Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I am reading a delightful book about Fred and Adele Astaire, one that offers a little insight into a long-vanished world. Along the way, the book mentions Eddie Cantor. That reference reminded me of a song I always liked: We Can Build A Little Home, from 1933’s Roman Scandals. As
Continue readingWe knew Occupy was a turfed up protest. We knew that Occupy quickly degenerated into drug-fueled, dangerous debauchery. We knew that Occupy is ugly. But I don’t think any of us realized in the beginning quite how ugly Occupy would prove to be. It turns out that it’s so ugly
Continue reading$10 million huh? No wonder he looks so happy: I wonder when we’re going to see something like this outside the White House: (Don’t worry. I was just joking. Like that’s going to happen.)
Continue readingSgt. Gary Stein was discharged from the Marines because he created a web page critical of President Obama. Despite the fact that I agree with Sgt. Stein’s political views, I think the Marines did the right thing. One of the things that makes our military great is the fact that
Continue readingZombie has a new post about Occupy’s latest stunt: The movement’s geniuses, inspired by Earth Day, [I]llegally took over an entire farm and transformed it into…a farm! So proud are they of this revolutionary act that they showed off the farm to the media yesterday, so naturally I had to
Continue readingZombie has another superb photo essay, this one about the OWS protest of Shimon Peres’ San Francisco visit. If you haven’t already checked it out, please do. My favorite part is the bit with the San Francisco motorcycle cop. You go, guy! Please remember when you read Zombie that Zombie
Continue readingWhen Obama came to San Francisco, two of my favorite photo-essayists attended the street protests, which marked the rare coming together (sort of) of Tea Partiers and OWSers, all of whom are discontented with Obama. Here’s Zombie. And here’s Fund47. I’d add more but anything I say would be redundant,
Continue readingOver the years, I’ve written more than 10,000 posts. (Yeah, that’s a scary thought, isn’t it.) They do tend to run together in my mind, but there are a few standouts. These are the posts in which I felt that I offered an insight or analysis that is genuinely helpful
Continue readingWe tend to find what we’re looking for. Since conservatives know that Obama comes from a socialist background, has advanced policies that are antithetical to capitalism, and has defeated opportunities and initiatives that are supportive of capitalism, we’re going to assume that, in any speech he gives, ordinary statements are
Continue readingNot only is the Occupy movement ugly, divisive and violent, it’s also expensive: The news spotlight has moved elsewhere, but Oakland continues to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for the Occupy protests. Every week for the past month, more than 100 cops, or roughly one-fifth of
Continue readingZombie has put up a short post explaining just how debased the Occupy movement really is. Please disseminate Zombie’s post widely, as this is the type of story that might help otherwise disinterested Americans understand that the Occupiers are not a grass-roots movement made up of people who lost their
Continue readingI’ve blogged here before about Madison Rising, an almost-heavy metal rock group that several vets formed. Despite its hard guitar licks, pulsing beat, and gravel voiced singing, the band’s orientation is definitely conservative. It’s songs are pro-military, pro-American, pro-capitalism and anti-OWS. It’s not necessarily my kind of music (I’m a
Continue readingIt’s not only conservatives who have noticed that the waning OWS movement was pretty much whiter than white. Black activist preachers have noticed the same thing and are trying to mobilize their congregants to get out there to camp on sidewalks like homeless people along with the white drug-addicted, violent
Continue readingAs I was up early, I listened to KSFO’s Brian Sussman show. A man called in, identified himself as someone who works at the Port of Oakland, and described with some amusement the eight or so luxury buses that pulled up, disgorging a bunch of people in their 30s and
Continue readingOkay, this is seriously NSFW, since Carolla is exceeded only by Jon Stewart when it comes to F-bombs (except without the little “beeps” that let people pretend Stewart isn’t really swearing). If you can, though, ignore Carolla’s language and listen to it when you get the chance. Adam Carolla applies
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