Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Marguerite emailed me the following splendid parable. Do any of you know its origin? Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There
Continue readingI liked the group Madness then, and I still like it now: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIe_sjKeAY[/youtube] And for reasons known only to my brain, the above song always reminds me of The Kinks’ “Come Dancing”: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs2kFrGluKs[/youtube]
Continue readingOkay, the article didn’t really say the fish had PMS. It’s just what I thought when I read the last sentence.
Continue readingOne of the lesser known gems of MGM’s great musical era is a 1945 Fred Astaire movie called Yolanda and the Thief, with Fred as the thief and Lucille Bremer as Yolanda. (Lesser know, probably, because it was a huge box office bust with end-of-the-war audiences.) The plot is paper
Continue readingLast week, I recommended that you read Carl Cannon’s Sarah “Barracuda” Palin and the Piranhas of the Press. Cannon, who holds no brief for Palin, nevertheless thinks that the press’s behavior once she was on the national scene demonstrates that the American media is in freefall. Cannon begins by pointing
Continue readingThose who are pushing for universal health care here in America might want to take just a second to contemplate what Britain’s National Health Service (“NHS”) is doing in the area of teen sex. Because Britain has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe, which no doubt is quite costly
Continue readingYesterday was the huge county swim meet that closes out the season. At the end of the day, my daughter pointed out that, according to her admittedly informal information gathering, one of the lanes in which she swam had better outcomes than did the other lanes. “I think it was
Continue readingRepublicans are finally figuring out how to push back: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NGEfRBzB0s&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] I like Ed Morrissey’s comment about the video: Today, Barack Obama once again dishonestly claimed that Porkulus opponents wanted to “do nothing” in the face of the economic collapse, but that’s simply not true — which Obama might have learned
Continue reading[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0[/youtube] Hat tip: Zhombre
Continue readingIf you read Michelle Malkin, you already know about Zombie’s post exposing the unrepentant eugenicist past of John Holdren, Obama’s science czar. Writing in the early 1970s, when the trendy concern was the population explosion (promising every a brutish Malthusian future), Holdren eagerly espoused a world order with forced abortions;
Continue readingIf you haven’t already read this Politics Daily article about the medias sowing the seeds of it’s own destruction through its reporting on Sarah Palin, you must. Hat tip: The Provocateur
Continue readingMike Devx meant the following to be a comment, but it’s such an important point, I’m making it a post: I ran across a blurb on Instapundit: JOE SCARBOROUGH’S NEW BOOK gets a rather unenthusiastic review from Nick Gillespie. “He unwittingly tells us that conservatives can at best stand athwart
Continue readingEngland has generated a lot of pig headlines lately. The first round involved Britons actually removing, just thinking about removing, pigs from public sight for fear of offending Muslims. Those stories were scary in an attenuated fashion, because they symbolized England’s loss of will and her willing submission to a
Continue readingAside from the fact that nothing in today’s headlines has inspired me to write, work and family have conspired to keep me away from the computer. I’ll get back to you all later today, I promise. Until then, enjoy yourselves, here or elsewhere.
Continue readingToday is the day I read and vote on the Watcher’s Council submissions for the week. As always, I anticipate an enjoyable and educational time: Council Submissions The Provocateur – How Bonds Work (and How Current Policy Will Wreck Them and the Economy With It) Right Truth – Pride Or
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