Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Will 100 of you check out the USO’s website? You don’t have to give, although I think you’ll want to after seeing the site. (I certainly did: that is, I wanted to and I gave.) And if we all give $10 (or $1 or $100), we’ve made a difference.
Continue readingDid you know that the last Sunday in September is Gold Star Mother’s Day, which is a day meant for Americans to honor mothers who have lost a son or daughter who was serving in the United States Armed Forces? It won’t surprise you, I’m sure, to learn that, on
Continue readingI’m very conflicted about gays serving openly in the military. To me, the military is an institution that must function optimally. It’s mission cannot be compromised to satisfy social experimentation. Nevertheless, gays have served and will continue to serve with distinction — provided that they keep secret a significant part
Continue readingMy thoughts and prayers are with their families and friends.
Continue readingCan’t get better than this analysis of Commander-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama: It is quite revealing that this most profligate of presidents — whose spending is nearly limitless when it comes to health care, stimulus packages, bailouts, and non-defense discretionary program — has found his inner Barry Goldwater when it comes
Continue readingThe media is very disappointed that a defense spending bill went down in flames, not over the question of spending, but over the issue of DADT. The headline at Politico says it all: Senate Republicans block ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal. You see, Republicans hate gay people. Really, really hate
Continue readingI know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed. I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little
Continue readingThree more weeks to my favorite week of the year — Fleet Week. Yay! Up until a few years ago, Fleet Week was fun. Now, thanks to the Navy League, Fleet Week stands out as a time when I get to visit a world that is not only completely different
Continue readingWhile I was away, Don Quixote did a post at this site about the way in which clients, witnesses and attorneys will happily commit perjury to advance their case. In conversation with him yesterday, I opined that part of the problem is the oath people take in American courtrooms. In
Continue readingAs the last part of our Alaska cruise, which started and ended in Seattle, we went to the Museum of Flight. I wrote about our museum visit here, and mention this earlier post because I wrote that all four of us were riveted by the monitor playing fairly extended interviews
Continue readingClifford May beautifully explains the fact that Jihadis, who use violence, and Islamists, who use more subtle means, are both threats to the West — and he manages to mention, too, why reform isn’t happening: Terrorism is not the core of the problem. It is merely the weapon of choice
Continue readingI was thinking about the Pentagon’s constant desire for money so that it can have bigger and better weapons. Anti-War people tend to write this off as institutional greed, sublimated violence, and an indecent expression of “big boys and their bigger toys.” I tend to have a very different view
Continue readingOne of the best things we did on our vacation was something we slotted in during the short time we had between arriving in Seattle at the end of our cruise and boarding our plane for home. During those few hours, we went to the Museum of Flight, which is
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Continue readingAlthough it’s been open for more than a year now, I went for the first time today to the newly rebuilt California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. My visit there was an interesting contrast to my first visit, some years ago, to the newly rebuilt De Young Museum
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