Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
As a knitter, I’m always glad to see knitters bravely go where no knitters have gone before. This is a new one to me, and certainly serves as a useful twist to a generally useful hobby. UPDATE: Boy, when knitting hits the presses, it does so big-time. Michelle Malkin blogs
Continue readingAs those who know me best know well, I’m a kvetcher. In other words, I like to complain. Complaining doesn’t necessarily mean I’m unhappy; it may well mean that I’m engaging in something that is pleasurable in itself. My goal when I complain during a conversation is to be amusing
Continue readingMy morning is not going as planned. I’ve gotta run, so I’ll leave you with some reading recommendations. The Watcher’s Council has its nominations up, and you really can’t go wrong reading any of the nominees. Jonah Goldberg ruminates about Biden’s fatal use of the word “articulate” to describe Obama.
Continue readingMy son asked me how Valentine’s Day began. I explained that, a long time ago, there was a man named Valentine who was known for his kindness to young couples who wished to get married (and he may have given doweries to poor girls so they could marry). He was
Continue readingI’m no Stephen Sondheim fan, but I’ve always laughed at a song he wrote for his play “Into The Woods.” When things have gone wrong, all the characters turn on each other and begin to sing a song called “Your Fault,” in which each blames the others for the current
Continue readingRead Selwyn Duke’s climate change article and, even if it doesn’t change your mind, it still “is to laugh.” FacebookTweet
Continue readingDid you ever watch Star Trek : The Next Generation? If you did, you must surely remember the Borgs, whose philosophy of conquest was summed up in a single short speech Jean Luc Picard gave after having been transformed into a Borg: “I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile.
Continue readingThere’s been a lot of news lately about how the Left embraces radical Islam, on the principle that the enemy of my enemy is my friend (or, at least, my useful tool). You can see this sordid embrace at work in Daniel Pipe’s debate with London Mayor Ken Livingston, and
Continue readingIt made news when Yale admitted to an almost 10% drop in applications for membership in the 2011 graduating class. Yale come up with some reasons, such as the fact that people might not be applying because the law admissions rate means it’s not worth the effort. Others posited that
Continue readingYesterday, my children asked “what’s global warming?” Mr. Bookworm launched into the NY Times-approved description of our impact on the climate. I added that, while the planet is definitely warming up, there’s still some debate about how great a contribution people are making to that change. Mr. Bookworm went ballistic,
Continue readingThe story of Dunkirk is an amazing one. In May 1940, about 250,000 British troops (as well as about 120,000 French troops) found themselves stranded there, victims of the spectacularly successful German Blitzkrieg. They had virtually no weapons, no organization and nowhere to go: the seemingly unstoppable Nazis were to
Continue readingI have a mailbox full of emails pointing out interesting articles. Because weekends are heavy-duty family time, making blogging difficult, I don’t have the time to give each of these articles its due. However, I did want to make sure to pass on to you a few wonderful finds. These
Continue readingLet’s see if I’ve got my chronology right here: On January 29, Hamas and Fatah announced a ceasefire prompted, I think by a reminder from their compatriots that their real job is to kill Jews. On February 1, Hamas gunman ambushed Fatah trucks, killing 6 people, injuring 70, and kidnapping
Continue readingI wasn’t quite sure what to make of a story out of England, which documents how a hospice patient in a Nun-run hospice got help from the hospice to obtain a prostitute so he wouldn’t die a virgin: A young disabled man who receives care for his life-limiting illness at
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