Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The Bookboy, who should long since have been asleep, came into my office in some distress: "Mom, I had a very special key chain. I put it under my pillow last night, and the Tooth Fairy stole it." That explains a lot about the many doodads that routinely vanish from
Continue readingThe New York Times has come up with an editorial that contains a perfect bootstrapping argument, one that works off the premise it is supposed to prove. It's an almost impressive piece of dishonest rhetoric, whether or not one agrees with the sentiment expressed. The context for this amazing piece
Continue readingRead this Michelle Malkin post and you'll get why I, and so many others in the Bay Area, are crypto-cons. It's extremely difficult in a community that has all the openness of Stasi run East Germany to confess that you're a conservative.
Continue readingNPR's Fresh Air recently did a replay of a 1996 interview with Tiny Tim (born Herbert B. Khaury), who died only a few months after the interview. It's quite amazing. Tiny Tim was a complete nut, but also a true musical savant, with an encylopedic knowledge of old American music,
Continue readingNPR is all over AIDS lately, because it is the 25th Anniversary of that terrible disease. NPRcelebrated today with a story blaming the West on the spread of AIDS. The theory is that the French in West Africa, in a well-intentioned move, innoculated too many people with too few needles.
Continue readingAmidst the doom and gloom of Monday morning news stories, I found something intriguing. Apparently credibly Syrian sources, gathering in London, are claiming that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is doomed: In 'unprecedented' conference held in British capital, former vice president claims 'people are hungry, their welfare robbed by corrupt
Continue readingI did a post (here) about the tactic of using children as a wedge in the immigration debate. I said that, just because illegal aliens have children once they're here — making those children American citizens — that is not a reason to grant those parents amnesty, even if it
Continue readingIn the weeks leading up to tomorrow's election, I have been completely innundated with annoying pre-recorded phone calls (which confuse the heck out of my kids when they answer the phone) and, even worse, with flyers. In the few days, Mr. Bookworm and I got over 30 flyers, all multi-page,
Continue readingOn Friday, in the TLLB Ecosystem, I was a Large Mammal, ranked at 855. Today, I'm a Wiggly Worm, ranked at 53,000. That was one hell of a weekend. I just don't know if it was a bad weekend for the whole Ecosystem, or only for me. UPDATE: Whew! I'm
Continue readingWow! That was a long blog silence for me. I did lots of things this weekend, most of them pleasant, none of them blogging. I haven't even had a chance to read the papers — and won't for another hour — so I have nothing of substance to say. I'll
Continue readingLately, weekends have been slow blogging times for me — and, as my statistics show, slow reading time for most everyone else. That's okay. Bloggers, readers and writers alike, deserve a break. Lately, too, my posts have had a frantic quality, a "can you believe that?" attitude, that is, quite
Continue readingA friend directed me to an interview that was conducted by a student involved with UCLA's Instituted for Democracy, Education and Access. The tenor of the interview makes it clear that this organization — funded by California taxpayers — supports Hispanic separatism within the United States. I have a problem
Continue readingThomas Lifson and Richard Baehr offer an excellent summary of the First Amendment matters at issue in Professor Thomas Klocek's suit against DePaul University. As you may nor may not know, DePaul summarily fired Professor Klocek after he engaged in Palestinian students manning a table at a student activities
Continue readingThe following transcribes an NPR story, interspersed with my comments: Here's another story we're following. A Border Patrol round-up along Interstate 40 in California has prompted a call for a Federal investigation. A Los Angeles attorney says agents were only pulling over people with brown skiln, which he says is
Continue readingThis is a terrible tragedy: U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim,
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