Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
True confession: I didn’t watch the convention last night. Mr. Bookworm, whose politics don’t align with mine, got to the TV first. I did read about it, however, and I came away with the impression that it was a blessing that so many turncoat GOP operatives stayed away. Frankly, operatives
Continue readingKevin Williamson has a brilliant article about modern feminism. I won’t summarize it. I’ll just urge you to read it. I’ve called myself a small “l” libertarian, to distinguish myself from the Ron Paul crowd. Richard A. Epstein has given me an even better name for my political view, one
Continue readingI could not agree more. It also ties in nicely with my post about legislatures and morality:
Continue readingMy dear friend Don Quixote retired with his beloved to warmer climes. I miss him a great deal. I especially miss our lunches together. We still talk on the phone, but it’s not the same as the wandering conversations we had about politics, morals, philosophy, law, Dancing With The Stars,
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Don Quixote and I had a very interesting conversation yesterday about the libertarian way to change societal evils. I don’t recall how the conversation wandered over to that topic, but it seems to me it started with a chance reference to a very well known incident in California in the
Continue readingConservatives have two stark choices right now: they can self-destruct or they can create a workable paradigm for moving forward. The self-destruction possibility is playing out before our eyes. Kathleen Parker fired the opening salvo with her screed about the evil oogedy-boogedy Christians that are tainting conservatism. Charles Johnson is
Continue readingIt’s time to end the post mortem and get moving, the only problem being that “getting moving” is proving to be as rancorous amongst conservatives as was the political cycle itself. One of the schisms I’m seeing in my own blog is between pro-Life and pro- (or, at least, not
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