Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
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 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
Continue readingBookworm 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 readingSome 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 readingI’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 readingWorking 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
Continue readingAs you probably know, the wobbly compromise on the immigration bill broke apart entirely. I'm not sad — I didn't like it. The Power Line guys figure that conservatives now have a brief window of time within which to have their voices heard on the issue. To that end, they've
Continue readingPassover is around the corner (April 12 is the first night). So, I give you something silly and fun to help you celebrate. (Thanks, Tracy.)
Continue readingGerman historians have announced as news the fact that the Nazis intended to expand their Holocaust to Palestine. I'm including the whole Reuters article here because (a) it's fascinating, (b) it touches directly on my father's war involvement, and (c) it touches indirectly on my mother's war: Nazi Germany planned
Continue readingI found this great picture at Flopping Aces. He found it through Buck Sargent. I don't think I need to add any comment. UPDATE: G-Raze left a comment pointing to what s/he (don't know which) thinks is a tremendous irony: that I published this picture on the same day the
Continue readingI did something I rarely do: I made an impulse purchase of a just-released movie on DVD. I simply couldn't resist buying The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I then watched it again with the kids, and found it just as good as I
Continue readingIt was always the Left that had a lock on envisioning a new world order, while the Right stood there, desperately trying to maintain the status quo. That, of course, is no longer the case. The Left is mired in the 1960s, and the Right is trying to rejigger the
Continue readingLast year, I watched a video called Death in Gaza, shot by a British film maker. It was a sympathetic portrayal of Palestinian families, with a special focus on young boys and their fascination with emulating the Hamas killers. The video ended in a No-Man's land, with a fire fight
Continue readingWhen my home and work life are quiet, I go into a blogging frenzy. Conversely, when things heat up in the corporeal world, things fall silent in cyberspace. Between a sick kid, orthodondist appointments and after school activities, things are manic here in the real world. I don't expect to
Continue readingThrough Webloggin, I've learned about something called Newsvine. I'm still struggling a bit to figure out just what Newsvine is, but it seems to be a combination news outlet and blog spot that's driven by its readership. You should toddle on over and check it out, because it strikes me
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