Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve always been fascinated by the way in which language can degrade, especially when the object of a given word or phrase is not held in high esteem. For example, the word spinster simply used to mean a woman who spun thread. Over the years, the word came to mean
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Continue readingI said earlier I wasn’t going to bad mouth Kennedy, but the white washed adoration oozing from the media impels me to say something. Politically and, if you’re into American dynasties, dynastically, the adulation upon his death is understandable and, depending on your political orientation, fitting. He was indeed a
Continue readingI’m sorry for the slow blogging, but a combination of work and personal matters is making serious blogging impossible. I’ll try to pick up here later today but, for now, I hope you find this open thread a good place to put down your thoughts.
Continue readingIf you’re in Marin County, California, here is news for you (emphasis mine): Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma, said Wednesday that she has changed her mind and will hold a public town hall meeting on health care reform in Petaluma on Monday. Woolsey drew criticism from some constituents earlier this month
Continue readingI said I wouldn’t blog about Kennedy himself and I’ll keep my word. I would like to point out something, though, about Kennedy’s health care, since word is out that the Dems have instantly leaped upon his death to advance their health care agenda. If anyone among the population is
Continue readingDe mortuis nil nisi bonum. I will say nothing. UPDATE: Confederate Yankee, who is not given to speaking ill of the dead, felt that Kennedy had a significant enough impact on the American political scene that it is inappropriate not to speak the truth. Had I known about Kennedy’s treason
Continue reading1. A major bed and midwife shortage has thousands of women giving birth in offices, hallways and even toilets. It sounds like a scene out of a bad war movie or a history of the Soviet Union, but it’s modern Britain under an imploding socialized medicine system: Thousands of women
Continue readingABC, aware that, when facts being stubborn things the only thing you can do when you don’t like them is run and hide, has refused to air this ad: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdgeSw3QqYk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Please post it on your blog and email it to your friends to counter ABC’s partisan cowardice.
Continue readingThere is so much wonderful stuff out there on the web, but I have to admit that I have a finite number of websites I routinely visit every morning. Get up, brush teeth, read specific websites. At those websites, the following piqued by interest: John Pitney gives many painful examples
Continue readingObama’s back is against the wall so, with his lackeys’ announcement about 90,000 potential H1N1 deaths, it looks as if he’s deflecting attention, rather than passing on useful information. Given Obama’s manifest motives, the numbers may or may not be true. We know he predicts budget numbers down when it
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Continue readingThat’s not normally what you expect to hear from your doctor, but you may hear that question in Hungarian or Polish or German or Italian or even Lithuanian if you’re a patient under Britain’s NHS. It turns out this problem arises because, yet again, the government has abandoned the rules
Continue readingYou’ll understand my post title if you read Jake Tapper’s post title, here. (By the way, I recognize that the grammar in my post title is wrong. I was striving for a colloquial tone.)
Continue readingThe media has long been news because of its seemingly intractible hostility to conservatives and their ideas. The new news is the fact that the media is getting disillusioned. When the media is itself a story, there’s a good wiki to visit to find information: Media Mythbusters (with which I
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