Tag Archive 'Patriotism'
Bookworm on Jan 22 2013 | Filed under: Conservative ideology
Tweet For the past four years, conservatives have been fighting a relentlessly rearguard, defensive action. For those same four years, conservatives have lost every rearguard, defensive action that they’ve fought. Or if they haven’t actually lost, the best that they’ve managed is a stalemate that stalls Progressivism, but doesn’t advance conservative values. Even the stunning [...]
Bookworm on Apr 13 2012 | Filed under: Lefties on Parade
Tweet The Twentieth Century American paradigm for patriotism was our Flag, Mom, and Apple Pie. Obama’s Democrats have now hit the trifecta. We’ve got the flag: We’ve got Mom: And we’ve got pie, courtesy of Michelle Obama, speaking on April 8, 2008: The truth is most Americans don’t want much. Folks don’t want the whole [...]
Bookworm on Nov 22 2011 | Filed under: Uplifting stories
Tweet There’s a distinct possibility that this is the best half time show ever, combining heartfelt patriotism, pitch perfect music, and marching the likes of which most of us haven’t seen outside of a Busby Berkeley movie. Even better — no wardrobe malfunctions. (If the video doesn’t show, go here to watch it.)
Bookworm on May 31 2010 | Filed under: 9/11, Afghanistan, Leftist morality, Military
Tweet As I’ve mentioned just a few times, I just read, and was very moved by, Marcus Luttrell’s Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10. A liberal I know flipped through the book’s first few pages and had a very different reaction. The following passages bugged [...]
Bookworm on May 19 2010 | Filed under: Military
Tweet Return of the heroes in Canada: H/t: American Thinker
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 13 2009 | Filed under: GBLT, Islam, Multiculturalism, Political correctness
Tweet I’ve now received five emails bringing to my attention a post at Hillbuzz, a blog that (as best as I can tell) is written by two gay Hillary supporters. (And thanks to all of you who did bring it to my attention.) What makes the post at Hillbuzz so unusual is that it’s a [...]
Bookworm on Sep 21 2009 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet It’s actually hard to find old patriotic songs from WWII era Hollywood because not many are loaded onto YouTube. Here’s a short one, though, from Hollywood Canteen:
Bookworm on Sep 12 2009 | Filed under: Conservative ideology
Tweet I watched this short video that I found at Michelle Malkin’s site: As I watched this video, I had this very weird feeling that something was deeply, deeply wrong with this protest. It looks wrong. I’m a child of the Vietnam era, and I’ve managed to keep my eye on the news — and [...]
Bookworm on Aug 30 2009 | Filed under: Hollywood, Media matters
Tweet Hollywood and the media establishment as a whole are inescapable parts of American and, indeed, world culture. It’s fascinating, therefore, to think about the type of patriotism our American media now espouses and that which it embraced in the past. Depending on how one defines patriotism, whether as love of country or love of [...]
Bookworm on Nov 18 2008 | Filed under: Hollywood
Tweet WWII was a dreadful time, with about 400,000 American military deaths suffered during those four years. Just for perspective, we’ve been in Iraq for almost six years and, thank God, have sustained only 4,200 deaths. Nevertheless, there’s a tendency to look back with nostalgia on America’s time during WWII, and that’s in part because [...]
Bookworm on Sep 25 2008 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama
Tweet The Confederate Yankee launches a truly scathing attack on Obama’s fundamental lack of “American-ness” — and it has nothing to do with skin color, and everything to do with his profoundly un-American upbringing. I think you should read it. I will add only that some of the greatest patriots I’ve met are people who [...]
Bookworm on Aug 18 2008 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Tweet Mr. Bookworm cannot stand the fluff pieces that are an integral part of Olympic coverage. On Saturday night, therefore, when NBC switched from Michael Phelp’s history breaking gold medal to an interview with Kobe Bryant, Mr. Bookworm immediately switched off the television. I’m now quite sorry he did. Kobe may be a multi-million dollar [...]
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 [...]
