Category: Bits and Pieces

I commented yesterday on the dishonest rhetoric the New York Times used to discuss the same sex marriage debate.  Today, I was going to write about the "politics is personal" approach liberals areusing to turn traditional marriage on its head.  Fortunately, Dennis Prager saved me the effort.  His latest column

Elections in Czechoslovakia saw the population go right, by a hair: The main Czech conservative party has won the country's parliamentary elections held on Friday and Saturday (2-3 June) but it remains unlikely that it will set up a majority government coalition. The Civic Democratic Party (ODS) tops the election

Read this Michelle Malkin post and you'll get why I, and so many others in the Bay Area, are crypto-cons.  It's extremely difficult in a community that has all the openness of Stasi run East Germany to confess that you're a conservative.

Amidst the doom and gloom of Monday morning news stories, I found something intriguing.  Apparently credibly Syrian sources, gathering in London, are claiming that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime is doomed: In 'unprecedented' conference held in British capital, former vice president claims 'people are hungry, their welfare robbed by corrupt

     In an earlier comment, Dagon called for mass conversion to ethanol as a way of ending our dependence on oil.  I mentioned that he hadn't said where all that ethanol would come from.  Little did I know that it turns out we are barely started on using ethanol in

Hi, DQ here. Dagon posted a comment to another entry so interesting I thought I'd post a new entry on it. In response to my question as to what he would do, Dagon said: [C]omplete independence from middle-east oil; a consistent foreign policy which advocates human rights everywhere and not

Four against one is a totally unfair fight, especially if those on the four side are armed with guns, while the loner is armed only with a pocketknife.  Oh!  Did I mention that the lone fighter is an ex-Marine?  With those facts, the fight's outcome is a foregone conclusion:  Ex-Marine

Gotta run, and this is it for the day, but I leave with some thoughts for those in the Left-ward side of the world:  Why is it that, the more the jihadists kill or maim us, the more you get apologetic, not angry?  Aren't we the victims here?  I thought

The following is from a Reuters news article. Here's a paragraph from about two-thirds into the article: The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, was shocked by the plan. Here's the issue that so shocked the Dutch: Dutch pedophiles are launching a political

Laer, of Cheat-Seeking Missiles, took May off to work with his wife to help promote her campaign against illegal drug use.  One of the fruits of this labor is a new website called The Drug Report.  It's a compilation of drug-related news, with a lot of stories about people who

Attention California voters:  National Review has now run an online editorial explaining why Prop. 82, which promises universal preschool for 4 year olds, is such a bad idea.  Read it, then Vote no on June 6.

American Thinker has a funny post about the fact that workers employed by multi-millionaire Dianne Feinstein, when doing landscaping work outside of her new home in San Francisco, inadvertently stripped to dirt a beautiful garden that was part of a public staircase.  As Thomas Lifson points out Public stairs running

I won't be blogging today — family and all that — but I haven't forgotten that today is Memorial Day.  Wishing all of you a happy one, and one where we appreciate how, since the start of this Nation, there is so much our military has done for us.  I

I'm petite. Shopping has always been a problem for me, something that hasn't been helped by the fact that, style-wise, most petite departments seem to stock clothes for 80 year old grandmothers. Apparently I won't even have to worry any more about that insult to my sensibilities. Stores are phasing

I'd earlier vowed not to see Munich because I can't abide Steven Spielberg movies. My husband, however, had ordered it from Netflix and, when he begged me to watch it with him, I yielded. I managed to last for an hour an a half (just a little more than half