But it was really James Thurber who turned me on to this poem, which has been going through my head all day for obvious reasons: Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier On that pleasant morn of the early fall When Lee marched over the mountain wall; Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot, into […]

He is not a he, he is a she with boobs lopped off and testosterone that would increase the size of the clitoris and make it look more penis-like. Let’s be real here. A man cannot carry a baby. She was not born with ambiguous genitalia. This “dude” is not a dude. She is a […]

In Baghdad 1,215 Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen re-enlist in the US military on the 4th of July. Kind of says it all, doesn’t it? Fittingly, they took that oath in one of Saddam’s former palaces festooned with a huge American flag.

Although the Fourth of July is a great day to be alive for most Americans, it causes the bile to boil in moonbats’ veins, so that it seeps out through their pores in the most hideous displays. The appalling Chris Satullo is hardly the only example. Below are some lowlights from a seasonal piece at […]

“It has always been my contention that there is no sense in being in office if you don’t have the courage to do what is right, even if it is the most unpopular position in the world.” — Jesse Helms At one point in Helms’ life, he could fairly have been called a racist, but […]

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the “lilypad cities”: Photo courtesy: Solent News and Photos What the heck are they? Read on: At first glance, they look like a couple of giant inflatable garden chairs that have washed out to sea. But they are, apparently, the ultimate solution to rapidly rising sea levels. This […]

The deranged lawsuit of the day has been brought by Aaron Ferguson, a former accountant for Rachael Ray’s TV cooking show, who as an anorexic is demanding $1 million because Ms. Ray is allegedly hostile to his kind. According to court papers, Ray committed such unconscionable acts as stating that anorexics, who suffer from a […]

For all its warts and carbuncles, I’d still not want to live anywhere else. That’s because there’s still a will, in this great nation, to do what is right. And while we may disagree on what that is and how to go about it, that freedom to dissent, to argue, to rant and rave is […]

From CNN… Congress in 1974 set a national 55 mph speed limit because of energy shortages caused by the Arab oil embargo. The speed limit was repealed in 1995 when crude oil dipped to $17 a barrel and gasoline cost $1.10 a gallon. As motorists headed on trips for this Fourth of July weekend, gasoline […]

This was originally posted on Dean’s World around the last national election. It’s kind of a blogger’s little Conscience of a Conservative (hence I changed the words “think” to “once thought” in the third-to-last paragraph when posting this today, as my conscience demanded). It seemed as if this piece could perhaps be an appropriate bit […]

O’Connor federal courthouse Earlier this week I was here, in the stupidestly-designed courthouse on God’s brutally-baked brown desert earth — the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. It is truly a marvel of arrogance. Imagine being so utterly uninterested in anything besides how you’d like your box of Erector Set pieces to look […]

So today, I had the pleasure of seeing the Astros lose at the gorgeous Minutemaid Park. It was a pleasure, too. The company, two of my sweet cherubs (have I mentioned that I’m a breeder?) and the mad blogging Floridian Cassy Fiano escorted by her conservative, buff, national guardsman and even better, Texan boyfriend, made […]

Last month on my blog, I linked to Jack Shafer’s article in Slate, declaring Advantage: Michael Crichton: In 1993, novelist Michael Crichton riled the news business with a Wired magazine essay titled “Mediasaurus,” in which he prophesied the death of the mass media–specifically the New York Times and the commercial networks. “Vanished, without a trace,” […]

Or, maybe they just thought Faye Dunaway looked smokin’ hot brandishing a .38 snubnose in her cashmere sweater and beret. Making the rounds to promote his new book Nixonland, Rick Perlstein tells Reason: reason: You like to mix cultural history with political history. Bonnie and Clyde is one of the central texts in the book. […]

Via Confederate Yankee, a follow up story from Tuesday (here), which I took the liberty of redoing (yes, I had plenty of lazing around time before tee time of 3pm). WRAL Cool font, eh? Otherwise known as Have a great 4th of July, everyone!

Barack Obama in Fargo, ND today: “I’ve always said that the pace of withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability. That assessment has not changed,” he said. “And when I go to Iraq and have a chance to talk to some of the commanders […]

As an apparent prelude to restricting them, the governmedia has decided that even television sets exacerbate the imaginary global warming crisis: A gas used in the making of flat screen televisions, nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), is being blamed for damaging the atmosphere and accelerating global warming. […] The gas, widely used in the manufacture of flat […]

Wesley Clark certainly stepped in it over the weekend, Ed Morrissey writes: After decades in the news business, Bob Schieffer may have thought he’d heard it all — until yesterday on Face the Nation, when he interviewed Wesley Clark. Clark came as a surrogate for the Barack Obama campaign and attacked John McCain’s military service, […]

Bogged down with a failing health care system with huge waiting times, Brits are sure they’ve been saved by a new EU directive: Patients will be able to escape NHS queues by demanding treatment anywhere in the European Union without the prior approval of a doctor, under proposals to guarantee health rights unveiled today in […]

Late last year, when I reviewed Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism for the New Individualist magazine, I wrote: Goldberg does yeoman’s work researching and documenting material that the American left had consigned to the memory hole since 1945. By the 1970s, this pre-World War II past was considered hermetically sealed by liberals. As Goldberg writes, Ronald […]

One of moonbattery’s most pernicious effects is the way it warps priorities. In Britain, which has all but succumbed to the disease, authorities in the governmedia crack down on white people calling each other “honky“… A white man has been prosecuted for racially abusing three white security guards. Jonathan Wicks was taken to court for […]

If you’ve watched the news, you know about the little “missing” girl from Vermont. Well, her remains were found yesterday on her uncle’s property. Vermont, it turns out, has a wonderful sex offenders rehabilitation program. Daniel Goleman (of Primal Leadership fame) enthuses in the New York Times fifteen years ago: The sex offender treatment program […]

Has the media love affair with Obama ended? While they aren’t taking the harsh shots at him yet, they are quietly starting to take the “hmmm, we’re just wondering” type as of late. Case in point (sorry, long excerpt to start) Last fall, Barack Obama explained why he hadn’t been wearing an American flag pin […]

At some point or another, I bet we have all played the whisper a rumor game. That’s where you start with some sort of legitimate story, whisper it to one person, who repeats it to another, and so on around the circle, till it gets back to you, and you get to marval how much […]

Now that Sen. Barack Obama has become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, the media and punditocracy has focused their attention on the veepstakes. Speculation about Obama’s running mate reveals an enormous deficiency in the Democrats’ standard bearer. Most suggest that Obama needs someone with a military background, such as retired General Wesley Clark […]

We’re right in the middle of a feisty yet dreadfully dull election season — seriously, with patriot Obama and his patriot wife, I feel like I’m watching an endless loop of The Hope for Change Chronicles of Pretend Patriotism, where the story is stale, the acting is painful, and we’re all just commiserating over how […]

A big thank you to John for inviting me to post. Without further adieu, here goes: Love Thy Neighbor, the Farmer Finally! Someone is connecting the dots on how to please both lovers of the free market and lovers of the market. This Motley Fool piece is a great look at Wal-Mart and others who […]

Using planes as bombs worked so well on September 11, Muslim terrorists just might try it again: Private jets could be hijacked and used as “vehicle bombs” to target the public, the Government’s anti-terror chief has warned. Due to current lax security at small airports, such attacks would be “relatively simple” to orchestrate, according to […]

Investor’s Business Daily brings us the latest from probably the worst Majority Leader the Senate has seen in a very long time: The Dr. No of the drill-nothing Congress tried to deflect the issue of rising gas prices Monday by telling Fox Business News that there are costs we should worry about besides those stemming […]

Read Christopher Hitchen’s article and then come back and vote. His conclusion: I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: “If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.” Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. That being said, that’s not the real question, is it? […]