Financial headlines this morning said U.S. stocks were soaring. Why? (emphasis mine) Stocks jumped Friday, setting the stage for a four-session winning streak, after a sharp jump in existing-home sales and some encouraging economic data out of Europe. First let me say that I’m always skeptical of these financial press explanations of why stock indices […]
Writer Neil Steinberg and I seem to be on the same wavelength. As it happens we’re also the same age. Over at the Political Mavens site, Neil writes: Gee, have I really been listening to these goofs celebrate themselves for only 40 years? Because it feels like 400. Doesn’t the self-regard and self-significance make you […]
British columnist Janice Turner says “Yes” to the question above in an op-ed for The Times of London. As the headline of her piece makes evident, Turner is bristling at criticism of the British National Health Service which has become a part of the debate over health care here: “America has no right to speak […]
Some genius decided to try to decipher Joe Cocker’s performance of “A Little Help From My Friends” from the Woodstock movie. Then he created subtitles. It’s awesome. Go here.
Forty years ago today, the Woodstock music festival began. Woodstock has been so romanticized by the current ruling elites (media and political) that the reality no longer bears much resemblance to the myth. A reverent and fawning documentary last night only reminded me of all that was ugly and idiotic about the thing and I […]
Our Kenya girl turns 18 tomorrow (but it’s already tomorrow there so I guess it’s already her birthday.) Here are a few pictures she’s sent along recently:
From the Assyrian International News Agency: In a dramatic session before the revolutionary court this past weekend, documented by Elam Ministries, Maryam Rustampoor (27) and Marzieh Amirizadeh (30) were told to recant their faith in Christ. Though great pressure was put on them, both women have refused to give in. Maryam and Marzieh were originally […]
Blogger Doc Zero has a short piece over at Hot Air today that attempts to explain to bewildered Washington progressives who all these strange people are who keep showing up in large numbers to give their congressman an earful about the Dems socialized medicine boondoggle. After all, what kind of crazy people are against “free” […]
I missed her arrival. Daughter #3 was two-and-a-half weeks early and I was 800 miles away in Minneapolis, house hunting, when she insisted on making her entrance. Or exit, I guess I should say. From the beginning, the child never has been much for waiting. In the Summer of ’93, we knew we were going […]
Liberal Yankee-Land is being invaded and slowly subverted . . . by evangelicalism. So reports the Christian Science Monitor: Evangelicals March North Hallelujah religion is a-rising in Yankee country. As liberal congregations die in a secularizing region, conservative churches with roots outside New England are replacing them with a passionate brand of faith that emphasizes […]
