Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
It is illegal to be Jewish (or Christian, or anything but Muslim) in Saudi Arabia. It is deadly to be a Muslim apostate in Afghanistan. It's fatal to be Christian in Indonesia. With scattered exceptions, Jews were long ago evicted from Iraq. I won't belabor my point: Jews (and other
Continue readingI'm betting that, by now, most of you have already heard of Maryscott O'Connor, the fulminating Left wing blogger profiled in the Washington Post a few days ago. This is one seriously angry lady: In the angry life of Maryscott O'Connor, the rage begins as soon as she opens her
Continue readingOne of the black marks against Pres. Bush is the fact that the national debt has increased so much on his watch (something I'm less than thrilled about myself). Heather, however, offers us some perspective: According to The Skeptical Optimist, an optimist is "one who believes that humans, on net
Continue readingYou Passed the US Citizenship Test Congratulations – you got 10 out of 10 correct! Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test? Hat tip: A Rose By Any Other Name FacebookTweet
Continue readingJust FYI, with the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake coming our way this Tuesday, the San Francisco Chronicle has a very nice online spread on the quake, complete with memoirs (the real kind, not the modern, phony pity story), photographs, and original news stories. It was quite
Continue readingAbout twenty-five years ago, when I started college, I struck up a casual friendship with a Latina woman in one of my history classes. She told me that she was the first person in her family to have graduated from high school and, of course, the first to attend college.
Continue readingI clean. They make things dirty. It's their job, and they do it well. I look forward to the end of spring break and, with it, my chance to return to my delusion that I can actually have a clean house. FacebookTweet
Continue readingThis isn't a real post, just a heads up that, if you've wanted the facts about what's going on with our Army's recruiting efforts, you can read about it here. W. Thomas Smith Jr. cuts past the lies and gives the real information — and it's not anywhere as grim
Continue readingI'm back! My little Bookworm is recovering nicely from his pneumonia (although we'll probably be hearing that cough for some weeks to come), and I'm sure that soon I'll get the spring back in my own steps after nights in the hospital and hours in the car coming home from
Continue readingWhen the immigration reform story broke and the demonstrating started San Francisco's mayor Grandstanding Gavin announced to the world that if he didn't like the law Congress ultimately agreed on he simply wouldn't cooperate or enforce the new rules. Shades of George Wallace fighting federal integration demands. Now the reports
Continue readingI'm actually still in the midst of spring break vacation — so don't expect any blogging for the next 24 hours — but I did learn some lessons and, since I have a moment at a computer, I thought I'd share them: 1. When your child has a 104.5 degree fever,
Continue readingI’m delighted by the comments on yesterday’s blog entry, especially the ones from our liberal friends (however intemperate a few of them may have been). Bookworm and I have tried very hard to create in the Bookwormroom a safe place for people of all point of view to come and
Continue readingI must admit I'm a little down today. I'm stuck on negative thoughts as the price of oil tops $68 a barrel, the price of gas at the cheapest pump in town hits 277.9, the Republicans look headed for disaster in November, thousands are marching in the streets in support
Continue readingCalifornia educators are all a-tizzy because their students now have to actually know something to graduate from high school. Democrats, particularly, are up in arms that graduation should be conditioned on demonstrating a minimal level of achievement. While the controversy is becoming acute now, as graduation day approaches, this story nicely
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