Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I meant to get an early start this morning so that I could balance necessary continuous passive motion with blogging. Instead, I found myself dealing with clients, driving my children, and taking multiple calls from my mother. The time to blog vanished, and I’m now hooked up to the perpetual
Continue readingI’ve been somewhat housebound since my surgery. I can still drive but I really don’t have many places to go. I’m a complete failure when it comes to crutches, hampered by a bad shoulder, poor balance, and arthritis in the “strong” leg that is exacerbated by all the work that
Continue readingFive days away from my desk and all Hell broke loose on that surface. I’ve cleared several hundred emails, paid several dozen bills, and done several loads of laundry (my office and the laundry room are one and the same). I discovered things I want to blog about, but I
Continue readingThe perpetual motion machine is going and I find it easiest to watch movies while marooned on my backside. I’ll adjust, though, and soon start thinking harder and writing more. Until then…. This must be a record. I’m citing to The Onion twice in one day. But this satirical article
Continue readingI do not watch the Grammys, so I was unaware that the Grammy powers that be had edited the speech by Lorde, the teenage sensation from New Zealand who sang what I thought was a boring chant about the misery of life without bling. Having read what they edited, you
Continue readingI have less pain in my knee than I’ve had in months — and no wonder. It turned out I was just walking on bone, without benefit of cartilage. I’m always glad when I learn I wasn’t being a hypochondriac. My brain is pretty clear — nothing but Motrin for
Continue readingMy knee needs a little tidying up, so I’m under the knife right about now for some outpatient slice and dice. I doubt I’ll be blogging any more today, so please enjoy this Open Thread.
Continue readingPower corrupts; and when the IRS has absolute power, it’s corrupted absolutely. *** Three headlines at The Weekly Standard: (1) CBO Director: Obamacare ‘Creates a Disincentive for People to Work’; (2) AOL CEO: ‘Obamacare Is an Additional $7.1 Million Expense For Us’; (3) WSJ: ‘Limited Choices of Doctors and Hospitals’
Continue readingThis is what community organizers do: they go into a struggling community that anxiously awaits a high-quality, low-priced store that community members believe will help lift up their neighborhood and, shouting racial epithets, they shut the initiative down. *** Democracy? Who needs democracy, even a watered-down representative democracy? Rep. Sheila
Continue readingOh, my gosh! There is an embarrassment of riches out there this morning when it comes to thought-provoking, interesting, informative, or funny articles and videos. Here are my favorites, in no particular order: I pointed out here that terribly flawed, infantile, dangerous, and very non-scientific reasoning supported a study purporting
Continue readingIt rained here yesterday, an event that was much more exciting even than the Super Bowl. We probably got just a quarter inch of rain, but for a drought-stricken region, even that is thrilling. There are storms lined up along the California coast . . . but that damned high
Continue readingThis weekend has been non-stop family stuff. I find it almost impossible to blog under those circumstances. And of course, in a few hours, the Super Bowl begins. I’m not rooting for either team, which makes watching the game a very pleasant experience for me. I always get ridiculously stressed
Continue readingI have not spent my time wisely today, but there are some things that crossed my radar that I think you’d like: It’s not just because Mike McDaniel was kind enough to link to me that I bring to your attention his long, thoughtful article about gun ownership. I’m suggesting
Continue readingI didn’t watch Obama’s SOTU. Between cooking and carpooling, I had neither the time nor the inclination. I’ve never been impressed by “Obama the Orator,” and his speech’s details had already been leaked, so the whole thing fell into the “Why Bother?” category. I did hear one interesting thing about
Continue readingDennis Prager asks a very important question: What do you learn when you compare what Leftists and what conservatives view as the greatest evils in the world today. Using this analysis reveals just how bereft the Left is of any moral compass. Or rather, it has a moral compass, only
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