Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It seems that, just as Pat Paulson was the perennial presidential candidate, I am the inevitable second place winner. I’m not complaining. I like it there. But it is a little funny that second place is the spot I keep falling in. Oh, and about those winners? They’re really, really
Continue readingYou’ve all heard by now about the 2300 “reconciliation” bill that the House won’t vote on but will simply deem passed, thereby, in a completely unconstitutional way, making the bill a law. (Ahem.) But did you know that Pelosi has been busy sticking in more than just student loan relief
Continue readingFrom Code Red: 1) Congressman Chris Carney (PA-10): PHONE – (570) 585-9988 | EMAIL – http://www.carney.house.gov/contact.shtml#email | WEBSITE – http://www.carney.house.gov/ Vote on the House Bill: YES Current Status: UNDECIDED 2) Congressman Steve Driehaus (OH-01): PHONE – (513) 684-2723 | EMAIL – https://forms.house.gov/driehaus/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm | WEBSITE – http://driehaus.house.gov/ Vote on the House
Continue readingSome things are timeless, and I think Sir Francis Bacon, writing almost 500 years ago, pretty much nailed what constitutes an intellectual and a wit: “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” In modern English, an intellectual can be described as someone who
Continue readingLast week, I did a post about the news stories that followed in the wake of the conservative Groupa-Palooza gathering the heart of liberal Marin County. I focused especially on one San Francisco Chronicle reporter who was shocked by a shirt one of the attendees was wearing: Regarding that last,
Continue readingI went to church yesterday, as I periodically do when one of my children performs at a church service. Since I don’t take communion, I can sit in the pew and watch people as they file back from the experience. Some look businesslike, some contemplative, some uplifted and some, interestingly,
Continue readingFamily commitments meant that I spent, perhaps, 5 minutes at my computer this weekend. That wasn’t what I’d planned, but that was what I ended up with. In today’s news cycle, of course, two days can be the equivalent of two decades. Certainly, when I turned the computer on this
Continue readingHours spent shopping with the kids — it’s times like this that I’m sorry I’m not a drinker, ’cause I could use some liquid help right now. I HATE shopping!!!
Continue readingKim Priestap explains. This one is definitely worth reading. We are witnessing mob rule, with the bizarre twist that the mob is the government itself. And Michael Ramirez, with one picture, has the last, best word.
Continue readingJeffrey Goldberg catches Andrew Sullivan making egregiously erroneous statements about Israel’s history, this time by publishing at his site a series of maps that purport to show that Israel has no claim to most land she now holds: The first map in the series of four is most egregious. It
Continue readingI don’t know what paper this came from, but it looks real: UPDATE: A friend sent me the original link. It’s real.
Continue readingPride can make us do very stupid things. Once we’ve committed to something (a job, a marriage, a principle, whatever), and once we’ve touted that commitment to the world as the most wonderful thing evah, it is extremely difficult to stand up to that same world and admit “I made
Continue readingHere’s a list of the biggest spenders in California politics for the past decade: These 15 groups spent more than a combined $1 billion over the past 10 years to influence public policy: — California Teachers Association: $211.8 million — California State Council of Service Employees: $107.4 million — Pharmaceutical
Continue readingJust wanted to direct your attention to Deroy Murdock’s article about the crooked accounting in Obama Care. It’s one of the clearest explanations I’ve seen yet of the chicanery that the Democrats are using to try to fool the American people, even as they create plans that will inevitably make
Continue readingAs everyone should know by now, House Democrats are contemplating doing away entirely with a vote on the Senate bill, and simply announcing that they’ve passed it. After all, why shouldn’t the Constitution bow down before their overweening statism? Steve Schippert, a veteran, has unloaded both cannons against this attack
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