Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
If you are a passionate Austen-ophile, as I am, and if you think the 1995 A&E production of Pride & Prejudice is one of the best movies/miniseries ever made, you really must check out the Austen encomium at Seraphic secret. Only last month, I bought myself the DVD of Pride
Continue readingI tend to give very brief bedtime kisses; Mr. Bookworm goes for endless bedtimes. I finally realized why. After dinner, Mr. Bookworm lingers over dinner, turns on the TV, or works at the computer (all things he deserves, because he works very long hours). After dinner, I hustle the kids
Continue readingI know some perfectly delightful French people — charming, kind, and intelligent. Indeed, I know many. But there is something about collecting French people in one place that seems to bring out a darker side in them. Many years ago, at a local park used by a French elementary school,
Continue readingWhy am I not surprised? Unidentified Palestinian gunmen shot dead a senior Hamas activist in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medics and a security source said, in a further escalation of lawlessness in the coastal strip. They said unknown gunmen shot and killed 25-year old Mohammed Tatar, a senior
Continue readingPhibian, at cdr salamander, has been one of my favorite bloggers, practically from my first day of blogging. He's funny, he has an encyclopedic military knowledge (with emphasis, of course, on things related to the Navy), and he has broad-ranging interests that inform all is posts. Well, unsurprisingly, he's adding
Continue readingIf you're interested in why Zarqawi's blood-saturated moment in the sun may be over, read this. I'm a sucker for well-written articles that draw good historical parallels. FacebookTweet
Continue readingI blogged some time ago about the latest insanity in identity politics: a bill before the California legislature mandating that the California curriculum incorporate feel good stories about gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered people. I hate the artificiality of it all and I really I hate forcing sexuality in children's
Continue readingLast night, I had a miserable dream about being swarmed by alligators as I tried to rescue my children. One of those dreams where you wake at 3 a.m. with your heart pounding and sweat dripping. Today, I heard this really unpleasant story. I'm just grateful that there are no
Continue readingAm I misremembering, or wasn't Paula Jones castigated as "trailer trash" for having the temerity to tell the truth about Bill? In other words, at that time, the media couldn't think of worse insult than to say that this woman might live in one of those trailer commuunities. You know,
Continue readingNobody looks good straddling the fence, and that includes both the President and an illegal alien climbing his way over the border. I'm going to comment on random ugly or foolish things that caught my eye in the President's speech: Once here, illegal immigrants live in the shadows of our
Continue readingOne of the delightful things about an expanding readership is the interesting things that come to my email. One of the less delightful things about being a part-time blogger is the length of time it takes me to read and process these materials. I thought that I'd take some time
Continue readingWords from Power Line that need to be widely disseminated: As we focus on what to do about illegal immigration, it's easy to lose sight of the issue of how much, and what type of, legal immigration we should permit. Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation puts that issue into
Continue readingI've been lucky enough to get on the mailing list of someone who, when sending "humorous" emails, actually does send humorous emails. This time, it was wacky animals pictures, under the heading "What Pets do when you are at work." I'm a sucker for animals and for wacky, so I
Continue readingVasko Kohlmayer, who writes regularly for American Thinker, hits a home run with today's article explaining why liberals will never be able to match Rush on the radio. In it, he really nails the difference between the varying degrees of success the different political ideologies have in different formats: The
Continue readingThe West Wing, the now defunct NBC show, is the ne plus ultra illustration of how Democrats think the world should be run. Indeed, you can amuse yourself with a list of top Left Wing scenes culled from all of the show's episodes. Last night, though, I was struck by
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