Nancy Pelosi, Wicked Witch of the West

Hey Harry, Who's Your Son's Daddy?

Brian Sandoval is bruising Rory Reid in the Nevada gubernatorial race. More about this Hispanic Republican, as mythical a creature as the unicorn according to Harry Reid, here.

Alveda King Throws a Spanner into the Left's Spin - updated

Alveda King, politician, activist and Martin Luther King's niece, has joined Glenn Beck at today's rally. I'm waiting for Sharpton and Co.'s pirouettes around that inconvenient fact. I will post the left's reactions as I find them.




Update: It's a matter of honor, states Ms. King. She explains why she will be speaking at the event here.

Americans are hungry to reclaim the symbols of our liberty, hard won by an unlikely group of outnumbered, outgunned, underfunded patriots determined not to live in servitude to the British Empire. If we want to sing the national anthem at a memorial to the man who led this fledgling nation out of slavery, and made my people free, we should be able to send our voices soaring to the heavens.

Glenn Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor” this Saturday will give us that chance, and that’s why I feel it’s important for me to be there.

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Though critics see it as partisan, Beck’s rally is not a political event, per se. Instead, it is designed to be a refreshing exercise of freedom of speech.

The rally will be a celebration of who we are as a nation and a chance to stop for a moment, reflect, reorganize, and re-energize. It’s a chance to think about character; both our character as a nation and our character as individuals.

Style Fridays: Murano Chandeliers

Whimsical, ornate, decadent, yet stunningly beautiful in modern rooms, Murano glass chandeliers are one of my vicarious pleasures.

Happy weekend!

Style Fridays: American Color Slides and Photographs from the Thirties and Forties

Homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940.

Going to town, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941.


M-4 tank crews, Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942.

Woman working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, February 1943.

These superb photographs from the Libray of Congress, which chronicle the effects of the Depression and World War II on rural America, were included in a 2006 exhibit called Bound for Glory: America in Color. For more images from this collection, click here.

Happy weekend!

Harry Reid, Racist

According to Harry Reid, Hispanics cannot possibly be Republicans. Really now? Try telling that to the future senator from the great state of Florida, Marco Rubio and Florida congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart; the future governor of New Mexico, Susana Martinez; Brian Sandoval, who is manhandling your son Rory "Please-Don't Print-My-Last-Name" in the Nevada gubernatorial race; the individuals on this list of Hispanic Republicans; the Cuban-American community; me, etc.... For a party that claims to champion a post-racial America, the Democratic leadership sure likes to stereotype people and, what's worse, deny them the right to come to their own conclusions according to their personal criteria and interests. Well done, Harry.

Style Fridays: Color Photographs from Imperial Russia

This just blew me away.

Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii travelled throughout Russia from 1909-1912 and again in 1915 photographing the life and environment of the Russian people using then-nascent color imaging technology. The result is breathtaking.

To view more photos from the Prokudin-Gorskii collection, click here.

Next Friday: early American color photography.

Happy weekend!