Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Here’s the resume: 45 year old male. Columbia University graduate Worked with a Church-based group in a poor neighborhood. Harvard Law School graduate, President of Harvard Law Review Seven years in the Illinois State Senate, focusing on Earned Income Tax Credit, early childhood education programs, and videotaping confessions in capital
Continue readingSince I whine constantly about the kids’ school, fairness demands that I let you know when I see good things. I just returned from a little science fair at the school where the elementary kids displayed their projects about plants and animals. Montessorian that I am I found it boring,
Continue readingJust a few months ago, the younger set in our neighborhood was very, very excited about High School Musical. The one family that actually owned the DVD was kept busy loaning it out to everyone. Never having heard of it, I was careful to sit with my kids as they
Continue readingJohn Bolton is leaving the UN, but I’m proud of Bush for doing some finger-pointing: President Bush said today that John R. Bolton will end his service as the United Nations ambassador when his appointment ends this month. Mr. Bolton became the ambassador last year under a recess appointment made
Continue readingHer grammar is even purer than mine, but she sure hits upon a lot of my pet peeves.
Continue readingJules Crittenden, writing at the Boston Herald, has this to say. I’ve added some less than sanguine comments at the end: When a company defrauds its customers, or delivers shoddy goods, the customers sooner or later are going to take their business elsewhere. But if that company has a virtual
Continue readingEvery have one of those days where you make plans to go out for a couple hours to have a nice family brunch and to buy staples, such as toothpaste and milk, and then you end up coming home eight hours later, having spent what seems like your entire months’s
Continue readingWorld War II introduced some famous correspondents and photo journalists on the scene, men and women who spread out with the troops and reported their story back to America: Ernie Pyle, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, William Shirer, and Edward R. Murrow, to name but a few. All staunch patriots during
Continue readingGwyneth Paltrow is certainly entitled to her opinions, although her practice of denigrating Americans may end up damaging her at the box office. It’s always stupid, if you’re a performer, to insult your audience (proving a priori that she may not be as smart as she likes to think she
Continue readingStung by charges that it was relying on named, but non-existent, official sources, AP has responded with a new tactic: no sources at all. That takes news to a whole new, very low, level, doesn’t it? del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingI’m a hopelessly assimilated, secular Jew with a social and conservative political orientation. I’m not just a dying breed, I’m a theoretically non-existent breed. While I may not really exist, there is a Jewish demographic that looks as if soon, it will not exist at all. The generic liberal American
Continue readingI like the way Dennis Prager thinks, and I usually find myself agreeing with him. This time I don’t. As you may know, because it’s caused something of a stir in cyberspace (and, I understood, in the old media), Dennis Prager has challenged Keith Ellison’s decision to take his Congressional
Continue readingI don’t have time to comment on this article but, really, after you’ve read it, you’ll know there is nothing left to say…. except don’t send your kids to Columbia U. Hat tip: Tracy del.icio.us | digg it
Continue readingI couldn’t let Rose Mattus’ death pass unnoticed. Who is she, you ask? Only one of the people who made the world or, at least, my world, a much, much better place: Rose Mattus, who launched Haagen-Dazs ice cream with her husband, peddling the super-premium treat in grocery stores, has
Continue readingI’ve got actual work I have to do today (how dull), so blogging will be light. However, before I sign off to help support my family, I urge you to take some time to check out Michelle Malkin’s comprehensive summary about what’s going on in the fight between AP and
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