My Own Thoughts

66 years ago today, D-Day. Thank you to those of you who fought during WWII… and those who have fought since.

Right on the Left Coast quotes from the Washington Examiner about the government’s working paper on the “reinvention of journalism.” Apparently the working paper thinks that the newspapers have a right to the news they report: Copyright protects an author’s articulation of facts, but not the facts themselves. State law versions of the “hot news” [...]

All persons present should face the flag, stand at attention and salute on the following occasions: 1. When the flag is passing in a parade or review. The salute to the flag in the moving column is rendered at the moment the flag passes. 2. During the ceremony of hoisting or lowering the flag. 3. [...]

This is a day to remember those who serve this country and those who have lost loved ones who served this country. The photo is from Blackfive.

Quoting Thucydides, “A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors has its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” Right on the Left Coast offers a pungent comment on the “softening” of the Ivy Leagues toward the military.

Telegraph UK has “10 Reasons Why Barack Obama is the Most Naive President in US History. I didn’t say it. I just showed you it was there.

“In a private fee-for-service medical system, a dead patient is a revenue loss. In the National Health Service (UK), a dead patient was a cost savings.” -Harry Bailey MD 1930-2003, Sheffield (England) University Medical School 1950-1956; Harvard Medical School 1958-1981, US Navy Medical Corps 1982-1991. The above quote is from my late father. from Take [...]

Cleveland.com has the story of Robert Jr and Sr. The letter sat on the dresser for four years. Robert Gilbert never opened it. He only touched the envelope when he needed to dust around it. He wanted to give it back to his son unopened. Every time his Marine son was deployed, his son would [...]

by a postliberal, Well-Meaning Opposition. Here’s the sticking point: there seems an inability to back all the way down the road and re-look at the question Is this the right thing to do? Failing that, they are locked endlessly in the impression that ours is a moral failing, that must be addressed on moral grounds. [...]

Turns out, the origin is probably from Mississippi: PJM posted about it after his Sharecropper’s Daughter picture.

The health care bill has passed. My government now owns the auto industry, banking, and health care. One giant step at a time into socialism. Sorrow. Pain. Tears. Weeping. Despair sits just outside, though. Despite the immediate tax additions, the health care aspect won’t go into effect until 2014. There is still a little time [...]

“We, the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln

Can of Whoop Ass from Miss Cellania via Happy Catholic

I am praying about health care. I am praying that today is not the day my country goes officially socialist. God, please, bless the United States.

Can you tell which person was conceived by rape? No. Not really.

I am a strong believer in the second amendment. I like guns. I think everyone who is not mentally deficient or a criminal and is over 18 (or possibly 21) should own one, at least. American Daughter has an interesting post on the differences between US gun ownership and Swiss gun ownership. The Swiss come [...]

transcript of Rick Santelli’s discussion Market Ticker Business Week said: The U.S. Treasury and Labor Departments will ask for public comment as soon as next week on ways to promote the conversion of 401(k) savings and Individual Retirement Accounts into annuities or other steady payment streams, according to Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and [...]

[O]n March 14, 2008, then Sen. Obama voted in favor of the 2009 budget which authorized $3.1 trillion in federal outlays along with a projected $400 billion deficit. The 51-44 vote that morning was strongly along party lines with only two Republicans saying “Yes.” When the final conference report was presented to the House on [...]

Scientists used and re-used this information without ever checking it. I am guessing part of the reason for the lack of checking (especially since it was never published in a peer-reviewed journal which should have checked it) is that it matched what the scientists were expecting to find and so they accepted it. The scientist [...]

a president who entered office with enormous support and an unprecedented amount of goodwill. The Commentary is talking about Obama. He got 53% of the vote. I’m not sure that is enormous support. He did get 8 million more votes than McCain. Of course, in a country of 305 million people, an amazingly high 127 [...]