Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I have two reasons why June 6 is a really important day, and neither has to do with the Devil. First: VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE, VOTE,
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 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 readingI must admit I'm a little down today. I'm stuck on negative thoughts as the price of oil tops $68 a barrel, the price of gas at the cheapest pump in town hits 277.9, the Republicans look headed for disaster in November, thousands are marching in the streets in support
Continue readingSome time ago, when I was still blogging at Blogger, I wrote a post asking what an American theocracy would look like. I asked this question because it occurred to me that, while liberals were frantically throwing around statements about Bush's "ultra conservatism" and "scary fundamentalism," none were articulating what
Continue readingDQ again. I'm a NASCAR fan, but I normally TiVo the races and skip the long opening ceremonies. Today, there was nothing much else on, so I watched the race and the ceremonies live. I was struck by the pure pride in America that infused those ceremonies. It's sad that
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 readingMike, at The Deep Freeze, lives in Philadelphia. Doing something called geocaching, he headed out of town and went for a treasure hunt in his neck of the words — the treasure being a moment where one touches history. Here is what he found: It was a modest grave site
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