share that narrative. America was the shining city on the hill, the bastion of true republican democracy, and the world leader in exporting [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2011 | Filed under: America
Tweet Earthquakes, tsunamis, nuclear meltdowns, market collapses, Middle Eastern turmoil . . . . It’s been a busy week news-wise. So you want to know what the hottest story is? None of the above. Per Allahpundit, the absolute hottest story is this video: The story behind the video is that the bigger boy, Casey Heynes, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 12 2011 | Filed under: America
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Bookworm on Feb 11 2011 | Filed under: America
Tweet My book club met last night to discuss Robert Merry’s A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent. As the subtitle says, the book is about the way in which Polk, during his one term presidency, enabled America to stretch from sea to shining [...]
Danny Lemieux on Jan 23 2011 | Filed under: America, China, Uncategorized
Tweet Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang plays an old, Korean-war vintage anti-American song, “Battle on Shangganling Mountain”, at Obama’s state dinner for Chinese President Hu-Jintao. The Chinese, of course, just loved it. I can just feel the respect our competitors in the world have for us, now that international relations have been “reset”. This will not [...]
Bookworm on Nov 23 2010 | Filed under: America, Economics, Socialism, Taxes
Tweet Two interesting things rolled across my desk today, interesting because they address the same topic — dependence on Big Government — but reach diametrically opposite conclusions. The first is a Dennis Prager column that examines why American conservatives are happier than American liberals. This isn’t just Dennis’ opinion, by the way. Instead, several recent [...]
Bookworm on Sep 02 2010 | Filed under: America, Economics, Europe
Tweet In Der Spiegel, of all places, one finds an article bemoaning, loudly and strongly, the profound mistake inherent in the Democrats’ Europeanization of America: The Obama administration and the Federal Reserve want to fix the United States economy by spending more money. But while that approach might work for Europe, it is risky for [...]
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