Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I confess that I really like Book’s aphorism, “Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.” I like it because it works. I have used it numerous times with Liberal-Lefties and I could see that it (miraculously) forced them to think. Another one
Continue readingThe dodo, as you may recall, is extinct. I wonder, though, how many people remember why the dodo became extinct. It was because, lacking any serious natural predators in their homeland of Mauritius, the dodos were a bit too friendly to incoming colonists (and their animals), and simply allowed themselves
Continue readingThis will refresh you: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeSLVnAQSYo[/youtube] Here’s a little helpful information about the faces behind the Governor, and the Left’s unhinged response to those Americans. The text is below the fold.
Continue readingYesterday, I took to heart Mark Steyn’s warning that this is the beginning of the end. Health care is the wedge, and Democrats were willing to engage in long-term strategies — including the sacrifice of a few Democratic political careers — to make it happen. Bruce Kesler, however, actually sees
Continue readingIn the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.
Continue readingZhombre forwarded this email to me. I think it’s right on the money: If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn`t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian,
Continue readingI watched this short video that I found at Michelle Malkin’s site: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMXz6xGeqc[/youtube] As I watched this video, I had this very weird feeling that something was deeply, deeply wrong with this protest. It looks wrong. I’m a child of the Vietnam era, and I’ve managed to keep my eye
Continue readingThe nature of conservatism is to be . . . well, conservative. We don’t throw paint on people. We don’t burn figures in effigy. We don’t bite off fingers. We put our heads down and do our jobs. So when two million conservatives (and independents) take the time, the energy
Continue readingBookworm is right that I’ve been on vacation from all things blog-related for some time now, but I’m happy to come back and see what interesting discussions we can stir up while she’s on a well-deserved vacation. As always, I’ll just throw topics out there and rely on the Bookwormroom’s
Continue readingFive People in a Kitchen By Danny Lemieux Part I: We need focus! We were just five concerned Americans meeting in a middle class Chicagoland suburb on a cold spring day. Our point for this meeting was not to gripe. It was to see if we could identify constructive solutions
Continue readingOne of my ongoing themes here is the fact that I keep my conservatism very, very low key. Most situations in my life don’t involve politics, but when politics come up, I’m quite careful. I have no wish to be savaged. Jim Miller, who lives in and writes about an
Continue readingThe gal who started the Marin conservative gatherings that I’ve had the pleasure of attending sent out a broadcast email reminding all conservatives, especially those trapped in blue communities, that it’s not enough to sit at home, read the blogs and complain. We have to work towards a change in
Continue readingYmarsakar brought to my attention a post I wrote over three years ago. I’m reprinting a slightly edited version here, not just because I think it describes well the Arab psyche that drives so much of current international politics (and fears) today, but also because I think it does a
Continue readingConservatives are regrouping and trying to come up with approaches to remarket themselves to Americans. Quin Hillyer thinks it’s too late. He may well be right, but I’m not taking a defeatist attitude. The problem is that, once we give up, he’ll definitely be right. As it is, we have
Continue readingModeration is a virtue in so many things: if we eat moderately, we can enjoy a wide variety of foods without risking our weight or health; if we drink moderately, we can enjoy alcohol without the negatives of alcoholism; and if we exercise moderately, we can increase our health without
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