Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Many, many years ago, I had a puppy who needed abdominal surgery. This was at about the same time that my father, a very stoic man, was dealing with cancer and the attendant abdominal surgery. What was fascinating was to see the psychologic dynamic play out — or, in the
Continue readingIf you want to be truly inspired, and if you want to hear an inside understanding of the twin threats of Islamism and Multiculturalism, please, please, please, listen to this interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Continue readingSuzanne Fields writes that the President's ability at the White House Correspondents Association dinner is no small thing: Communists have no sense of humor, in China, Cuba or North Korea any more than they did in the old Soviet Union. Tyrants and despots can't afford even a tiny revolution, and
Continue readingMy son is hypercompetitive, to the point where he'll sometimes bow out of an activity, rather than run the risk of failing. In the same vein, if an activity is not going well, he'll often do what all children do: quit. To combat this tendency, I recite a little epigram
Continue readingI don't have much of a bone to pick either way with the Intelligent Design/evolution debate. My view is that, going back to the Big Bang, they both agree with each other. It's at the millisecond immediately preceding the Big Bang that I drop out of the debate. You, at
Continue readingSomeone sent me the following in an email. I located a clean copy here, and present it to you in its entirety. The only thing I'll add is that I can't understand the spectacle of politicians on both sides of the aisle catering to a population that, by definition as
Continue readingAnn Coulter reminds me of that old doggerel: There was a little girl, who had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead, and when she was good, she was very, very good, and when she was bad she was horrid. When she gets too crude or abusive,
Continue readingHere's the story, brought to you of jurors who still don't get it: A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided he must spend life in prison for his role in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history. After seven days of
Continue readingNOW, the National Organization for Women, is once again so busy attacking the Bush administration over abortion rights for pampered and protected American women that it simply has no time to deal with or acknowledge real acts of inhumanity committed against women. My reading today began by touching upon the
Continue readingFrederica Mathewes-Green writes a screamingly, hair-pullingly funny article about her failed effort to book a flight for herself and her family. We've all been there: the extremely nice Indian phone operator who never quite understands your American English; the fact that, when dealing with a big company, every employee has
Continue readingMy daughter started orthodontia yesterday and has sore teeth today. To make eating easier for her, I've spent the morning assembling the ingredients for a chicken soup, which is now simmering on the stove (hence my delayed journey to my morning blogging). I'm not a very inspired cook but, if
Continue readingOne of the great things about the NY Times' new policy of "Times Select" — which charges people to view online such popular columnists as Paul Krugman, Bob Herbert, Frank Rich, and whats-her-name — is that I no longer feel a masochistic obligation to read their rantings so as to
Continue readingI'm spending my morning on the run, so won't blog 'til later today. I will quickly tell you about a great book I'm reading: John McWhorter's Winning the Race : Beyond the Crisis in Black America. In it, McWhorter asks why African Americans create a culture of failure at precisely
Continue readingI've made no secret of my support for legal immigration and my profound distaste for illegal immigration. This whole "immigration day," which is really a euphemism for law breaking behavior, really has me grinding my teeth. First, here's Carol Platt Liebau: In endorsing the proposed May Day strike by all
Continue readingI've heard that there have been some problems leaving comments at my blog. I contacted WordPress and got this response: "It's Internet Explorer – and the form is there but right at the bottom of the page." Does that help?
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