Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Perfumes are very personal. What can smell wonderful on one person can smell vile on another. Chanel No. 5 does not work well with me, nor do I like it much on other people. There. I’ve now admitted my bias. Acknowledging my prejudice is important, because it might explain my
Continue readingEvery week, you think “It can’t get better than this,” and then every subsequent week . . . it’s better. This week, from the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – Policing the Schutzstaffel The Razor – Why I Oppose the Nomination of Susan Rice to Secretary of State
Continue readingJohn Hawkins, at Right Wing News, just published his list of the 60 Best Conservative Blogs for 2012. You can only imagine how honored I am to be included as No. 25 on that list. Check the list out and see how your favorite bloggers fared. I’ll just add that
Continue readingI have to admit that, while I enjoyed the first Indiana Jones movie back in the day (making it the only Steven Spielberg movie I’ve ever liked), the sequels didn’t thrill me, and none of them are movies I watch now with any pleasure. My kids, however, do enjoy the
Continue readingTom Ammiano, San Francisco’s reliably far-Left supervisor, was in the local news today because he’s come out with a new proposal that can be called “the homeless bill of rights“: Among other things, the proposed law would require legal representation for anyone cited under such laws as San Francisco’s sit/lie
Continue readingBlogs without newsletters are so “first decade of the 21st century.” Me? I’m always sort of up to the minute, so I signed up with MailChimp, a free (or, if you want or need the fancy stuff, paid) site that hosts email newsletters. I’m actually rather impressed with MailChimp. It’s
Continue readingSeveral Watcher’s Council members have tackled the question that’s on every political junkie’s mind: The Fiscal Cliff — Let it Happen or Grand Bargain?
Continue readingO Holy Night is my favorite Christmas carol. In an earlier post, I put up a video of Josh Groban singing it. Old Buckeye responded with a link to this beautiful rendition by Ernie Ford (whom I always knew just as a funny guest on the I Love Lucy show, and
Continue readingI went out to run one errand and came back to discover that Egyptian President Morsi had fled his palace after protesters breached police barricades. I have no idea whether this means Morsi’s brief sharia reign is over, or whether he’ll be be, redoubling the oppression. What do you think?
Continue readingI adore traditional Christmas music, whether it’s the Old English Christmas Carols or the non-denominational Christmas songs that began to the music market with Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. I’m as happy singing O Holy Night as I am singing Here Comes Santa Claus. Christmas songs give me a huge endorphin
Continue readingThis is my mind right now: Yeah, that’s right. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I’m getting vertigo looking into the blank, black hole of my own thoughts.
Continue readingA couple of weeks ago, I said to my sister, “Kate’s pregnant,” referring to the Duchess of Cambridge. “How do you know?” she asked. “Because,” I told her, “the British press was filled with daily stories about her, showing her going her and there, and always talking about her perfect
Continue readingYou know how there are some people who never get nominated for things? I am not one of those people. When I was in junior high school, I was nominated “Most likely to be a librarian” (wrong!) and “Most likely to wear braces forever” (which seemed likely to be true
Continue readingIn 1973, the United States Supreme Court created a federal right to abortion by finding that abortion falls into an unstated Constitutional dimension called “the right to privacy.” (Note: British and American common law has always recognized a right to privacy, but the Constitution makes no mention of it.) Thus,
Continue readingI know that you’ll recognize these words immediately upon reading them. I’ve only had to change them slightly to maintain their relevance to today’s issues: THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their
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