Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
There's a move afoot to extend the voting age downwards to young children (their votes would get counted on a fractional basis). As a parent who interacts a lot with young children, I think this is stunningly stupid. As more evidence in the stunningly stupid category, I offer the beginning
Continue readingI glanced out my office window, looked over the hills and the water, and saw glowing in the sky a perfect rainbow. What a lovely gift. Since it's been raining ridiculous amounts in my neck of the woods, one hopes that the rainbow is a sign of a remembered promise:
Continue readingGail alerted me to the Mexica-Movement's proud photo-montage about the March in L.A. I think it's a great site, since it really gives you an idea about the marchers' goals and belief system. I wonder if, once you get insight into these things, you'll be for or against firmer border
Continue readingPatrick alerts me to Ace's take on the new, improved Democratic plan: An amazing new national security plan has two key provisions: 1) "Responsibly redepolying" US troops from Iraq (i.e., bugging out as soon as we can get the transport ships and planes in); and 2) "eliminating" Osama bin Ladin.
Continue readingDo you have a strong stomach? If you do not, definitely avoid this website, which collects information and photographs about the atrocities routinely committed against women, children and gays across the Muslim world. Here, you can see what it looks like when a person has been flogged hundreds of times
Continue readingI'm generally a Jonah Goldberg fan, but his column today really adds to my respect for the man. In it, he takes on black leaders in Congress, who pursue far Left policies that are often inconsistent with beliefs held by many black Americans, and that advance social and economic policies
Continue readingThat sound you hear in the title of this post is me blowing my own horn. I've got another article published in American Thinker, which is going to have to take the place of blogging this morning. It's about morality and how we teach it to our children in the
Continue readingIn a rather stumbling way, I asked why immigrants don't love America, and said that I wished our schools would be required to teach students what's great about America. Ironically, one day later, the Wall Street Journal published Peggy Noonan's elegant, lyrical reflection on the same point. She begins by
Continue readingThe Western Standard in Canada, as part of its reporting, published copies of the Mohammad cartoons. To my mind, that's good journalism. To the Alberta Human Rights Commission, it's a hate crime, and it initiated a government prosecution against Western Standard. The Western Standard has now put out an SOS
Continue readingRumors about organ harvesting surface constantly when it comes to China, and they probably have a good foundation given that, working through China, you can get any organ you need, any time. Now, Jay Nordlinger comes with a fairly detailed report (with lots of links) that China is using Falun
Continue readingIn a recent Weekly Standard article, Wesley Smith takes on the infant euthanasia that is gaining traction in Holland. His opening paragraphs are models of clear writing: At last a high government official in Europe got up the nerve to chastise the Dutch government for preparing to legalize infant euthanasia.
Continue readingJack, my favorite Retired Preacher, has republished in his blog, with the original publication's permission, a lengthy article about radical Islam's goal of creating a worldwide Caliphate governed by the purest expression of 7th Century Islamic law. Aside from generally being an interesting article, I found especially fascinating the way
Continue readingI wanted to let you know about a "blog collective"* that I was invited to join. It's called Webloggin, and it's sort of a clearinghouse for posts that Webloggin community members do on their own blogs. When I got invited, I checked it out and really jumped at the chance
Continue readingI haven't blogged about the immigration protests because, well, because I didn't feel like blogging about them. During a lunchtime conversation, Don Quixote and I decided we were in agreement: We believe the vitality of immigrants is good for the nation's health, and we strongly disapprove of those who break
Continue readingMuch ink has been spilled (or should I say, many bytes have been generated) about whether Islam can be modernized so that Muslims can integrate with the modern world. As many have pointed out, devout Muslims feel themselves absolutely bound to live by Mohammed's principles — principles that involve such
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