Where there’s laugh, there’s hope (and that’s no typo)
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Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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Continue readingI’m going to start reviewing the Watcher’s Council nominations for this week (which I’ll post later today), but for n0w, let’s catch up with last week’s results: Winning Council Submissions First place with 3 points! – Wolf Howling – AP Goes APE Over Texas School Book Changes Second place *t* with
Continue readingMy daughter’s history teacher, when pressed by her students about Sunday’s health care vote, couldn’t keep her mouth shut. (Keeping her mouth shut would have involved saying, “This is a history class, not a politics class. You should ask your parents these questions.”) Instead, she blithely opined that “all civilized
Continue readingAs I’ve already noted in this blog, the Left’s obsession with history doesn’t go as far as considering whether it’s good history or bad history. In a superb article, Abe Greenwald makes precisely the same point: For amid the symbolic fanfare of giant gavels and the tactical gravitas of deployed
Continue readingI like the speech that Netanyahu gave to AIPAC. It’s straightforward and practical. It hurls no insults, but also pulls no punches and tells no lies. It acknowledges threats, but responds to them without ugliness or panic. And it draws big, clear, non-weasely bright-lines, telling what a viable, ancient nation
Continue reading[Updated at 12:03 p.m., P.S.T. daylight savings version] The wailing and gnashing of teeth must now end. It’s time to move forward. In my previous post, I gave San Francisco Bay Area residents information about the upcoming April 15 Tea Party. I’m also collecting posts from far and wide telling
Continue readingHere are the latest details on the San Francisco Tea Party, from Tea Party organizer Sally Zelikovsky. Unfortunately, I’ll be out of town (I always am when these roll around, and it’s truly not on purpose), but I urge any of you within reasonable distance to attend. After all, San
Continue readingFound on facebook: Dear Lord, In the past year you have taken away my favorite actor (Patrick Swayze), my favorite actress (Farah Fawcett), my favorite musician (Michael Jackson) and my favorite salesperson (Billy Mays). I just wanted to let you know that my favorite legislator is Nancy Pelosi. Amen.
Continue readingAs part of a longer rumination about the stability that the Cold War provided for our political system, James Taranto makes the following observations about yesterday’s House vote: Why did it happen? Last November voters sent what seemed to us a pretty clear message by rejecting Democratic candidates for governor
Continue readingAndrea Shea King rightly points out what should be one of the most important fights Republicans wage in the months leading up to November.
Continue readingThe title of my post arises because of something I read in the NY Times this morning: But there is no doubt that in the course of this debate, Mr. Obama has lost something — and lost it for good. Gone is the promise on which he rode to victory
Continue readingThe Atlantic is no hotbed of conservatism, but at least one Atlantic writer is smart enough to understand what yesterday’s vote meant: One cannot help but admire Nancy Pelosi’s skill as a legislator. But it’s also pretty worrying. Are we now in a world where there is absolutely no recourse
Continue readingI had an illuminating conversation with a neighbor this morning. She’s very pleased that health care reform passed, because “we’ll all have insurance coverage now.” This is an Ivy League educated woman, and that was her sole understanding of the monstrosity that just cleared Congress: “We’ll all have insurance coverage
Continue readingIt’s a done deal, awaiting Obama’s signature. I am truly too disheartened to write anything tonight. Please use this open thread to share your thoughts, provide insight and inspiration, give practical advice, etc. I’ve already received several emails from conservative groups (the GOP, Republican politicians, etc.) urging fund raising. (Just
Continue readingI indulged myself today by staying assiduously away from the computer. If there was going to be a train crash, I didn’t want to see it happen. What’s really irksome isn’t that Stupak is the usual Demo ho (pardon my language), but that he was willing to sell his soul
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