Month: July 2010

It appears that Present obama is suffering an extreme drop in value when it comes to his fund raising abilities. Pres. Obama is the best fundraiser the Dem Party has, but his drawing power is way down from its peak during the ’08 campaign. Obama is heading to MO and NV today to raise money…

In an amusing and thoughtful piece, Jonah Goldberg looks at the supreme condescension behind the hiring of Dave Weigel to “cover” conservatism. Here’s the subtext — lurking inside what Goldberg calls “the ballad of David Weigel, a blogger for The Washington Post, briefly assigned to cover the ‘conservative beat’”: What is the conservative beat? According…

God bless Justin for ruining my day by telling me about a wonderful family friendly film titled “The Kids Are All Right.” The plot is fairly simple: Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their birth father into their family life. The parents are lesbians (played by Julianne Moore and Annette Bening) and as to…

Justin (who used to blog here but who for reasons I can’t fathom stopped) has often been a helpful source of post ideas, for he knows how to find things which are certain to fiendishly irritate me. For example, yesterday he told me about San Francisco’s plan to ban the sale of pets in pet…

You learn something new every day. Congress failed to reapportion following the 1920 Census. The failure was in part the result of a difference of opinion over the method of dividing political power. Throughout the 1920s, Congress debated which of two mathematical models for reapportionment–whose outcomes for distribution of House seats differed–would be used. In…

What martyrdom is greater than making yourself a human bomb detonating it among the enemy? What spiritualism is greater than this spiritualism in which a person loses all feeling of his body and life for the sake of his cause and mission? — Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hezbollah, who…

One of my pet peeves has long been the movement to abolish pets, and ultimately, all ownership of animals. I have blogged about this so many times that I probably sound like a broken record, but today I learned that San Francisco is seriously considering banning the sale of all pets — except fish: Sell…

More than six billion humans face extinction every year. And every year millions die. If the death rate accelerates it is hard to predict the overwhelmingly catastrophic consequences. Inspired by Ecologist who says: More than 25% of flowers face extinction – many before they are even discovered I wonder if he didn’t spell his name…

From the YouTube page. connvee3 October 24, 2009 FACEBOOK: If you’re on Facebook, JOIN their page as a fan…I wanted to do the full version 11 min. but youtube says No -10min only. So here it is, a few cut here and there. Also, my uncles are doing well in So. Cal. They have a…

There’s a new book out by WorldNetDaily bigwig Joseph Farah, titled “The Tea Party Manifesto: A Vision for an American Rebirth.” While I have not read it, if what Farah says here is any indication, I think the book is his attempt to redefine the Tea Parties and basically glom onto* a movement started by…

I learned about this interesting form of Sardinian polyphonic music today, and I’m sorry it took me so long, because I find it nothing short of amazing. A tenore is practised by groups of four male singers each of whom has a distinct role; the oche or boche (pronounced /oke/ or /boke/, “voice”) is the…

I wish I hadn’t been forced to watch this painful YouTube video showing Liza Minnelli hawking her wares on the HSN, but I did, mainly because a friend emailed me the link and beseeched me to get through it to hear a great line from a caller. Sure enough, at approximately 4:15 – 4:20 thew…

The TSA (Transportation Safety Administration) has decided to block — as “inappropriate for government access” — all Internet websites which contain “controversial opinion.” I have no idea whether that would include ClassicalValues.com. Are the opinions here controversial? What does that mean? An opinion that is controversial? Or an opinion about a controversial issue? Or are…

If you were looking for my regular bikini edition go here. I have pretty much refrained from blaming Obama for the mess in the gulf. But his ineptness and failure to waive the Jones act as Bush did for Katrina pretty much hangs this bird around Obama’s neck. Especially when you consider that bioremediation technology…

I realize that this is an old issue, but still, I have a lingering question. By what standard are Pat Robertson’s pronouncements (that the Haitian earthquake was God’s punishment for Haitian voodoo) ridiculous, while sanctimonious scoldings by environmentalists are seen as valued insights into the human condition? Seriously, check these ravings out: …The British tabloid…

The Detroit Free Press has an article today about a homeowner in the Detroit suburb of Inkster who fatally shot one of two thugs who invaded his home in the wee hours of the morning: An Inkster homeowner fatally shot a man who had broken into his house early this morning, according to police. Two…

Glenn Reynolds has an enormously potent piece up on the Second Amendment and how activism overturned the conventional wisdom, with lessons for the Tea Party movement at a time when the expansion of government seems not just inexorable and deeply entrenched in our political culture, but at times a sort of immutable natural law.

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news story of the sort I’ve seen many times. So many times that it might as well be generic. A small child was killed by his mother’s boyfriend: A 21-year-old Nicetown man, who police said fatally struck a toddler he had been disciplining, was formally charged Sunday with murder. Malik…

What do you do when it’s the Fourth of July and you have a blog but don’t have anything to say? Say “HAPPY 4TH!” I guess. And supply some completely useless but entertaining trivia, in the form of fun facts I want to be true! Did you know that…. The Taft’s owned the last presidential…