Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’ve been cleaning out my email box, a process that always involves my apologizing to lots of people for appearing to have ignored their emails to me. I haven’t ignored them, which implies a deliberate effort to pretend they’re not there. Instead, I have done what I so often do:
Continue readingFirst, I’m gonna hit you with the visuals. Isn’t this a great Halloween poster, courtesy of Chris Muir? Rep. Renee Ellmers put Sebelius on the hot seat. Watch Sebelius twist and squirm like a worm on a hook as she avoids saying that people who don’t buy health insurance are
Continue readingI woke up this morning very confused. My clock told me that it was 7:00 a.m., but it was awfully light outside. When I went upstairs, it was even more peculiar to discover that my daughter was awake and getting reading for her soccer game . . . which was
Continue readingWhen it comes to my cold, I’m seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Whew! I’m hoping to be up to full blogging speed soon but, in the meanwhile, here are things I found when doing my usual morning reading rounds: This is a marvelous paragraph from Karen
Continue readingWhen the kids were little, I got a cold just about every six weeks, and I kept this pattern up for years. In the past couple of years, I’m happy to say, my immune system finally kicked into gear and, while I’ve often started getting colds, I was able to
Continue readingI started writing a post this morning about Katheleen Sebelius’ appearance on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, and have realized that I bit off more than I can chew, at least today. After working on it for an hour, I’ve only fisked about two minutes of her eleven-minute interview. Is it
Continue readingMy very strong sense is that the shutdown will reveal how much of our federal government is inessential. I’m not the only one who feels this way. And no wonder, because the shutdown reveals waste everywhere. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Monopolies are invariably poorly managed and unchecked bureaucracies invariably
Continue readingTed Cruz has started his filibuster. With perfect (ahem) timing, I have to leave now to take care of some things for my mother. I will be out of touch with the news. You all already know my thinking about this apparently quixotic effort. Since I’ll miss at least the
Continue readingThe lede says it all: “90% of Top Newspaper Headlines Censor Islam in Nairobi, Pakistan Attacks : Generic ‘terrorists’ and ‘militants’ appear in nine of 10 headlines.” Doesn’t anybody read their Harry Potter anymore? I’m quite sure it was the sensible, intelligent, brave Hermione who said that the refusal to name
Continue readingI meant to blog all day today, but I just ran from one fire to the other. I never put anything out. I just got the embers to smolder instead of blaze. I’ve been rocketing along since 5:30 this morning, trying to write for Mr. Conservative (we’re missing a person)
Continue readingI seem to be incapable of deep thought this morning, so I’ll just share with you stuff I found interesting, from the deep to the ridiculous. Let’s start out with silly stuff, for all the dog lovers out there. I love Stephen Hayward’s proposal for presidential debates: let the candidates
Continue readingI’m juggling family and work right now, so cannot blog at length (something that plagued me yesterday as well). Still, I have four articles I think you might like to read. One: I’ve ruminated often here about the nature of heroism. I’m not talking about the Leftist version of heroism,
Continue readingA quick laundry list of articles (three from American Thinker alone) that intrigued me this morning: The Crusades reconsidered. Our anti-Crusade narrative pre-dates Leftists, and goes back to internecine fighting amongst Christians, including the Catholic/Protestant schism. It’s time for this infighting to stop coloring the past and for us to
Continue readingOkay, here’s what we know. First, this was Obama: Second, Morsi is the black knight: Third, and now I’m getting serious, Egypt is either going to explode or the military will impose harsh military rule very quickly to prevent an explosion. Morsi is under house arrest, which makes his refusal
Continue readingI’ve been coming across so much interesting stuff this morning that I’m going to do another flotsam and jetsam post. One of the things we’ve long known is that the Left lies about statistics. Examples of this are “1 in 4 women have been sexually assaulted” canard and the “women
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