Proud to be an American
You 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
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I feel the earth move under my feet
Just 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 readingWhat do illegal aliens want?
About 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 readingMindful of our separate roles in life.
I 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 readingJust the facts, Ma’am.
This 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 readingThe end of a memorable vacation
I'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 readingWhat to do when the rulers break the rules?
When 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 readingWhat I learned on spring break vacation
I'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 readingOkay, now let’s talk
I’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 readingReasons for optimism
I 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 readingThe Merits of Exit Exams
California 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
Continue readingCasey Sheehan’s Grave
Bookworm was rather suddenly called away on a trip, so I'll be pinch-hitting for a while. Right now, all I've got is a question. My father sent me an e-mail with a picture of what was supposedly Casey Sheehan's grave, without a tombstone. Does anyone know whether it is true
Continue readingFriends in interesting places
Some time ago, when I was still blogging at Blogger, I wrote a post asking what an American theocracy would look like. I asked this question because it occurred to me that, while liberals were frantically throwing around statements about Bush's "ultra conservatism" and "scary fundamentalism," none were articulating what
Continue readingSemi-silence today
I’m beginning to think I carry a jinx with me. I left Blogger because of all the problems and now, here at WordPress, I’m having a day where there “icons” one can use in lieu of knowing code are gone. That is, usually when I do a post, I don’t
Continue readingIs innate human biology hostile to the welfare state?
Working away today, I caught an NPR story about social and behavioral scientists who are beginning to study altruisim and freeloading (which can be flipsides of each other). The results of the studies indicate that the healthiest groups (at least in economic models) are those that, not only do not
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