If God had a country…

August 1, 2011 markLeave a comment

It would probably be near here: Just returned from a week with my family in the high Uintahs up near Mirror Lake. The trip was courtesy of some old family friends who own a nice cabin in Uintah Lands with […]

The Gems You Can Find…

June 28, 2011 markOne comment

…at the end of a roll of film. Before: and after:

New England in the late 1950s

June 10, 2011 markOne comment

I have been converting my father’s 35mm slide collection to digital and thought that I might share a few of the classics: Somewhere in Connecticut, fall of 1958 Lobster, Fairhaven, Mass 1959 A classic view of Horse Neck Beach, August […]

The Humility of an Author – Rare Stuff Indeed

January 20, 2011 markLeave a comment

Orson Scott Card on inspiration: A claim of inspiration is a claim of authority, and, as a writer, I have none. That is why I never claim that anything I wrote was inspired by God, not even things I wrote […]

What the Political Left Really Fears

January 12, 2011 markOne comment

From Dan Riehl: It isn’t our rhetoric that scares the Left politically. It’s the passion from which it springs. And it’s the passion, not the rhetoric, that they actually want to quiet most of all. And we must not let […]

Now you’ve done it…

January 10, 2011 markOne comment

All of you trying to associate the TEA Party types with the Tucson shootings have gone and ticked Michelle off

The Beginning of the End

January 7, 2011 mark2 comments

Update: In 2010, the Democrats passed ObamaCare by a 7 vote margin. In 2011, the Republicans passed the bill to repeal ObamaCare with a 55 vote margin. In each case, one side of the vote was bi-partisan. In both cases, […]

Job Loss & Recession Post WWII

December 7, 2010 markOne comment

or what Ed Morrisey calls the “Chart of the Year”. That is one deep trough – or is it a ditch? Is that a car at the bottom? Can we get someone from the administration to come help push it […]