Author: Bookworm

A news report that's whizzing about the blogosphere concerns the fact that the President teased a reporter about wearing sunglasses, unaware that the reporter needed to wear them due to a vision problem.  The President immediately apologized.  What's interesting about the story is how gracious both sides to this telephone

I have a humiliating confession to make: I like reading romances. I got turned on to Georgette Heyer in the late 1970s, and have spent the subsequent decades looking for the current reincarnation of that wonderful and witty writer. For those of you who may not know, Georgette Heyer began

That someone who is so optimistic about the upcoming elections is Michael Novak.  He is convinced that, all MSM huffery and puffery to the contrary, the Republicans will retain control in Washington.  He paints a compelling picture of a political mindset that, although touting itself as "reality-based" remains unmoved by

If you want to know that reductio ad absurdum of moral relativism, read Vasko Kohlmayer's short riff at The American Thinker.

Is it only at my gas station, or have your pump prices been dropping too? The other day, I paid $2.99 a gallon, a $0.25 drop from the last time I pumped gas. (And a far cry from the $0.24 gas I remember from the gas wars in the 1970s….)

I just looked at my calendar and suddenly realized that today is Flag Day. Hurrah! I think George M. Cohan said it best:  You’re a grand old flag. You’re a high-flying flag. And forever in peace may you wave. You’re the emblem of the land I love, the home of

Ymarsakar, whom you know from the many interesting comments left on my blog, tipped me off to a post that looks ahead to the world in 2030, and tries to predict whether the U.S. will still be the world's superpower, or whether another country (which is, for purposes of the

We've now got a new Reuters entry in the most biased, dishonest, inflammatory reporting category, which is impressive given how short the article is. Here's the online versionof the article, with my comments: Israeli missile strike in Gaza kills 9: doctor [The headline is clear, isn't it? The Israelis killed

We live in a block and copy age. I know I do it when I write my blog. The opening sentence in a paragraph in someone's column or blog intrigues me, or even the whole paragraph intrigues me, and I block and copy the whole thing. It takes a second,

I was thinking it, in an inchoate way; Dennis Prager was writing it, with his usual lucidity: Michael Berg is a Green Party candidate for Congress from the state of Delaware and a pacifist. According to The Associated Press and many other reports, Berg believes George W. Bush is more

I'm so glad I don't live in the City anymore.  My only question, as a parent, is why weren't these people arrested?  Last I heard, there were laws on the books against this type of display.  [By the way, do not click on that link if you're offended by pictures

This may be true: Tiny solitary cells under constant illumination, a mere 20 minutes of fresh air daily, and beatings at the hands of guards are indicative of the "torture" endured by some of the 17 people accused of plotting terrorist attacks in Canada, lawyers for the group said Monday.