Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My 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
Continue readingI hate flus. I will try to blog later today, assuming I uncurl from the moaning fetal position.
Continue readingMark Steyn: There are several ways to fight a war. On the one hand, you can put on a uniform, climb into a tank, rumble across a field and fire on the other fellows’ tank. On the other, you can find a 12-year-old girl, persuade her to try on your
Continue readingI just got a new computer, and I really want to take some time to set it up. My son has other ideas: “Mommy, I want you to play with me. You’re turning into a boring old lady.” How did he know?
Continue readingWe spent another fruitless couple of hours at our local humane society. This is not the type of humane society that euthanizes dogs, so it doesn’t have any real impetus to get dogs out of the shelter. Instead, it’s goal is to find the perfect home for every dog. And
Continue readingThere’s an NPR story here about music being used as a therapy to aid chronic pain sufferers or the dying. Anecdotal reports are good, but there are no scientific, double-blind, replicable studies yet to back it up. I have my own concern about the practice. I like listening to music,
Continue readingI sort of just sat back and sniggered when the Presbyterian Church (USA), after first attacking Jews decided next to go after men. How else to explain the new doctrine the Church has put into effect: The divine Trinity – “Father, Son and Holy Spirit” – could also be known
Continue readingHow did England so rapidly plummet from the world’s top dog to a nation that has no pride, no sense of its own history (except to be abjectly embarrassed by that history), and no sense of self-preservation. The latter appears in matters large, as in its inability to confront its
Continue readingWe just got yet another reminder (as if we need one), about Government ineptitude at managing its own programs: Welfare recipients and their friends and relatives are defrauding taxpayers of $500 million a year through the county’s child care programs, a grand jury report concludes. The report released Thursday found
Continue readingIn yet another reminder that it’s all about the bureaucracy and not about the child, it turns out that California joins the lists of states lying and cheating to get federal funds (and what a good lesson that is to teach our children): California and some other states have inflated
Continue readingDon’t you hate people who say “I told you so”? I do, unless I’m the one saying it. This time, I’m saying it regarding the Israeli troops massed on the Gaza border. But let me back up a bit…. Last night, Mr. Bookworm, who reads only the NY Times, asked
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