Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Over the years there has been much discussion over the lessons we learned from our craven withdrawal and defeat in Vietnam. The lessons I learned were pretty simple: (1) Don’t go into a war unless you intend to win it. “Limited war” is an oxymoron. (2) Don’t go into a
Continue readingPerhaps because I’m on vacation, perhaps because we’re in the dog days of August, but I’m having some mental problems grappling with the distinction between appropriate times to judge acts and appropriate times to judge intentions. I think I might have discovered a bright line between the two, but I’m
Continue readingIs it my imagination, or is this rabbi (on the bobblehead doll the Giants are giving away on Jewish Heritage Night) secretly a cowboy. Okay, the link’s working now.
Continue readingThis time they are in San Francisco, and their target is a proposed Starbucks. Perhaps not surprisingly, they’re led by a local cafe owner who (ya think?) might have just a wee bit of a conflict of interest. Hey, folks, if you don’t like a Starbucks in your neighborhood, then
Continue readingOur trade deficit is out of control. Our national debt is out of control. The dollar is dropping against most currencies. Oil is at an all-time high. The housing market is weak. The mortgage market is in disarray. And, until two weeks ago, the stock market was hitting record highs.
Continue readingI’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting. The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really
Continue readingWhile we were having an interesting discussion about Michael Vick and dogfighting a few weeks ago, I was watching the Tour de France. At the time, everyone in the media, and most of the folks in the discussion here were bemoaning how terrible dogfighting was and couldn’t understand how people could
Continue readingDQ here. I was reading an article on the buy-out of Chrysler the other day when one line caught my eye. The group taking the company private is paying $1.4 billion and agreeing to invest $6.1 billion in the company. Sounds like a bargain for a company the size
Continue readingThe votes are in and they are good. My post, “He’s not my President,” placed a respectable third, deserved falling behind the first place winner, NEA Also Confused About SCOTUS Decision Regarding Race & Schooling by The Colossus of Rhodey, and the second place winner, Whose Freedom? What Is Speech?,
Continue readingIt was bad, but we can be grateful that it wasn’t as bad as it could have been: The estimate of the number of people still missing after the collapse of a highway bridge over the Mississippi River fell sharply today to eight, as divers prepared to resume their search
Continue readingA little over a month ago, I blogged about the California prison system’s problem dealing with inmates who have male genitalia, but who have declared themselves female. The genesis of my post was the fact that one of these self-identified females, a man who had no surgery but took hormones,
Continue readingDuring the 60s, one of the rallying cries of the Left was to “take it all off.” Daniel Pipes definitely doesn’t advocate that, but he does argue that it is reasonable for democratic societies (indeed, for any societies) to ban entirely the tribal garments known as burqas and niqabs, since
Continue readingEarlier this week, in “He’s not my President,” I blogged about the fact that many Democrats are, in fact, very un-democratic. In their world, the only good votes are the ones they win, with all others being invalid and subject to attack in whatever way they deem expedient. It seems
Continue readingAce deconstructs The New Republic‘s most recent attempt to explain away Scott Thomas’ rather strange, and almost impossible to corroborate, claims about his macabre and novelistic experiences in Iraq. The more one learns, the more it seems that Thomas wanted to write a semi-biographical version of the great anti-War novel,
Continue readingYou know that I think the best teaching method out there is a pure Montessori approach. It focuses on how children learn, rather than on how union educators think teachers ought to teach, and instills in children a lifelong love of learning, and a depth of understanding that’s foreign to
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