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 [...]
Bookworm on Jul 04 2010 | Filed under: America
Tweet We are so blessed to live in America — and birthdays are about celebrating the blessings that came into our lives as the result of someone’s, or something’s, birth. We may be going through a hard patch now, but our legacy of individual freedoms is a tough nut, and we’re not going to let [...]
Bookworm on Jun 02 2010 | Filed under: America, Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama
Tweet I first ran this YouTube video three years ago, when Barack Obama, our nation’s first anti-American president, was still a theory, not a fact. It bears watching now, as we witness Obama’s efforts to bring about a world without America:
Bookworm on Apr 22 2010 | Filed under: America, Children, Education, Leftist morality
Tweet I 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). Reading the quotation, though, [...]
Bookworm on Nov 05 2009 | Filed under: America
Tweet Good ideas, thankfully, don’t just squirm away and die. The best of them take on a life of their own. This year’s good idea, one that has been in vogue for a while, but that is taking on heightened importance now, is the core nature of being an American. My focus is on freedom, [...]
Bookworm on Aug 28 2009 | Filed under: America
Tweet As is always the case with an Andrew McCarthy article, he efficiently marshals vast numbers of relevants to make a compelling argument, with today’s argument being that Holder’s decision to “investigate” CIA interrogators is not merely a sop to the radical Left in the U.S., but is actually part of a larger effort to [...]
Bookworm on Jul 01 2008 | Filed under: America, Barack Obama
Tweet I have two wonderful things for you to read on the subject of patriotism. The first is from Zabrina, at Thought You’d Never Ask, in which she dispenses some words of wisdom to a child about to head off to college. The second is from Jonah Goldberg, who explains why conservative Americans often don’t [...]
Don Quixote on Jun 13 2008 | Filed under: America
Tweet I asserted the other day that it was a “fact” that America built the greatest society the world has ever seen and Ozzie reasonably asked me to prove this was a fact and not merely my opinion. He has a point, but let’s see what facts we can offer. It is, of course, opinion [...]
Bookworm on Apr 04 2008 | Filed under: America, Barack Obama
Tweet Barack Obama has had a weird life, but not a bad one. Yes, his father abandoned him, but he’s certainly not the only person, of any race, to experience that. His mother loved him, his grandparents loved him, he grew up in the mellow, racially-mixed world of Hawaii (barring his Indonesian stint), he went [...]
Bookworm on Feb 27 2008 | Filed under: America
Tweet I’ve been mentally debriefing myself in the 36 hours since my return from a fairly intense Disney vacation and wanted to share some of those thoughts with you. I’ve always loved Disneyland. When I was young, I was taken in by the apparent magic. I didn’t notice the motors and wires and paint. To [...]
Bookworm on Feb 06 2008 | Filed under: America
Tweet I had noticed today, when I checked out the British paper the Telegraph, an article in which people were asked to summarize their lives in six words. What I didn’t realize is that there is something of a meme going on out there, not in the internet so much as in the MSM. As [...]
Bookworm on Dec 09 2007 | Filed under: America, Israel
Tweet I did something fun tonight: I went to a moderated talk concerning Israel. The speakers were Dennis Prager, John Podhoretz and Mona Charen, with Michael Medved moderating. As you can imagine, the discussion was informed, vigorous, amusing, intelligent and opinionated. I enjoyed every minute of it and I gathered from the applause, laughter, murmurs [...]
Bookworm on Sep 23 2007 | Filed under: America, Jihad, Muslim violence, World War II
Tweet Ken Burns’ new series about World War II is off to a good start although his stately pace can often be somewhat sleep inducing. It’s one of those slightly bizarre situations where it’s worth your while to force yourself to stay awake. Part of the first episode includes a run-down of what Americans were [...]
Bookworm on Sep 04 2007 | Filed under: America, Arabs, Iran, Israel, Muslim violence
Tweet With the resurgent charge that there is a pro-Israel lobby destroying U.S. interests around the world, I’d like you to read this essay, from George Friedman, of Stratfor, a geopolitical intelligence organization. I’m publishing it with permission of Stratfor, which included this message in the email I receive regularly with Stratfor articles: This report [...]
Don Quixote on Aug 27 2007 | Filed under: America, Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews, Jimmy Carter
Tweet For six hours this Sunday I watched my TIVOed copies of Christiane Amanpour’s God’s Warriors specials. Amanpour’s biases clearly showed through, especially when she tried to portray Muslim radicals as some kind of a small fringe group, or when she spoke to fundamentalist Christian leaders in a tone dripping with disdain. But, it appeared, [...]
Bookworm on Aug 18 2007 | Filed under: America, Europe
Tweet One of my favorite of the many conservative slogans printed on products sold at Protest Warrior is the one that says “Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, War Has Never Solved Anything.” To me, it’s always been self-evident that there are good wars, just as there are bad and pointless wars. And [...]
Don Quixote on Jul 25 2007 | Filed under: America, Jihad, Leftist morality, Religion
Tweet Thank you as always for your insightful and thoughtful comments. I always love throwing out topics and seeing the wonderful places you take them. Today, I’d like to ask another question that relates to faith. One thing that cannot be denied about the Islamists is that they have a deep faith. It is hardly [...]
Bookworm on Apr 08 2007 | Filed under: America, Britain, Iran
Tweet From Mark Steyn: Tony Blair was at pains to point out that the hostages were released ”without any deal, without any negotiation, without any side agreement of any nature.” But he’s missing (or artfully sidestepping) the point: Tehran didn’t want a deal. It wanted the humbling of the Great Satan’s principal ally. And it [...]
Bookworm on Mar 15 2007 | Filed under: America
Tweet I volunteer with a youth choral group. In music theory today, one of the boys, who is learning sight singing, laboriously sounded out several tunes, and was then asked to name each of them. He was able to name Frere Jacques, Happy Birthday to You, and even My Bonny Lies Over the Ocean. What [...]
Bookworm on Jan 19 2007 | Filed under: America, Europe
Tweet One of the problems with oppositional behavior is that, while you may think you’re in control, you’re not — you’re just in constant reactive mode. Thus, if you ask me to sit down and I reflexively refuse to sit down (“you can’t boss me around”), I’ve ceded a form of negative power to you. [...]
Don Quixote on Sep 25 2006 | Filed under: America, Economics, Government
Tweet If Bookworm were here (she’s on a much needed mini-vacation and will be back tomorrow) she would surely mention that oil prices have dipped below $60 a barrel and are at a 6-month low. Also, the fed declined to raise interest rates for a change. Assuming the good news continues (always a dangerous assumption) [...]
Don Quixote on Sep 24 2006 | Filed under: America, Uncategorized
Tweet I bought a new car the other day, a Buick Lucerne. My LeSabre has served me well for 150,000 miles so I looked forward to my new Buick. It is an excellent car, but one thing bothers me. The LeSabre has the old Buick logo of three shields — one red, one white & [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2006 | Filed under: America, Islam, Religion
Tweet Being Jewish, I can’t reach Patrick’s ultimate conclusion that “Jesus is the answer,”* but I sure can agree with everything else in his post. He explains why we must support the Pope’s thesis that reason and religion have to take a role in public debate today because our enemies, using hatred and irrationality, are [...]
Don Quixote on Sep 02 2006 | Filed under: America
Tweet In my continuing review of bumper stickers I saw one yesterday that said, “You cannot win a war any more than you can win an earthquake.” Leaving aside the silliness of this comparison, it can be used to make a point quite different than the bumper sticker owner intended. You can react to an [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2006 | Filed under: America, Anti-war, Arabs, Hezbollah, Israel
Tweet [NGA, as opposed to the familiar NGO, is not a typo. I'll explain in a minute.] I had lunch with DQ today and, at his request, gave him a run-down of Israel’s history, starting with Herzl and modern Zionism. I took him through the Eastern European pogroms; the declining Ottoman Empire; the ascendent British [...]
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