Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My views on abortion have changed mightily over the years. The selfish, immature side of me still longs for a pro-choice label, but the mature, moral side of me has concluded that, subject to a few exceptions, pro-Life is the way to go. I won’t expand on that right now,
Continue readingMy daughter’s Spanish class has spent the last couple of days watching a movie. I know many people who learned English by watching American television, so I don’t have a problem with using movies as a teaching device. I do, however, have a big problem with the movie chosen —
Continue readingIn Marin County, spanking a child is a very dangerous activity. Although spanking is not illegal, it’s enough to entangle you with Child Protective Services and, from that moment on, parenting life as you know it is over. Despite the danger, when my kids were little, I spanked them. With
Continue readingThe first scandal that unfolded was an autobiographical confession from Kevin Jennings, Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar.” Jennings proudly wrote that, when he elicited from a teenage boy the fact that the teenager was sexually involved with an adult man, Jennings didn’t flinch. Unconcerned about such minutiae as statutory rape, child
Continue readingI’ve been nostalgic lately, and have been thinking a lot about my favorite stories and books from my elementary school days in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One story I particularly remember from my time as a 4th grader was about a teacher who had in her class a
Continue readingI have a bunch of open tabs on my monitor, so I’m just going to jumble all of the stuff here, in one post: On Obama, the UN, and the World: I noted yesterday that Obama seems to have a huge problem with the more democratic nations in the world,
Continue readingThe conservative internet is appropriately riled by a video of New Jersey public school children singing a song to the Obama: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aqMTD5UFmU[/youtube] Lyrics ======== Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama He said that all must lend a hand [?] To make this country strong again Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein
Continue readingI’m struggling to figure out if there’s a larger message to the true story I’m about to tell, or if it just reflects the virulent sibling rivalry that my children feel towards each other. As my daughter herself said when she realized how successful the new regime is, “We’re not
Continue readingThe American and world media go into a screaming frenzy whenever American or Israeli troops injure or kill a child. They do this despite the fact that such incidents are rare and, more significantly, they are aberrant: both the American and the Israeli military go out of their way to
Continue readingOne thing I have to give credit to Barack Obama for being is a complete pragmatist, even if that pragmatism operates to the exclusion of moral decency. Witness his decision to jettison Israel entirely (something Elliott Abrams explains carefully here) in order to placate the Muslim world. Many think that
Continue readingHamas has been making much of its dead children. It had a field day with photos of those children who died when the IDF shot shells into a “UN school.” Most of the world (including, of course, a credulous and/or complicit media) managed to ignore the fact that it’s bizarre
Continue readingIt’s been an incoherent day, one that never gave me the opportunity for contemplation and writing. Instead, I’ve been bopping here and there, and dealing with one thing and another. Nevertheless, I have been tracking the news, so I thought I’d just write up a mish-mash of thoughts about current
Continue readingI plowed through my inbox today, which is always an overwhelming task. Over the course of a week, I ended up with a 500 email backlog. Amongst those 500 emails, however, were a couple of treasures. The first was information about a grassroots organization aimed at creating a coherent opposition
Continue readingI didn’t put this on my site because (a) I found it so terribly disturbing I wasn’t yet prepared to deal with it and (b) I pretty much assumed you’d see it on all the other sites (including Drudge) that carry it. Still, Deana is right that we cannot do
Continue readingIt was only yesterday that the creepy video emerged from Hollywood showing kids singing a song of worship to the golden world that will emerge when Obama ascends to the White House. In connection with that video, I noted that the indoctrination of children reminded me very strongly of the
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