Monthly Archives: October 2006

All Hallows Eve

Halloween, and the weather just did an Oklahoma on us and turned cold and windy after a lovely weekend. Well our boy is going to another Halloween party tonight so we’ll just have to dress warmly. My wife has come … Continue reading

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Iraq is not Vietnam

Comparisons between the Iraq war and Vietnam abound, on both sides of the argument. Opponents of the war, and subsequent occupation and reconstruction of Iraq have been shouting “quagmire, just like Vietnam” since the first week of the war. Proponents … Continue reading

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Ruminations

I’ve been thinking about a title for the random thoughts posts. “Random thoughts of the day” was derivative of Thomas Sowell’s columns “Random Thoughts” and I feel a bit presumptuous treading in that man’s footsteps. Then I remembered an English … Continue reading

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The West: summing up so far

“How… can people like Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore tally the sum of people killed in all the conflicts since the end of WWII and lay all of them at the feet of America? Why else could people blandly watch … Continue reading

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Western Civilization and Its Discontents: Part 3

Self-hating Americans: Unsatisfactory Explanations Liberal Guilt Probably the most common explanation for Left radicalism, and its program to overturn and level American society, is “Liberal guilt”. Though this attitude has had a lot of brilliant and witty fun poked at … Continue reading

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Random thoughts of the day

Last night we visited some of my oldest friends, a mother and her daughter who I’ve known literally since she was born. We went over to introduce them to our new baby. Obviously men and women see the beauty of … Continue reading

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Western Civilization and its Discontents: Part 2

The Founders “Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilization, … Continue reading

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Western Civilization and its Discontents: Part 1

As I indicated in my last post, the fact that a great many of the most privileged members of our country and our civilization hate and resent it is beyond dispute. Their words and, more importantly, their actions give them … Continue reading

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Radical chic is in style this year

Attorney Lynne Stewart got 28 months for relaying instructions from her client, the “Blind Sheik” to his followers. That’s a lot less than corporate executives routinely get for financial malfeasance. And it’s a hell of a lot less than she’d … Continue reading

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Weird America

By now I suppose it’s no secret that I’m an unabashed Western Civilization loyalist and do not regard the label “American” conjoined with “patriot” as a disgrace. I’ve written about criticism of America and Americans that I think is dumb, … Continue reading

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