Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
In a sec, I’ll link to the cool blog posts I get to read today as part of my gig on the Watcher’s Council. However, I also wanted to give you a heads up about a debate the Watcher’s Council hosted on the merits of the President’s decision to repeal
Continue readingUnder George Bush, our troops were told that they were going to Iraq and Afghanistan to protect American interests. One can, of course, quibble with whether those wars have served American interests (which is not a quibble I want to have at this post). But the point I want to
Continue readingYears ago, in another life, I dated a man who had worked for Rolling Stone and personally knew Jann Wenner. (My ex-boyfriend claimed that a well-known Rolling Stone photographer was the one who introduced him to and got him hooked on cocaine. I have no idea if he was telling
Continue readingI am cheap. Very cheap. That means that I’m a bargain hunter. I like used books and cheap clothes. I prefer to buy American but, if my pocketbook tells me that America isn’t a good deal, I’ll usually follow my pocketbook. Usually, but not always. If buying something from another
Continue readingForty-one years too late, but it’s finally happening: Harvard University is welcoming the Reserve Officer Training Corps program back to campus this week, 41 years after banishing it amid dissent over the Vietnam War. The Cambridge, Mass., school’s change in policy follows the decision by Congress in December to repeal
Continue readingMy condolences to the family and friends of the two airmen killed in Germany. And my best wishes for a safe and speedy recovery for the two airmen who are seriously wounded. And a plague and a pox on the media which tries so desperately to hide that this was
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Continue readingI love my son dearly and he dearly loves me right back. He’s bright, exceptionally well-coordinated and, if I do say so myself, he’s very good-looking. He’s also selfish, hyper-competitive, lazy, ill-mannered and a total slob. I have been working for years on all those traits and there has definitely
Continue readingI keep getting called away by real life, so let me quickly apprise you of two posts I think you’d enjoy. The first is at Wolf Howling. WH is inaugurating a series examining 15 battles that were turning points in history. His first post is about the Battle of Chipyong-ni,
Continue readingI am deeply suspicious of studies showing that America’s veterans are in worse shape — more drug addicted, more alcoholic, more insane, suicidal, more homeless — than the rest of the population. I was sold that bill of goods in the post-Vietnam era and it was a lie, meant to
Continue readingMay I quote myself, writing about the beautiful and moving Battle of Midway Commemoration in San Francisco last year? The event was a formal one, which is much more beautiful than a civilian black tie affair. The women, of course, presented a familiar and pleasing picture. They had on lovely
Continue readingGo to this post at Doug Ross’s site (a post that is kind enough to mention me), and look carefully at the picture of a clutch of US servicemen. If you click on the picture, it takes you to an Ace post that doesn’t mention the picture, so I don’t
Continue readingOkay, to be precise, this was a former Marine, but it was still a Marine to the rescue, in the wake of a street shooting in San Francisco’s Mission District. As a witness wrote: Hey. I live right at 20th and Dolores. I ran out the door on Friday night
Continue readingWhen I blogged about Capt. Owen Honors, I made the point that we cannot have delicate flowers in the military. Moral, decent people — yes. Delicate people — no. It turns out that at least some of the gays and lesbians serving on the USS Enterprise fully understood this point.
Continue readingBecause I was away, I missed the whole first impact of the Owen Honors thing, but for glimpsing a horrified PC headline on CNN while waiting for a flight. That millisecond of MSM-manufactured finger-pointing was enough to clue me in to the fact that, if CNN disapproved, I probably wouldn’t
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