Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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Continue readingIn one second, I’ll dive into this exciting batch of Watcher’s Council submissions. I know that, as always, I’ll struggle to vote for the top two in each category because they are all, always, that good: Council Submissions The Noisy Room – “Terror TV” Comes to America The Colossus of
Continue readingLong-time readers know that Fleet Week is a BIG DEAL in the Bookworm household. Thanks to our membership in the Navy League, we’ve seen the Blue Angels from the deck of the USS Carl Vinson, as well as from the middle of the Bay on a Coast Guard cutter. We
Continue readingHillary told voters that, when the 3 a.m. phone call came and the White House answered that call, she would have better qualifications to deal with whatever emergency awaited the President: I don’t think even Hillary could have envisioned that Obama would ignore the call entirely: The White House left
Continue readingAlmost without fail, I seem to get lots of traffic on days when I’m away from my computer. Today was one such day. I got a lovely link from Glenn Reynolds, but I couldn’t capitalize upon it by adding some scintillating posts because I’ve been gone all day. This inability
Continue readingA friend forwarded me this Facebook page: Perhaps, though, we should be grateful. You just know that Obama would have wanted to say something along the lines of Ron Paul’s execrable statement about living and dying by the sword. (And we know how stupid that is in this context.) Given
Continue readingGot a funny email that Zhombre forwarded to me: I got a new guard dog to guard my house. He was a little more than I thought I should pay. But, I think when word gets out, we’ll be a relatively crime-free neighborhood. The nice part is he is only
Continue readingIt wasn’t until I crossed the political Rubicon that I started appreciating the irony of the intro to so many PBS and NPR shows. Turn on Masterpiece Theater and a measured male voice announces, “This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation
Continue readingThere’s been a lot of upset in the conservative blogosphere about Obama’s drone strike policy. The way the administration phrased it, as “legal,” “ethical,” and “wise,” got a lot of hackles up, especially when Michael Isikoff let slip how little oversight there is — including oversight over decisions to kill
Continue readingMy sister and I got to talking yesterday about Richard III. He was, she said, a decent king during his two years and his administration was terribly maligned by subsequent Tudor historians and, especially, Shakespeare. She’s right. Contemporaneous records show that he was a good leader up in his home
Continue readingLots of conservatives are realizing that the media is more, not less, powerful now that it’s abandoned its pretend objectivity and become blatantly partisan. Rather than running away, voters gobbled up the media message. Frankly, I don’t get it, but that’s why I’m not a master of advertising and manipulation.
Continue readingThe Council spoke last week, and I’m posting the results this week. I’d also like to direct your attention to the Watcher’s Council forum, in which we discuss whether we think it was a good idea for the Obama administration to announce that women are henceforth approved for combat. As
Continue readingDefending your home against a break-in is about as personal as it gets. The following email is a good example of taking that personal principle, then expanding to a narrative about a single third party, and finally discussing the broader policy implications that affect all citiziens (h/t Earl): A LESSON
Continue readingWhen my first was born, I had a lot of sleepless nights, not to mention a lot of sitting around during the day during feeding times. It was during these first few months that I discovered Lois & Clark – The New Adventures of Superman. Or more accurately, I discovered
Continue readingI spend ridiculous amounts of my time trying to convince my children that, while “Give me that!” and “May I have that, please”, mean the same thing, their chances of success are much greater with the second phrase. I repeat ad nauseum that it’s not what you say, it’s how
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