Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Nobody looks good straddling the fence, and that includes both the President and an illegal alien climbing his way over the border. I'm going to comment on random ugly or foolish things that caught my eye in the President's speech: Once here, illegal immigrants live in the shadows of our
Continue readingOne of the delightful things about an expanding readership is the interesting things that come to my email. One of the less delightful things about being a part-time blogger is the length of time it takes me to read and process these materials. I thought that I'd take some time
Continue readingWords from Power Line that need to be widely disseminated: As we focus on what to do about illegal immigration, it's easy to lose sight of the issue of how much, and what type of, legal immigration we should permit. Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation puts that issue into
Continue readingI've been lucky enough to get on the mailing list of someone who, when sending "humorous" emails, actually does send humorous emails. This time, it was wacky animals pictures, under the heading "What Pets do when you are at work." I'm a sucker for animals and for wacky, so I
Continue readingVasko Kohlmayer, who writes regularly for American Thinker, hits a home run with today's article explaining why liberals will never be able to match Rush on the radio. In it, he really nails the difference between the varying degrees of success the different political ideologies have in different formats: The
Continue readingThe West Wing, the now defunct NBC show, is the ne plus ultra illustration of how Democrats think the world should be run. Indeed, you can amuse yourself with a list of top Left Wing scenes culled from all of the show's episodes. Last night, though, I was struck by
Continue readingI realize it's not PC to refer to America as a melting pot anymore, since the prevailing political thought is "God forbid that people should assimilate." Nevertheless, America is more of a melting pot than European countries, and recent events in France, and England, and Denmark, etc., have made it
Continue readingI'd like to think that my friend Miriam, along with her mother and sister, were three of the voices singing this song in Bergen-Belsen a mere week after liberation from the Nazis.
Continue readingDoes it strike anyone as strange that the same paper that advocated Universal Health Care, which would have placed every bit of our most personal information in the Government's hands, is now shrieking about a computer program that impersonally scans millions of numbers — numbers that big business possesses in
Continue readingI'm not repeating anything new when I say that, European-like, liberals' idea of a perfect world is one where the Government runs as many things as possible. (Hillary's 1994 healthcare proposal springs to mind.) The other day, I had an experience that reminded me, once again, why the fewer things
Continue readingAre any of you Marin/Sonoma voters? If you are, we may at long last have a viable Republican candidate. A man I know, Todd Hooper, is running as a Republican for Marin/Sonoma. He's a quiet, thoughtful, intelligent, hardworking man, with a lovely family. Please check out his website. And, if
Continue readingLittle Green Footballs has made available the audio of a beautiful speech Ayaan Hirsi made to the American Jewish Committee when accepting their award for moral courage. Like the lady herself, it was brave and graceful, and I urge you to listen to it. I was especially struck by her
Continue readingI'd always assumed that the Balfour Declaration, the UN recognition of Israel in 1948, and Israel's multiple military victories against the Arab nations were the sole basis (and a pretty damn strong basis, too), for her right to exist as a nation among nations. Turns out I'm woefully ignorant. Rachel
Continue readingI'm not an enemy of big business. Indeed, I'm an enthusiastic fan of capitalism. However, when big business seeks profit at the expense of speech, my fan level diminishes rapidly. Here's the story (with thanks to Ron): Proposed rule changes would tangle the Web By Michael Socolow May 9, 2006
Continue readingI admire our military and therefore feel quite puffed up when I get information from a member of our armed forces. In this case, I got a heads-up about a batch of documents the Coalition forces found in Iraq and that the military is now releasing to the general public.
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