Just when you start thinking David Brooks’ conservative sensibilities have been dulled by whatever they put in the drinking water there at the New York Times, he comes up with this awesome piece of punditry. (hat tip: Fergus) An excerpt: Recently we were uplifted when the president informed Chrysler’s secured creditors that they had agreed […]
We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled […]
Today Female Offpring Unit #2 graduates from high school. At 17 years and 9 months of age, she is the youngest in her class. And yet in many ways she has one of the older souls. I was the same way. I was even younger on graduation day — 17 and 7 months — but […]
Britain’s most famous (and blunt) car buff drives the new Honda Insight and shares: It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more. Read the whole amusing thing here.
Observant readers will have noticed I’ve added my middle initial to the way I identify myself on this blog and elsewhere. It is one the accomodations to my emerging status as a Tyndale House author. Toward the end of the writing process, I was asked how I wanted my name on the cover of the […]
Over the last few days, a feisty but collegial debate has been underway over at NRO’s “The Corner” over the value of conservative talk radio in general and the pros and cons of Limbaugh-Hannity specifically. Jerry Taylor, a fellow at the CATO Institute with a specialty in environmental policy got things rolling with this post […]
It’s rainy and stormy here in North Texas again today. No complaints. Topping all the reservoirs off before the the annual High Pressure System parks itself directly over us for three months is a good thing. On some days in August, you can almost make out the giant “H” in the sky that is depicted […]
I know we’re supposed to be people of positive expectancy and sunny hope, but regular readers know that my expectations for the Obama presidency were low and grim. But I was wrong. The first 100 days were much, much worse than I could have imagined; the damage to our country deeper and more systemic than […]
It’s starting to feel like Summer. Low 90s and steamy today. It’s what we call “clam bake” weather around our house–you spend the day baking and feeling clammy. The term has also morphed into a verb, as in, “Ooooh, better not hug me, I’ve been outside and I’m clambaking.” Or, “Honey, turn the air down, […]
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