Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I loathe cigarette smoke. I hate the way it permeates my clothes, hair and even my skin. I’m in agony when I’m trapped in a room with smokers. And because a room is a closed space and the smoke has nowhere to go, I’m okay with smoking bans inside buildings
Continue readingI grew up in San Francisco, and always found the intersection at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard frustrating and nerve wracking. Sloat runs east/west and 19th Avenue runs north/south. If you’re heading south on 19th Avenue, and want to make a left turn onto Sloat (heading east), there is a
Continue reading. . . . a wonderful opinion piece that Cinnamon Stillwell wrote about the San Francisco drag queens dressed as nuns who took Holy Communion, not as an act of faith, but to ridicule the Church. Not only does Cinnamon expose the fundamentally anti-Christian attitude behind this attack on the
Continue readingThe best place to see anti-War protesters is, of course, Zombie’s site. Sometimes, though, protest pictures, and their back stories, turn up in other places as well. As you read the linked article and look at the pictures, please note the Communist front group sponsoring the bill before the SF
Continue readingI wrote earlier in the month about the fact that some in San Francisco are finally getting fed up with the homeless culture. There are more signs that, at least when it comes to their own back yards, San Francisco’s famously liberal residents are beginning to realize that there is
Continue readingSF Mayor Gavin Newsom may have surprised most of America with his decision to allow same-sex marriages (the Hell with the law), but he’s downright normal compared to some of the people on the slate: Blogger Josh Wolf, a video journalist who was imprisoned for 226 days for refusing to
Continue readingI think David Latterman, the President of Fall Line Analytics, a Bay Area market research firm, has put his finger on the San Francisco psyche: “Maybe there has been an epiphany,” says David Latterman, president of Fall Line Analytics, a local market research firm. “People have realized they can hate
Continue readingThe Democrats and their fellow travelers have been terribly upset since its inception by the Patriot Act, which they see as an infringement of their civil liberties. In that context, one of their chief fears is that the federal government will impose a national ID requirement, which they believe will
Continue readingThomas Lifson has a good summary of the link up between the usual suspects at work with regard to the San Francisco Film Commission’s decision to deny the Marines the right to film in San Francisco, as well as the MSM’s curious lack of curiosity regarding the City’s conduct vis
Continue readingTwo things are going on in San Francisco that demonstrate that City’s abiding dislike for the American military. The first thing to note today is that the Board of Supervisors is set to vote on Supervisor Chris Daly’s umpteenth attack against the Blue Angels. I’m confident that it will fail
Continue readingSan Francisco’s Mission District is, demographically, a primarily Hispanic district (about 50%), with the remainder of the population being White and Asian. Traditionally, it’s been a mixture of immigrants (legal and illegal), poor, working-class, and artsy-funky. It’s in the news today because the District used a $34,000 City-funded grant to
Continue readingThe first time San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly went after the Blue Angels’ annual visit to San Francisco for Fleet Week, there was an uproar, and he gave up. The second time he went after the Blue Angels, the other Supervisors decided that they weren’t going to kill a cash
Continue readingBetty Ong was one of the flight attendants who died on 9/11. She was also a native San Franciscan. Since 1994, a large mural in San Francisco’s Chinatown has celebrated the Chinese in San Francisco. In 2003, the site’s owners and the artist added a tribute to Ms. Ong to
Continue readingIn 1996, California voters passed Proposition 209, declaring that they did not want to see racial or gender preferences used in public contracts, employment and education. Turns out that, in a wonderful anti-Democratic display, San Francisco has been ignoring that voter mandate, and the California Supreme Court is now going
Continue readingGentrification — there’s a loaded term. When I think of it, I think of the young lawyer and his wife I met in the late 1980s who had bought a gorgeous Victorian and fixed it up. Despite just being at the beginning of their careers, they were able to take
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