Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Lots of laundry to fold, but that doesn’t mean I can’t highlight a few things that caught my eye. *** Until our relatives moved away from Los Angeles, twice a year we used to make the trek from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and then back up again. In
Continue readingLong, long day. Really long. I spent it with my mother, an experience that always exhausts me. Age has sucked everything but the life out of her. There’s no vestige anymore of the person she once was. That saddens me, even though I know it’s the way of things. A
Continue readingA friend sent me a very funny email. I don’t know if the numbers are precisely accurate, but I do know that they’re accurate enough to serve a larger truth, namely America’s overwhelming turn in 1942 from a peacetime nation into a fully armed, fully operational wartime nation. In this
Continue readingThere’s so much good stuff out there on Mondays. All the pent-up writer’s instinct and energy from the weekend seems to pour over into this day. Here’s some of that good stuff: Camille Paglia points out the obvious: it’s false that a woman without a man is like a fish
Continue readingI could have done this as myriad small posts, but I was in the mood for something big. I’ll separate the different ideas and issues with asterisks (after all, Obama’s promise with his unspoken asterisk has made asterisks the hot new thing in writing). My friend (I like say that
Continue readingThis is a just a beautiful moment, as MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer exposes the ignorance underlying her Leftist condescension during an argumentative interview she conducted with a GOP Congressman:
Continue readingThe other day, I wrote that David Denby, a soggy leftist film reviewer at The New Yorker was trying his hands at political commentary with a hate piece against Ted Cruz — one based entirely on the fact that Denby, no beauty himself, finds Cruz physically unattractive. I’m not the
Continue readingFor at least a couple of hundred years in America, the “letters to the editor” section of any newspaper has been the one place where people can express views opposing a newspaper’s editorial content. Newspapers felt sufficiently strong in their viewpoints that they figured that a few crackpot letters wouldn’t
Continue readingWe know the facts: Gunmen invaded a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that is primarily frequented by Westerners. By the end of the attack, at least 39 people had been murdered and 150 injured. There may still be hostages. An African Muslim group called Al-Shabaab announced soon after the attack that
Continue readingI wasn’t paying attention, but it seems that the New York Times now has a dedicated Hillary reporter, even though the elections is more than three years away. Does this mean that we can finally abandon the pretense of media impartiality? This far in advance, having that kind of round-the-clock,
Continue readingCongratulations, folks! When it comes to the IRS audit scandal, you are about to get three apt historical comparisons in a single post. The background, of course, is the cascading downpour of news stories revealing that the IRS deliberately audited Tea Party groups, patriot groups, small government groups, and pro-Israel
Continue readingI haven’t forgotten the collaborative post I put up after the election regarding the need for conservatives to create an alternate media challenging liberal paradigms. I was therefore delighted to see that the Kochs are thinking of buying up old Leftist media outlets and reconfiguring them as honest news outlets
Continue readingThe day the bombing took place, I looked at the MO and thought it more likely than not to be a Muslim attack. I stated: There are two ways Boston can go. It can be a liberal mugged by reality and get over its delusional belief that, if America will
Continue readingI’m not 100% pro-Life. It’s hard for me to shake off the vestiges of spending 40 years in a pro-Choice world (the SF Bay Area) — and that’s despite the fact that I know that the pro-Life position is intellectually and morally the better position. I haven’t yet shaken a
Continue reading(First published at Mr. Conservative, but I wrote it, and it’s vintage Bookworm Room) Maria Saucedo, who was only 31, died the other day in Arizona when Jose Zarate shot her in the chest with a rifle after she refused to let him date her daughter. This sounds like a
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