Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I finally have a semi-quiet moment, so I can share with you all the stuff I tagged over the last few days. In no particular order…. Victor Davis Hanson writes about the new normal. The “new normal” is actually a very important concept, because when people settle — that is,
Continue readingAlec Baldwin was in the news this morning for having another rage attack on New York’s streets, this one complete with foul racial epithets. The easy line to take with this is that Alec Baldwin is a racist. I’m not sure it’s quite that simple, though. Instead, I see Baldwin’s
Continue readingMy apologies for writing another open thread. Or rather, for not writing another open thread. Three-day weekends mean full-time family. I haven’t had a chance to sit down, to read, or to think. That precludes any meaningful writing. As soon as I can I will be back writing. Until then,
Continue readingI’m actually not posting the video here, because even the clean version isn’t very clean. I won’t even copy the entire lyrics here because, even cleaned up, they’re not that clean either. Why, then, am I making Macklemore’s, Ryan Lewis’, and Wanz’s Thrift Shop one of my “just because” music
Continue readingIn my post about Victor Davis Hanson’s talk, I wrote that the US is the world’s largest coal producer. It turns out that I was wrong. And by “I was wrong,” I mean just that. It was my error, not Hanson’s. I was simultaneously trying to listen to Hanson, eat
Continue readingI wrote a post about the fact that, when it comes to delivering a message, style is as important as content. I got a lovely email in return from Greg Joyce, at Willoughby Films: I couldn’t agree more with your point, that conservatives need to make an emotional (maybe “entertaining”
Continue readingI got thrown a bit off my stride — literally — yesterday, when I learned that my knee is in worse shape than I thought. It’s definitely fixable, but it will take time. I’ll find out in a week or two if I need arthroscopic surgery. In the grand scheme
Continue readingI did something very nice yesterday: I attended a luncheon at which Victor Davis Hanson spoke. I’ve read his work for years, and knew that I would be in the presence of an intellectual giant. Hanson is an expert in both Classic and military history (not to mention Classic military
Continue readingAs a matter of professional ethics, public school teachers should not use their classroom to advance a specific viewpoint. It’s not just that teachers receive their pay from taxpayers who don’t wish to see their money used to indoctrinate captive children in views antithetical to some or all of the
Continue readingSince I like to keep up with current music, when I’m in the car I often listen to Sirius XM Hits 1 (channel 2), which tracks the Top 40 songs. Weekday mornings, Hits 1 offers the Morning MashUp, which consists of two guys and a gal chatting together about celebrity
Continue readingI think the Bookwormroom readers will find this fact checking article interesting. It’s from the biased AP, no less, so read it quick before it disappears. Especially noteworthy is that the author could find only one quibble with Rubio’s response and it’s a minor one at that.
Continue readingI can’t make myself listen to Obama. He hectors and I don’t need that in my life. I’ll read the speech, and the multiple analyses of the speech, tomorrow. Until then, I’d love to hear what you have to say about it — or what you have to say about
Continue readingMr. Colion Noir says in less than five minutes what it would take me five really long posts, spread out over five days, to say. I’m really impressed and couldn’t agree with him more. He packs a lot into the five minutes, but my takeaway — and something I couldn’t
Continue readingKeep in mind as you look at this poster that Obama is the military’s Commander in Chief. This means that, in theory, although clearly not in fact, Chris Kyle was one of Obama’s own: Incidentally, I don’t reprint this poster to denigrate Houston’s tragedy (which was drug addiction), but merely
Continue readingEarlier today, while my kids were still at school, I wrote about the way in which unions pushed a Leftist agenda into the classroom. I should not have been surprised, therefore, when Little Bookworm came home from high school and told me that, because one of the teachers was absent,
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