Author: Bookworm

Finding meaning in the dustpan — or how Little Women, housekeeping, socialism and capitalism are all related

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Believe it or not, in an act of near heroic intellectual prestidigitation, I’m going to explain to you how Little Women, housekeeping, socialism and capitalism are all related. Or at least I’m going to try. Here goes: One of my all time least favorite movies is the 1994 version of Little Women. It is a […]

 

The Left transforms Civil Rights, so that it’s no longer freedom FROM government, but total control BY government

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Civil rights are much discussed lately, primarily because Progressives with bully-pulpits are furious that Glenn Beck held a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s famous civil rights rally at that same location. To hear them tell it, in the wake of the “Civil Rights Movement,” civil rights are […]

 

I know a shallow intellect when I see it — or why Obama’s carpet and Jan Brewer’s brain freeze are two sides of the same coin

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When I was in high school, I developed a trick to make myself look smarter. I learned the beginning of a few key quotations, all tied into the classical literary or historic canon. At appropriate moments in a conversation, I’d start the quote, and then quickly trail off, as if I didn’t want to bore […]

 

Helping American Jews learn to give Sarah Palin the love she deserves

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Israel has no greater friend than Sarah Palin. She has shown repeatedly that she has a deep and abiding respect for the Jewish state, and that she understands the existential stresses under which it survives. Benyamin Korn gets this and, despite incredible derision from Jewish Democrats, has begun working to build a Jewish coalition recognizing […]

 

New country discovered at the Marin County Fair

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I spent yesterday at the Marin County Fair. It was, for the most part, a very pleasant experience and could have been any county fair, anywhere in America. The kids wanted to spend all their time on the midway, standing in long hot lines, spinning to the point of acute nausea, and being suspended upside […]

 

Memorial Day Post: The Warriors Among Us

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Several years ago, as part of a 9/11 commemoration, I wrote the following words in connection with a post I did about Lt. Brian Ahearn, one of the New York fire fighters who perished on that day: My son, who is seven, is obsessed with superheroes. His current favorite is Superman. After all, when you’re […]

 

Redefining the term racist so that it suits ME

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Horrified by the fact that the American people are not dancing in the streets now that Obama Care is the law of the land, the Left is doing what it does best: tarring and feathering anyone who stands in its way. The current libel is that people who oppose Obama Care are racist. These foaming-at-the-mouth […]

 

Did you know that the Tea Party Express is rolling?

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Although the Bay Area has a fierce core of conservatives, it is certainly not a bastion of the Tea Party movement. Many of us, like butterflies newly released from a chrysalis, are for the first time delicately flapping the wings of our ideology. We’re not out on the streets in vast numbers, although the success […]

 

Leftist tactics to scare the uninformed about America’s religious freedoms

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I got a very hysterical form letter from Americans United for Separation of Church and State. What’s impressive about it is that Barry Lynn, the Executive Director who purportedly authored this fevered screed, is totally uninformed about the nature of America’s Constitutional mandates regarding religion. Here’s what the First Amendment says: Congress shall make no […]

 

The paradoxical effect of my “liberal” education

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I’m having a minor mid-life crisis. I’ve been a practicing lawyer for almost 23 years now. I’m quite good at what I do, but I hate it. And lately, it’s been getting harder and harder to flog myself into getting the work done and meeting the deadlines. (Although I should assure any current or potential […]

 

Watch the Democratic dominoes fall

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There is a lot of talk about whether, looking ahead to the 2010 elections, we’re looking at 1980, or 1994, or 1932 or some other American political year that I can’t even think of right now. I actually think we’re looking at a different year altogether: 1989. As you may recall, 1989 was a big […]

 

Do they even listen to themselves?

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My husband attended a professional multi-day seminar at an Ivy League university.:  One of the classes he attended touched directly upon the work he does day in and day out.:  The teacher for this seminar is a professor at the Ivy League institution.:  As one of the premier “experts” in his field, he is an […]

 

Zombie decimates attempts to defend Kevin Jennings

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Part I::  Kevin Jennings, as you recall, is Obama’s Safe Schools Czar. He’s the one who came under fire because (a) he boasts in his autobiography about giving a 15 year old gay boy safe sex advice regarding a sexual relationship with an adult man, as opposed to dealing with a statutory rape problem and […]

 

What’s not to like about the Blue Angels?

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You know it’s been a good evening when Mom, Dad, and the kids all leave a party ebullient. The party in question was a fund-raising reception aboard the USS Hornet (and co-sponsored by the Bay Area TAILHOOK Ready Room), which is a floating museum. The guests of honor were members of the Blue Angels team. […]

 

Getting past the “idiot,” “nuts” and “wacko” factor so that liberals have their moment of cognitive dissonance

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I’ve been thinking a lot about responses to my post regarding the gal who is running for town council, the one who donated to Obama, and who nevertheless seems to be a fiscal conservative. I asked how she can live with the cognitive dissonance. Several of you pointed out, in one form or another, that […]

 

Obama keeps Hitler analogy in the public eye

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Is Obama telling a true story or not? I don’t know and with Obama’s credibility gap, it’s impossible to tell. It doesn’t matter, though. What does matter is that, by relaying this anecdote, Obama is keeping alive the Obama/Hitler analogy: President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last night, discussing false claims made […]