Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I knew he was going to resign when, yesterday on NPR, I heard the reporters lambast him for stupidity — although their tone was high brow, what they basically asked was “how could a former federal prosecutor who understands how bank transactions are scrutinized act so stupidly that he practically
Continue readingDavid Mamet is a famous American writer, who has distinguished himself in every area of endeavor: plays, screen plays, film director, essayist, and author. You name it and he’s done it, and done it well. By his own admission (see below), he was also just as liberal as you’d assume
Continue readingYet another problem with biofuels, the ones that are supposed to be cleaner and help stop global warming. I haven’t seen any reports yet, but I’m sure that part of the rise in food prices will be traced back to the fact that food crops, both those directly supplied to
Continue readingIf you’re a blogger wondering whether you can use a photo in a post, Confederate Yankee has some helpful hints. As for me, I’m very partial to Wikimedia Commons, an enormous resource for copyright free images.
Continue readingThere are a fair number of resources that describe how to go about blogging. Sometimes, though, what’s needed is tough love. That’s what John Hawkins provides at Right Wing News, in an article descriptively entitled “The Top 10 Reasons Bloggers Don’t Succeed.” Some fall in the category of “maybe the
Continue readingI also like quoting from Mark Steyn in my blog, because it livens up my blog so much. This week, however, as I read Mark Steyn’s column, I realized that it would be impossible to steal any line or paragraph out of context, because it’s the relentless build-up of Steyn’s
Continue readingMichelle Malkin details the escalating violence against recruiting centers in America, while the Royal Air Force (in which my father proudly served) . . . well, here, read it for yourself: The Queen was deeply concerned to learn that RAF servicemen and women had been banned from wearing their uniforms
Continue readingOf hard work: “I feel sorry for the kid who has too cushy a time of it. Suddenly he has to come to face-to-face with the realities of life without any mama or papa to do his thinking for him.” (Jimmy Cagney, speaking of his youth.)
Continue readingI don’t have anything lengthy to say about any of the followings, but I think they’re all worth reading or viewing: 1. A California Appellate Court has issued a ruling that essentially ends homeschooling in California. You already know. What got me about this article on the subject was this:
Continue readingThis Sunday is the end of Daylight Savings Time. Set your clock one hour forward before you go to bed Saturday night.
Continue readingThe following video clip of couples dancing the Lindy Hop, from 1941’s Hellzapoppin’, is the perfect example of the old saying that they don’t make ’em like they used to: [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=R0BHxhUnokU&feature=related[/youtube] All I did was watch it and I’m exhausted — and very, very impressed.
Continue readingThey don’t blog often at Scott’s Conservative News & Commentary, but they do blog well. This one from a month ago, which is a real cry from the heart, talks about a pernicious habit that’s crept into American language in the PC, multi-culti era, and that ought to be erased.
Continue readingIn the post immediately preceding this one, I wrote about a song sending me tumbling back into a moment of time from my own past. This post is about the discovery of a really beautiful photo from someone else’s past — Helen Keller’s, to be specific. It turns out that
Continue readingI’m working on a fairly straightforward appellate brief right now, so it doesn’t require that I engage in enormously deep concentration. Because I can let my mind operate at more than one level for this project, I have Pandora playing in the background, with my usual chosen mix of Big
Continue readingI’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today. 1. John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their
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