Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Martin Luther King’s goal, a colorblind society where “all men are created equal,” has never seemed so far away. The third Monday in January is annually set aside to honor the most towering figure of our nation’s civil rights movement, who gave his most eloquent speech in 1963 — I
Continue readingJust as the progs are pushing the narrative that Wikileaks exposure of Democrat emails amounted to stealing the 2016 election, our Unfortunately Still President But Almost Gone Obama (his now official title) has seen fit to commute the sentence of Bradley Manning. Manning was of course the U.S. Army intelligence
Continue readingBush didn’t, Obama wouldn’t, but the next president should: Call into the Oval Office the leaders of Muslim communities throughout America to say, “Because of the First Amendment, the fact that you and the people in your community practice Islam is irrelevant to us in America. Your faith is your
Continue readingAs you may have gathered from the number of things we did every day on our recent trip to Virginia and environs, ours was not a restful vacation. I capped off the fatigue with a cold and, since our return, have been having a very hard time motivating myself to
Continue readingI’ve written before about one of my favorite writers, Paul Fussell. He wrote a wonderful essay entitled Thank God for the Atom Bomb, about the righteousness of dropping the atom bomb. He was in the Army when Truman dropped the bomb, so Fussell wholeheartedly approved — and had the data
Continue readingFrom October 2010, this Andrew Klavan video nicely sums up the weirdness of unpatriotic “patriots” that I touched upon in an earlier post: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx_I1lzJ94w[/youtube]
Continue readingAs I do every year, I went with my family to our town’s Fourth of July Parade. It’s a great parade, with all sorts of community groups participating, including the various chambers of commerce; Little League baseball teams; bagpipers (Marin is home to a thriving bagpipe community); an impressive selection
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Continue readingA Harvard study has said that Republicans own July 4th: The political right has been more successful in appropriating American patriotism and its symbols during the 20th century. (Emphasis mine.) That makes it sound as if Republicans engaged in some nefarious propaganda scheme to steal away American iconography. Perhaps Republicans
Continue readingHere’s a good example of American imperialism, whereby rich and greedy American billionaires fund the sabotage of democratic institutions in foreign countries to further their own ideological and economic interests. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6UaftK_N-k&feature=player_embedded#at=365[/youtube] Via: smalldeadanimals.com.
Continue readingWhether or not one liked him, Ronald Reagan got “the vision thing.” He had an extremely strong sense of America and her place in the world, and was never afraid to share that narrative. America was the shining city on the hill, the bastion of true republican democracy, and the
Continue readingI’m actually grateful to NPR. It was its unbelievably biased Israel coverage that helped me make the break with my reflexive liberalism and take a long, hard look at my political beliefs and party affiliation. Nevertheless, it irks me no end that my taxpayer money funds NPR, PBS and local
Continue readingI heard about Blake Gopnik’s attack on Norman Rockwell (as part of his defense of the “Ants on Jesus” video), and actually started writing a post on the subject. Life caught up with me, though, and I abandoned the post and doubt I’ll return to it. Fortunately, Anchoress has been
Continue readingI first ran this YouTube video three years ago, when Barack Obama, our nation’s first anti-American president, was still a theory, not a fact. It bears watching now, as we witness Obama’s efforts to bring about a world without America: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwAtNILh6uY[/youtube]
Continue readingIf you read only one thing today, please read Andrew McCarthy’s incredibly sad and disturbing article about the way in which we are currently being governed by foreigners, all American born, in Congress and the White House. Then, if you have time for a second read today, check out what
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