Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012, MITT ROMNEY It is time for Republicans to get serious. After flirting with just about every candidate in a large presidential field, is is time to come home to the one candidate who has the demonstrated ability to run the largest organization in the United States, the Executive Branch of the [...]
Since my birthday and Christmas are so close together, I tend to get one nice gift and then smaller ones during the season. Which is fine with me. This year the big present was the Kodak Easyshare Max Z990 camera, which is in the new category of “superzoom” digital cameras. Here’s a pic of it: [...]
PRINCETON, NJ — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama continue to be named by Americans as the Most Admired Woman and Most Admired Man living today in any part of the world. Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the last 10 years, and Obama has been the Most Admired [...]
Steven Spielberg vehicle… First let me say that I enjoyed the movie. It even choked me up a couple of times. The story is deliberately heartwarming and the writing, acting and directing are all excellent, with some absolutely stellar moments that will melt all but the stoniest hearts. The breaking of the movie into small [...]
Hope all of my readers here (all five of them) are enjoying Christmas and the Holiday season.
Every. Single. Game. If I was interested in a game, it went the wrong way. Tebow erased most of a year’s excellent play in one game. Even the Cowboys lost and Romo probably broke his hand. Merry Christmas from the NFL…
What Is Practical Wisdom? The ancient Greek philosophers spent a lot of time walking around in their togas discussing the nature of things, especially the nature of virtue. Take Socrates, for example. Socrates believed that man’s purpose in life was to seek sophia, or wisdom. According to Socrates and his student, Plato, achieving sophia gave a [...]
Remember this post from thirteen months ago? I’ve been predicting the Euro would be the end of the European Union for a long time. The flaws in the creation of a single monetary unit without uniting the European markets was obvious from the start. It should have been easy to predict that the result would [...]
Jessica Balderas, a McDonald’s worker, told cops that “there was a disagreement over two hashbrowns,” according to a Polk County Sheriff’s Office report. Paolercio reportedly became “irritated” and “wanted them to take the food back and refund her money.” After a manager arrived to speak with Paolercio, the educator tossed some of the food items [...]
Thirty years ago, almost to the day actually, I was living in a wood frame house set up on concrete pylons in Louisiana. The floor was between a foot and two feet off the ground, with strangely unpredictable concrete pylons and lots of really wonderful things like old boards, nails, bricks and an entire ecosystem [...]
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