Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Actually, there are only three reasons here why public sector employment is killing the economy. I’m sure that, all of us working together, could think of many more reasons: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LWNTUK8KtA[/youtube]
Continue readingConservatives are rightly irked by the fact that the short form for the census seeks to divide people into racial classifications, a la apartheid South Africa. I don’t even know what the long form seeks, but I’m sure it’s intrusive. Nevertheless, please don’t lose sight of the fact that the
Continue readingCountry of origin strikes me as a reasonable question for a census, although it’s not constitutionally mandated. (The Constitution just allows for a head count.) Race questions are obviously simply to satisfy the grievance mongers in America. So I pass on this advice from The Corner: Sending a Message with
Continue readingI got a very hysterical form letter from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. What’s impressive about it is that Barry Lynn, the Executive Director who purportedly authored this fevered screed, is totally uninformed about the nature of America’s Constitutional mandates regarding religion. Here’s what the First Amendment
Continue readingGot a brilliant email today: One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m doing community service this week.’ The florist was pleased and left the shop. When the
Continue readingAs I’ve mentioned before, almost without exception, my “real me” facebook friends are liberal. This is true both for the friends I trace back to my school years and for the ones who are part of my daily life today. Occasionally, I like to tweak my facebook friends a little,
Continue readingLast night, I went to hear Atul Gawande give a talk promoting his new book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. The book’s premise is a simple one: In an increasingly complex world, even experts benefit from a routine checklist that requires them to focus on the essentials
Continue readingI live in Marin County, one of the most affluent counties in America. It is an extremely well-managed community (although budget cuts might have their effect here too). Crime is low, streets are clean and well-maintained, and lovely flower beds and hanging pots brighten public walkways. Our libraries are well-stocked
Continue readingYou’ve already seen this video at a million internet sites, but I want it on mine too. I think Scott Brown made a statement that transcends Massachusett’s politics and should remind each and every American that we are a government “by the People,” not by the politicians: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEQHOnI2Q[/youtube] As you’ve
Continue readingThe holidays continue to make demands on me that take me away from my beloved computer and my blog. I’ve managed to track enough news, though, to know that Reid managed to get his vote. My question for you, and one I can’t answer myself, is this: Will the health
Continue readingIt’s scary, but Mark Steyn is right: I’ve been saying for a year now, in NR and NRO, that the object for savvy Dems is to get this thing passed in whatever form because, once you do, there’s no going back. Kim Strassel in yesterday’s Journal gets it: So why
Continue readingFor reasons that make no sense to me, I don’t go to Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government site as often as I should. Wait, I take that back. I know precisely why I don’t go: it’s an incredible repository of closely researched and factually supported articles detailing the way in which
Continue readingThe jobs summit is at an end and Obama has given lip service to the private sector. He doesn’t really mean it, though. How can he, when he makes statements such as this one: Mr. Obama said he would entertain “every demonstrably good idea” for creating jobs, but he cautioned
Continue readingYou know, whether you’re going for success or failure, think big. Right now, the government’s failure rate at Medicare is pretty small potatoes, but think what it can do when it owns the whole system: More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted, much of
Continue readingYou remember Prop. 8, don’t you? That was the successful California ballot initiative that said that, in America, marriage is between a man and a woman. Immediately after November 4, gay rights activists sued. So far, the courts are being helpful. A court in the Northern District of California just
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