I’m not a native Californian, but my mom is, all four of my sisters are, two of my own children are, and frankly most of my extended family (on the Webster side) is. San Diego is pretty much the Webster home town, and I’ve lived in California a grand total of roughly 25 years, or […]
I ran across a blog entry this morning, Mark Steyn citing John Podhoretz regarding the uproar over the immigration bill being rushed through the Senate despite being incomplete, inconsistent and, by and large, incomprehensible. Here are the nested posts in full: Given his general antipathy to the National Review line on illegal immigration, I thought […]
[UPDATED 05/20/07 – 2056 MDT] First, thanks to Glenn for the Instalanche[tm]! And welcome all, however briefly it may be. Second, this comment from friedaK deserves to be called out: I was 6 years old when the war ended in Germany. Our little town was pretty close to where the Russians stopped and we were […]
Slate provides some simple animation for a recorded exchange (regarding ferret rights) between Giuliani and a caller back while Giuliani was mayor of NYC: In 1999, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani hosted a weekly call-in program. During one show, he responded to caller David Guthartz, a ferret-rights activist who was upset over city regulations making […]
Michael Barone (much as with Robert Samuelson) is one of my favorite social/political commentators because he bases his observations on actual facts rather than wishful thinking. He also probably knows more about state-by-state, county-by-county, precinct-by-precinct politics and demographics in the United States than anyone else alive. So when he talks about that subject, it’s worth […]
This is a wonderful video, but have something handy to wipe your eyes. Hat tip to Jules Crittenden. ..bruce..
Today’s Washington Post has an article about the resignation of Lawrence Small from his post as Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The following paragraph (on page 2 of the story) caught my eye: Small has also received $1.15 million in housing allowances over a six-year period in return for agreeing to use his 6,500-square-foot home […]
[Welcome to those coming over from Winds of Change! — additional comments at the end of this post] I haven’t seen 300 (the movie), though I own and have read Frank Miller’s graphic novel, as well as Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. More importantly, I also own and have read all of Herodotus’s The […]
Pat Dollard has been traveling to Iraq since late 2004, filming a documentary — “Young Americans” — about the actual soldiers serving over there and what they live with on a day-to-day basis. In so doing, Dollard has put his own life in danger on an ongoing basis. You’ll get a sense of that with […]
Why Memorial Day matters
My father and both of my grandfathers served in World War II. Dad survived Pearl Harbor, the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, and the invasion of Guam, as well as two tours of duty in Vietnam some 25 years later. My son Jon, my father’s namesake, now serves our country in the USMC and may deploy […]
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