Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
To date, I haven’t been paying that much attention to the Obama administration’s Big Government effort to keep America’s young down on the farms, now that they’ve seen TV. Or can see TV . . . or should see TV, since the Obama administration is barring farm kids from actually
Continue readingPaul Harvey recorded this in 1965: Here’s the transcript (which I haven’t personally vetted): If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engulf the whole earth in darkness. I would have a third of its
Continue readingIt’s a family stuff day, so blogging has been light, and will continue to be so. Fortunately, I’ve got friends who send me interesting things which I am so happy to pass on to you. In no particular order: Wolf Howling has written a fascinating, scholarly dissertation examining the adversarial
Continue readingI am really, really mad at Mr. Bookworm today. If I’m completely honest with myself, it’s not that he did anything to me. It’s that he has something I don’t have — namely, a good night of sleep under his belt. I’m a fairly chronic insomniac, and he is not.
Continue readingWhat the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protestors don’t realize (yet) is that they have been suckered into becoming the agents of their own enslavement. Orwell had it so right in defining the Left because he was a man of the Left. The term “Orwellian” now refers to the Left’s use
Continue readingOn the heels of Bookworm’s excellent, hard-hitting essay on narcissism comes a nice coda on man-made global warming that is emblematic of Bookworm’s theme. Because of major discoveries involving the interaction of atmospheric aerosols and cosmic radiation, “climate models will have to be revised,” stated a communication from CERN that
Continue readingHaving done a flying visit through the Mediterranean, I’m scarcely in any position to make far reaching comments about the towns or countries I visited. Nevertheless, I do feel competent to offer two very specific comments, one about Greece and one about Italy. Throughout our visit to Greece, there was
Continue readingDon Quixote and I got together for lunch today, and the conversation drifted to innate human goodness. Neither of us believes in it. We both noted that, if people are rich and powerful enough to do so, significant numbers of them readily abandon ordinary morality, with sexual debauchery usually heading
Continue readingI read someone today who said that Jesus must have been a socialist, because he didn’t seek profit, which is the hallmark of capitalism. Instead, gave away his time, energy and skills to those who could not pay. Since he didn’t have a profit motive, he must have been a
Continue readingAs we settle into the Obama Depression era, one thing that I and others have noticed is that many of the very youth that voted enthusiastically for Obama are the ones already feeling the consequence of his policies: they are unemployed. As one of my college-age kids put it, “our
Continue readingOften, when I read an article contending that Obama and his coterie are socialists, I write to the article’s author requesting a follow-up to the article: the author needs to explain why this socialism matters. The problem is that, since the 1960s, average Americans do not understand why their parents
Continue readingWhen I was a child, filling the gas tank was the cheapest part of owning a car. Houses were also warm. As long as my father was earning money (which wasn’t always the case), during the winter we heated our house to a comfortable 72 degrees. Then, in 1974, the
Continue readingTwo interesting things rolled across my desk today, interesting because they address the same topic — dependence on Big Government — but reach diametrically opposite conclusions. The first is a Dennis Prager column that examines why American conservatives are happier than American liberals. This isn’t just Dennis’ opinion, by the
Continue readingAs I’ve related in past posts, my liberal friend repeatedly calls me a fascist or Nazi for supporting the Tea Party. Aside from being really rude, these appellations bewilder me. The historical record is very clear that both the Italian fascists and the Germany Nazis were socialists. Socialism, by definition,
Continue readingAs Jonah Goldberg pointed out in Liberal Fascism, socialists, as part of their ongoing effort to perfect mankind, are obsessed with food intake. The Nazis were especially focused on purifying the Aryan body. Now, I’m not likening the San Francisco Board of Stupidvisors to the Nazis — God forbid! —
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