Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I blogged the other day about Dennis Prager’s strongly expressed opinion that those who have runaway compassion for criminals lack compassion for innocent people. Prager made that point in connection with the killing of Sean Taylor, something that took place at the hands of four young men with lengthy rap
Continue readingI received this email from a friend, who thought that you all might have some useful input about a recent policy change at her daughter’s elementary school: Apparently a boy got hit in the head playing football at recess and hurt himself, though I don’t know in what way or
Continue readingYou remember Matt Sanchez, don’t you? He’s the conservative military writer who suddenly shot to fame when it was revealed that he’d had an earlier career working in gay porn. He’s since turned against the lifestyle (porn), and writes about how it degrades the human spirit. He’s also been writing
Continue readingThe wonderful Ethel Waters, accompanied by Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, singing one of my favorite songs, “Taking a Chance on Love,” in 1943’s Cabin in the Sky: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=SyH4r-t5r8I]
Continue readingNewest figures out of the UK: One in five babies born in Britain last year was born to a woman from overseas, according to the first official analysis of the impact of migration on fertility. Immigrant mothers are having far more children than their British counterparts – fuelling the biggest
Continue readingOn May 23, 2007, I did a post in which I looked at Mitt’s Mormonism, and concluded that it shouldn’t matter because his values are what counts, not the path he took to arrive at those values. Based on comments left in response to that post, I updated it to
Continue readingIn my post about Jews’ love for Israel and America, I noted Michael Medved’s thought experiment, which was to imagine whether world attitudes towards America would change if Israel magically vanished, as well as his conclusion that nothing would change. Nevertheless, in the comments to that post — and perhaps
Continue readingI think it’s time for me to republish my blog comment policy: I’ve been fairly tolerant of comments at my blog, drawing the line only at obscene comments, threatening comments, or comments that are overtly racist or antisemitic, using insulting language, threats or death wishes. However, I’ve had multiple complaints
Continue readingI was one of those kids who had mice and hamsters and guinea pigs, so I have to admit to a bias in favor of rodent cuteness. This rodent, however, is such an eccentric blend of over-sized ears, tail and feet that I think most people, even those less favorably
Continue readingI’m sorry that I don’t have much time to blog today, but I’m bouncing from professional deadline to parenting deadline and back again without respite today. However, I did manage to catch up on my iPod’s backlog of Dennis Prager shows. Since the show was from last week, Dennis commented
Continue readingRather surprisingly, NPR picked up and did a nice job with the story of Bill Krissoff, the 60 year old man who enlisted in the Navy’s medical corp to honor his son, First Lt. Nathan Krissoff of Reno, Nev., who was killed in Iraq last year.
Continue readingI did something fun tonight: I went to a moderated talk concerning Israel. The speakers were Dennis Prager, John Podhoretz and Mona Charen, with Michael Medved moderating. As you can imagine, the discussion was informed, vigorous, amusing, intelligent and opinionated. I enjoyed every minute of it and I gathered from
Continue readingThis is what a Canadian jury found that Robert “Willie” Pickton did to six women: During his trial, a prosecution witness Andrew Bellwood said Pickton told him how he strangled his alleged victims and fed their remains to his pigs. Health officials once issued a tainted meat advisory to neighbors
Continue readingWe left early this morning to attend a 5K race that my 5th grader has been training for over the past three months. I signed all of us up, though, assuming that, while she ran, the rest of us would walk the race. My 3rd grader, however, announced his intention
Continue readingThe Wall Street Journal ran a short Brendan Minter article showing that, while Hollywood may deny the need for heroic war films, many in the public want them — and the vacuum is being filled on YouTube, of all places: But Americans haven’t lost their taste for war footage. They’ve
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