Dennis Prager on the altruistic pursuit of happiness:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
This is so predictable it’s almost more sad than funny:
Homeschooling parent/teachers are arrogant to the point of lunacy. For real! My qualifications to teach English include a double major in English and education, two master’s degrees (education and journalism), a student teaching semester and multiple internship terms, real world experience as a writer, and years […]
via Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times:
Last week, a 75-year-old Saudi woman was sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in prison for receiving two unrelated men in her home.
It didn’t matter that they were only delivering bread, or that she is elderly and practically raised one of the men as her her son. […]
Unbelievable! Just imagine yourself in September 2001. Someone drops-in from the future to tell you that before the decade is over, the President of the United States (middle-named “Hussein” by the way) will talk about making nice with the Taliban.
Listen to Craig Crawford making excuses for Obama on earmarks. Imus has none of it.
The idea that certain large, politically connected private firms are essential to commonweal and must be supported at all costs by the state is quite the essence of “Mussolini-style Corporatism“. …What’s good for Citibank is not what’s good for America.
via seekingalpha.com
And even Obama supporter Warren Buffett is complaining that “Government is determining the ‘haves’ and […]
I still say that the definition of torture cannot possibly include anything that people are willing to endure in order to protest it. I posted an example before and pointed out that the guy in the video actually paid $800 to have it done and then laughed about it a few minutes later.
A quick YouTube search reveals that there is apparently a long line of leftists, including Christopher Hitchens, who are perfectly happy to be “tortured” on video to demonstrate how unacceptable waterboarding is supposed to be.
Yeah, letting terrorists out of jail early when you don’t even know the facts of the case is perfectly “reasonable.” Don’t worry. Jimmy Carter and a bunch of left-wing Congressmen who Hillary wants to curry favor with say it’s okay. That’s not improper political influence over the Justice Department.
Thanks, Eric Holder.
UPDATE: Okay, this is too […]
Joel Stein admits it. Well, they say that’s the first step to recovery, I guess:
But I’ve come to believe conservatives are right. They do love America more. Sure, we liberals claim that our love is deeper because we seek to improve the United States by pointing out its flaws. But calling your wife fat isn’t […]
My thoughts and prayers go out to parents separated from their children this Christmas. I’ll never forget this story about Nadia wanting to eat hamburgers under the Christmas tree.
Also: Russian Orthodox Churches in Saudi Arabia?
Leave it to the impolitic Russians to demand a church in the forbidden city of Mecca