Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There are a fair number of resources that describe how to go about blogging. Sometimes, though, what’s needed is tough love. That’s what John Hawkins provides at Right Wing News, in an article descriptively entitled “The Top 10 Reasons Bloggers Don’t Succeed.” Some fall in the category of “maybe the
Continue readingYesterday my son’s chorus sang for a local Episcopalian church, so I attended the Sunday morning service. Because of the chorus, I’ve often attended services at this church, and I like the regular minister a great deal — he’s got a pleasant speaking voice and his sermons are witty, warm
Continue readingIt would be the usual New York Times puff piece about Obama being a hard worker in the Senate, and being intelligent, and being ambitious, if it weren’t for this exceptionally (and, I suspect, inadvertently) nasty introduction: They were the two competing elements in Barack Obama’s time in the Senate:
Continue readingIn a victory for free speech, a United States Magistrate in the Northern District of California ruled that free speech includes the right to be rude, and squashed a California State University rule barring “incivility”: To the relief of a campus Republican group, the 417,000 students at California State University’s
Continue readingI also like quoting from Mark Steyn in my blog, because it livens up my blog so much. This week, however, as I read Mark Steyn’s column, I realized that it would be impossible to steal any line or paragraph out of context, because it’s the relentless build-up of Steyn’s
Continue readingThis moment of moral clarity wasn’t exactly what CNN interviewer, Fionnuala Sweeney, was seeking. She was trying to use the seminary slaughter as yet another talking point in the “Palestinians as pushed-to-the-limit victims of Israeli aggression” line of thinking. Unfortunately for her, and fortunately for CNN viewers, interviewee David Horovitz
Continue readingMichelle Malkin details the escalating violence against recruiting centers in America, while the Royal Air Force (in which my father proudly served) . . . well, here, read it for yourself: The Queen was deeply concerned to learn that RAF servicemen and women had been banned from wearing their uniforms
Continue readingOf hard work: “I feel sorry for the kid who has too cushy a time of it. Suddenly he has to come to face-to-face with the realities of life without any mama or papa to do his thinking for him.” (Jimmy Cagney, speaking of his youth.)
Continue readingI don’t have anything lengthy to say about any of the followings, but I think they’re all worth reading or viewing: 1. A California Appellate Court has issued a ruling that essentially ends homeschooling in California. You already know. What got me about this article on the subject was this:
Continue readingThis Sunday is the end of Daylight Savings Time. Set your clock one hour forward before you go to bed Saturday night.
Continue readingThese are happy Palestinians: You can see more wildly happy Palestinians here. This is why they are having a celebratory party, complete with drums, bagpipes, guns and babies: You can see more examples of the images and facts that give the Palestinians their jollies here and here. Do you still
Continue readingLast night, I caught a Busby Berkeley movie I’ve never seen before: 1933’s Footlight Parade, with a charismatic, manically energized Jimmy Cagney as the producer of “prologues,” live stage acts paired with “talking” pictures, all for 50 cents a show. Joan Blondell does a great job as his witty, put-upon
Continue readingSamantha Powers, Barack Obama’s foreign policy advisor, has been taking a lot of heat because of her bizarre pronouncements about Iraq (where she proposes ethnic cleansing), Israel (where she proposes taking over the country), and Jews (where she views foreign politics as being primarily all about “what’s good for the
Continue readingOne of the more telling political moments the other day occurred when Chris Matthews asked Texas State Senator Kirk Watson, a prominent Obama supporter, to name Obama’s legislative accomplishments. Watson was tongue-tied. Although I’ll be the first to admit to brain freeze when put on the spot with questions like
Continue readingI noted a couple of posts ago that the UN, predictably, is up in arms about the fact that Israel finally took action against the militants firing rockets at civilians. I’m sure, though, that the UN will greet with mind-numbing silence the fact that terrorists invaded a school in Jerusalem
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