Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under Heaven — or so the Bible tells us. In nature, the Mama bird has to push that baby bird out of the nest, so that it can function on its own. Usually, though, once having done that,
Continue readingMelissa Clouthier has a nice post about the tax freedom tea parties planned all over America for this coming Wednesday. After addressing (and pretty much dismissing) some concern from those on the Right about the motivations behind the tea parties, she has this lovely paragraph about the worry from the
Continue readingAnother week, another vote — and this time I’m very honored that my fellow Watcher’s bestowed the honor on me. Be sure to visit the Watcher’s site and read the Watcher’s comments about the common threads running through some of the results. Council Submissions First place with 2 points! –
Continue readingPicture this: You’re a believing Christian, and you work for a Christian charity that is under the patronage of your country’s major Christian organization. One of your colleagues, in a private conversation, asks for yours views about your faith. You say that you’re opposed as a doctrinal matter, but that
Continue readingGood news: An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a U.S. Navy operation that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, a senior U.S. intelligence official said. One of the pirates was wounded
Continue readingFrom Britain’s Got Talent: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY[/youtube]
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Continue readingHomeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: “I referred to “man-caused” disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.” The Pentagon: “This administration prefers to avoid using
Continue readingThe Way We Get By is a movie that is starting a limited (very limited) run in theaters now and will be on PBS (!) at the end of the year. Even the two minute trailer is uplifting: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvpnxbdWX0w[/youtube] Hat tip: Don Surber
Continue readingI caught Taco on satellite radio, performing his own weird version of Irving Berlin’s Puttin’ on the Ritz. I thought I’d do a little collection of videos showing that song playing out over the decades. Here’s Harry Richman, for whom Berlin wrote the song, performing it in 1930, in one
Continue readingAlready back in the 70s, when the “natural” movement began, my Mom was cautious. As she liked to say, “hemlock is also a natural substance.” Her point was that nature can be cruel, and that people who assumed that things untouched by human hands were automatically better were foolish and
Continue readingMy son came home from public school the other day complaining that one of his teachers used a history lesson as an opportunity to launch into a short speech about how Obama was going to bring peace to the world. (Which is true, if you accept that, as Charles Krauthammar
Continue readingDuring this week, a holy one for both Christians and Jews, here’s a story to remind you about true faith, something that provide comfort and strength in the face of even the worst adversity.
Continue readingFrom Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (at pp. 36-37), written in 1950: The attitude of rising mass movements toward the family is of considerable interest. Almost all of our contemporary movements showed in their early stages a hostile attitude toward the family, and
Continue readingRight now, I’m reading the following fascinating material, nominated over at the Watcher of Weasels: Council Submissions The Glittering Eye – Risking It Mere Rhetoric – New J-Street Poll Is Rigged In Particularly Stupid, Obnoxious Ways Bookworm Room – Can it happen here? The Colossus of Rhodey – Just …
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