On the road again (various and sundry)

Light posting ahead for a few days as the next leg of our westward-ho begins.  Will attempt to learn to copy and paste on a lilliputian keyboard.  No promises, but will keep the google reader (left sidebar) updated. Hmm… more Americans identify as pro-life again this year.  Gallup calls it “the new normal.”  What a good one [...]

Steyn funnies

It takes a special writer to make you laugh as you read of your own (societal) demise. Consider Mark Steyn so gifted: The story of the Times Square bomber reads like some Urdu dinner-theater production of Mel Brooks’ “The Producers” that got lost in translation between here and Peshawar: A man sets out to produce the [...]

Grand opening of what on 9.11.11 at Ground Zero?!

A mosque.  (Or a mosque-that-isn’t-a-mosque.   A “cultural center” with prayer space.)  Haven’t you heard?  Mark Steyn, at his eloquent best: So, in the ruins of a building reduced to rubble in the name of Islam, a temple to Islam will arise. There is something especially profane about this.  I wonder if the 9.11 families will be [...]

My I ♥ Chris Christie post of the week

Seems Allahpundit shares my crush. Dude, I’m starting to think this might be the guy. A solid first term, then reelection in 2014, and suddenly the wide-open 2016 primaries are right around the corner… I said the same thing a month ago.  Get with it, man. ; )  Go watch Christie (verbally) thump a reporter.  [...]

Today’s could-have-been-an-Onion-headline Award

Goes to the Navy Times: Hold fire, earn a medal.  Seriously.  No joke–I thought it was. U.S. troops in Afghanistan could soon be awarded a medal for not doing something, a precedent-setting award that would be given for “courageous restraint” for holding fire to save civilian lives. It was a British idea.  (Withholding comment, but our own [...]

NYT celebrates new reality of Obama’s America

From today’s installment in the series, “The New Poor“ Many of the jobs lost during the recession are not coming back.  Period. For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway: dismiss millions of people — like file clerks, ticket agents and autoworkers [...]

Government is going green today…

With cap n’ trade.   It’s back.  Pundette has the scoop.  Me, I need the laughs at this point.

If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium

After two weeks of quasi-homelessness as we make our way West, that’s how it feels.  And we haven’t yet started the-drive-with-a-toddler-who-doesn’t-like-the-car in earnest, either. Prayers welcome.  In the meantime, some news of note: More boycotts for Arizona (including a few absolutely ridiculous ones) while Pew finds a growing majority of Americans support the Arizona measures–and that’s after [...]

Back in the saddle again

Well, for the moment, anyway.  From Reuters: Economic incentives to provide inexpensive healthy food and insurance coverage for prevention are among a list of 70 immediate steps that can reduce U.S. childhood obesity, a White House task force recommended in a report on Tuesday. What happens when the “economic incentives” (read: taxpayer subsidized) for the Obami [...]

“The sonogram stands as an unimpeachable oracle.”

Via Pundette.  Jeanette Pryor writes of feminism and its defend-abortion-at-all-costs stance in light of a new law in Oklahoma which forces women to have an ultrasound exam before receiving an abortion: The sonogram stands as an unimpeachable oracle. Turning back to gaze at the perfectly formed toes and fingers, at the beating heart, and cord [...]