Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I do not understand the liberal love affair with government. Government is inefficient and it bullies people. Had a business engaged in the same conduct as the City of San Francisco, it would have apologized profusely or found itself flamed to death. A government, however, can act with impunity, because
Continue readingMy daughter is taking a required class at high school: “world cultures.” My first instinct was to scoff, since I prefer a more classical curriculum, but as I thought about it, I decided it is a very good idea. That is, of course, assuming it’s taught correctly. I’m inclined to
Continue readingOne of the lesser known songs in Oklahoma is “The farmer and the cowman should be friends,” which takes a humorous look at the rivalries between farmers (crops and fences) and cowman (open range requirements) in the Oklahoma territories. That song got stuck in my head, although with horribly bowdlerized
Continue readingHeard this on the radio today, and I now have to exorcise it from my head by passing it on to you: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJac6OykfM[/youtube] Normally, I don’t like Elvis very much (I know, almost un-American), but I’ve always had a fondness for this one. I just love the end where he
Continue readingAce has an excellent post up today about the way in which the media invariably frames Democratic and Republican victories: when Democrats win, Americans are intelligently embracing the Democrat agenda; when Republicans win, Americans are acting irrationally, operating from fear, or failing to understand the virtues of the Democrat agenda.
Continue readingZombie begins to take seriously those who call for radical changes to our taxation system: Why not let those who demand ever higher taxes, especially for themselves (Buffet, Trump, etc.), have the opportunity to do precisely that? You should read Zombie’s entire post but, in the meantime, you can enjoy
Continue readingAt Hot Air, Karl asks “Does Obama’s personal favorability rating matter?” He quotes from several MSM writers who claim that Obama’s falling performance ratings (as in “he’s doing a bad job”) are irrelevant, because people continue to award him high personal favorability numbers (as in, “I really like the man”).
Continue readingWe have hundreds of pictures of beautiful views, art work, and historic sites. They are fairly generic, though, so I won’t bother sharing them here. If you go to Flickr and type in Tower of London, for example, you’ll see exactly the same photos. There were some things, though, that
Continue readingI fought my husband for years about taking the kids on vacation to England. Despite growing up as a complete Anglophile (I can talk for hours, unaided, about British history) and despite having spent one of the happiest years of my life there, I have a lot of issues with
Continue readingI hate folding laundry. I don’t know why. It’s not particularly difficult. It’s a clean task. It brings order from chaos. I ought to like it. But I don’t. Still, it needs to be done, and one of the things I do to make it palatable is to listen to
Continue readingI confess, I love movies. And every now and then, I come across a movie quote that transcends the times. We all remember movie quotes like that, of course. Casablanca was released in 1943 and is still widely quoted today. Recently I watched one of my favorite movies, a very
Continue readingBack in June, I wrote a post about a notice I received from the town in which our high school is located. It warned that we could expect major traffic jams because a federally funded project had to be done during peak commute season in order to protect a little
Continue readingSometimes I feel like a conspiracy theorist. Take climate change. For many years, one was castigated as an unhinged to question the monolithic consensus that global warming is taking place, that it will end life on earth in a few decades, and that it’s all our fault. To suggest that
Continue readingActually, The Bookworm Turns : A Secret Conservative in Liberal-Land, is not new and improved. It’s the same blazing, original, intelligent, witty, thought-provoking e-book it was the last time I shilled for my own book. Two things are different, however. First, I revamped my cover, which now shows a rip-roaring
Continue readingIt turns out that one of San Francisco’s premier sexual harassment attorneys enjoys a little S&M fun on the side. So much so that he likes to run Craig’s List ads seeking women who like it rough: His lawyer, Stuart Hanlon, said the women had all come to Hoffman’s Van
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