Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m getting the kids ready for school, and what to slam out the Watcher of Weasel results before I forget. Needless to say, every article is thought-provoking. I had a terrible time voting this week, because I just could not decide which of the Weasel articles was the best. They
Continue readingAs I’ve noted before, my mother spent the war years interned in a Japanese concentration camp in Java. These camps were not Nazi death camps, but they were no picnic either, with a horrible attrition rate from disease, starvation, overwork and abuse. (See here for more information about one of
Continue readingIn 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, declaring that they did not want to see racial or gender preferences used in public contracts, employment and education. Turns out that, in a wonderful anti-Democratic display, San Francisco has been ignoring that voter mandate, and the California Supreme Court is now going
Continue readingAs you know, one of my big complaints about British chick lit is that the “heroines” are usually needy alcoholics, something that stands in stark contrast to American chick lit, where the heroines usually live good, clean lives. Turns out that the British writers may just be reflecting the world
Continue readingI won’t paraphrase. I just suggest you read and enjoy this post at the Captain’s Quarters.
Continue readingMany of us on the conservative side bemoan the decline of religion on moral grounds. The Judeo-Christian tradition spells out moral absolutes, so that we don’t have to keep reinventing the wheel to figure out the big “rights” and the big “wrongs.” (David Klinghoffer points out the disaster that happens
Continue readingI’m sitting here eating a bowl of 8 a.m. chocolate ice cream to celebrate one of my favorite days of the year: the first day of school. I’ve always loved the first day of school. As a child, I loved the sense of possibility: wonderful things could happen during the
Continue readingIf I were to choose someone to write my obituary, I would want someone who wrote beautifully and and an unerring sense for getting to the heart of a matter. I would hope that the writer would have a soft spot for me, of course, because with that skill and
Continue readingOn August 19, the New York Times ran an op-ed by seven military personnel, who were described as follows: Buddhika Jayamaha is an Army specialist. Wesley D. Smith is a sergeant. Jeremy Roebuck is a sergeant. Omar Mora is a sergeant. Edward Sandmeier is a sergeant. Yance T. Gray is
Continue readingThe FBI did something unusual: it was so concerned by two men who seemed to be casing the Seattle Ferry system that it asked for the public’s assistance. To that end, it asked the media to publish a picture taken, not by covert FBI surveillance, but by a ferry employee.
Continue readingIf you have ever wondered whether it is true that pot makes you stupid, check this out, at American Digest. On the other hand, I’m not being scientific at all. It could just be that these particularly stupid (or do I mean weird?) people use pot.
Continue readingDoesn’t Britain have that wonderful, wonderful, incredibly just too wonderful socialized medicine that Michael Moore wants American to adopt? If it does — and I think that, perhaps, it does — Moore might want to check out this story, which blames problems, in part, on those lovely, lovely, lovely waiting
Continue readingHistory has its tipping points. I wonder if Britain or, rather, the ordinary British, have met another tipping point. A while ago, I blogged about the fact that, as Melanie Phillips points out in Londonistan, the rule of judges has gone insanely against ordinary Brits, with judges relying on the
Continue readingFor a university to charge tuition isn’t unreasonable. However, I do have a problem with a university charging over $31,000 per year in tuition, per student (and that doesn’t include room and board), while at the same time boasting an endowment of $34.9 billion (not a typo). Seems a bit
Continue readingGentrification — there’s a loaded term. When I think of it, I think of the young lawyer and his wife I met in the late 1980s who had bought a gorgeous Victorian and fixed it up. Despite just being at the beginning of their careers, they were able to take
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