Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I find it amusing that, one day after my long rumination about the different parenting styles my liberal husband and I have, with both our styles accurately reflecting our politics, the blogosphere is awash in stories about the way in which Barack Obama, eschewing having the whole federal government act
Continue readingThe American intelligentsia has a love affair with Communism that will not die. The dead Soviets, the dead Hungarians, Czechs, Albanians, Poles, Bulgarians, etc., the dead Chinese, the dead Koreans, the dead Africans, the dead Cambodians, the dead Vietnamese, the dead Cubans, and the dead Latin Americans are all irrelevant.
Continue readingI commented earlier that Focus on the Family handled the whole Tebow ad brilliantly, by letting the Left get hysterical in advance, only to be confronted by a completely innocuous ad in which Pam Tebow talks about times when she worried about Tim’s life. With its preemptive frothing, the Left
Continue readingCongratulations to jlibson, who was the only one to pick the Saints in the Bookwormroom poll. No prize, but a years worth of bragging rights to put to use at any time. And congratuations to the Saints, for a storybook ending to a feel-good story.
Continue readingI think that Focus on the Family took a page out of Andrew Breitbart’s book. They dangled a little information in front of the liberals, and then let them self-immolate. In response to the notion that Tebow and his mom were going to make a pro-Life commercial, the Left went
Continue readingAs you have probably guessed from my blog silence this weekend, I have been heavily engaged in various family activities, many of which seemed to involve soccer balls or (this weekend) footballs. I haven’t had lots of time to think about current events (which must, in any event, take a
Continue readingA living room full of former hippie gals, all in their 60s, put together a short and vulgar expression of their disdain for, in their words, CBS having no respect for “women’s choice”: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oNWi8fXOfg[/youtube] Just so that you’re clear on what they’re saying, here’s the way in which the person
Continue readingLet’s see who can come closest to predicting the winner and final score of the Super Bowl. The winner gets . . . well, actually nothing except the title of the Bookwormroom’s top prognosticator and a whole year’s worth of bragging rights. I’ll start by saying Indy wins by a
Continue readingMuch is being made lately of the fact that Rahm Emanuel is being exposed as somewhat who berates people in meetings by calling them “retards.” I don’t expect any better of Rahm Emanuel who is, by all accounts, an extraordinary boor and bully. He’s also yet another example of the
Continue readingThis is not a post in which I opine. Instead, I’m seeking your opinions about a question that’s been bedeviling me for some time. What made it pop into my mind is a mass of statistics that Randall Hoven assembled regarding the percentage of gays in the American population. As
Continue readingHere’s a riddle for you: When do you read a Krauthammer column that’s not good? When you read one that’s brilliant. What I like so much about this most recent column is the way in which Krauthammer zeroes in on the whole liberal mindset: the ordinary people are idiots and
Continue readingThe gal’s life is sad, but the news story, at least in the first three paragraphs, is still funny: A Mill Valley lawyer was charged Thursday with breaking into a hotel refrigerator to steal yogurt, authorities said.Patience Nooney Van Zandt, 43, was booked into the county jail early Thursday morning
Continue readingWe spend a lot of time on this blog critizing Hollywood for it’s one-sided view of things, even in fiction (see Bookworm’s post on Avatar for a recent example). So I must give credit where credit is due. CSI Miami this week started with a guy about to face the electric chair,
Continue readingHow does the Council manage to get better every week? Perhaps we’re getting to be better writers and thinkers with practice. Perhaps the current political scene gives us lots of material to work with. I don’t know. I just know that I like what I’m reading: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric
Continue readingWhat do you get when you cross a Bratz doll with a Smurf? A Na’vi. Yup, folks, I finally caught up with my pop culture and went to see Avatar last night. Seeing it made me realize why I so seldom bother to catch up with pop culture. The movie
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