Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Ohio State University has grandiose plans: " The Ohio State University aspires to become one of the world's great public research and teaching universities." As part of this vision, it advances core values it believes are inextricably intertwined with academic greatness: Pursue knowledge for its own sake. Ignite in our
Continue readingNorway's government earned an ugly name for itself during WWII because of the conduct of one Vidkun Quisling. He was the leader of Norway's Nazi party and, after the Germans invaded Norway, he was the Government's first leader. For the remainder of the War, Norway had a collaborationist government. Unlike
Continue readingMy history classes always taught me that the Roman empire didn't fall to any one enemy attack. Instead, it was destroyed from the inside due to an influx of Germanic ("barbarian") invaders from the North — many of whom simply oozed into the Empire and stayed. Eventually, of course,
Continue readingI had a shocking experience today. I was at a mall around lunch time when it filled up with high school students. Suddenly, I was surrounded by maybe 30 adolescent males. What practically threw me off my feet was that they were, without exception, clean cut, neatly dressed (no gang
Continue readingThose suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome like to claim that the increase in Muslim vs. everyone attacks are all George Bush's fault, because he had the temerity to strike back. Certainly, we're more aware of Muslim vs. the world attacks, because 9/11 got our antennae up. It's useful, though, to
Continue readingIt seems to me that most of the violent death in the world today would be capped if we could do away with the more violent adherents of the Religion of Pieces. Today, 9 died in Tel Aviv, with more almost 70 injured, thanks to yet another Muslim who went
Continue readingIt's been a long time since I've done a meme, but this looks like a fun one. I've been tagged by Gail, at Crossing the Rubicon, for the following A to Z meme: Accent: Peculiarly my own. Western, with a tinge of European parents. Booze: Chocolate milkshake. Chore I Hate:
Continue readingIt is illegal to be Jewish (or Christian, or anything but Muslim) in Saudi Arabia. It is deadly to be a Muslim apostate in Afghanistan. It's fatal to be Christian in Indonesia. With scattered exceptions, Jews were long ago evicted from Iraq. I won't belabor my point: Jews (and other
Continue readingI'm betting that, by now, most of you have already heard of Maryscott O'Connor, the fulminating Left wing blogger profiled in the Washington Post a few days ago. This is one seriously angry lady: In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her
Continue readingHappy Easter to all my friends!
Continue readingOne of the black marks against Pres. Bush is the fact that the national debt has increased so much on his watch (something I'm less than thrilled about myself). Heather, however, offers us some perspective: According to The Skeptical Optimist, an optimist is "one who believes that humans, on net
Continue readingYou Passed the US Citizenship Test Congratulations – you got 10 out of 10 correct! Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test? Hat tip: A Rose By Any Other Name
Continue readingJust FYI, with the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake coming our way this Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle has a very nice online spread on the quake, complete with memoirs (the real kind, not the modern, phony pity story), photographs, and original news stories. It was quite
Continue readingAbout twenty-five years ago, when I started college, I struck up a casual friendship with a Latina woman in one of my history classes. She told me that she was the first person in her family to have graduated from high school and, of course, the first to attend college.
Continue readingI clean. They make things dirty. It's their job, and they do it well. I look forward to the end of spring break and, with it, my chance to return to my delusion that I can actually have a clean house.
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