Andrew Sullivan, an unabashed Obama Republican, offers ten reasons why conservatives should vote for Obama next week. I can’t blame the guy for trying. And he’s got some good points. But he’s got some weak ones, too. Read Sully first… Continue Reading
While tracking the football game tonight on Yahoo! Sports, I periodically saw this advertisement flash on the screen. It looked odd to me but I wasn’t paying much attention to it. Then I stopped to try and scan the box… Continue Reading
In terms of largely economic policy, Pete Du Pont’s alarmist forecast for the Obama Administration sounds pretty expensive to me: So where is the new Obama administration likely to take us? Seven things seem certain: The U.S. military will withdraw… Continue Reading
The First Amendment protects all sorts of people. Including neo-nazi skinheads. But what it doesn’t protect is a plot to murder someone. Particularly if that someone is about to become, or has just become, the President of the United States.… Continue Reading
I want to eat at their house.
My pledge to move on to issues other than Prop. 8 hasn’t lasted very long, I’m afraid. An old friend, a lawyer, wrote me today after reading the blog. He indicated, quite convincingly, that he agreed with me that same-sex… Continue Reading
Usually, when the prosecution in a case is caught fabricating evidence, and the judge instructs the jury to that effect, that leaves the defense a pretty good argument. When the jury then independently finds exculpatory evidence that everyone — prosecutor,… Continue Reading
A sub-issue in the campaign this year has been what the proper role for the Vice President should be. It’s difficult to remember a time that the Vice President took a passive role in the government. Certainly the last two… Continue Reading
I’ve surveyed the hitcounter on the blog, and the search terms people use that bring hits. Until about ten days ago, the most common search term resulting in a hit was something that included the word “pterodactyl.” Pterodactyl searchers rarely… Continue Reading
This is the base of a dish that can be varied in countless different ways. There are as many recipes for risotto as there are cooks who make it. Making risotto is not hard work. But it is time-consuming. And… Continue Reading