Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Among the other things I’ll be reading today will be all of these posts that the Watcher’s Council members nominated. Without having even read them, I know based on past experience that they will be wonderful, since my fellow Council members are an intelligent and discerning group. Also, many thanks
Continue readingIn an earlier post, I huffed and puffed because I hadn’t been able to make contact with the local Republicans for McCain. I’d offered my services some time ago and nobody got back to me. Well, I finally made contact and I retract all the snarky things I said. I
Continue readingQuick picks: Paul Mirengoff analyzing the many facets to Obama’s stance on the Iraq War. And Grim, at Blackfive, shows that Obama is not alone, since this mutli-faceted (read: dishonest) stance is endemic amongst Democrats.
Continue readingIn an amusing article that compiles examples of American and European media hysteria about Obama’s world tour (think Madonna and the Beatles, only bigger), Denis Boyles makes an interesting point about the European fixation with an Obama (read: black) Presidency: Anyway, the gist: Europeans really really want Obama to be
Continue readingIt’s no longer a phrase heard much anymore, but the Progressives used to title themselves “the reality based community.” They understood the real world, unlike the cruel, self-centered, self-serving conservatives surrounding them. Of course, that being the case, Obama must be the reality based candidate. However, Cheat-Seeking Missiles, riffing off
Continue readingTerry Sater writes about the fact that, coddled by loving euphemisms, Americans are marching headlong into the same dreadful socialist experiment that failed all over Europe — a failure that took place within the lifetime of every single American voter. This is not a case of a few centuries or
Continue readingThe Golden Gate Bridge is, in my humble opinion, one of the most beautiful sites in the world. Not only is the Bridge lovely in and of itself, driving or walking across it is pure sensory pleasure. Look east, and you see San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay; look
Continue reading‘Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.’ — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. In times past, teachers, parents and moralists frowned upon fiction because it was not considered elevating writing. It neither taught concrete skills nor high moral lessons. By the 17th Century, writers started to find
Continue readingObama’s been running away from the debate and McCain’s organization has been fairly inert and inept when it comes to pushing his agenda, but we still have the bloggers. The Confederate Yankee put together a very funny debate, just to show everyone how it’s done.
Continue readingObama’s getting the press, but McCain’s saying the important stuff, at least to those who believe that Israel, as the sole liberal democracy in the Middle East, deserves our support: American presidential candidate John McCain told Israel’s Channel 2 News station that stiffer sanctions might stop Iran’s threats against Israel.
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Continue readingThe Times may have refused to publish McCain’s Iraq editorial (afraid, no doubt, that publishing it would cast a shadow on Obama’s purported wisdom), but I have no such fear. Here’s, courtesy of the Drudge Report, is the op-ed McCain wrote — and it’s an op-ed that any reasonable, non-partisan
Continue readingBack in November 2007, I wrote a long post talking about the fact that I see a lot of children who are labeled as having Asperger’s (a subset of autism) but who seem instead (or also) to be the victims of profoundly bad parenting. I noted that I have known
Continue readingSee important update below. I have been trying without success for a couple of weeks now to volunteer my writing and editing services to the local “John McCain for President” chapter. No one is getting back to me — and I’ve been told by someone with ties to the local
Continue readingThe South rose twice today, as it did yesterday, at the Duncans Mills Civil War Reenactment, which is billed as the largest reenactment West of the Mississippi. Every July, for the past 9 years, Civil War Reenactors have gathered at Duncans Mills, California (near the Russian River), to set up
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