Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Are 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.
Continue readingThomas Lifson wrote a "right on the money" article about the intoxicating and damaging anger the Left currently experiences. I especially enjoyed the part where he pointed out, rightly, that the Left is bewildered by and hostile to the fact that someone they deem their intellectual inferior had the temerity
Continue reading[I'm floating this up to the top periodically, just to keep it in people's minds.] Okay, I think I've got it. Working through Blog Carnival, I've set up a Crypto-Conservative Carnival. My goal in this first edition is to have people submit posts describing their political conversion to conservatism and,
Continue readingDuring lunch with Don Quixote, he noted that I ‘ve concluded that both the ideology of Islamofascism and its followers are completely evil. He’s right. I do. We had a great lunch-time discussion while I sought, in very convoluted fashion, why I thought this way, but still managed not to
Continue readingI'm a Mark Steyn groupie, and I'm not about to let anyone up on the pedestal with him. Nevertheless, there are other opinion writers who come awfully close, and Jonah Goldberg is one of them. I was hooked after I read this column introduction and, by the end, completely reminded
Continue readingI sometimes wonder if things in the Arab world were always so bad, and we just didn't know about them because a monolithic press wasn't interested. I mean, an iman attacking a six year old can't be something new, but probably arises logically out of a culture of poverty and
Continue readingIt's a "gotta run" kind of morning but, if you go here, you'll see that I'm optimistic about the next generation.
Continue readingI'm intransigently hostile to a great deal of modern pop music, because I consider it ugly, crude, vulgar, violent and hypersexualized. (I feel like saying here, "But other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?) I don't even like Radio Disney because, although it presents the slighter
Continue readingThose familiar with my writing know that, while I haven't touched upon it in a while, a particularly hate multiculturalism, which I believe is one of the great cancers eating away at Western culture. To me, it has nothing to do with respecting the cultures of others, and everything to
Continue readingI'm always sensitive to the way in which the MSM likes to use unflattering pictures of Republican policitians. In the interests of even-handedness, I thought it important to note, therefore, that Matt Drudge, as part of the link to a story about Nancy Pelosi's goal to be Speaker, has publicized
Continue readingThe popular image of the peacekeepers who travel to troubled regions is of a legion of selfless Mother Theresas, putting aside the comforts of their First World lives to aid those most in need. And that image may well be true for the greater number of them. Unfortunately, one of
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