Bill Kristol perked-up his ears during Obama's snoozer of an inauguration speech yesterday to something that has him a bit worried... I was struck by one sentence: "But we are also heirs to those who won the peace and not just the war, who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends, and we must [...]

Since I was a child one of my favorite movies has been the 1960 film version of the H.G. Wells story "The Time Machine". (The more recent remakes were okay, but I like the original.) At the end of the movie Rod Taylor has jumped back into his machine and left behind his present day [...]

When I was very young it was explained to me, by one of my aunts, the reason we eat pork and kraut on New Years is to purge the bitterness and excess of the prior year (the kraut) and to hope for and celebrate the bounties of the New Year upon us (the pork). My [...]

I just haven't completely gotten my mind around this election. It was a very long election cycle, and I am not trusting what I am seeing/hearing from anyone. Yet, my week is far from over. My mother-in-law died over the weekend. My husband and I had our 36th wedding anniversary on election day. (Thirty-six years [...]

A relevant quote for the morning after: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein On Monday I wrote that in addition to the fiscal cliff we are on, we are surrounded by enemies that are now emboldened by the reelection of Barack Obama. [...]

Two excellent essay, one on The American Spectator and the other on Human Events: "Au Revoir, Mr. President" by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr [...] Obama has come across as an amazingly close approximation of Jimmy Carter, complete with a slow-growth economy and a foreign policy disaster, though one of Obama's empty boasts was he understood [...]

The new movie out this weekend is "Flight" starring Denzel Washington as a commercial jet pilot that has to roll his crippled and diving airliner upside down in order to save the lives on board in a daring landing. How friggin' ironic is the timing of this, huh?!? We have heard it in the last [...]

George Lucas may have lost his soul regarding the Star Wars series, but he’s crazy like a fox when it comes to his billions: [...] That Lucas struck a deal in 2012 may be no accident either, advisers say. Long-term capital gains tax from the sale of assets held more than one year are taxed [...]

Guest post by frequent commenter Asombra I don’t much care if Fidel is dead or dying, which is more a matter of disgust than indifference. The bastard’s done what he was going to do; his death won’t undo it, and there’s no way to make him pay, no matter how horrible his death. Yes, he’s [...]

James Taranto's piece for the WSJ titled, "Dr. Strangelaugh Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Iranian Bomb" takes a look at Joe Biden's bizarre unserious nature during last night's debate ... "Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength," the longshoreman cum philosopher Eric Hoffer once observed. Hoffer died in 1983, [...]

Rush Limbaugh made a spot-on analogy on his radio program today... RUSH: I want to remind everybody, "Barack Hussein Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!" campaigned for president as the man who could fix our economy. That was the whole point of his campaign. Has anybody forgotten this? In 2007-2008, Barack Obama ran on the basis that [...]

Final exam will be worth 100% of your grade.  True/False format.  Exam required for graduation.  Location: your local polling place. Liberalism, as we know it By George F. Will, Published: August 31 With Americans, on average, worth less and earning less than when he was inaugurated, Barack Obama is requesting a second term by promising, [...]

Capitol Hill Cubans: The Sad Truth "Desde la Habana." ''Castro is only interested in the money that comes from emigres. That they come to Cuba and spend lots of money. That they bring more dollars each time. But he wants them at arms length. Forget about business in strategic sectors. It's better to keep milking [...]

I grew up in a neighborhood with nothing but boys. We played baseball on a self-made field at the edge of the woods. Played cowboys and Indians, and WWII Americans vs Germans, and fished and camped in that woods. I climbed the massive maple trees and built forts with scraps of wood and nails I [...]