Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
David Burge (aka Iowahawk) reduces the insanity at Fort Hood to a mere 22 perfect and pithy words. (Hat tip: Caped Crusader.) Imagine, if you will, that what happens at one of these bases isn’t one crazed gunman or disaffected Islamist but is, instead, a sustained, surprise paramilitary attack. Will
Continue readingThe Taliban has hit Marin County (indirectly). Marin County is headquarters for Roots of Peace, an admirable charity that seeks to advance agricultural development in poverty-stricken areas. It has an outpost in Afghanistan, where it seeks to enable the Afghani people to feed themselves. The Taliban can’t have that kind
Continue readingI have learned something about myself over the past 5.5 weeks: I will never master crutches. After all this time, I still fall going up the stairs, get vertigo going down the stairs, topple over when trying to reach light switches, get abrasions on my skin, and exhaust my injured
Continue readingThis could be real . . . or not. It’s so deeply, horribly wrong, maybe it’s a hoax:
Continue readingIt turns out that even in Progressive Marin County, law-abiding residents want to carry guns on their persons. In the weeks since the 9th Circuit (!) held that county’s cannot condition concealed-carry permits on the sheriff’s determination that the applicant has made a credibly showing that he or she is
Continue readingI have to return to my perpetual motion machine, but before I do, I wanted to throw out a few quick links to things I thought were interesting. Second Amendment supporters cheered when the 9th Circuit (the 9th Circuit!!!) ruled that counties cannot concealed-carry licenses by reserving to themselves the
Continue readingHat tip: Caped Crusader UPDATE: If something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Thanks to Earl, I know that Washington actually said this: “A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety
Continue readingI have not spent my time wisely today, but there are some things that crossed my radar that I think you’d like: It’s not just because Mike McDaniel was kind enough to link to me that I bring to your attention his long, thoughtful article about gun ownership. I’m suggesting
Continue readingIt turns out that someone I’ve known for yours is, in fact, a conservative. We were both pleasantly surprised to find that we had that in common. He recently forwarded me an email with two telling sentences. I’ve seen both of these wandering around the internet, but for some reason
Continue readingMike McDaniel, who blogs at Stately McDaniel Manor, is one of the blogosphere’s go-to guys when it comes to guns. Not only does he know his stuff, he’s a wonderful writer. Today, he’s brought his knowledge and skills to bear on the recently released final report about Adam Lanza’s attack
Continue readingThere’s so much good stuff out there on Mondays. All the pent-up writer’s instinct and energy from the weekend seems to pour over into this day. Here’s some of that good stuff: Camille Paglia points out the obvious: it’s false that a woman without a man is like a fish
Continue readingIf you read one thing today, it’s this Ace of Spades post, in which Gabriel Malor spells out every incident in which the media tried, wrongly, to pin a shooting on the Tea Party. Reading the list, you begin to realize what the problem is with mass shootings: it’s not
Continue readingThere are very few bad Fred Astaire movies, but there are a few. You’ll Never Get Rich definitely falls into that category. Even Rita Hayworth, who is at her most lovely, cannot save this pathetic wreck of a movie. The plot is convoluted, which is normal for an Astaire movie,
Continue readingA rising San Francisco tech yuppie said what all the hard-working young San Franciscans think about the homeless and derelicts who swarm San Francisco’s streets but that none dare to say aloud. (I remember well the quiet grumbling about the homeless back in my young days as a downtown yuppie,
Continue readingCommercials — they’re big money in America and they’re super-dooper big money at the Super Bowl. For the upcoming Super Bowl, advertisers are paying $3.8 million dollars per 30 seconds of air time for commercials. You know what commercial you won’t see, though? One supporting the Second Amendment. Here’s the
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