Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Charles Rangel wants the draft back not to aid our military in the war, but to create a 60s redux, with potential draftees undercutting the entire military effort: Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 under a bill the incoming chairman of the
Continue readingThis is a post just for WordPress users. I’m having an irritating intermittent problem, which is that the comments people leave at my blog, which WordPress is supposed to email to me automatically, aren’t always showing up in my email. Or, as happened yesterday, they show up a couple of
Continue readingApropos those report cards that came home the other day, I’m happy to announce that, if Little Bookworm were to take the standardized test that drives modern public education, she would score in the 70% to 94% range. In other words, her work quality floats somewhere between barely passing and
Continue readingI’ve known about it all day, and almost didn’t blog about it, since news gets stale so quickly. Nevertheless, it seemed almost morally wrong not to applaud the Dutch for their recent moment of spine: they’ve banned the burqa. The Dutch government agreed on Friday a total ban on the
Continue readingClear an hour on your timetable. Then, watch Glenn Beck’s Exposed : The Extremist Agenda, about the footage CNN, MSNBC and the Times/Discovery Channel aren’t showing you. The Nuremburg rallies look like high school talent shows compared to these things: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PWIK8YTZS8] Hat tip: Little Green Footballs del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingIf you haven’t already done so, take the time to check out 30 Rock. The fact that Tina Fey, the head writer, and the star, was head writer at Saturday Night Live actually wasn’t much of a recommendation as far as I was concerned. Happily, I overcame that prejudice, because
Continue reading“Today, your child is bringing home their report card to go over with you.” ‘Nuff said. del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingMr. Bookworm must be the only parent in the world who, upon finding his children quietly reading together at bedtime, insists they abandon their books and beds, and come watch TV with him. Maybe there’s psychology here — one day, with luck, they’ll come to hate the enforced TV watching
Continue readingI hate, loathe, despite, and deeply, deeply disrespect the BBC. So does Peter Glover, but he brings much more depth to his disdain for that institution: he’s British, he knows the facts and, while I am only forced to pay a little bit for the insignificant BBC wannabe in American
Continue readingI consider myself a beneficiary of the saner side of Women’s Lib. (For the insane side, amuse yourself reading Christina Hoff Sommers’ Who Stole Feminism : How Women Have Betrayed Women.) After all, I was effortlessly able to launch myself into the traditionally male preserve of law. Over the years,
Continue readingAs part of my ongoing effort to spread joy through Fred Astaire, allow me to introduce you to the Cole Porter song “Don’t Monkey With Broadway,” which Astaire sings with George Murphy. (Yes, that George Murphy.) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjDVp_DVORk]
Continue readingLittle Bookworm had a spelling test on Halloween based on a list of holiday inspired words. To that end, among other words, the list had the words “ghoulish,” “ghastly,” “glowing,” “spooky” and, to my surprise, “florescent.” “Interesting,” I thought, “that the teacher should include in this ghoulish list a fairly
Continue readingPatrick O’Hannigan, my friend the Paragraph Farmer, used as the jumping off point for a wonderful article in The American Spectator a post of mine that had, in turn, commented favorably on a Dennis Prager article. Dennis Prager’s point, which was one I applauded, was that no one could have
Continue readingLast night, Mr. Bookworm pointed out to me that gasoline prices have started to rise again. “They fall right before an election and go back up again after. If that isn’t a Republican conspiracy, I don’t know what is.” I told him that this is a regular annual cycle, with
Continue readingWhat were Jewish voters doing last Tuesday? To hear the MSM tout it, they were returning to the Democratic fold in droves, at least according to one exit poll. However, Richard Baehr rides to the rescue to say, “Not so fast, my fine MSM friends.” It turns out that the
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