These rules for life come from Charles J. Sykes, author of the book Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves ...

Are you familiar with Democrats.com ? It’s one of the top two or three liberal sites on the web, along with MoveOn and DailyKos . For any...

An Associated Press photographer captured this image of Hillary Clinton as she greeted people before President Bush’s State of the Union add...

Isn’t she gorgeous? <smile> As usual, click for a larger view…

As you have probably heard on the news, some cartoons published by a Danish newspaper ( Jyllands-Posten ) have created quite a ruckus all ov...

Way back when, in 2003, Bush’s package of tax reductions passed. One of the most controversial of these was the reduction of capital gains ...

I hope you watched President Bush deliver his State of the Union speech last night. There weren’t many surprises, and (thankfully) no huge ...

Tip of the hat to Rick P… Bear Hunting The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains for some sight-seeing. He was cruising alon...

The two pictures at right show the equipment cabinet that is now serving up this blog. The picture at right shows the equipment cabinet with...

Tip of the hat to Jim Mundy! A Short History of Mankind Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on ...

Well, the great blog server move has been accomplished — the new “blog cabinet” is up and running. You should notice a major improvement i...

Ever since the big Cedar fire just over two years ago, our once-abundant local bobcats have been very scarce — and in our valley, almost non...

Mo’i (the field spaniel) and Boots (the cat) are enjoying some late afternoon sunshine streaming in our livingroom window. The dark-furred ...

Baking cookies with your cat — a step-by-step guide: 1. Look in cookbook for cookie recipe. 2. Get cup of coffee. 3. Get cat off of cookbook...

If you’re wondering why my blogging has been light recently, there are two main reasons: I’ve been sick as the proverbial dog for the past f...

Hah! Here’s a short post from The Big Pharaoh (a most excellent blog, BTW) that I’ve taken the liberty of posting in its entirety: The THI...

Lt. Hank Harding died on March 27, 1961 when his Navy FJ-4 “Fury” crashed into the side of Otay Mountain. Bad weather and confusion at the ...

What could I add to this? Click on the little picture to see this clearly…

This morning’s news of the Al Qaida leaders killed in the Pakistan strike a few days ago got me to thinking about the internal reactions of ...

Ahhh … there’s nothing quite like the sting of a Mark Steyn piece in the morning… From “ Ham-handed Dems didn’t lay a glove on Alito ":...