Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus are heading to D.C. to sing at the inauguration. I had the opportunity to hear them perform yesterday at San Francisco City Hall, and their singing is just beautiful. They look lovely too, in their crisp uniforms — although
Continue readingIn my post about Obama’s hubris, David Foster left this great comment: Aviation analogy: Here we have a guy who once flew a Cessna 152 around the pattern, on a sunny day, with an instructor sitting right beside him. Now he has somehow become pilot in command of a large
Continue readingA lovely juxtaposition of quotations from Obama: “When John McCain said we could just ‘muddle through’ in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden
Continue readingDo you ever look ahead eight or ten months in your calendar just to enjoy how empty it is? My current calendar is so crowded, and my calendar for October 2009 looks so spacious, if you know what I mean. I know this is vindictive of me, speaking of being
Continue readingI wrote last week about the fact that Mr. Bookworm was shocked that African-Americans might still be inclined to indulge in anti-social behavior (such as riots in Oakland) despite Obama’s election. He was so sure that, once Obama was elected, racial harmony would instantly become the rule, with no exceptions.
Continue readingI like this from James Taranto regarding Obama’s extreme campaign versus his excessively cautious position as president-elect: It is certainly to Obama’s credit that he has decided to “know what’s going on” rather than “making judgments on the basis of incomplete information or campaign rhetoric.” In an ideal world, he
Continue readingForward and back he goes, depending on which way the focus group blows. Before being elected, Obama promised to close Gitmo. Then, with the reins of power almost in his hands, he panicked and backed off from the promise. Then panic instantly set in again when his focus groups
Continue readingIt’s been an incoherent day, one that never gave me the opportunity for contemplation and writing. Instead, I’ve been bopping here and there, and dealing with one thing and another. Nevertheless, I have been tracking the news, so I thought I’d just write up a mish-mash of thoughts about current
Continue readingAs we were driving back to the ‘burbs from an outing in San Francisco today, we saw a rare sight: an older lady nattily attired in furs. Standing near her was a young woman, screaming into the lady’s face. The children were mesmerized. First, they’d never seen furs and, second,
Continue readingObama’s infatuated followers have taken to referring to him as a second FDR. They envision him lifting us out of the coming depression, blithely unaware that FDR’s economic policies almost certain extended the Great Depression far beyond its natural lifespan. What people also forget — or, if they’re true Progressives,
Continue readingI think I’m processing history wrong, and I need your help filling in the gaps. As you know, Obama invited Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration (a much better choice, I might add, than Wright would have been). Some in the gay community, however, are very
Continue readingI got a very funny email from someone today, although the humor was entirely unintentional. Read the email, and then, if you like, stop to read my comments at the end. CHICAGO – President-elect Barrack Obama and his wife took their daughters to work at a food bank on the
Continue readingThe other day I was speaking with a man who commented that the proliferation of Obama bumperstickers on luxury cars (not to mention the fact that the very rich in blue communities had flocked to the Obama banner) comforted him that Obama would not destroy the US economy by trying
Continue readingBob Owens slices and dices the various arguments that Obama is ineligible to serve based on problems with his birth. I would like to see Obama produce his birth certificate, not because I think it would establish that he should be stripped of his presidency elect status, but because being
Continue readingDuring the campaign, I blogged repeatedly about the Obama lie pattern, which is to begin with an outright denial and then, when confronted with incontrovertible fact, to start leaking out teeny concessions. This approach always reminds me of the way in which doctors used to (and maybe still do) break
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