Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Today the moving van came, tomorrow is a travel day, and Friday I won’t have access to my computer or the internet. By Saturday, I should be able to write again (if all goes well), but from here on out, I’ll be going dark for a few days. This is
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Notable Events: Pope Sergius III, Mongolian Horde, Napoleonic Wars, Bear River Massacre, Karl Benz’s Motorwagen, Charles Curtis 1st Native American Senator and VP, Battle of Khafji, Axis of evil Born: Jeffery Amherst, Thomas Paine, William McKinley, W. C. Fields Died: King George III, Douglas Haig, H. L. Mencken Notable Events on
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Holiday & Observances: Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas Major Events: Diet of Worms; Paris Surrenders & the German Empire Begins, Notable Events: Harrying of the North; Walk to Canossa, Edward VI, Pakistan, Elvis, Space Shuttle Challenger disaster Born: Henry VII, Ernest William Christmas, Jackson Pollock Died: Charlemagne, Henry VIII Holidays
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Holocaust Remembrance Day has become a meaningless ritual that the Western world engages in to cover for its virulent and rising anti-Semitism. I remember the Holocaust every day. It’s written into my DNA. Every morning, when I put on my glasses or creak out of bed on my arthritic knees,
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Because the government is a lagging, not a leading, indicator, its giant pieces of legislation almost always lead to perpetual bureaucracy and corruption. I was talking yesterday with a friend — a lifelong conservative — who said, “You know, if I’d been alive in the 1960s, I probably would have
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The Kobe Bryant tragedy is a reminder that rape accusations against famous men would never happen if both men and women were more careful. Immediately following the tragic death of Kobe Bryant and eight others, including three young girls, a Washington Post reporter earned her two minutes of hate by
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Observances: International Holocaust Remembrance Day Major Events: Henry Knox and the Noble Train of Artillery, Siege of Leningrad Notable Events: Trajan becomes Emperor, Pope Clement VI & indulgences, Univ. of Ga, Indian Territory, Boshin War, Thomas Edison, USAF attacks Germany, Nuclear Testing, Apollo 1, Outer Space Treaty, Paris Peace Accords,
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By treating impeachment as a parliamentary device, the Democrats are usurping the voter’s constitutional rights both to choose and reject a president. From American Thinker: The Constitution authorizes presidential impeachment if the president can be shown to have committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.” Democrats are ignoring this language
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Holiday & Observances: Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul; Burns Night; Dydd Santes Dwynwen Major Events: Shay’s Rebellion; Battle of the Bulge Notable Events: Battle of the Zab; Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn; Battle of Mikatagahara; Mendelssohn, Strauss, Alexander Graham Bell, 101 Dalmatians, Mother Teresa, Norwegian Rocket Incident; Execution
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With a connection between exotic meats and infectious diseases such as China’s Coronavirus, our habit of eating boring farm animals is a good thing. Zoonosis is a category of infectious diseases that start with animal-to-animal transmission, morph to animal-to-human transmission, and then leap into human-to-human transmission. They’re almost always scary
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What a busy week: a Second Amendment rally in Richmond, a huge March for Life in D.C., and the impeachment farce, plus Dem candidates, stupid leftists, etc. We’ll start just as the week started, with uplifting, patriotic, and often very clever images from the Second Amendment rally in Richmond: And
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Holiday & Observances: Feast of St. Francis de Sales Major Events: Praetorian Guard Assassinates Caligula, Sunni-Shia Divide, California Gold Rush Notable Events: Fatimid Caliphate, Conciliar Movement, Corvinus crowned King, Cavalier Parliament, Boy Scouts, Income Tax, Goldsboro B-52 Crash, Ted Bundy Born: Hadrian, Frederick the Great, Charles James Fox, Neil Diamond,
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Scott Adams says that Carpe Donktum is one of the best political satirists out there, with Twitter as his canvas. This impeachment rundown supports that. @CarpeDonktum had me laughing out loud with this short summary of the Democrats’ impeachment case against President Trump. I think you’ll enjoy it too. The
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It matters that the Church of England came out in favor of heterosexual marriage, for marriage is a bulwark protecting girls from Islamic sex trafficking. A few days ago, news broke that Manchester had joined the list of British cities in which gangs of Muslim men (mostly from Pakistan) systematically
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In the old days, you piled your meager belongings in a covered wagon and you were off. Nowadays, the logistics are a bit more complicated. Once upon a time, moving in America was hard because there was a good chance you could die en route from disease, accidents, or unpleasant
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