Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Today, several schools in Wisconsin announced that they would be closed so that their teachers could attend protests in the state capital, Madison, against GOP Gov. Walker’s proposals to take away collective bargaining rights from public sector unions. Wisconsin, like neighboring Illinois, is going broke. The behavior of the Wisconsin
Continue readingThe Anchoress has a post, one I know you’ll like, about the profound sense of weakness that underlies so many aggressive political and social movements.
Continue readingNo, I hadn’t forgotten that today was Valentine’s Day. It’s just that I’m not much of a holiday person, so I often have to push myself towards observance. In honor of this day, I wanted to solicit your ideas about what makes a happy relationship. I don’t think love is
Continue readingThe narrative has long been in place: For centuries, the predatory West raped the ancient world — Egypt, Greece, the Fertile Crescent, Persia — of her culture. Greedy treasure hunters and archeologists stole her mummies, her statuary, her carvings, her jewels and her wall paintings. Their museums gained world renown
Continue readingJoshua Goldberg’s sudden death, at age 43, has really saddened me. I feel as if I’ve lost a friend — not a best friend, because we weren’t that close, but a friend nevertheless. What’s funny, though, is that I never actually met Joshua. I never talked to him on the
Continue readingOn an irregular, but steady basis, I’d been corresponding via email with Joshua Goldberg for a couple of years, an email relationship that started before Lucianne launched Blogs Lucianne Loves, to which I contribute. I always enjoyed his emails. As you’d expect from someone who is son of Lucianne and
Continue readingAs my mom is Dutch by birth (although I don’t speak a word of the language), I find it cool that I got picked up by a Dutch internet site. It looks solidly conservative too so, unless I’m told otherwise, I’m feeling kind of tickled by the international recognition. What’s
Continue readingAs Kate over at smalldeadanimals likes to say, now is the time when we juxtapose: First, a video (you need to watch this to the very end, but *** Caution***graphic imagery may be disturbing to some): [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofoxM-tqPew&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] (h/t smalldeadanimals.com) Then, compare this to the self-serving bloviations of a hard-Left legislator
Continue readingHere is an incomplete, semi-edited linked list of all the books you guys recommended: P.J. O’Rourke’s Eat the Rich Ward Moore’s Bring the Jubilee C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, Book 3) Gertrude Himmbelfarb’s The De-moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values John O’Sullivan’s The President, the
Continue readingI belong to a lovely book club. We’re all conservatives, so it’s a comfortable environment to speak freely. The time has come for me to make my three proposals, but my mind is a blank. Do you have any ideas? The books can be fiction or non-fiction. Our last few
Continue readingBut he’s right — for a man his age, he does look pretty good shirtless. Let me repeat, however: WHAT AN IDIOT.
Continue readingMr. Bookworm is not a hearts and flowers kind of guy, so he’s not thrilled to see his very hard-earned money go to such frivolities. On the other hand, my mother is 88, and such frivolities bring a little light to the old-age she’s reluctantly coping with. I decided, therefore,
Continue readingFrom whence does the viciousness in the Leftwing soul emanate? I know that most if not all of us in the Bookworm circle have seen this horrific video below. I post it because we need to see this again and again. We need to look into their eyes to recognize
Continue readingFirst, what happened was just plain sad. Second, I’m sure it wasn’t the fault of Kaiser Health Care, ’cause there’s a difference between a corporate entity sponsoring an event and actually having doctors lining the road. Having gotten that out of the way, it strikes me as ironic that, when
Continue readingJohnny Carson was a delight because his ego was in check. Leno is decent at that. Letterman . . . well, the less said the better. Toodle on over here if you want some vintage Johnny, willing to let someone (something?) else do the entertaining.
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