I’ve always enjoyed Ron Silver as an actor — but now I admire him for his humor as well: The presidential electoral cycle is upon us. That means conventions. Conventions have platforms. I propose a platform that will make the world like us again. Just like they always did. It may take 12 steps to […]
Gerard Vanderleun — who was just across the river from Manhattan, in Brooklyn Heights, when the WTC was hit — has posted his own memories of that day: The Wind in the Heights Notes made on September 11, 2001 — Brooklyn Heights I’ll simply link to my posts from last year, as well as Bruce […]
As I’ve noted elsewhere, I’m a bit of a political junkie, and one of the great political spectacles is the national redistricting that occurs every 10 years — after the Federal Census — and sometimes more often than that. So it has been fascinating to run across The ReDistricting Game, a browser-based Flash game that […]
Now the real race has started. Giuliani is still my top pick, but Thompson should make the whole race more interesting. Between the Iraq Surge and the still-unraveling Hsu scandal (involving 83 — count ’em — 83 Democrats), I think the ’06 Democratic Wave has reached its crest. I will not only fearlessly predict (against […]
Baron Bodissey [nice pen name, since I happen to know where it comes from] does an excellent job of laying out what he calls the Ten Postulates of Political Correctness: 1. America is uniquely evil. 2. America is never justified in defending itself. 3. Illiterate people from poor societies are superior to Americans. 4. The […]
My wife is off in Utah, helping out on the birth of our (let’s see now…) ninth grandchild, so I filled in for her at church conducting music during the sacrament meeting. Our closing hymn was “The Star-Spangled Banner”, and while I managed to keep conducting through the entire hymn (three verses), I only sang […]
I can be silent no longer. This post has caused me to question all I know about the horrible destruction I have witnessed on film repeately. We need the Truth: … 3) Why was the rebel pilot who supposedly destroyed the Death Star reported to be on the Death Star days, maybe hours, prior to […]
Rudy Giuliani has just released what he calls his ‘Twelve Commitments to the American People’ [link updated]: I will keep America on offense in the Terrorists’ War on Us. I will end illegal immigration, secure our borders, and identify every non-citizen in our nation. I will restore fiscal discipline and cut wasteful Washington spending. I […]
One of the persistent myths with which the barking moonbat left comforts itself is that the military largely comprises low-IQ, knuckle-dragging grunts wearing tattoos that say “Kill them all…” without the “…and let God sort them out” punchline, men and women who lack any understanding of history, culture, or context. I wonder if any of […]
Socialized medicine at work [UPDATED 10/10/07]
[UPDATED 10/10/07 – 1747 MDT] As does this article: Canada’s Expectant Moms Heading to U.S. to Deliver Mothers in British Columbia are having a baby boom, but it’s the United States that has to deliver, and that has some proud Canadians blasting their highly touted government healthcare system. “I’m a born-bred Canadian, as well as […]
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