Category: Bits and Pieces

Are any of you Marin/Sonoma voters?  If you are, we may at long last have a viable Republican candidate.  A man I know, Todd Hooper, is running as a Republican for Marin/Sonoma.  He's a quiet, thoughtful, intelligent, hardworking man, with a lovely family.  Please check out his website. And, if

I'd always assumed that the Balfour Declaration, the UN recognition of Israel in 1948, and Israel's multiple military victories against the Arab nations were the sole basis (and a pretty damn strong basis, too), for her right to exist as a nation among nations.  Turns out I'm woefully ignorant.  Rachel

I'm not an enemy of big business.  Indeed, I'm an enthusiastic fan of capitalism.  However, when big business seeks profit at the expense of speech, my fan level diminishes rapidly.  Here's the story (with thanks to Ron): Proposed rule changes would tangle the Web By Michael Socolow May 9, 2006

I admire our military and therefore feel quite puffed up when I get information from a member of our armed forces. In this case, I got a heads-up about a batch of documents the Coalition forces found in Iraq and that the military is now releasing to the general public.

[I'm floating this up to the top periodically, just to keep it in people's minds.] Okay, I think I've got it. Working through Blog Carnival, I've set up a Crypto-Conservative Carnival. My goal in this first edition is to have people submit posts describing their political conversion to conservatism and,

I'm a Mark Steyn groupie, and I'm not about to let anyone up on the pedestal with him. Nevertheless, there are other opinion writers who come awfully close, and Jonah Goldberg is one of them. I was hooked after I read this column introduction and, by the end, completely reminded

It's a "gotta run" kind of morning but, if you go here, you'll see that I'm optimistic about the next generation.

No original blogging today, but you can see what I've been thinking about here, at American Thinker.  I wrote to Thomas Lifson, the editor there, about the high risk sex offenders who are being concentrated in Marin County because he often uses his wonderful site to highlight Bay Area issues. 

At Under the News, I learned, in one post, two things.  One is amazing, one sad.  The amazing thing is that the English language now boasts more than one billion available words, a number that defies my limited imagination.  The sad thing is that the average American uses only 14,000. 

Today is a rushed day for me, so I thought I'd just jumble into one post the various things that piqued my interest this morning: Through an excellent tip at American Thinker, I got to read Lawrence Henry's article giving an interesting perspective on why six generals are essentially in

If you want to be truly inspired, and if you want to hear an inside understanding of the twin threats of Islamism and Multiculturalism, please, please, please, listen to this interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Suzanne Fields writes that the President's ability at the White House Correspondents Association dinner is no small thing: Communists have no sense of humor, in China, Cuba or North Korea any more than they did in the old Soviet Union. Tyrants and despots can't afford even a tiny revolution, and

My daughter started orthodontia yesterday and has sore teeth today. To make eating easier for her, I've spent the morning assembling the ingredients for a chicken soup, which is now simmering on the stove (hence my delayed journey to my morning blogging). I'm not a very inspired cook but, if

I've heard that there have been some problems leaving comments at my blog.  I contacted WordPress and got this response:  "It's Internet Explorer – and the form is there but right at the bottom of the page."  Does that help?