Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I first did this 2996 project post regarding Lt. Brian Ahearn in 2006. I could have picked someone new this year, but I’ve conceived a very strong affection for this good and honorable man, and I’d like to continue recognizing him on my blog. Without further ado, I present Lt.
Continue readingOne of the most frightening things about a nanny state is the way in which it saps each citizen’s ability to care for him or herself. While others may have been hurling imprecations at President Bush in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, I reserved my bile for a nanny state
Continue readingFrom Andrew Breitbarth’s new site, Big Government, comes a staggering expose of corruption at a Baltimore ACORN office: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtTnizEnC1U[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNYU9PamIZk[/youtube] Do you think anyone in Eric Holder’s office is listening?
Continue readingHere was the story in today’s paper: Religious fanatic held in Aeromexico hijacking An Islamic religious fanatic briefly hijacked a jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun as it landed in Mexico City Wednesday, police said. All passengers and the crew were released unharmed. The Koran-carrying hijacker used a juice
Continue readingI was listening to some Cole Porter the other day, and it occurred to me that some of his songs have a rather creepy quality to them. Stalking love: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwaE8xTbfo[/youtube] Obsessive love (yucky recording, but you’ll get the point): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn8civCI0Zo[/youtube] And masochistic love: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ablm52o6DxU[/youtube] And yet they’re all such lovely
Continue readingMany, many years ago, I had the good fortune during the Aspen Music Festival to be present in someone’s living room when some of the guests, musicians all, decided to do some sight reading for their fellow attendees. I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences, although perhaps not
Continue readingThe news has me down, so I’m trying to cheer myself up: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW02c5UNGl0[/youtube]
Continue readingRead Charlie Sheen’s imagined conversation with Barack Obama. Then read the comments. Then get really depressed. And they try to paint us as crazy for wanting to see the school transcripts proving Obama’s much-vaunted brilliance.
Continue readingBack in 2006, I wrote an optimistic article for American Thinker in which I saw some hope in Hollywood’s approach to manliness. I’m going to quote here at some length from my earlier article, because I want to make the point that I was lauding an enormously successful movie because
Continue readingNo deep thoughts today (at least, not yet), so I’ll just piggy-back on the deep thoughts of others: It says something about the pent-up demand for intelligent conservative thought in today’s America that conservative books cling tenaciously to the top of the best seller lists, despite the MSM’s equally resolute
Continue readingSaw this snippet at BNO News. It’s the perfect 21st Century crime: Nine young women have been rescued after being held and abused in a Turkish villa for 2 months in what they thought was a Big Brother show.
Continue readingHere I sit with no computer access and a phone delivered just two days ago — and a job to do, but no resources with which to complete it. Why am I in this predicament? Before last week, I was productively working for the Navy trying to integrate kinetic (shooter,
Continue readingMy daughter, who attends middle school, told me that she understood the the take-away message from Obama’s speech to be “The future is your responsibility,” a thought she found unpleasantly burdensome. Generally, she thought the speech was long and boring. As for the “tomorrow belongs to you” aspect of Obama’s
Continue readingThere’s an absolute gem in Jake Tapper’s question-and-answer session with Press Sec’y Gibbs. Before you read it, think of Einstein’s definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Okay. You got that? Here goes: TAPPER: Well, OK. One other question, then. You
Continue readingOur travels this weekend took us over the Altamont Pass, home of one of America’s largest windmill farms. The children were amazed by the endless vista of spinning windmills, and my husband waxed rhapsodic about the clean energy. Being contrary, I mentioned that the windmills kill lots of birds. Indeed,
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