Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Barack Obama, a political nobody in terms of experience, has been thrust to the highest echelons in a matter of months, with the White House realistically within his reach. This is every politician’s dream, it’s the Hollywood movie, but it may not be quite the perfect scenario that Obama and
Continue readingA friend sent me an email that I found fascinating on two levels. The first level was the email’s content, which describes all the huge positive strides occurring in Iraq that somehow never manage to get into the mainstream media: Did you know that 47 countries have reestablished their Embassies
Continue readingA year or two ago, the press reported on a rather charming religion called the Sky Kingdom cult that had popped up in Malaysia. The worshippers had built a Disney-esque little temple that centered on a giant teapot that symbolized the beneficence of love and the purity of water pouring
Continue readingI was disappointed to read that he’s an Obama man, but in his heyday, there were few like Tom Lehrer. Here are a couple of my favorites. The first is the The Elements: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SmwlzwGMMwc[/youtube] And here is one of the lesser known songs, but one of my favorites, Oedipus Rex:
Continue readingI’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today. 1. John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their
Continue readingIf you haven’t already read Heather MacDonald’s debunking of the “Rape Epidemic” on college campuses, you must. The whole article is replete with gems such as this one: The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable
Continue readingLast night, my husband had the kids join him while he watched the last 45 minutes of Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe. I blogged about it here. If you haven’t watched it — and I don’t recommend it — I would summarize it briefly as an incredibly stupid anti-War, anti-American
Continue readingMy father, who was a veteran of World War II and the Israeli War of Independence, was still alive during the first Gulf War. I vividly remember his comment that it was idiotic how much the press made of how nice Americans were and how our troops were so good
Continue readingSomething I never imagined would happen did, in fact, happen: For the first time in his adult life, I feel very sorry for Prince Harry. (I say “adult life” because I felt sorry for him back in 1997 when his mother died in the world’s most publicized car accident and
Continue readingI’m assembling another collection of quality “be careful of Obama” posts. At Power Line, there is an excellent post looking at the way in which Obama seems more willing to give our enemies than our allies the benefit of the doubt. American Thinker compares how Obama and McCain talk about
Continue readingI’ve long been a fan of Bill Maudlin’s wonderful WWII cartoons depicting life on the front line. Todd DePastino, another admirer, has written a biography, Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front, that definitely looks worth the read. David Michaelis, writing for the New York Times has a nice review of
Continue readingMy daughter is a tween and is just starting to think that she is smart and I am stupid. We therefore had a little talk this morning. Or, rather, I gave her a short lecture. I explained that, when I was young and my mother, like me, was in her
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