Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
This is a mish-mash, hodge-podge, portmanteau of a post, throwing together a whole lot of things. I’m sorry for the prolonged silence here. December is family month which, now that my children are grown, is quite lovely. My daughter and niece, along with their respective boyfriends arrived last week, and
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The Roman Empire, Ivan the Terrible, Council of Nablus, Medici Bank, Don Quixote, Act of Union, Midnight Battle, Civil Service, Samoa, Iran Major Events on January 16 27 B.C. – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the end of the Roman Republic
Continue readingBrett Kavanaugh and Kanye West have combined to make sure that the 2018 midterm election will not be a normal one. . . . what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? — William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming, 1919 Many things
Continue readingThe IPCC’s latest just in time for Halloween Everything about the global warming movement is a scam designed to transfer the wealth and political power of the West generally and the U.S. in particular into the hands of socialist apparatchiks at the U.N. It has always been so. The most
Continue readingWas it a surprise to you that Egypt went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Was it a surprise to you that Libya went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Was it a surprise to you that Tunisia went Islamist? It wasn’t to me. Has it been a surprise to you over
Continue readingIs our democracy germinating the seeds of its own destruction? Alexis de Toqueville warned, “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” That day has come. It is not yet gone. Democracy in ancient Athens lasted about 250
Continue readingYou’ve already seen this video at a million internet sites, but I want it on mine too. I think Scott Brown made a statement that transcends Massachusett’s politics and should remind each and every American that we are a government “by the People,” not by the politicians: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEQHOnI2Q[/youtube] As you’ve
Continue readingA few days ago, I quoted from some representatives saying that those attending town halls are an ill-informed mob that must be ignored. The editors at National Review nicely sum up the Democratic party attitude and its profoundly anti-democratic meaning (links omitted): President Obama likes to pose as the tribune
Continue readingWe do not live in a genuine democracy, which would see people vote on every single issue. Instead, we have a representative democracy — we get to vote on which individuals we’d like to see represent us in government. People who want to hold those jobs (that is, the candidates)
Continue readingThe hell with democracy. In post-Blairite England, the Labour government is now demanding that gays be represented in parliament in numbers proportionate to their numbers amongst the general public: Controversial Government backed plans for a massive increase in the number of gay MPs are being opposed by Commons Speaker Michael
Continue readingOne of the things that puts the Kumbi-ya crowd into an absolute frenzy is President Bush’s refusal to deal directly with murderous dictators. Forgetting the example set by Neville “Peace in Our Time” Chamberlain, this crowd is certain that, if they can just wrest a smile from someone evil, they’ll
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