Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
When I was studying for the State Bar exam, a long, long time ago, my mom suggested that I get myself a massage, to help me with the tension. It seemed like a good suggestion, I so dutifully took myself to a highly recommended masseuse. The masseuse began working on
Continue readingI’m heading off to a client, so I don’t have time to blog. Here’s all you need to know: Rep. Alan Grayson is despicable, even by the low standards of despicable-ness currently emanating from the Democratic party. His Republican opponent, Daniel Webster (and isn’t that a great American name) is
Continue readingIf you’re looking for posts providing substantive information about problems with myriad Democratic candidates in the upcoming election, this list, which a friend sent me, is a wonderful start. As you can see, it’s organized by candidate name, but each link will lead you to a full length post about
Continue readingYesterday I staged an imaginary Obama/Churchill match-up. Today I want to add a little commentary. As you had probably already figured out, I greatly admire Churchill. I understand that he was a difficult person (often); that he could be nasty; that he was more willing to let his own people
Continue readingLoretta Sanchez (D – Cal.) was caught bad mouthing both Vietnamese and Republicans: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTDAHdZFNk[/youtube] What’s so funny about the video is the part when Sanchez attacks Van Tran, a Republican, as “anti-immigrant.” Sanchez was born in California; Tran was born in Vietnam, and immigrated to this country in 1975. For
Continue readingAlthough I grew up without money (we lived a very marginal existence, to say the least), my mother came from old, old money. On both parents’ side, the family wealth went back to the late Middle Ages. There was nothing nouveau riche about my mom’s approach to wealth, and she
Continue readingThe British government has proposed stealth communism: all paychecks go to the government first, which then doles out to the wage earner whatever amount the government feels is the wage earner’s due. Think about it. As Pat Sajak wrote yesterday, withholding is bad enough, because it deprives the worker of
Continue readingI know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed. I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little
Continue readingYou’ve probably seen the headlines saying that Alabama Rep. Bobby Wright “joked” that Pelosi might get sick and die before he’s called upon to vote for her next year as the House leader. I think that the “joke” is in exceptionally bad taste, but that’s not the issue. What makes
Continue readingGreat video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wusgcG4rfo[/youtube] (ht: American Thinker) One of the big regrets in my life is that I didn’t appreciate Reagan while he was president. I was still an unthinking liberal, and accepted without analysis or suspicion the MSM’s repeated assurances that he was a dangerous and evil buffoon.
Continue readingAlaska is the land of many, many glaciers. During my trip, I had the great pleasure of seeing Glacier Bay, the Hubbard Glacier and the Mendenhall glacier. They are magnificent. What I found amusing, in an icky kind of way, was the approach the museums, the Park Rangers, and the
Continue readingMy brilliant brother-in-law put together a chart showing the correlation between a state’s debt load and it’s government (Democratic or Republican). The chart’s statistics won’t come as a surprise to conservatives, but I bet they’d come as a big surprise to a whole lot of liberals: I wish there was
Continue readingNancy Pelosi may be mad at Robert Gibbs for admitting that the upcoming elections aren’t going to result in Democratic gains, but the fact is that she sounds pretty desperate herself in this email I got begging for funds: Midnight tonight is your last chance to contribute to the DCCC
Continue readingLord alone knows why, but I’m on the email list from the DCCC. That’s why I got this delightful missive from James Carville: You hear what the Republicans are saying now? They’re out there bragging that they’ll actually win back the House this year. But if the thought of John
Continue readingThis weekend, I was at a block party, and the talk got around to the fact that, thanks to the internet, our children leave a trail a mile long. They’ve got posts and pictures up at Facebook or MySpace, and videos all over YouTube. Whether they’re applying for a job
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