Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Approximately every ten years, Marin County floods. Thinking back, the last big flood year in our neighborhood was around 2002 or 2003. I remember taking the kids down from the hill on which we live to the marshy flat-lands nearby. We waded through water that came up past our knees.
Continue readingYesterday, I posted about the result of California’s open primary in Marin: two Democrats running against each other for the California Assembly. My post was about the problem that this creates for those people whose party has been shut out of the election. The net effect of open primaries is
Continue readingThe theory behind Open Primaries is that it will encourage moderation in districts that are extremely Democrat or extremely Republican. Without Open Primaries, minority opposition votes are symbolic throwaway votes. Whoever is the majority candidate wins, regardless of the details of that candidate’s platform. With Open Primaries, which inevitably result
Continue readingI do not expect Marin to vote for Romney. Indeed, if I had to predict the race, I would say that Romney has a snowball’s chance in Hell of taking Marin. Nevertheless, something interesting is happening in Marin: No new bumper stickers. Marin-ites do have Obama/Biden bumper stickers, but they’re
Continue readingMarin County — blessed by nature and haven to the rich. It’s where I live. My house is blessed by nature and my neighborhood is a haven to the Marin middle class (a middle class that works ridiculously hard and pays obscene sums of money for the pleasure of living
Continue readingI got this picture while stopped in a traffic jam in Marin County: UPDATE: And on a related note, news you can use from Austin, Texas.
Continue reading‘Tis the season for local campaign literature. I usually toss these things in the circular file, unread. As a minority conservative in a massively Democrat/Progressive county, my votes are invariably wasted anyway. With Open Primaries, though, I’m starting to pay attention to this unsolicited reading material. So far, I’ve heard
Continue readingGeorge Lucas lives in Marin. Since he clearly hates to commute, he wanted to create a very beautiful movie studio on abandoned ranch land north of San Rafael. Both Marin NIMBYs and Marin regulators were up in arms. How dare George try to sully the pastoral beauty of that area.
Continue readingI am very, very proud of an old friend of mine. Like me, he’s a conservative in Marin. Unlike me, he’s burst out of the political closet. Tim Amyx will now be blogging on a weekly basis at the Mill Valley Patch, a local Marin online publication that comes out
Continue readingRoss, a town in Marin County, is a great place. The houses are gorgeous (I’ve been to a billionaire’s house there once and it was magnificent), the schools are superb, and the people take good care of themselves: exercise, healthy diets, good medical care. In a pre-Obama era, these are
Continue readingOne of the things that profoundly changed my thinking about religion and about liberalism was contrasting the belligerent anti-religious atmosphere in Berkeley with the tolerant Christian environment I encountered in Texas. This is not to say that all non-religious places are belligerently anti-religious, or that all Christian environments are tolerant.
Continue readingI own (or, rather, the bank and I own) a nice lot here in Marin County. I’ve got a pretty back yard with views of hills and water. When the trees at the back of my property get too tall, I hire a reputable tree trimming company to cut them
Continue readingNo, my post title to the contrary, I don’t actually want to be a Democratic political operative. Want I want to be is a speaker who can be pleasant, charming, and say nothing at all — and still get paid (at a guess) $30,000 per 90 minute speech. I can
Continue readingVictor Davis Hanson hits it out of the park with his post explaining why higher taxes are not the answer. Some of his twelve reasons are better than others, but all are worthy of your consideration. This is my favorite of the twelve, but I think you’ll like them all:
Continue readingA big issue in Marin is low income housing. Marin liberals feel guilty that they don’t have poor people living near them. Rather than hauling themselves into a nice slum, what they do is use legislative fiat to put poor people into the middle income neighborhoods of Marin. (Interesting, none
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