Category: Bits and Pieces

gpc31 left a comment that so perfectly amplifies the point I was making in my American Thinker article, it deserves to be elevated to post level: I’d like to sketch a few conjectures on why we, or at least our intelligentsia, bend over backwards to deny the reality of modern

Back in the 1950s, after WWII and as America grappled with Jim Crow, Oscar Hammerstein wrote about the way in which people have to be “carefully taught” to hate: You’ve got to be taught To hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught From year to year, It’s got to

Best post title I’ve seen in ages.  I hope they catch that flesh-eating punk. And kudos to grandpa for going in swinging — even if he did leave a little of himself behind. Oh — and speaking of cannibalism and its intersection with health care politics, consider this, from England.

I was thinking of government care when I bought my son a new, much needed bike.  My son is just a boy.  He bikes in the neighborhood.  A three speed bike would be more than adequate.  But they don’t sell three speed bikes anymore.  The only bikes out there are

This flashed across my BNO news update: The United States has terminated all assistance and other measures affecting Honduras after a coup d’etat on June 28. BULLETIN — UNITED STATES SUSPENDS ALL AID TO HONDURAS IN COUP AFTERMATH. Do I understand this correctly?  The Hondurans kicked out a leader who

I’m pleased to announce that I discovered, purely by accident, that one of my neighbors is a Republican.  She thought she was the only one in the neighborhood; I thought I was the only one.  Now we’re two, and wondering if there are more.

I have felt a great heaviness and sadness this week. Five separate news stories have been an unpleasant reminder about how depraved and amoral the human being can be and how elusive is justice. Like many others, the death of Ted Kennedy has reminded me of his culpability in the

Kennedy’s treasonous conduct in the 1980s is finally getting some play (see here and here, for example), but this email is a sufficient indictment of the “liberal lion” even without the treason. Honest to God, you’d think that Democrats would want to elevate a different standard bearer for their party:

I’m still recovering from a day spent running errands with the kids and taking care of my mother’s health needs.  (Mom’s okay but, after a brief hospitalization, needed some help sorting out meds.)  The straight-jacket reference isn’t to my mom’s situation, though, it’s to being the sole target of unrelenting

Ohio State is trying to start something good.  Check it out here.

I Will Not Convict is an internet petition expressing solitary with the CIA operatives who have become the target of Eric Holder’s political witch hunt.  If it appeals to you, please fill out the form, and then forward a link to your friends.

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I said earlier I wasn’t going to bad mouth Kennedy, but the white washed adoration oozing from the media impels me to say something.  Politically and, if you’re into American dynasties, dynastically, the adulation upon his death is understandable and, depending on your political orientation, fitting.  He was indeed a

I’m sorry for the slow blogging, but a combination of work and personal matters is making serious blogging impossible.  I’ll try to pick up here later today but, for now, I hope you find this open thread a good place to put down your thoughts.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. I will say nothing. UPDATE:  Confederate Yankee, who is not given to speaking ill of the dead, felt that Kennedy had a significant enough impact on the American political scene that it is inappropriate not to speak the truth.  Had I known about Kennedy’s treason