Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In pre-modern times, an average of 50% of all children born in the Western world died before the age of five. They died from bad milk, spoiled food, infections, accidents, and epidemic disease. Nowadays, in theory, the only reason children anywhere in the world “should” die is unavoidable accidents. Otherwise,
Continue readingThe kids are back in school and I thought the house would fall silent and I would blog again. However, it turns out — and this is very flattering — that there were a lot of people who wanted to talk to me but felt they couldn’t while the kids
Continue readingDrudge proves himself to be a good sport by linking to a Joe Klein post at Time Magazine’s website, in which Klein savages Drudge. Drudge is probably more than a good sport, though. He’s smart, too, because all that the post does is make Klein look like an idiot. Here
Continue readingI live in an area where most of the parents I know are college grads. It is amazing to me how many of them (not the majority, but a significant number) have decided not to vaccinate their children because of the “risk.” The risk, of course, is the possibility that
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