Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
My post title isn’t from my brain, it’s from a fiery Ralph Peters column I heard about today on the Michael Medved show. Peters explains why, although we haven’t defeated Jihadist evil, we’re currently winning, not losing. I especially enjoyed the bit about Iraq being, not our Vietnam, but Al
Continue readingMichelle Malkin has the President’s entire 9/11 speech on her blog. I thought the whole speech was excellent, but was especially impressed with the beginning, which I’m republishing here: “Good evening. Five years ago, this date – September the 11th – was seared into America’s memory. Nineteen men attacked us
Continue readingAt Montessori, a teacher gives a lesson, and then, when the children comprehend the lesson, she has them practice it immediately so that they principles they’ve just learned “set.” Public school, so far, has been different. Now that they’re in public school, the children bring me homework, complaining that they
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Continue readingThe gal who signed up to memoralize Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas somehow missed her deadline. I knew Lauren, and want to make sure that this delightful woman doesn’t get forgotten today. I don’t have the time to do Lauren justice, but I’ll at least be able to say a bit about
Continue readingMy son, who is seven, is obsessed with superheroes. His current favorite is Superman. After all, when you’re a little boy, battling your way through the world, what could be more exciting than the possibility of being “faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap
Continue readingI’d like to say something profound about 9/11, but find I have nothing profound to say. Instead, I carry around a mental patchwork of images from that day, along with a lot of strong feelings that I voice regularly in this blog. I’m incapable of weaving any of these threads
Continue readingPeople’s thoughts, especially their irrational thoughts, are affected by their era. In pre-modern times, schizophrenics were all talking to the Devil; in the middle of the 20th Century, their messages came from Mars; and nowadays it’s all about government conspiracies. Schizophrenics, of course, are at the extreme margin of thought,
Continue readingSome of us are observing 9/11 with tributes to those who died, some with a focus on the war yet to be won, and some — on the taxpayer’s dime — by taking swipes at the United States. A friend of mine is attending the 2006 Annual Meeting for the
Continue readingI got the following email today: Let’s say I break into your house (aka immigration reform) Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration. Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders,
Continue readingMy 7 year old had an existential crisis last night, based on the fact that TiVo had captured the classic 1960s cartoon “The dot and the line.” It’s a brilliant cartoon, based on Norton Juster’s book of the same name, in which a boring line is madly in love with
Continue readingMy son, 7, is much taken with Superman. After his bath tonight, he styled his wet hair so that he had a little curly lock on his forehead, a la Superman. He then turned to his older sister and asked, “Don’t I look dashing in my hair?” She peered at
Continue readingJews all over the world have expressed outrage at the decision by Information, a Danish newspaper, to publish the Holocaust cartoons out of Iran — cartoons that either deny the Holocaust, celebrate it, or analogize the Jews to the same Nazis who attempted to annihilate them. Jewish groups are planning
Continue readingThe Popal plea hearing is being continued so as to allow further psychiatric evaluations. He may indeed be crazy, and that would be an effective end to the newsworthiness of this tragedy (although it will continue to resonate forever for his victims and their families). I found interesting, though, local
Continue readingI never believed Hezbollah when it pronounced itself the victor in its war with Israel, but I was dubious about whether Israel itself had won. In the weeks since the ceasefire, however, I’ve been reading more and more articles claiming that Israel did achieve a great deal and that Hezbollah
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