***Bumped to top for today*** Check below for new posts! My very dear Father-in-Law had a stroke just about one month ago, and while he came through it extremely well, his vision was so severely afflicted that he was no longer able to drive, or to build the unique toys he loves to make for his grandchildren, or to pick up a hammer or a measuring tape to help a neighbor. “You’re lucky to be alive and mentally intact,” his... Read more
Some blogs and articles I wanted to direct youse guys to: Dave Justus has not one but two really good pieces up here about oil shale and here about why we must stay in Iraq. I don’t link to Dave enough – he’s a good guy. Like Theodore Darlrymple? Don’t know who he is? Well, he’s just GREAT – a prison doctor who packs enormous common sense and intelligence into everything he writes and Jamie Glazov got to interview him.... Read more
It is a little mind blowing to me that Cindy Sheehan arrived in Washington with 30 supporters – Yes, 30 – and yet this pathetic media-creation is weilding enough power to get Hillary Clinton and John McCain to meet with her. Sen. Clinton’s decision to meet with Sheehan flies in the face of her attempts to reposition herself as a pro-defense Democrat – although lately she’s been scrambling to appeal to her party’s left-wing base. The McCain meeting, however, is... Read more
THIS is SO COOL! Alright, all you people who like to go camping, who are involved with scouting, who get bored waiting for your kids to finish sports practice or who LIVE IN HURRICANE ZONES, listen up! This is for you! The Outdoor Bible just showed up in my mailbox today, and it’s way cool! It is the entire NT in six volumes (each the size of a road map) which can be folded up and stuck into a backpack,... Read more
From Spanish Journalist Sebastian Villar Rodriguez. Europe died in Auschwitz I was walking along Raval (Barcelona) when all of a sudden I understood that Europe died with Auschwitz. We assassinated 6 million Jews in order to end up bringing in 20 million Muslims! We burnt in Auschwitz the culture, intelligence and power to create. We burnt the people of the world, the one who is proclaimed the chosen people of God. Because it is the people who gave to humanity... Read more
You would think he would always be right – given how well he supposedly knows her, but I can’t remember the last time Dick Morris was correct about anything pertaining to Hillary Clinton – he predicted she would NOT run for the Senate from NY and that if she did run, she’d lose. In this piece, Morris is wrong again. Polls show that 60 percent of New Yorkers do not want Hillary to run for president even as 55 percent... Read more
It was a brilliant cartoon, voiced by Jon Lovitz as a fat, hapless film critic who worked for a clueless Southern super-billionaire conglomerate type who made a big deal out of staying in shape and also had an animatronic singing “Country Bears” type of apparatus in his office. The billionaire’s name was Duke Phillips. But really, he should have been named Ted Turner: Here he is, talking with Wolf Blitzer about Kim Jon Il: WB: But look at the way... Read more
The Democrats have put themselves in quite a bind as concerns Chief Justice nominee John Roberts, and any further SCOTUS nominations which come before them. Because they had to play politics, they had to do the high-drama histrionics, they had to take an excellent candidate – one they admit to being excellent – and still screw around with their political games, they are quite possibly setting up a precedent that is going to turn around and bite them – bigtime... Read more
I had no idea so many Anchoress readers hailed from Texas, but my email box is crammed with missives from Texans who are bugging out in the face of Rita, shutting down their computers, loading their cars and evacuating. All are asking for prayers. You guys didn’t have to ask. I’m praying for everyone in this storm’s path…and praying that by some miracle, its strength may lessen. Actually, tomorrow I will be starting a fasting/prayer day for everyone concerned. Meanwhile,... Read more
I like this piece by Jon Pitts in the Baltimore Sun That prospect harks back to her Texas childhood. Having listened in on Little Women – and sobbed with her mother when the character Beth died – the future first lady went on to discover other Louisa May Alcott works, including Jo’s Boys and Little Men. She identified with Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie – “we had the same name, and we both had brown hair,”... Read more
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