Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In my preceding post, I asked you to watch this space as I gather together stuff to blog about. As I take the time to do that (and intersperse that with time spent running the carpools), I suggest that, if you haven’t already seen it, you take the time to
Continue readingI’m back! It was a good vacation, and I’ll have some thoughts about it later, but mostly I’m just soooooo glad to be home. I am, to use an old fashioned expression, a homebody, and I just love the moment of returning from the trip. Returns can be as tiring
Continue readingI’ve talked in posts past about the benefit a draft would have on the American character. I think it would be good for young people to get two years of strong discipline, and I think it would be good for race relations in this country to have all young people
Continue readingKyle-Anne Shiver, writing at American Thinker, cuts through the euphemisms and speaks the truth about Hillary: Even Carl Bernstein admits (A Woman in Charge; Knopf; 2007; p. 554) that Mrs. Clinton is the human equivalent of a chameleon, changing her colors and her story to suit her audience: “As Hillary
Continue readingA reader was kind enough to send me the following email. It’s true and I took steps to maintain my privacy: Google has implemented a new feature which enables you to type a telephone number into the search bar and hit enter, and you will be given the person’s name
Continue readingSneaking in a little blogging, in bite size pieces. Disney is the most perfectly realized theme park there is — and the best managed. The others may have great rides or attractions, but they fail complete at the level of detailed perfection that is so natural to Disney. We’ve now
Continue readingPerhaps because I’m on vacation, perhaps because we’re in the dog days of August, but I’m having some mental problems grappling with the distinction between appropriate times to judge acts and appropriate times to judge intentions. I think I might have discovered a bright line between the two, but I’m
Continue readingI’m on another vacation, sitting in a cyber cafe, working at a small computer with a microscopic keyboard, so it must be random thoughts day. Thank goodness DQ is doing the heavy lifting. The first thing that caught my interest is what Mitt said at the debate, which I really
Continue readingThe votes are in and they are good. My post, “He’s not my President,” placed a respectable third, deserved falling behind the first place winner, NEA Also Confused About SCOTUS Decision Regarding Race & Schooling by The Colossus of Rhodey, and the second place winner, Whose Freedom? What Is Speech?,
Continue readingIt was bad, but we can be grateful that it wasn’t as bad as it could have been: The estimate of the number of people still missing after the collapse of a highway bridge over the Mississippi River fell sharply today to eight, as divers prepared to resume their search
Continue readingA little over a month ago, I blogged about the California prison system’s problem dealing with inmates who have male genitalia, but who have declared themselves female. The genesis of my post was the fact that one of these self-identified females, a man who had no surgery but took hormones,
Continue readingDuring the 60s, one of the rallying cries of the Left was to “take it all off.” Daniel Pipes definitely doesn’t advocate that, but he does argue that it is reasonable for democratic societies (indeed, for any societies) to ban entirely the tribal garments known as burqas and niqabs, since
Continue readingEarlier this week, in “He’s not my President,” I blogged about the fact that many Democrats are, in fact, very un-democratic. In their world, the only good votes are the ones they win, with all others being invalid and subject to attack in whatever way they deem expedient. It seems
Continue readingAce deconstructs The New Republic‘s most recent attempt to explain away Scott Thomas’ rather strange, and almost impossible to corroborate, claims about his macabre and novelistic experiences in Iraq. The more one learns, the more it seems that Thomas wanted to write a semi-biographical version of the great anti-War novel,
Continue readingYou know that I think the best teaching method out there is a pure Montessori approach. It focuses on how children learn, rather than on how union educators think teachers ought to teach, and instills in children a lifelong love of learning, and a depth of understanding that’s foreign to
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