Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It is the height of political incorrectness to even speculate that there could be any differences among the races. And, of course, the variations between individuals within races are far greater than any possible differences between the races on average. But, still, this is dangerous territory. For example, one is
Continue readingOne of my clients has a small case, with considerable merit, but (as I keep telling him) it will take far more money to pursue the case than the case could possibly be worth. The client keeps saying “I don’t care what it costs. It’s the principle of the matter.”
Continue readingOne of the things that surprised me when I became an attorney is the extent to which clients do not care about their attorneys’ ethics. Each client is unique, of course, but most clients that I’ve worked with have absolutely no interest in the truth or in ethical behavior of
Continue readingApparently, folks in the Bookwormroom are not the only ones concerned about all of us being turned into children. Check out this Wizbang discussion of WALL-E and the linked interview with Andrew Stanton. I love the closing line of the quote from the Stanton interview: “I was trying to make
Continue readingIn a comment to one of BW’s earlier posts, I said that this is America and anyone of sound mind and body can make it in America if they just work hard. Helen, whose comments add immeasureably to this blog, responded that she wished it were so. But it is.
Continue readingHere in California, the hands-free cell phone law went into effect July 1. (By the way, does anyone know whether there was an actual increase in traffic accidents after cell phones became popular?) This morning, I heard a story that said that 1,800 fires and dozens of injuries resulted from
Continue readingI asserted the other day that it was a “fact” that America built the greatest society the world has ever seen and Ozzie reasonably asked me to prove this was a fact and not merely my opinion. He has a point, but let’s see what facts we can offer. It
Continue readingA liberal friend sent me an article from the Winston Salem Chronicle (written by John Mendez, who is identified as the pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church and a longtime community activist). In the article, Mendez attempts to defend Wright. I sent the friend my comments on the article and thought the article and the
Continue readingDQ here. Greg posted the following comment recently: Hi Don, I see you’re not quite in DQ overdrive but on the way. I wish I had the time to respond to your self-denial. But, as the good swampman pointed out, the issue isn’t the applicability of the label (I mean,
Continue readingDQ again. Thank you all very much for taking the time and effort to educate me on Israel’s rights to the occupied territories. Having only a vague notion that Israel’s borders were larger in the first proposals for its creation, I had (and still have) much to learn. But, perhaps
Continue readingIn response to my discussion of the “God’s Jewish Warriors” special, Oceanguy said he was quite disheartened that I could be taken in by the propaganda he saw in that show. His particular concern centered around the following statement by Ms. Amanpour, ““Intifada, in Arabic, it means ‘shaking off.’ And beginning
Continue readingFor six hours this Sunday I watched my TIVOed copies of Christiane Amanpour’s God’s Warriors specials. Amanpour’s biases clearly showed through, especially when she tried to portray Muslim radicals as some kind of a small fringe group, or when she spoke to fundamentalist Christian leaders in a tone dripping with
Continue readingI’m about to head off on my own vacation and Bookworm isn’t due back until Monday, so I don’t know how much blogging she’ll have a chance to do. Thanks to all of you who have chimed in on the discussions the last few weeks. The Bookwormroom readers really are the most intelligent,
Continue readingNot much time to blog today, so I give the Bookwormroom readers a challenge. As a child of the 60’s I remember (barely) when Americans were optimistic. Most Americans of the 1950s believed the “march of progress” was a very real thing. The world was constantly improving and America was
Continue readingOver the years there has been much discussion over the lessons we learned from our craven withdrawal and defeat in Vietnam. The lessons I learned were pretty simple: (1) Don’t go into a war unless you intend to win it. “Limited war” is an oxymoron. (2) Don’t go into a
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