Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It’s the annual Project Valour — IT fund-raiser, which raises money to buy laptops for severely wounded service members. Here’s a little more info about the fund-raiser: As of October 2007, Valour-IT has distributed over 1500 laptops to severely wounded Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines across the country. Valour-IT
Continue readingCensorship occurs when the government tries to shut down speech. Marketplace forces work when an entity in the business of purveying speech learns that its particular type of speech will not be profitable. Confederate Yankee is suggesting that we put the marketplace to work against TNR, not because it is
Continue readingI’m a fairly simple soul in my tastes. I live a very nice middle class life, and usually am not troubled by a desire to gild this lily. I don’t need a car fancier than a minivan (although I discovered yesterday that it would probably be worth my while to
Continue readingThe global warming indoctrination is working — up to a point. In common with the school children in this John Stossel video, my children are worried about a climate change Armageddon and are hostile to Western culture because “it’s all our fault.” It’s a common topic of conversation. Hot days,
Continue readingI won’t add anything here, since I think you can draw your own conclusions: Record numbers of Britons are flying abroad for medical treatment to escape NHS waiting lists and the rising threat of hospital superbugs. More than 70,000 Britons will have treatment abroad this year, a figure that is
Continue reading. . . . a wonderful opinion piece that Cinnamon Stillwell wrote about the San Francisco drag queens dressed as nuns who took Holy Communion, not as an act of faith, but to ridicule the Church. Not only does Cinnamon expose the fundamentally anti-Christian attitude behind this attack on the
Continue readingI’m heading in the pre-dawn hours tomorrow morning for a day of soccer far from home. I have reason to believe that something I wrote might run on American Thinker tomorrow (Saturday), and that people might want to comment about it here. (Indeed, those of you who visit my blog
Continue readingI like Elizabeth Lowell’s romantic thrillers. I’m reading her most recent one, Innocent as Sin, about an adventurous, romantic hunt for a cold-blooded arms merchant. Early on, at a meeting between an information broker and a 60 Minutes style news group negotiating the handover of information about the bad guy,
Continue readingBritain continues to confuse me. Four men who had an orgy in a public park received formal apologies because fire fighters stared at them. On the other hand, a man getting it on with bicycle (yes, that’s not a typo) was arrested and placed on a sex offenders list. If
Continue readingI like to tweak NY Times movie reviews (heck, any MSM movie reviews), because of the relentless Progressive punditry that characterizes them, regardless of the movie’s actual content. With a movie about Jimmy Carter on the table, I was therefore prepared for a full frontal case of anti-Bush commentary in
Continue readingTNR has finally broken its silence and responded to the fact that Drudge made public documents regarding the Scott Thomas Beauchamp affair. According to TNR, everything Beauchamp said is true, and any recantations resulted from the military’s bullying him, augmented by right wing spin. I don’t have time to comment
Continue readingI have to say that, this week, when I was casting my votes for the Watcher’s Council, I had a really hard time. The caliber of articles that the council members submitted this week — both their own and someone else’s — was incredibly high. I kept going back and
Continue readingNot only is this Anita Renfroe video both funny and clever, wait ’til you see the spontaneous audience reaction at its conclusion: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU] Hat tip: Lulu
Continue readingGerry Charlotte Phelps has a very interesting post in which she concludes that, it’s not our politics that shape our attitudes towards the poor, but our attitudes towards the poor that shape our politics. Looking back on my own trajectory from Dem to neocon, she’s got a point.
Continue readingA few days ago, I wrote a asking for information about MBT shoes, a very weird looking shoe that promises to decrease joint pain and increase the beneficial effects of walking. As of today, I can’t comment about the latter promise, but I can about the former. You see, I
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