Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My Twitter feed has been fascinating today, which is a good thing because calls from old and dear friends precluded blogging. Here’s the best of my Twitter. When my mother died, I inherited both her and my Dad’s old friends (and I do mean “old”; one of them is now
Continue reading2018 Oscar Predictions By The Closet Conservative Critic (Brief recap of who the Closet Conservative Critic is….C.C.C. is a 50-something “person of interest” who occasional writes on the Bookworm Blog, under the guise of the “Closet Conservative Critic”, reviewing Hollywood movies, and giving opinions with the perspective of a
Continue readingFrom The Hill: Reps. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) formally introduced a bill on Monday to ban assault weapons. The legislation, called the Assault Weapons Ban of 2018, was introduced less than two weeks after the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 people dead. The gunman used
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The Mueller indictments show that no American conspired with the Russians — and that the Russians successfully acted to “sow discord” in the U.S. political system. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TrEF1CLvow] After suffering through a year of hysteria and the disruption of our national politics by our neo-Marxist progs trying to undo the election,
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New facts show that the so-called Russia conspiracy was in fact a product of savvy Russians and credulous, willing, and very dishonest Democrat operatives. This Trump-Russia collusion narrative is looking more and more like an incredibly intelligent mix of publicly available facts wrapped around some damning pieces of knowing slanders
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I couldn’t stop smiling after reading a young Leftist’s horrified realization that Trump is a successful president who has undone all things Obama. A friend sent me a link to an article in the online student newspaper at his son’s college. The student author, proving himself wiser than many in
Continue readingSorry for the silence today. I had a corrupted something or other and got locked out of my blog. Thanks to Terry Trippany’s heroic efforts, though, my system is running again. I’ll be back tomorrow, although I can’t say when, as I have to show up for jury duty. Frankly,
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I don’t know how many of you follow Mike Rowe on Facebook. If you don’t, consider adding him to your list. He’s wonderful. And just yesterday, he hit one out of the park. I’m embedding it here so that everyone can read it. It deserves that kind of attention:
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As Adam said . . . . . . to his wife, several millennia less one day ago, “Hey, it’s Christmas, Eve.” What better way to celebrate than with Christmas songs? So with that intro, a few Christmassy things for your enjoyment Ms. BWR’s favorite, written in 1943, at the
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The difference between Roy Moore’s situation and the Hollywood story, the unreliable accuser, and the WaPo’s manifest bias, means I currently believe Moore. Sorry for the long silence, but it’s been an all family, all the time few days, interspersed with a quick-turnaround legal research project. I’ve been a bit
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Did the Holocaust’s shadow give Progressive Jews such a fear of dying that they cling to a political ideology promising (but not delivering) peaceful death? A theory that popped into my mind yesterday that may help explain the mystery of the Progressive Jew, a person who clings desperately to the
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Just as food allergies create a sickness in the body, the NFL creates a sickness in the soul. Taking both out of your life will make you much happier. I know. I know. It’s one of my stranger analogies, but stick with me on this one. Those who have developed
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The English we hear when watching a Shakespeare play is not how Shakespeare spoke. Watch this video and be amazed how familiar he would have sounded. One of the fascinating things linguists do is trace accents back through history to try to find the “root” accent. I’ve long known that
Continue readingWe are either a melting pot wherein “all men are created equal” – the ideal of our Founders for which we have long striven . . . – or we are to become a multicultural nation of pigeon-holed special interests. We are to become a nation where groups are encouraged to
Continue readingNorth Korea is a dictatorship, a Stalinist cult of personality overlaid with dynastic rule by the Kim family. North Korea, ruled first by Kim Il Sung starting in 1948, then his son, Kim Jong Il, and now by his grandson, the portly Kim Jong Un, has been, for sixty nine years,
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