Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I 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
Continue readingI’ve promised myself that, if I can get my thoughts together, I’ll spill them on my blog. Until then, other people are doing the thinking for me: The “mosaic” privacy theory and its intersection with police scanners that don’t track your speed, but simply log your travel patterns (and everyone
Continue readingI freely admit that I will never be as brilliant as Thomas Sowell, either in my analytical abilities or in my writing quality. That doesn’t mean, though, that I can’t borrow his technique of writing the occasional post that consists of one or two sentence thoughts about interesting subjects. So,
Continue readingI really wanted to write today, but between work, malaise, my immediate family, and my mother, I’ve got no gas left in my tank. I still have some work to do and then I’m just going to collapse into bed. If I did have energy to write something, though, I’d
Continue readingMy friend Bruce Kesler served with the Marines in Vietnam. He urges people to read two recent books about Vietnam. Oscar Wilde characterized foxhunting as “The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.” It’s a perfect epigram that takes an elegant swipe at the British hunters, not the foxes they hunted.
Continue readingI’m still here. I just don’t know what to say. Between the endless cascade of scandals (which a part of my brain thinks the Obama administration is creating on purpose, in a kind of Cloward-Piven scandal strategy), caring for my children during finals week, caring for my mother, physical therapy
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