Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Bob Myer, writing at American Thinker, says that, faced with flat-lining student performance, American schools are thinking about making the school day longer. He doesn’t think that’s a good idea, and neither do I. Bob’s reasons focus on the very limited potential benefit conferred by extending a kids’ school day
Continue readingIs it just me, or is this a really, really unattractive look for a pregnant lady. The actress pictured is Tori Spelling. Maybe it’s just that Tori Spelling can’t carry it off, but it’s so not flattering. del.icio.us | digg it FacebookTweet
Continue readingThe confessed crime — kidnapping a 9 year old girl, raping her, then burying her alive in garbage bags so she slowly smothered to death. They recommended punishment, thank God — death: A jury decided Wednesday that a convicted sex offender should get the death penalty for the kidnapping, rape
Continue readingSometimes life in the suburbs is good. With the later sunset and the warm weather, we’ve opened our pool. There are worse ways to spend an afternoon than sitting in the garden, surrounded by spring flowers, reading a book, while every few minutes doing a head count to make sure
Continue readingBusy, busy morning, followed by a busy mid-afternoon, to be followed by a sort of busy late afternoon — and that late afternoon is when I’ll resume blogging with a comprehensive unloading of all the stuff swirling in my brain. Until then, keep coming at me with your comments about
Continue readingI’m seeing pieces of a puzzle, but I’m having a problem discerning a larger pattern (maybe there isn’t one). Here are the pieces, and I’d like it if you’d chime in with what I’m missing. It starts with Marines. The first piece of the puzzle is that Marine show I
Continue readingThe BBC is worried because one of its reporters has gone missing in Gaza, and some groups have already stepped forward to claim that he’s been kidnapping. This bad news all around. First, I sincerely hope that the reporter is safe and has not been forced to convert. Second, this
Continue readingSeraphic Secret gets to the heart of the insanity behind the Democrats’ decision to hide from Fox TV: So let me get this straight. According to the Democrats, Israel is supposed to sit down and chat with Hamas, a terrorist gang dedicated to Israel’s annihilation. According to the Democrats Israel
Continue readingIt’s getting so that, every day, every where, more and more people are beginning to challenge the “debate is over” pronouncement regarding global warming. My two favorite from today are an interview with Christopher Horner, an environmental lawyer and (former?) liberal who wrote the The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global
Continue reading“Oh, my gosh,” I said to myself. “Reuters is actually writing an article about Islamic violence.” I mean, what else was I to think when I read this headline: Misery tempts Palestinian Christians to flee. After all, to the extent Christians are dying or being burned out of their homes,
Continue readingSomehow I can’t work up any sadness, only fear, when I read this bathetic New York Times article about the current crop of young Palestinians, many of whom are stone-cold killers. Perhaps it was the second paragraph that put me off, since it shows that the Times has bought completely
Continue readingIt’s spring and new things are happening. As I noted in the preceding post, Neo has a new address. Also new, entirely new, is a blog called The Thomas Chronicles. Thomas has only been blogging for a few months, but he writes with a real assurance that’s just a pleasure
Continue readingAre you already acquainted with Neo-Neocon? If you are, you might not know that she has a new address, here (so update your blogroll). If you’re not, you’re in for a treat, because Neo has some of the most thoughtful, learned posts around. One of the things she tackles today,
Continue readingA month ago, I wrote about dhimmitude run amok at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, where the University had announced its intention of persecuting college Republicans who had stamped on butcher paper representations of Hezbollah and Hamas flags, unaware that those flags had Mohammed’s name written upon them.
Continue readingI’ve been an Edith Piaf fan since I was a teenager. When I was about 14, I discovered amongst my parents records a 1950s “Best of” album with songs from post-war French singers, including Charles Trenet and Edith Piaf (these French performers were enormously popular after WWII). Turns out that
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