We just lost another good one
This was an obituary that was meant to be enjoyed, written about a man who clearly lived life to the fullest. Pay special attention to the penultimate paragraph.
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Everything old is new again — at least when it comes to the Progressive desire to recreate a utopian past
The past was never as good as it now looks. Just as we forget, as we age, the emotional pains childhood (only to revisit them as we watch our children suffer through the same experience), history tends to take on a romantic patina. Sure, in the pre-industrial age, the countryside
Continue readingI have an idea for a Koran protest
I am 100% opposed to book burning, any book. You don’t fight ideas by sending the paper on which they’re printed up in flames. You fight ideas by debate and discourse. Of course, the problem for Westerners, is that the Prophet himself made debate and discourse unlawful. So what do
Continue readingHow do you argue with a conspiracy theorist? *UPDATED*
A friend of mine is horrified that I’m affiliated in any way with the Tea Party movement. They are, he tells me, Nazis. They are, he says, the direct descendants of George Wallace’s racist, antisemitic, separatist movement. They are, he assures me, far right wing paramilitary nutcases who want to
Continue readingAbout that “growing” anti-Muslim sentiment
The MSM is bewildered. How is it that nine years after 9/11, people are more hostile to Muslims than they were the day of 9/11, when 20 Muslims murdered thousands of Americans, and sought to decapitate the American government? This article from the San Francisco Chronicle nicely presents the liberal
Continue readingRemember Rick Rescorla — Part III of my 9/11 trilogy
The problem with an assault and a tragedy that is the magnitude of 9/11, and that now lives nine years away in our memories, is that, as a writer, I become more and more at a loss of words with each passing year. It seems to me, therefore, that the
Continue readingRemember Lt. Brian Ahearn — Part II of my 9/11 trilogy
The problem with an assault and a tragedy that is the magnitude of 9/11, and that now lives nine years away in our memories, is that, as a writer, I become more and more at a loss of words with each passing year. It seems to me, therefore, that the
Continue readingRemembering Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas — Part I of my 9/11 trilogy *UPDATED*
The problem with an assault and a tragedy that is the magnitude of 9/11, and that now lives nine years away in our memories, is that, as a writer, I become more and more at a loss of words with each passing year. It seems to me, therefore, that the
Continue readingCarly Fiorina — with luck, California’s next U.S. Senator *UPDATED*
[I didn’t take notes at the meeting I’m about to describe. If you were there and did take notes or have a better memory than mine, and if you find any mistakes in what I wrote, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I’LL CORRECT MY POST AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.] I
Continue readingAt long last: a living Medal of Honor winner, Staff Sergeant Salvatore A. Giunta *UPDATED*
As the last part of our Alaska cruise, which started and ended in Seattle, we went to the Museum of Flight. I wrote about our museum visit here, and mention this earlier post because I wrote that all four of us were riveted by the monitor playing fairly extended interviews
Continue readingA clear thinker, a clear speaker, and an honest man *UPDATED*
I totally forgive Jan Brewer for her brain freeze, because she’s proven to be a clear thinker. Her ability to think clearly and active decisively is much more important than whether she can turn a pretty phrase. Having said that, I have to admit to suffering from total political lust
Continue readingThe San Bruno fire
I deeply appreciate the emails some of you have sent me asking me if I’m okay. I live about 25 miles away from the San Bruno fire, so I was totally unaffected by it. I can see it in my mind’s eye, though. Growing up in San Francisco, I traversed
Continue readingHow jihad (violent) and Islamism (political and social) work towards the same goal
Clifford May beautifully explains the fact that Jihadis, who use violence, and Islamists, who use more subtle means, are both threats to the West — and he manages to mention, too, why reform isn’t happening: Terrorism is not the core of the problem. It is merely the weapon of choice
Continue readingIn 2010, we’ll finally see grown-ups in the voting booth
[How many people caught the fact that I put the wrong year in the post caption (2008, instead of 2010, which I’ve now written in)? As I’m sure you’ve noticed before, I have problems with numbers. This is why I’m not an economist. What’s the excuse the Democrats have for
Continue readingTelevision for Tea Partiers
Cool, very cool: TV for conservatives, and it’s not Fox. Not that there’s anything wrong with Fox, of course (although I’m not excited about the Saudi ownership). But we shouldn’t have just one conservative media outlet, ranged against the rest of TV, not to mention Hollywood. I’m also feeling smug,
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