Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve been following with a certain detached interest the Holocaust (or, rather, anti-Holocaust) convention that Ahmadinejad has convened in Iran. Certainly, I recognize the virulent anti-Semitism that drives it. Along with other people who are well-informed humanists, I view with repugnance the fact that Reuters, casually disregarding David Duke’s white
Continue readingI’m happily reading Carolly Erickson’s Royal Panoply: Brief Lives of the English Monarchs, a delightful jaunt through British history, as viewed through brief bios of its Kings and Queens. (Erickson is one of the absolute best writers about early British rulers, by the way.) I’m up to Richard II, who
Continue readingA non-murderous overlord is useful for two reasons: He keeps your own baser impulses battened down, and he provides a lightening rod for those same impulses. Take the overlord away, and those same tamped down impulses explode — against you and yours. Case in point? Gaza, sans Israel: Palestinian factions
Continue readingThe English is slightly mangled,* but the analysis is strong over at Samson Blinded, a blog that characterizes itself as a “Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict.”
Continue readingIf you would like to get a glimpse of the people who are gracious enough to live and die for us, when many of us are so ungracious as to insult and denigrate them, visit this link.
Continue readingI have a deadline that’s going to keep me hopping for a couple of hours, but I’ll share with you two things I learned this weekend. First, I learned that, in my very blue neighborhood, there are surprisingly large numbers of gun owners, wannabee gun owners, and hunters. Who knew?
Continue readingI am so not a car person, as Mr. Bookworm, frequently has reason to bemoan, but I’ve just seen a short video about the most beautiful car ever made in my humble opinion.
Continue readingThe Left hand, that is. It turns out that while we lefties are likely to die sooner (a statistic I’ve grown up hearing but can’t source), we’ll be smarter and faster along the way. All is know is that, despite having spent my entire life amongst right handers, I still
Continue reading…and I’m not talking about the kid whose conduct triggered this story: A four-year-old hugged his teachers aide and was put into in-school suspension, according to the father. But La Vega school administrators have a different story. Damarcus Blackwell’s four-year-old son was lining-up to get on the bus after school
Continue readingMy understanding is that, if you have an abuse problem, you can’t treat it until you acknowledge it. I’ve already alluded to the fact that the AP resolutely refuses, ever, to acknowledge mistakes in its reporting. Apparently those who rely on its reporting to advance their agenda also refuse to
Continue readingThe Feds may have prevented an attack against shoppers in a mall a couple of hours away from Chicago: A Rockford man is being held on terrorism-related charges after he allegedly targeted a shopping mall. Derrick Shareef, 22, targeted the Cherry Vale shopping mall in Rockford, FBI spokesman Tom Simon
Continue readingThanks to the blogosphere, this hasn’t been a good time for the AP, since it’s been caught with its pants down, exposing what can at best be called shoddy reporting, and at worst reprehensibly dishonest reporting. Rather than apologize and fix the problem, AP has gotten arrogant and refused to
Continue readingMr. Bookworm often chastizes me for the fact that, when he comes home from work, I’m tense and short with the children. I explain that when no one listens, but everyone fights, my frustration level is very, very high. Tonight, because I have a big project to do, after I
Continue readingEnough with the serious stuff — let’s get silly. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lrJg8NMsFw] Hat tip: PalmTree Pundit
Continue readingI swear that the following really, really gives me credibility to complain non-stop about my childrens’ education: You paid attention during 100% of high school! 85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap! Do you deserve your
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