Category: Bits and Pieces

Here's Debra Saunders on tomorrow's threatened illegal immigrant boycott: I am one American who will be moved in the direction not intended by sponsors of the May 1 National Day Without Immigrants Great American Boycott demonstrations. When supporters of illegal immigration threaten to boycott all stores, it makes me feel

Mark Steyn writes repeatedly about the West's self-immolation on the pyre of low birth rates.  While it may still be a trend in many places, it has become a practical reality in Japan: This mountain village near the Sea of Japan, withered to eight aging residents, concluded recently that it

If you want to know why I have a benign attitude towards American small towns, go here.

Fascinating. This is one bookI'll be looking for.

This is one of a series of breathtaking rainbow pictures taken in McFall, Missouri this February.  You should definitely see the rest, which are here: Hat tip: Crossing the Rubicon.

At least one person in Washington, D.C., isn't afraid to be a straight talker in Rumsfeld's defense.  George Bush is always at his best when he doesn't hide the ball and play political talking games.  Thus, when asked about Rumsfeld, Bush had this to say: BUSH:  [O]n Friday, I stood

Happy Easter to all my friends!

Just FYI, with the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake coming our way this Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle has a very nice online spread on the quake, complete with memoirs (the real kind, not the modern, phony pity story), photographs, and original news stories. It was quite

I'm back!  My little Bookworm is recovering nicely from his pneumonia (although we'll probably be hearing that cough for some weeks to come), and I'm sure that soon I'll get the spring back in my own steps after nights in the hospital and hours in the car coming home from

When the immigration reform story broke and the demonstrating started San Francisco's mayor Grandstanding Gavin announced to the world that if he didn't like the law Congress ultimately agreed on he simply wouldn't cooperate or enforce the new rules. Shades of George Wallace fighting federal integration demands. Now the reports

I’m delighted by the comments on yesterday’s blog entry, especially the ones from our liberal friends (however intemperate a few of them may have been). Bookworm and I have tried very hard to create in the Bookwormroom a safe place for people of all point of view to come and

I’m beginning to think I carry a jinx with me. I left Blogger because of all the problems and now, here at WordPress, I’m having a day where there “icons” one can use in lieu of knowing code are gone. That is, usually when I do a post, I don’t

When my home and work life are quiet, I go into a blogging frenzy. Conversely, when things heat up in the corporeal world, things fall silent in cyberspace. Between a sick kid, orthodondist appointments and after school activities, things are manic here in the real world. I don't expect to

A few weeks ago Bookworm ask her readers to describe what an American theocracy would look like. That got me to thinking. What would an America in which all three branches of government were firmly controlled by the American left look like? Think President Cindy Sheehan, Secretary of Defense Al