So, an analyst looks at the June Boom in the economy and declares it practically perfect in every way – a Mary Poppins Economy. It’s never wise to say such things, no matter how much you want to believe it. I think I am with Bizzy Blog on this one. While it’s good to hear someone in the press actually saying something positive re the economy, this is the sort of statement that begs disproving. Sometimes, less is more. Read more
Found this via Closed Cafeteria and thought it was great. Paul Johnson writes in Forbes: Of all the fundamentalist groups at large in the world today, the Darwinians seem to me the most objectionable. They are just as strident and closed to argument as Christian or Muslim fundamentalists, but unlike those two groups the Darwinians enjoy intellectual respectability. Darwinians and their allies dominate the scientific establishments of the West. They rule the campus. Their militant brand of atheism makes them... Read more
One of the reasons I had to leave the Democrat party, after a lifetime, was because I couldn’t stomach the double-standards anymore. Just as I couldn’t stand to hear that the lesbian seduction of a 13 year old girl in the play The Vagina Monologues was considered a “good” rape (the play has now re-written the girl’s age to 16, but it’s still “good”), I cannot stand it when the supposedly tolerant left outs a gay person. There is never... Read more
Like others, I’d really hoped we were done hearing about or commenting on Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, but Mike at Uncorrelated has a round-up and some commentary that really can’t be ignored as he wonders -as many have wondered – why no one is talking about the apparent conspiracy that had a CIA agent and former ambassador working together (and hard) to file a report which – upon investigation – has proved false, false, false? Wilson/Plame conspired to create... Read more
A GREAT Cartoon, courtesy of Gateway Pundit The Pro-America demonstrations range from one fellow standing alone in Sweden, to a few folks who seem to be enjoying themselves very much in Denmark. Read more
There are reviews of Harry Potter all over the blogosphere, many with spoilers. I think Ed Morrissey has written the best, most succinct review – giving little away but a hearty recommendation. I’m about 2/3 of the way through the book, and I concur with his opinions, completely – particularly his observations that Rowlings’ writing skills are much improved, overall, and that the story seems quite relevant to our modern times, rather than with WWII. I also admire, quite simply,... Read more
I am not much of a fiction reader; I tend to stick to biographies, and what fiction I do read is classic stuff (Pride and Prejudice, Catch-22, Brede, Wodehouse books) that I’ve read before or the Potter series. For that reason I know little about the “Left Behind” series beyond that they are novels which portray “end times” scenarios based on the Book of Revelation, and other books of the bible. I understand they’re pretty popular. Jeanette has written a... Read more
If you are too modest or delicate to read about these errr…sizable matters…please do skip this post. Wonder what I am talking about? Well, it begins tamely enough. At the end of a long and probably very boring formal dinner in honour of the retirement of the President of France, Charles de Gaulle, British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, turned to Madame de Gaulle and asked politely what she was looking forward to in her retirement. Quick as a flash the... Read more
Michael Barone has a must read in US News: So the deficit—the federal budget deficit—is declining sharply, more sharply than just about anyone in mainstream media anticipated. According to figures from the Office of Management and Budget, the deficit is projected to decline from $412 billion in 2004 to $333 billion in 2005, a 19 percent decline. OMB further projects, obviously with less certitude, that it will decline to $162 billion in 2008. If so, that will mean that George... Read more
Neo-neocon points to an excellent piece by Vanderleun, on the power of prayer. They both have good things to say. Vanderleun says: It is only recently that I’ve come, in my dotage, to see that prayer — even unheard or unanswered — can be a powerful intellectual force in one’s life. And by this I mean prayer in its most personally humiliating and elevating form: down on the knees and speaking out loud. Daily. Very abasing and very uplifting at... Read more
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