Category: Bits and Pieces

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You all have no doubt noticed a drop-off in my blogging the past couple of days.  Between work, family and insomnia, I just haven’t been inspired.  And, lucky for you, when I have nothing to say, I try to keep my mouth shut and my fingers still.  Fortunately, though, thinkers

Zachriel asserts that hospitals have a moral obligation to treat all patients who come through their door (or at least those with serious problems, I’m not sure which).  He appears to feel, though he has not asserted it quite this way, that government has some sort of moral obligation to

We’ve been having a great discussion on another thread about the left and the right, thanks largely to a visit from Zachriel.  I’m not sure how much we taught each other.  We got a bit sidetracked into discussions about whether Pelosi is a socialist, although Zachriel couldn’t come up with a

Note to self:  Either stop drinking tea while reading Iowahawk, ore keep supply of paper towels nearby to clean up sprayed keyboard and monitor.  This stuff is hysterical.

In Germany, images of Hitler are (or, at least, were) very tightly controlled, lest that profoundly evil man give offense to some or inspire others.  It turns out that, in America, some think we have a political leader whose image needs to be hidden too.

Back before Obama’s health plan passed, I said to BW that if it ever passes we’ll never get rid of it.  People will start to see it as an entitlement, and you know how hard entitlements are to get rid of.  Sure enough, opposition is rapidly easing.  So now what

I’ve heard that when the Constitution was read in the House, very few Democrats stayed to hear it.  Does anyone know who the Democrats were who did stay?  And has anyone approached them about changing parties?

   DQ here.  The current Reader’s Digest uses freedom of religion to argue for the Ground Zero mosque with the following sentence in the concluding paragraph of the six-page article:  “From the Islamic perspective, freedom to worship is part of the divine plan.”  In which Muslim-dominated countries is this divine

From Sadie, about a Civic Literacy test: Elected officials who took the test scored an average 5 percentage points lower than the national average (49 percent vs. 54 percent), with ordinary citizens outscoring these elected officials on each constitutional question. Here’s a link to the quiz. I scored a 93.94%,

Have you heard of Team Rubicon?  I hadn’t until yesterday, but I can tell you that it’s an organization you’ll want to know about.  Check it out.  As a certified wuss with a narrow physical comfort zone, I have no words to express my admiration for these volunteers.

The other day I said I was trying to find a good analogy for the Left’s sudden demand for civility in speech (ignoring the fact that we know that they’d redefine “civility” for themselves so as to render it meaningless).  Jonah Goldberg’s got it (emphasis mine): The false equivalence between

According to what I have been reading, Loughner purchased his handgun legally. How could this happen? When you purchase a handgun, you have to fill out an extensive questionnaire for the FBI background check. You answer questions about whether you have ever been convicted of a violent crime or misdemeanor,

The Colossus of Rhodey looks at the way in which our children are being indoctrinated.  Okay, they’re not really being indoctrinated this time around, but any red-blooded liberal should be horrified by the graphics.  Any normal person, of course, reacts . . . well, normally. More seriously, Rob Miller, writing

I published the following post almost exactly five years ago, on January 6, 2006.  In light of Lougner’s long-standing, florid mental illness, it seems appropriate to republish it today. *** If you link here, you can hear a really sad story. It’s the taped reminiscence of Kim Emerson, whose sister,