Remember Pearl?

It was 67 years ago, today.
I wonder at how much we as a people have forgotten.

The battleship in this picture, at the time of the attack, had something on the order of a million gallons of heavy fuel

Attention  Jim Manzi at The Corner:

Here is Andrew Sullivan responding to Ezra Klein’s paean to socialized health care in the U.K.:

One reason I’m a conservative is the British National Health Service. Until you have lived under socialism,

“Chambliss’s victory assures the GOP of at least 41 Senate seats. It also lays to rest one of the nastiest McCarthyite smears of recent times: the repeated assertion by Democrats and the

To a conservative, anyone who advocates building an ideal society by the use of reason-based theories is a ‘Utopian liberal’ because following Burke and Russel Kirk they do not believe in the unlimited power of reason.
….
Some of Clark’s

Britt Hume a couple nights ago:

A traditional Thanksgiving meal between two elementary schools in Claremont, California, has parents in an uproar over costumes.
The kindergarteners have long celebrated the holiday by dressing up as pilgrims and Native Americans and

Over at OTB, James points to an AP feed which reports they’ve banned ‘Happy Hour” in the UK. Obviously, the stated concerns are health-related.

It must, however, be asked if Government isn’t overstepping it’s bounds here?  More correctly, perhaps is

This Ain’t Hell…

So, this morning, reading my usual news sources, I find on Michelle Malkin and Moonbatterythat some whining cry baby sued eHarmony, the online dating service, because they didn’t have opportunities for same-sex singles to meet. CNN

An amazingly insightful article from Bruce Walker at The American Thnker has caught my attention this morning. It’s so good I wish I could post the whole thing here. As it is, I’ll give you enough to make you go

My other title would have been Dewey wins.   This is simple.   Barack Obama would not keep his word as a candidate.  He will not keep his word as President.   As per Geraghty’s Law, all of BO’s statements come with

I almost hope Obama wins so I can stop hearing about how evil the GOP is. I’m sure that’s part of the media/Dem plan, though.

That’s a comment I just picked up over at Q&O.

Frankly, though, the source is

Nice bit over the weekend from Whizban’s Kim Preistap:

“America, this is what a feminist looks like”

Who said that about Sarah Palin? Would you believe the president of LA’s National Organization for Women, Shelly Mandel? Amazing! This is quite

Me at OTB just now:

These same people who are claiming the end of the world due to global warming…. that is to say, the left… these are interestingly, the very same who we trusted with the compartively simple

The WSJ, this morning:

Top U.S. policy makers emerged from hours of tense negotiations with a clear message just after midnight Sunday morning: A deal to bailout U.S. financial markets has been agreed on and all that remains to be

08:37am— 

I’d come into work just like any other morning.

Where I was working at the time is closed, now, and so is the department that I was working for. But I can see he layout of the place in

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,