Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Nine 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
Continue readingMost people who navigate through our legal system, and who must educate themselves about our laws, opt to use a lawyer in the hope that the lawyer, through his skill and knowledge, will give them both a friend in Court and an advantage over their adversary. In other words, in
Continue readingAt Under the News, I learned, in one post, two things. One is amazing, one sad. The amazing thing is that the English language now boasts more than one billion available words, a number that defies my limited imagination. The sad thing is that the average American uses only 14,000.
Continue readingI genuinely enjoyed this photo from Reuters. For one thing, I have a strong suspicion that we can manage in a world without burritos. For another thing, I have an equally strong suspicion that legal immigrants can actually make burritos too. Indeed, going out on a limb, I bet that
Continue readingToday is a rushed day for me, so I thought I'd just jumble into one post the various things that piqued my interest this morning: Through an excellent tip at American Thinker, I got to read Lawrence Henry's article giving an interesting perspective on why six generals are essentially in
Continue readingMany, many years ago, I had a puppy who needed abdominal surgery. This was at about the same time that my father, a very stoic man, was dealing with cancer and the attendant abdominal surgery. What was fascinating was to see the psychologic dynamic play out — or, in the
Continue readingIf you want to be truly inspired, and if you want to hear an inside understanding of the twin threats of Islamism and Multiculturalism, please, please, please, listen to this interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Continue readingSuzanne Fields writes that the President's ability at the White House Correspondents Association dinner is no small thing: Communists have no sense of humor, in China, Cuba or North Korea any more than they did in the old Soviet Union. Tyrants and despots can't afford even a tiny revolution, and
Continue readingMy son is hypercompetitive, to the point where he'll sometimes bow out of an activity, rather than run the risk of failing. In the same vein, if an activity is not going well, he'll often do what all children do: quit. To combat this tendency, I recite a little epigram
Continue readingI don't have much of a bone to pick either way with the Intelligent Design/evolution debate. My view is that, going back to the Big Bang, they both agree with each other. It's at the millisecond immediately preceding the Big Bang that I drop out of the debate. You, at
Continue readingSomeone sent me the following in an email. I located a clean copy here, and present it to you in its entirety. The only thing I'll add is that I can't understand the spectacle of politicians on both sides of the aisle catering to a population that, by definition as
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