Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
San Francisco has the geographic virtue of being a small city. Zombie was therefore able to zip around and photograph Sally Zelikovsky’s true grass roots protest (complete with attendees bringing imaginative, home-made signs), and then to contrast it with a carefully astroturfed pro-big government protest. The contrasts are striking. I
Continue readingIs our democracy germinating the seeds of its own destruction? Alexis de Toqueville warned, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” That day has come. It is not yet gone. Democracy in ancient Athens lasted about 250
Continue readingOn the “real me” facebook, a “joke” is making the rounds: ”A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea
Continue reading“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” – President Barack Hussein Obama I posted this as a comment to Book’s previous post, but have now posted it independently as a challenge to all of us Bookworm salon aficionados. Here’s the premise: virtually all the political violence
Continue readingI’ve noticed lately, in talking to liberals, that their frontal lobes have been taken over by the Tea Party. Sadly, when I say this I don’t mean that they’ve embraced the Tea Party’s commitment to smaller government and greater individual freedom. I mean instead that the idea of the Tea
Continue readingAs I’ve related in past posts, my liberal friend repeatedly calls me a fascist or Nazi for supporting the Tea Party. Aside from being really rude, these appellations bewilder me. The historical record is very clear that both the Italian fascists and the Germany Nazis were socialists. Socialism, by definition,
Continue readingAfter being dismissed and diminished by the media and administration as [fill in your condescending or derogatory epithet here], the Tea Party, which was a response to the Democratic tidal wave in 2008, has changed the face of politics into the foreseeable future. Sarah Palin is no small part of
Continue readingI attended the Marin GroupaPalooza, and did a tongue in cheek blog post here, imagining how a Progressive would have perceived the event. John Yoo has just published his take on the event, which is straightforward and clear — and nicely rebuts Obama’s (and the rest of the Left’s) paranoid
Continue readingA little imp made me tell my Progressive friend that I would be attending the Bay Area Patriots‘ GroupaPalooza, which is, essentially, a convention for the small but robust number of conservatives in the Bay Area. I’ve mentioned this friend before. He’s the one who assured me that the Tea
Continue readingI know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed. I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little
Continue readingA friend of mine is horrified that I’m affiliated in any way with the Tea Party movement. They are, he tells me, Nazis. They are, he says, the direct descendants of George Wallace’s racist, antisemitic, separatist movement. They are, he assures me, far right wing paramilitary nutcases who want to
Continue readingAside from the LaRouchites who appear at the Tea Party rallies, complete with their posters showing Obama with a Hitler mustache, I am unaware of any significant racist rhetoric or imagery from the Tea Party. Certainly the media’s minions, despite their ugly fulminations and accusations about racism, never point to
Continue readingOne of the big jokes in the blogosphere has been the fact that a Tea Party protest comprised in no small part of smiling grannies (a term I use with great love and respect) standing outside an Obama appearance, was met with riot police: Yesterday, I asked jokingly just how
Continue reading“I sent the club a wire stating, ‘PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER.’” — Groucho Marx, quoting a telegram he sent to the Friar’s Club of Beverly Hills, as recounted in Groucho and Me (1959),
Continue readingNo wonder the Democratic establishment is so terrified of these Tea Partiers. What they lack in violence, they make up in insight: Thanks, Earl, for sending this one along.
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