From the Times Online comes this commentary, which basically points out America’s historical reluctance to exercise its military might until forced to do so:

But the critics, in their eagerness to denigrate the country they regard as irredeemably simplistic, miss its complexity. There is another history of American military intervention which points to rather different conclusions.
Americans [...]

Michelle Malkin mentioned this bit of ironic justice yesterday:
On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter’s [...]

In classic Savage Style, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder brings to a conclusion the author’s trilogy concerning defending America from Liberal assault.
Dr. Savage poses several problems facing America, and from his unique perspective presents “Savage Solutions” for each. Savage takes on such hot-bed issues as Iraq, Islamofascism, illegal immigration, assault-by-litigation on American businesses, revisionist history, [...]

Tired of the hypocritical lifestyle and propogandistic, out-of-context, mis-informing, mis-directing, and outright-lying work of Michael Moore, authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke penned Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man to expose and refute this Liberal poster-child.
The book is painstakingly researched, tirelessly footnoted, pointedly critical, and brutally revealing; the book exposes the [...]

Letters To A Young Conservative, by Dinesh D’Souza, is, as the title implies, a collection of letters from the author’s correspondence with a fictional Conservative college student. The letters touch most of the major issues.
Since each chapter is a letter, the result is episodic with a logical progression from one topic to the next. The [...]

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Darth Misha at The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler brings us a classic Rottie fisking of more liberal clap-trap:

You better believe it. Every morning when we wake up in the Imperial Palace, we jump out of bed and set off to smother anything remotely resembling a sense of social well-being, whatever the Hades that might be.
Then, after a [...]

As Michelle Malkin points out, the ’sphere has been up in arms in reaction to this week’s usurpation of the Fifth Amendment by SCOTUS in Kelo v. City of New London.
Amazingly, the Left and Right sides of the ’sphere seem to have found one of those rare issues on which to agree. However, as is [...]

Right now I’m watching coverage of an explosion at Praxair Distribution in south St. Louis (Jefferson and Chouteau).

Early coverage from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
The blaze began around 3 p.m. at Praxair, a gas and tank company at 2210 Chouteau. As of 4 p.m. a policeman at the scene said no injuries had been reported. [...]

(HT: Travis Benning)
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You scored as Cultural Creative. Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. [...]

From the Media Research Center, Letterman does Saddam:

From the June 22 Late Show with David Letterman, the “Top Ten Reasons Saddam Hussein Loves Doritos.” Late Show home page: www.cbs.com:
10. Three-cornered chips remind him of the Sunni Triangle
9. Chemical Ali taught him how to convert the spicy powder into a nerve agent
8. The [...]

Glenn Reynolds links to a straw poll indicating Condi Rice would kick the snot out of Republican contenders in the ‘08 primaries.
The best part of the post, though, is the comments section, which demonstrates just how much Democrats just don’t get it. They still think that mainstream America holds the opinion that Republicans are the [...]

The St. Louis County Council is about to consider a proposal to ban indoor smoking:

After months of contentious debate and careful negotiations, members of the county’s Justice and Health Committee unveiled the latest draft of the proposed smoking ban Wednesday.
The legislation, which could be sent to the full council next week, bans smoking in [...]

Yesterday, the US House of Representatives passed by 286-130 a Constitutional Amendment authorizing Congress to ban the desecration of the American Flag.
Several of my Conservative brethren would brand me as an extremist for supporting the measure. The arguments generally include:

Flag-burning is an exercise of freedom of speech, which is a Constitutionally protected right,
Expression is the [...]

Dear Lord, thank you for giving us the World According to Ann. In her latest take-down of the Lunacy of the Left, Ann Coulter takes down the ridiculous Gitmo rhetoric:

In the interests of helping my country, I have devised a compact set of torture guidelines for Guantanamo.
It’s not torture if:

The same acts performed on a [...]

Being single and living alone does not go well with wine – especially since a full glass with dinner is almost more than enough for my tastes. I have turned more bottles of cab and zin into expensive vinegar than I care to admit. Well, along came this post from the Corktease blog, introducing me [...]

In a conclusion to the controversy of the past academic year at Rose-Hulman, embattled President Jack Midgley resigned June 11th. The resignation ends Midgley’s tumultuous tenure heading the nation’s premier undergraduate engineering institution. Coverage here from the Indy Star. The resignation comes prior to – and perhaps in anticipation of – any action taken by [...]

With my laptop being down much of the past couple weeks, I’ve been getting a lot of reading done. Should have some book reviews forthcoming this week for Letters to a Young Conservative, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder, and Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man.

While not generally a fan of “Hallmark Holidays”, I know that we rarely take the opportunities we are given every day to express our love to the people we are blessed to have in our lives. So, what better time than the present? To my father:

To the man who taught me to throw and catch [...]

Sorry for the delayed absence. I’ve suffered two catastrophic hard-drive failures in the past week. Hope to have everything up and running again by the end of the week.

Lots of excitement in the hometown this week:

After a standoff lasting nearly 20 hours, a hostage situation was brought to a sudden conclusion at Bigfoot Food Store, 2905 E. State Road 44…
The lengthy episode began at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when [Dennis ] McAninch became involved in a high-speed chase with police officers that began in [...]

Chesterfield’s Rajiv Tarigopula finished fourth place in the National Spelling Bee, having been done in by the word “odylic”:
Rajiv Tarigopula was eliminated from the spelling bee today, misspelling the word “odylic.” He had advanced several more rounds earlier, to the final four, by spelling the words “infundibular”, “gomphosis”, “inion”, “arytenoid”, “rejoneador”, “zouave” and “plumassier”, “mucedinaceous” [...]

President George W. Bush is in St. Louis this evening, helping raise funds for Senator Jim Talent.

On the way to turning the seat into a red-lock: Talent is building a war chest and the Dems are struggling to find a worthy contender:

President Bush will headline a St. Louis dinner that is expected to raise more than $1 million for Sen. Jim Talent’s re-election bid next year…
Talent, R-Mo., has already raised more [...]

Ann Coulter nails the idiocy of the Seven Nitwits:
The deal they struck, this masterful Peace of Westphalia, simply put into writing the rule that the minority party controls the Senate — which will remain the rule until the Democrats aren’t the minority party anymore.
If the Democrats had a 10-vote majority, you can be sure they [...]