Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” — Lewis Carroll I was struggling to figure out how to write my annual post about the Admiral’s Reception that closes out Fleet Week festivities, until it occurred to me that
Continue readingI’ll write more about this later, but I wanted to say that one of the delightful Chiefs we met last night was inspired to join the Navy because of Hollywood movies made when Hollywood still liked the military. That inspired me to go hunting in the archives and to find
Continue readingI had a lovely time last night at the Fleet Week reception on the USS Makin Island, and will write about it at greater length later today. Until then, though, I have some documents to assemble, and that gets priority even over the blog. (Sigh.) Have fun with this Open
Continue readingI love Zombie’s most recent post, which does away with the stupid Left/Right dichotomy, which is a legacy of the Parliamentary seating during the time of the French Revolution. Give the post a whirl, and I bet you’d be surprised at who shares your world views.
Continue readingTonight is the Fleet Week reception on board the USS Makin Island — and I have laryngitis! I’m in the pink otherwise, but a throat tickle that’s been dogging me for weeks has settled in my voice box and shut me down! I can’t even squeak. Hot water mixed with
Continue readingRe friendly fire and the risks about which we ought not to complain: What he says. Re the WaPo’s cowardly, dhimmi decision not to run a Wiley cartoon: What he says. Re the execrable Jimmy Carter and his non-stop reminiscences and hectoring: What he says. Re the question “if you’ve
Continue readingAnother week, another round of sterling Watcher’s Council submissions that received appropriate honors. And speaking of appropriate honors, please check out the link for this week’s Watcher’s Council winners, since the Watcher has put up a lovely tribute to Medal of Honor winner Staff Sgt. Rob J. Miller. The only
Continue readingThe election is between a conservative ditz who is being savaged by the mainstream media and a hardcore Leftist whose past is being ignored or sanitized by the drive-by media. This sounds like a replay of the 2008 election. In fact, it’s what’s happening in Delaware right now. The analogy
Continue readingMike Devx said something in a recent comment that really hit home. The dominant memes in a society or civilization are what controls the behavior of most of the people in that society. I think that this is true…we won’t really change our society unless we change attitudes. So, I
Continue readingI’ve probably mentioned here about a couple of thousand times the fact that I just love Fleet Week. It’s the one weekend of the year when I get to step out of my suburban lawyer/mom rut, and do and see things that are entirely different from my ordinary life. I’m
Continue readingThey seem to have deviated significantly from the book (which simply describes a series of picaresque adventures), and it’s in 3D, which gives me a headache, but it actually still looks like a good movie. I’ll certainly be at the theater to see it: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGUVkO0cRM[/youtube]
Continue readingSome days seem to crystallize some of our society’s more discouraging trends. In my mental health work on the front lines I see a great deal of what the chattering classes cluelessly opine about. Today, for some reason, I saw, one after the other, a series of young women with
Continue readingIf you’re the powerful leader of a powerful nation, you tell the Chinese to release a jailed activist (who just won the Nobel Peace Prize) immediately. If you’re an empty suit who admires Leftist authoritarianism , you let the Chinese set the time table (emphasis mine): I welcome the Nobel
Continue readingCuddling up with a Chris Christie video is better than chocolate. The first minute and a half of this video is a slightly boring statement about Christie’s decision not to build a tunnel from new Jersey to New York. Don’t give up, though. After that wooden intro, the rest is
Continue readingCarla Marinucci is a political writer for the SF Chronicle. In this post, she describes how the Liberty and Freedom Foundation put up a billboard advertising a Sarah Palin’s appearance in San Jose soon. It’s not just any billboard, though. They put it in SF’s Castro district –known for its
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