Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Candace Owens was wrongly shamed for asking a question about childlessness and angry, bitter women like Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, and Kathy Griffin. I’m on the verge of being an empty-nester and I couldn’t be happier. I never wanted children and I really hated raising children. Being child-free will be
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Thomas Sowell telling said that facts — real world, life facts — ended his Marxist phase. I’ve compiled a list of life facts that made me conservative. Dave Rubin interviewed Thomas Sowell, who has a new book out called Discrimination and Disparities. I will get myself a copy as soon
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The miserable sexism of Hillary’s supporters. I’ve agreed with myself to disagree with Jonah Goldberg about Donald Trump, while still greatly respecting and deeply appreciating Goldberg’s take on just about everything else. In the wake of Hillary’s 9/11 collapse, followed by her dehydration, followed by the media castigating as sexist
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Yesterday, I read (out loud) the worst “rebuttal to a speech” ever. Today, I read something less amusing, but also important: It’s a disturbing parenting article that places a serious emotional burden on boys — the same boys who today live in an anti-male society. A little background: One of
Continue readingI’m about to make one of my huge leaps from the micro to the macro, so bear with me here. I just can’t help but notice a distinct similarity between the punitive parenting style I see in a couple of Progressive fathers I know and Bernie Sander’s hard Left, tax-the-rich politics.
Continue readingMy parents raised me to be academically successful. They came from a European milieu that valued intellectual elitism above all other things. That was my value too, and one I applied to the people with whom I chose to surround myself. As the years went by, though, I realized that
Continue readingMy mother called me yesterday, her voice shaking with tears. “I’m in such terrible pain. I can’t stand it. I need to see the doctor.” “Okay,” I said. “I’ll take you. When can the doctor see you?” Mom’s answer made me realize I’d been played. In a suddenly ordinary voice,
Continue readingThe following three articles floated across my radar yesterday. I’ll introduce them, but leave you to analyze them. The first is from a post that a lesbian wrote regarding her discovery that her son is a boy, not just when it comes to external equipment, but when it comes to
Continue readingI live in an affluent community. One of the constants in this neighborhood is that, if a family can afford it, the mom retires to take care of the kids. This is true even if the mom’s salary was comparable to the dad’s. Often, this isn’t the mom’s preference; it’s
Continue readingHaving babies used to be biologically inevitable. If you were a woman who had sex, the possibility of pregnancy increased automatically with every act of sexual intercourse. People have always had birth control (withdrawal, the rhythm method, vinegar-soaked sponges, primitive condoms, etc.) but their success rate was random and limited.
Continue readingSo much of parenting is about communication. Because children listen with their hearts as well as their minds, that communication had better be honest. If it’s not, your child will instantly know you for either a fool or a liar. Being honest, though, is not the same as being judgmental.
Continue readingI’ve been thinking (and if those aren’t ominous words, I don’t know what are). I’ve been thinking about the Left’s attack on stay-at-home Mom’s, an attack that Hilary Rosen started, and that others have continued. To refresh your recollection, let’s start with Rosen, who says that Ann Romney “has actually
Continue readingI’m seeing a terribly funny new meme on Facebook, aimed at explaining away Hilary Rosen’s statement that Ann Romney, who raised five children, fought breast cancer, and has MS, has never worked a day in her life. Friends are posting things to the effect that, while parenting is “work,” it’s
Continue readingLast night, one of the neighborhood kids fell and broke his wrist during a vigorous after dark game, played without adult supervision. That kind of injury would never have happened to me when I was a kid, because I wasn’t allowed to play rough or vigorous. My parents, who had
Continue reading11B40 asked a good question, which is why I’m so focused on McQueary, when it was Sandusky who committed the crime. It’s because I have no fellow feeling with Sandusky who, if the allegations are true, is a perverted monster. I therefore don’t need to analyze my behavior or parenting
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