Putting up a “No Firearms Allowed” sign at the mall entrance doesn’t stop everyone from bringing guns inside — it only stops the law-abiding ones. Those law-abiding people are then left at the mercy of those who ignore the sign. This is so simple, so common-sense, yet the irony is that the left will use [...]
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I’m not much of a morning person, and I have a very difficult time getting up if there’s no light outside. That said, I generally exercise in the mornings before work, so on most mornings my alarm goes off at 6:20am. Usually 6:20am isn’t too bad, since it’s around dawn or sunrise.
This morning, sunrise was [...]
All I can say about Al Gore and the Peace Prize is this: The Nobel Peace Prize has Jumped the Shark. What does climate change hysteria even have to do with peace? The Nobel Peace Prize was on its way out when it was given to a Palestinian terrorist. Now, it has fully entered the [...]
Last month saw a significant drop in casualties in Iraq (reflecting a downward trend since the summer). Obviously, this is very good news. Yet, you wouldn’t know it by the mainstream media’s reporting. Of course, they’ll report any uptick in casualties on the front pages without hesitation. But the mainstream press is “unbiased”, right? They [...]
Here is an interesting article which argues that a Fred Thompson is not only desirable, but inevitable.
Conventional wisdom is hardening around the proposition that Fred Dalton Thompson is too lazy, ill-prepared, tired, old, lackluster, inexperienced, inconsistent and bald to make a successful run for President.
Of course, conventional wisdom rarely gets anything right. When it does, [...]
Opera n. A form of noise pollution that requires more talent than rap.
StrategyPage has an excellent op-ed today:
The major problem in Iraq is back in the United States. There, many politicians either don’t bother, or don’t want to believe, what is actually happening, and has happened, in Iraq. In a way, that makes sense. Because what is going on in Iraq is so totally alien to the [...]
Reading the rental classifieds would make you think that every place offered is much better than the student-infested dump you’re looking to move out of. Alas, it just ain’t so! Like all other advertising, the classifieds (and this includes such things as Craigslist) are crawling with euphemisms: soft words chosen by landlords to ease the [...]
Lately, the History Channel seems to have forgotten about history. Maybe their daytime programming is still history-oriented, but their prime-time programming has become quite skewed away from historical documentaries, and has embraced the Discovery Channel model: interesting shows, but not necessarily about history.
What happened to the historical programming? The History Channel used to show enough [...]
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