Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Here they are — last week’s Watcher’s Council winners (published as I’m reading this week’s nominations): Council Winners *First place with 5 votes! Joshuapundit – Inside Vladimir Putin Second place with 2 1/3 votes – The Noisy Room All the Little Communist Occupiers in a Row Third place with 1
Continue readingBreitbart.com dropped a bombshell: Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief
Continue readingDonna Summer burst upon the music scene when I was in high school. She was gorgeous, she had a glorious voice, and she sang wild, throbbing disco music. This was one of my favorites: My love for dancing came about, in part, from bopping around my bedroom to Donna’s golden
Continue readingTwo years ago, Audi put out a very funny Super Bowl commercial about the “Green Police,” armed law enforcement agents who took down people violating eco laws: Because life imitates art in Obama’s America, there’s a not-so-funny story out of Lowell, Massachusetts. It seems that a man who has leased
Continue readingLorie Byrd has been a long-time blog friend of mine. You guys probably know her from her blog, her Wizbang posts, and the articles she’s had published in major conservative online sites. Back in 2008, Lorie started working for then-candidate Renee Ellmers, who has been one of the stalwarts of
Continue readingEarl sent me a link to an article about the shameful corruption that characterizes Argentinian politics. Earl included in his email a reference to the Perons, whose malevolent aura still hangs over the Argentinian political scene: Argentina’s government has become a massive racketeering operation. The list of international swindles the
Continue readingYesterday, I wrote about European fairy tales versus American fairy tales. Of the former, I said: That’s the theme in the majority of fairy tales that originated in the old world: be good, be passive, and some deus ex machina figure, usually magical, will come and rescue you. Passivity is
Continue readingHere in California, faced with a devastating fiscal crisis, Gov. Brown is talking about cuts. If I were in charge, I’d cut out whole departments and agencies because they’re inefficient, redundant, unnecessary, or entirely inappropriate uses of taxpayer funds. Or within departments, I’d simply do a “rip off the band-aid”
Continue reading$10 million huh? No wonder he looks so happy: I wonder when we’re going to see something like this outside the White House: (Don’t worry. I was just joking. Like that’s going to happen.)
Continue readingI love fairy tales. I’ve always loved fairy tales. Growing up, I devoured fairy tale books, with special emphasis on the Disney movies, with their beautiful princesses. My personal favorite was Disney’s Cinderella. I saw it once when I was a child and then, in a pre-video era, all I
Continue readingI can’t find a permalink, so you might have to hurry to catch this one. Over at National Review, in the “Slideshow” section (home page, middle column, about half-way down), the editors have collected a series of media images showing Obama with a halo. I found it a fascinating visual
Continue readingWomen have been responsible for some pretty bad presidents. Warren Harding leaps most easily to mind, since his was the first presidential election in which women participated, but women were also water carriers for JFK and Bill Clinton. The Barack Obama campaign clearly hoped to capitalize on women’s bad habit
Continue readingI had the opportunity the other night to see a first run movie and I ran out the door so fast, I forgot my jacket. The movie was the smash hit The Avengers. Of the predicate movies that introduce the various characters, I’ve seen only the first Iron Man, so
Continue readingAnnals of motherhood, through the ages…. Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi: The exemplar of Roman motherhood who, when quizzed by fellow Roman matrons over her simple dress, unlike their ostentatious attire asked to show her wealth, pointed to her sons and said “These are my jewels.” Ann Romney: Mother of
Continue readingI’ve been suffering from an ear worm for the past few days. Every time I read the headlines, I hear President Gerald Ford’s voice in my head. He’s always saying the same thing, too: A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to
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