Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A look at some of the history and holidays on November 22 Holidays & Observances on November 22 Feast of St. Cecilia, a second century Christian martyred for her religion and of whom it is recorded that, at her wedding, “she sang in her heart to God.” She is the
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I’ve got a new podcast up and this post gives you a quick rundown regarding the extraordinary treatment according Trump that makes him incomparable. To those of my friends who preferring reading over listening, I totally understand. My preferred way of getting information is also through reading. Still, I’ve learned
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Hand-wringing about Trump’s personality and private life — when compared to most other recent Presidents — is akin to complaining that a leopard has spots. One of the things I hear from those who hate Trump personally is that he is worse than any other president who’s ever occupied the
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Even though Mueller has totally vindicated Trump, you can expect cries for impeachment to intensify. Learn here how stupid those impeachment demands will be. One of the Progressives on my real-me Facebook feed contends that she never wanted Trump to be impeached because, as Nancy Pelosi said, “he’s just not
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Fifty years of school histories have lied about Ulysses S. Grant, who was a gifted man and consequential president. Not being a career politician helped. I’m reading Ron Chernow’s Grant. As I only started the book this morning, and have been reading in tiny bits and bytes, I’m only 3%
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Episode 2 of Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War was like Episode 1: an almost honest presentation of facts subtly shaped by a strong Leftist world view. A few days ago, I offered my impressions about the new Ken Burns documentary, The Vietnam War. Since then, two things have happened. First,
Continue readingVictor Davis Hanson says that conservatives who look askance at a Trump candidacy needn’t get their knickers in a twist, because he’s no worse than anyone else in our political class, going all the way back to the 1960s. Hanson had the examples (lots of them) to prove it. When it
Continue readingWith Obama and the Democrats reveling in having handed Fidel Castro everything in exchange for nothing (except a man who is still a committed Marxist after five years in a communist prison), I got to thinking about Pope Francis’s apparently pivotal role in this whole thing. And that got me
Continue readingTo me, history is what was. It’s the past that’s been and gone forever. To people on the Left, however, history is the future that they shape, which they presume their Leftist scholars will later enshrine in propagandistic history books. I thought of that peculiar viewpoint last night when watching
Continue readingWhen I was in junior high school, high school, and college, my American history classes always preached the same message: Franklin Roosevelt saved America by “priming the pump.” That is, he took money away from the rich, filtered it through the government, and then used the brain-power built into government
Continue readingAs long as our ideas live on, in some way so do we. Here’s is one of John F. Kennedy’s most famous statements: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Obama won the 2012 election by turning that idea upside
Continue readingGood ad: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iddquwGpXM0[/youtube] Massachusetts has drowned itself in the Kool-Aid since 1972, but maybe a strong Republican candidate, a strong message, and an insane Democratic party can make the difference. UPDATE: If you’d like to contribute to Brown’s campaign, here’s his website. As Kate said in the comments when she
Continue readingThanks to Sadie for putting me on to the latest Obama/media stunt, this time the conscious decision to mimic a famous series of en famille JFK pictures in the oval office. I guess when your numbers are tanking, imitating a dead president is one way to try to shore yourself
Continue readingI was not a rebellious youngster. I accepted my parents’ values and their rules, and pretty much toed the line. My one area of rebellion was, looking back, a rather bizarre one: I refused to buy into the Kennedy mythology. Perhaps because I was a child of the Watergate era,
Continue readingI carpooled to a soccer game today. The driver, who is someone I don’t know very well, is a very charming man who is quite obviously a potential Obama voter. He wasn’t quite sure about me and, since he was a very civil individual, he never came out and either
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