Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Next time you read that your fellow citizens have, by signing petitions, put something totally ludicrous on the ballot (such as Arizona’s initiative to use lotteries to bribe people into the voting booth), think of this video:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPcthZL2RE] Hat tip: PalmTree Pundit
Continue readingOne of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces is being turned over to the Iraqi government: MOSUL, Iraq – Task Force Band of Brothers will turn over control of the former Saddam Hussein presidential compound here to Iraqi government officials in a ceremony in Mosul July 20. The Mosul VIP Residence site,
Continue readingI’ve decided to place this post at the top periodically as a good way to publish links that I find interesting in analyzing the situation in the Middle East. Scroll down for any new posts I may have put up. Here are two good places to go for information about
Continue readingMickey Spillane, who created Mike Hammer, died the other day. NPR has a nice obituary. The late Mr. Spillane comes across as a great American eccentric.
Continue readingHere’s a fascinating NPR radio story about relationships between African-American men and women: A clip from the upcoming film Diary of a Tired Black Man is generating a great deal of buzz in the African-American community. The scene features a man arriving at the house of his former spouse with
Continue readingJust to let you know that Bardseyeview, which looks at current events through a Shakespearean lens, is up and running again after a hiatus. This site is always interesting and a reminder, if one is needed that there is nothing new under the sun.
Continue readingIf you want to see incredibly beauty in the midst of Nature’s chaos, you must visit this link for photographs taken in some of the Western wildfires. They’re just breathtaking.
Continue readingI took a test to determine whether I’m a control freak and it said — surprise! — that I’m not. Take the test and see what you think. I think it asked the wrong questions, confusing control freaks with cranky and arrogant people. Basically, I’m a control freak because, in
Continue readingI’ve never liked beaches. I don’t like the way sand infiltrates everything and I hate the sticky, burning feeling of salt water on my skin. The fact that, as a child, the beaches we went to often included a windy road that triggered my carsickness only increased my hostility to
Continue readingI sit home most of the day at my computer staring at tremendously boring legal documents. To while away my time, I listen to talk radio (through KRLA). Occasionally, I get exercised enough by what I hear to call in. Last week, a call to Dennis Prager had him suggesting
Continue readingI’m really enjoying the periodic forays I’ve been making into Leftie land regarding the current Israeli/Hezbollah war (you can see my previous posts here and here), so I thought I’d keep going. No survey would be complete without checking in with Howard Dean. I know it’s already old news (two
Continue readingI don’t even have a link for this yet, but here’s the latest from CENTCOM about the link between crime and terrorism: COMBINED FORCES COMMAND – AFGHANISTAN COALITION PRESS INFORMATION CENTER KABUL, AFGHANISTAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 18, 2006 Release # 060718-07 Extremists linked to drug trade KABUL , Afghanistan
Continue readingOn it’s face, Richard Cohen’s most recent op-ed for the WaPo looks like a self-hating anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli screed. It’s not really, although it’s inartfully written (very), and some of the conclusions he draws aren’t necessarily correct. I thought, therefore, that I’d give the article a polite fisking to try to
Continue readingWhile I work, I like to listen to talk radio in the background. (I use KRLA’s site, which has great streaming audio.) Today, however, I couldn’t stick with it. I was listening to Michael Medved talk about the very real possibility that the same portable missiles that are raining down
Continue readingI can’t decide if this is the beginning of the end for any hope of normal society in Holland, or if it is an appropriate event in a free society, which allows issues to be aired and decided upon by the voters: A Dutch court refused Monday to ban a
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