Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When I lived in England in the very early 80s, I was a huge fan of British pop music. I was, after all, young and we all like the music of our youth, especially when played out in interesting or romantic locations. When I came back to the States from
Continue readingDebate will always rage about the purpose of imprisonment and the reasonable length for prison sentences. Some people think prison exists solely to punish people, while others believe that we need to use prisons to rehabilitate people, and stop being so gosh darn punitive. I tend to fall in a
Continue readingA woman in New Hampshire, who’s been billed in the MSM as an ordinary Mom but is, in fact, someone with a long record of liberal political activism, has thrust Rudy Giuliani’s parenting into the spotlight by stating “”If a person is running for president, I would assume their children
Continue readingCinnamon Stillwell, a brave and vocal neocon in the San Francisco Bay Area, was trading emails with me about coming out as a conservative, not to people we’ve just met, but to those who knew us when. (Cinnamon, incidentally, is not a closet conservative.) That conversation led to a great
Continue readingClifford May has an excellent article about the Surge. It begins with the doomsday scenarios the anti-War people in politics and the press spelled out before the Surge happened, and then points that the more honest amongst them are admitting that the Surge is working. What makes May’s article very
Continue readingYou’d think that the most recent fauxtography story would have provided ample warning to the AFP that people are watching and that the media can no longer blithely get away with dishonesty. But no, just as General Honore, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina gently chided a reporter for being
Continue readingThe Watcher’s Council results are in, and I’m pleased to report that I came in a very respectable second, behind Big Lizards’ excellent The “Don’t Make Waves!” Theory of Iraqi Politics. That post argues that Americans should focus on important military objectives, and leave the sectarian squabbles alone, unless they
Continue readingI have a really ignorant question for my Christian friends. I am under the impression that, if you are a fundamentalist Christian, accepting Christ as your savior is the one and only road to salvation. I think I’ve read this described as “faith, not acts.” If I’m correct about this
Continue readingI don’t know about you, but it’s easy to read a whole bunch of quite uplifting symbolism into this story: An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said. The crucifix, made of copper and
Continue readingMy son’s Nintendo DS crashed and, as it turned out, he hadn’t saved for quite a while. He lost several special moves and weapons that he’d gathered since the last save. I suggested (sympathetically) that he might want to save more often. His response: “I’m going to sue Nintendo.” I
Continue readingIt’s old news in the blogosphere, but I was very pleased to see that The Telegraph, one of Britain’s three main newspapers had as a top story (online) Steve McIntyre’s find that NASA climate information was in error: A US blogger has caused a stir in the climate debate by
Continue readingFIRE has targeted the University of Maryland at College Park as one of the most repressive colleges in America. It’s created an environment governed entirely by giving all self-styled victims the right to take offense, with no vestige of the traditional Western university model of the free exchange of ideas.
Continue readingWhen I used to go to Lake Tahoe in the 1960s and early 1970s, the water was such a clear blue it seemed magical. If you took a boat out, you could look straight through to the bottom to incredible depths. The lake area also wasn’t very crowded. You could
Continue readingCliff Thier is looking ahead to the possibility that the 2008 election will see Hillary and Rudy competing against each other in the White House. With that in mind, he’s come up with a great idea for a campaign commercial. Aside from liking the idea, I think it’s incredibly important
Continue readingSchool starts in a week, so this is one of the last of my lazy mornings of sleeping in a little longer and lolling around before turning on my computer. I haven’t even read the news at this point! Nevertheless, I am looking forward to the new school year. Already
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