Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
George Orwell understood that good language clarifies and bad language corrupts. He’d moved amongst Communists, so he understood how controlling people requires controlling language. One cannot fully erase ideas if the language to express them still exists — so one changes the language. In 1984, Orwell envisioned an Auschwitz-like world
Continue readingI found two good posters on Facebook today:
Continue readingMy friend Johnny Sutton, who was a Texas prosecutor before becoming a U.S. Attorney during the Bush years, just gave me a call. We got to talking about gun control, and he mentioned that he’d participated in a gun control forum at the LBJ Library. What makes his pro-Second Amendment
Continue readingGot this in my email today:
Continue readingHere’s another one that appeared first at Mr. Conservative, but I wrote it and I agree with every word I wrote: With the failure of the Democrats’ gun grab legislation in the Senate, the President and the Vice President took the political blow like the sensitive, New Age, Progressive men
Continue readingI wrote this for Mr. Conservative, but it works just as nicely here: When the Sandy Hook tragedy occurred, Senator Dianne Feinstein ghoulishly whipped out of her filing cabinet a gun control bill that she’d had waiting for just such a moment. She shilled it endlessly. She schmoozed with British
Continue readingYes, bad things happen when people have guns. But worse things can happen when they don’t: Being a Progressive seems to mean being uninformed and unimaginative. They know only what they see, and lack any ability to recognize what they don’t see, but that nevertheless did, or could, exist.
Continue readingFrom John Lott, describing what happened in Washington, D.C. when the Supreme Court decided District of Columbia v. Heller, reversing D.C.’s draconian anti-gun laws: When the Heller case was decided, Washington’s Mayor Adrian Fenty warned: “More handguns in the District of Columbia will only lead to more handgun violence.” Knowing
Continue readingThe Marin YMCA just wanted to host its annual “Healthy Kids” day. “Organizing for America,” the perpetual Obama campaign, had a different idea, crashing the event by setting a table in an adjacent parking-lot in such a way that it looked like part of the YMCA sponsored event. To its
Continue readingI’ve been introducing my children to the music of my youth, and Kenny Roger’s Coward of the Country came up on my mental playlist. I always liked that song, because it ends with the worm turning, which is a satisfying moment: Listening to the song with my children, though, I
Continue reading(I wrote this for Mr. Conservative, but it’s another one that could just as easily have been written here. Indeed, for the writing I do at Mr. Conservative, it’s unusually snarky . Michelle really rubs me the wrong way.) When the Clintons were in the White House, they loved to
Continue readingI blogged at Mr. Conservative about hypocritical gun-grabbing politicians. There, I noted that one of the mayors excited about the program is a former police officer who believes in concealed carry — for himself. What others have noticed is that a lot of the mayors, and other Progressive government types,
Continue readingA high school classmate of mine who is a staunch conservative finds the best posters, which he then shares on Facebook. How’s this for a good one (assuming its facts are accurate):
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
Continue readingMuch has been made of Obama’s statement that the gun rights crowd should stop worrying, because Obama contends that he is “constrained” by the system the Founders put in place. If you don’t read his actual words with great care, it sounds as if he’s saying he’s contractually constrained —
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