Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I was very surprised this morning to read about a judge who held (correctly) I think, that gay marriage is not a matter for judges, but for the people’s representatives (who, unlike judges and European politicians, are actually beholden to their constituents): New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that gay
Continue readingIf you’ve ever wondered what the reductio ad absurdum of socialism is, I think North Korea must be the answer. Certainly the many pictures that Russia’s top web designer took during a recent trip there make it seem like the closest thing the real world has to Orwell’s imagined 1984.
Continue readingA familiar plaint on the right side of the blogosphere — and certainly something that crops up frequently in my posts — is media bias. I tend to address it in bits and pieces. That is, one thing or another offends me and I comment on it. A more sophisticated
Continue readingI can’t summarize it adequately, but Robert Alt offers a nice article detailing the peculiarities of the liberal response to the Hamdan ruling. Suffice to say that, even if one concedes for the sake of argument that the liberals’ legal position is and was correct, their spin is distinctly off-putting.
Continue readingIt’s no secret that I’m hostile to the teachers’ union. While I completely support the idea of teachers earning a living wage and having decent working conditions — and am willing to concede that unions are well suited to negotiating these ends — I think the teachers’ unions have gone
Continue readingIn an interview at Front Page, Theodore Dalrymple tackles the conventional wisdom about Heroin (how people start, how addicted they actually get, and how bad withdrawal really is). Regarding withdrawal, he has this to say: With regard to withdrawal, it is grossly exaggerated as a phenomenon. Unlike withdrawal from barbiturates
Continue readingBut this time I don’t think anyone is too upset: Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Hastings are feeling lucky this year. The 30-county area they serve in central Nebraska and north-central Kansas hasn’t had a confirmed tornado for the first six months of this year. That hasn’t
Continue readingPeople who work with me know that, for almost twenty years now, I’ve had one big, across-the-board complaint about judges — they don’t follow the law. My experience, which is fairly broad, is that while many (although not all) judges will pay lip service to the law, the fact is
Continue readingLong-time readers know that I can’t stand Steven Spielberg movies. I’ve never seen one (and I’ve seen many, so I know what I’m talking about) that hasn’t left me bitterly regretting the time and money I lost on the movie. I was therefore just thrilled with Diana West’s take on
Continue readingI’ve been thinking a bit lately about America’s unique focus on the individual and not on the State. (I blogged about it here, when I was thinking about nations that turn on their own citizens.) The fact that power resides with the individual in America is one of the bulwarks
Continue readingMy blogging will be light to nonexistent today. However, before this flu knocked me off my pins, I had put together a few thoughts about patriotism, which you can read at American Thinker. UPDATE: Like death and taxes, it is inevitable that, when I write about something, someone smarter and
Continue readingMy internet got into the holiday spirit and shut itself down. So it’s only now that I’m able to do what I intended to do long ago: Wish all of you a very happy July 4th!
Continue readingWelcome to the July 4, 2006 edition of the first crypto-conservative carnival. Because submissions focused on neo-conservatism (I guess all the cryptos are in hiding), I decided to make that my focus too — and I’ve learned a lesson for the next carnival, should I have one. From Joe, who
Continue readingIf you like Christian vocal jazz (mostly a cappella stuff) you should definitely check out Take 6. We saw them yesterday. Even though I didn’t feel well (turned out I was coming down with the flu that’s making me miserable today), I still managed to enjoy this group, a lot.
Continue readingI didn’t blog about the Mexican elections, preferring to wait and see what happened. I’m happy that I didn’t get my knickers in a twist, and I’m pleased that the Mexican voters, having looked into socialism’s abyss, opted for the Conservative candidate: Mexico’s conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory
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