Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
We are so blessed to live in America — and birthdays are about celebrating the blessings that came into our lives as the result of someone’s, or something’s, birth. We may be going through a hard patch now, but our legacy of individual freedoms is a tough nut, and we’re
Continue readingI spent yesterday at the Marin County Fair. It was, for the most part, a very pleasant experience and could have been any county fair, anywhere in America. The kids wanted to spend all their time on the midway, standing in long hot lines, spinning to the point of acute
Continue readingA matched quartet here, but only for the over 18 crowd, because the tie that binds these four is the disturbing issue of the Left and childhood sexuality: First. Second. Third. Fourth. UPDATE: Mike suggested a Fifth. You know, I’m thinking that, quite possibly, there’s the germ of an American
Continue readingThe Council has spoken and it’s clear from the number of ties that we all recognized just how good the other members’ submissions were. I had a terribly difficult time voting myself, since there were several posts to my mind that clearly deserved first place, Wolf Howlings’ great post about
Continue readingThe Anchoress posted at her blog a semi-animated video by a self-avowed Marxist explaining why Marxism, not capitalism, will save the world. I have to admit that I didn’t watch it. It wasn’t the content that drove me away, it was the choppy visuals, which trigger migraines. Having just beaten
Continue readingIf you’re still struggling a bit about which party should get your votes in November, this video might help: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfGCMORVoY[/youtube] Hat tip: Viral Footage
Continue readingKlavan’s always good, but he outdoes himself here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPw4_OaHlkA[/youtube]
Continue readingFrom Charles Krauthammer: President Obama’s National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy — how else do you define those seeking your destruction? — “a loose network of violent extremists.” But this is utterly meaningless. This is not an anger-management therapy group gone rogue. These are people professing a powerful
Continue readingKim Priestap, who blogs at Up North Mommy, got an impassioned email from the Democratic Party, raving about Elena Kagan. Does it rave about her brains? No (although it mentions as an aside that she’s “among the best legal minds this country has to offer,” which is a depressing comment
Continue readingThis is a priceless matched set: Kagan’s critics have learned that, when she was Dean at Harvard Law School, she insisted that the school’s insurance provider pay for sex change operations. Her approach to that subject may explain what happened to Markos “Kos” Moulitsas’ long lost twin brother. What? You
Continue readingI don’t know what alchemy went into creating the personality that is SSG Sal Giunta, but there was a drop of something very special mixed in. I am so glad he is a living Medal of Honor winner. You don’t need to be dead to have been extraordinarily brave.
Continue readingYou’ve probably noticed that I’ve had nothing to say about Kagan. There is nothing to say. She’s a bright, often charming, lady from the far Left who, entirely separate from her anti-Constitutional ideology, is grossly unqualified in terms of professional experience and intellectual heft to be a Supreme Court justice.
Continue readingMy (conservative) book club read Victor Davis Hanson’s A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War. One of the points Hanson makes in the book is that Pericles embarked upon a new type of warfare: Periclean strategy . . . defined the new war
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