Virginia Right!

I read this in the Virginia Free Citizen and I thought at first:  This is too obvious to be true – the Free Citizen is the victim of an elaborate hoax. So I went to Senator Warner’s website and found the press release: Senator Warner Engages Virginia Students on Immigration Reform Releases lesson plan in […]

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Several months ago I wrote a couple of blog posts on the little-known fact about abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison – he was jailed in Baltimore for criminal libel for calling out a slave trader. Garrison is my beau ideal as an agitator (The Liberator would surely have been a blog today.  Sometimes I look […]

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I read with interest this report on the World Cup soccer tournament – how once again – the USA got hosed in the draw of teams and groups. Here’s the group the USA got this time: Group G: Germany – Third in 2010 and aims to build on positive vibe created by its dominant club […]

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I was astounded to read that this rare event – Thanksgiving and Hanukkah – might not occur again for 79,000 years!  Here’s why: Well, almost never. If the Jews don’t ever abandon the calculations based on the Shmuelian calendar, Hanukkah will keep getting later and later — moving through winter, then into spring, summer, and […]

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I wanted to wish my Jewish readers a most blessed Hanukkah!  One year we actually bought a Menorah and the proper candles to go with it.  We decided to wait until the last day and we carefully and reverently placed nine candles in the small Menorah and lit each one. SUDDENLY, whirr, whirr, whirr!  Too […]

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Thanks again to the Whited Sepulchre for inspiration as to the purpose of every man or woman. Here’s a blog post based on a few minutes near the end of the movie Saving Private Ryan.  For my readers who do not know the thesis behind this well-made but way too violent for my taste movie:  […]

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In the event I were to ever run for office as a Libertarian (or as a Republican for that matter) I would make this a part of my platform:  No DWI checkpoints in Virginia.  Period.  Stopping people at random at a checkpoint, however noble the intent, is contrary to the spirit and letter of the […]

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I do not have much time to blog today but I thought this report and blog is worth reading!  Here’s a highlight: Back in 2009, Rudd negotiated pointlessly for 40 hours, grabbing just one hour of sleep. This year’s Australian delegates don’t go for that sort of nonsense. “They made an intervention that late-night negotiations […]

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I was thrilled to read this story.  I would probably if this was some other respected leader having these views about sports shouting it loud and long! But it is Pope Francis.  And he deserves special respect.  So I will be guardedly enthusiastic about it.  But here is the Vatican report and another Catholic report […]

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First, I am embarrassed that I nearly missed another Waste Of Time, as I like to call UN Climate Conferences (Hey, where has YOUR mayor been lately?) and this one is in one of my favorite places I pray Jesus will allow me to go to:  Warsaw, Poland.  (I’d start first with the Ronald Reagan […]

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NCIS is a wildly popular TV show that I end up listening to at home.  I have documented earlier on this blog my concerns about the cavalier treatment on NCIS and its spinoffs, especially NCIS/LA, of suspects, especially terror suspects, as educating the people that a police state is not so bad.  (Hollywood who would […]

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There is an interesting article about the new Trotskyist elected to the Seattle City Council in the LA Times.  Here’s a highlight or two and my thoughts: “We don’t need the executives!” cried Seattle’s first elected Socialist in living memory, as the damp crowd cheered and rush-hour traffic hummed slowly by. “We need Boeing to […]

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It is now this time of year when we have survived Halloween and how firmly into the season of Hallmark holiday (Thanksgiving and Christmas [with probably a Hanukkah movie in too!] of course) movies – almost all great romances – boy meets girl in various situations and they end up a couple.  Harmless (well mostly […]

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I saw this report and so did my wife – she said, “You are going to blog about this thing, aren’t you?”  Since the correct answer is always, “Yes, dear,” here it is! The report, at both Gawker and Weighty Matters, is that a Manitoban mom, who packed her child’s lunch with roast beef, potatoes, […]

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Salon and Independent Political Report has a fascinating story about the first open socialist elected in decades to a big-city council – in that home of Starbucks, Seattle Washington.  And they don’t call it the Left Coast for nothing!  For the next two or four years, city council meetings will be reality TV for political […]

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I understand the Harrisburg Patriot-News newspaper in 2013 is retracting a famous (or infamous) editorial in 1863 concerning the Gettysburg Address by that President who should not be named! Here’s the Fox article and a highlight or two: One-hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln passionately appealed for the preservation of the union in the […]

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If you want to see a fascinating map sequence describing the fall of communism in Europe, go here for the BBC article! Thank the Lord first but I also want to recognize several heroes of the fall of communism: Pope John Paul II Margaret Thatcher Lech Walesa Ronald Reagan To some extent:  Mikhail Gorbachev because […]

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Yes, I know the word is “Batswana” but that might confuse my US readers.  But the question is not a silly one:  Botswana has one of the highest standards of living in all of Africa.  And Africa will be underrepresented in the Winter Olympics. So how does Botswana do it:  Have a world -class curling […]

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I was appalled to read this in my daily email that I and billions of others get from Michael Farris and parentalrights.org.  (Thanks to them for this info!) It was obvious from the earliest moments of the hearing that I was going to be the brunt of a lot of abuse. During the course of […]

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