Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I am very, very proud of an old friend of mine. Like me, he’s a conservative in Marin. Unlike me, he’s burst out of the political closet. Tim Amyx will now be blogging on a weekly basis at the Mill Valley Patch, a local Marin online publication that comes out
Continue readingI’ve been corresponding with a group of conservatives who are very strongly divided between Romney and Gingrich. I’m pleased to say that, while the debate is substantively heated, it also never veers away from common decency and civility. My latest contribution to the email string, right after mention of a
Continue readingWe all met Navy One when he was just one of us — a guy who wrote delightful, interesting comments on my blog. When Navy One decided to try his hand at blogging, he took that same charm and . . . well, the rest is history, as The Mellow
Continue readingFor conservatives and libertarians, the movie icons might be High Noon or True Grit. For Liberals, the defining anthem is John Lennon’s “Imagine“. Why is there such a fundamental gulf between ourselves and Liberals, to the point where we find ourselves simply talking past each other? Can this gulf ever
Continue readingI attended a family gathering not long ago, liberally populated with Liberal in-laws, in which the mood was decidedly sour. Discussions revolved around the poor job market, employment uncertainty and health insurance. In conversations, a lot of resentment was directed at corporations, CEOs and their “disgusting and greedy” profits, salaries,
Continue readingDemocrats are the friends of big business, Conservatives are the friends of small business. Democrat government inevitably ratchets its way to corruptocracy. If you don’t agree with this, can we at least agree that Democrats favor highly regulated economies and societies and conservatives don’t? Let me explain with two examples.
Continue readingWe are a family of tea drinkers. As dedicated tea drinkers, we like good tea, which usually means loose leaf tea. Loose leaf tea, in turn, means special tea makers. Our favorite is the Adagio Ingenuitea Teapot, which makes one perfect cup of tea at a time. The only downside
Continue readingVanderleun, who blogs at the wonderful American Digest, put me on to a liberal Massachusetts blog that tells its readers to suck it up and vote for Coakley: Let’s get this out of the way. You might not want to vote for Martha Coakley. You might think she deserves what’s
Continue readingIt wasn’t a huge turn-out, but it was an imaginative, committed, informed turn-out — and that, in the long run, will matter a great deal. Check out The City Square for photographs of yesterday’s “Sick-In” in San Francisco protesting PelosiCare.
Continue readingIn the wake of the 2008 election, Republicans and conservatives were paralyzed. They’d been trounced, not so much by sweeper percentages (that is, the elections were all just over the slightly 50% mark), but by huge numbers of elections in which Democrats edged out Republicans by those few percentage marks.
Continue readingThere is a lot of talk about whether, looking ahead to the 2010 elections, we’re looking at 1980, or 1994, or 1932 or some other American political year that I can’t even think of right now. I actually think we’re looking at a different year altogether: 1989. As you may
Continue readingZhombre forwarded this email to me. I think it’s right on the money: If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn`t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed. If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn`t eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian,
Continue readingThe nature of conservatism is to be . . . well, conservative. We don’t throw paint on people. We don’t burn figures in effigy. We don’t bite off fingers. We put our heads down and do our jobs. So when two million conservatives (and independents) take the time, the energy
Continue readingFive People in a Kitchen By Danny Lemieux Part I: We need focus! We were just five concerned Americans meeting in a middle class Chicagoland suburb on a cold spring day. Our point for this meeting was not to gripe. It was to see if we could identify constructive solutions
Continue readingOne of my ongoing themes here is the fact that I keep my conservatism very, very low key. Most situations in my life don’t involve politics, but when politics come up, I’m quite careful. I have no wish to be savaged. Jim Miller, who lives in and writes about an
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