Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I hate the music, but everything else about this video is compelling: [youtube]www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMjbS0oWrE[/youtube] By the way, on the subject of Barack Obama’s number problems, this moment of stupidity — a moment that would have been front page news if it came from Dubya — may explain a lot. Hat tip:
Continue readingDuring the gay marriage debate, I mentioned to a lawyer friend of mine that gay marriage would inevitably set up a church versus state conflict if a church refused to marry a gay couple — especially the Catholic Church, which counts marriage amongst its sacraments. My lawyer friend came back
Continue readingDo you remember Johnny Carson’s droll “I did not know that”? I do. And that’s precisely what popped into my head when JKB sent me a link to a post discussing the fact that 161 years ago, the U.S. Navy outlawed flogging. It’s a wonderful little story, especially because it
Continue readingDon Quixote asked me at lunch today what I thought of the Wall Street Protests. In one way, I think they’re utterly stupid. After all, how seriously can you take people who storm Wall Street with this particular list of demands? Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand
Continue readingI’ve been remiss. It’s been several days since the Watcher’s Council voted, and since our devoted Watcher counted those votes, and then published them. Here are the results you’ve been waiting for: Council Winners *First place with 4 votes! Joshuapundit––Can Israel Survive? Second place *t* with 1 2/3 votes –
Continue readingSadie wrote to tell me that, in the 8-9 years she’s been with Yahoo, she’s never received any email directly from Yahoo other than an email failure notification. Today was different: Was this Yahoo marketing Yahoo, to those who already use it; or Yahoo marketing Obama, to those who are
Continue readingI figured it out. First, the whole “patriotic millionaires” thing. These are the millionaires who are demanding that they get taxed at a higher rate: Los Altos resident Doug Edwards asked President Obama something that many Americans would consider unthinkable: “Would you please raise my taxes?” Edwards, 53, can afford
Continue readingEd Morrissey discusses Roseanne Barr’s demand for the guillotine, and ends with just about the best statement I’ve ever seen about the difference between conservative and so-called liberal protests: Just remember that when conservatives organize into grassroots movements, it’s almost always about protecting their own property and individual liberty. When
Continue readingCan you imagine a lawsuit such as this one taking place anywhere other than Marin County: Two institutes that promote human consciousness research and collective cultural transformation are headed to Marin Superior Court for collaborative conflict resolution. The Institute of Imaginal Studies, a Petaluma-based organization that does business as Meridian
Continue readingWillie Brown, who used to “own” the California Assembly and was then San Francisco’s mayor, has weighed the Tea Party and found it racist: I truly found myself in the minority of minorities last week. I was a black man defending President Obama on national TV. It appears that there
Continue readingI got the following in an email from a good friend: Meghan Kinney’s achievement-packed life took a bit of a turn recently, offering a up a tough, new challenge, which she’s faced with her typical determination. A member of the 2008 US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team, and the captain of the
Continue readingIt would be so nice if my children had inherited only my best qualities, plus their father’s best qualities too. Then, they would have been brilliant, talented and gorgeous. But that’s not how it worked out. For one thing, they’ve got qualities, such as athleticism and self-discipline, that neither my
Continue readingI hear ads for Esteem on the radio all the time. Now I know that it really works: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsOo3jzkhYA[/youtube] More here.
Continue readingHere’s the video of a speech Obama gave at the Transition Ceremony for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. You need only watch the first 40 or so seconds. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lISkOlMi2Ao[/youtube] Here’s my transcript of those seconds: Thank you very much. Secretary Panetta, thank you for your introduction and your extraordinary leadership.
Continue readingMy friend Navy One made the statement that is my post title. The statement appears in a post he wrote about Anwar al-Awlaki, a subject I probably should have covered, but didn’t. Now, of course, having read Navy One’s post, which is better than anything I could have written on
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