Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Thomas 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
Continue readingNine out of twelve jurors were all for giving Moussaoui leniency because he had a bad childhood which, as Mark Steyn points out, is the problem with putting war crimes in the hands of jurors (especially, I might add, jurors who probably spend way too much time watching Oprah). I
Continue readingNo original blogging today, but you can see what I've been thinking about here, at American Thinker. I wrote to Thomas Lifson, the editor there, about the high risk sex offenders who are being concentrated in Marin County because he often uses his wonderful site to highlight Bay Area issues.
Continue readingPatrick Kennedy is a truly sad little guy. He's obviously combating some serious personal demons. I believe he should resign because I don't think someone so dysfunctional can adequately represent his constituents. That's really the end of the whole Patrick Kennedy story. As Gypsy Rose Lee used to say when
Continue readingI got some really good comments on my earlier post about the Cleveland lawyers who went after the parents who successfully represented their son in a claim against the school district. I focused on the fact that, usually, the child's interest is indistinguishable from the parents' interest, making it appropriate
Continue readingI vividly remember the time when, to my daughter, I was the most beautiful woman in the world (as I still am to my son). But times change. Yesterday, as I was putting my daughter to bed, she told me this: "Mom, Cecily asked me if you were pretty. I
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