Swanky Conservative

*Sigh*
My First Life was spent as a photojournalist. I started, inspired by my dad’s camera collection, in high school shooting photos for the school paper and yearbook. I continued through college and even did internships and freelance work for small-town newspapers in Texas and one in Kansas. I ended my first life as Digitization [...]

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This is a load of modernist crap in the Washington Post today. It seems some do-goodniks at the Naval Academy are “reviewing” the Herndon Climb.

But at the ever-changing academy, the climb may be going the way of the sailing ship and the smoothbore cannon.
“Similar to how our Navy looks at all traditions in the [...]

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J.J. Abrams has released the first peek at the Enterprise from his new look at the original crew. Cool. Sweet. It’s awesome to see the original look, crew, etc. on the big screen. I haven’t heard many of the names of the actors playing James T. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc. But back to the ship. [...]

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He only wants to cut and style hair…
Adam Sandler’s back with a funny one. Humor tinged with a taste of Middle East politics equals hysterical, to me.

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Captain Ed posts a treasure of a video from his pal, Richard Disney, that deals with “isms.” Pertinent nearly 60 years after its release, it concisely illustrates the dangers of turning over individual freedoms to the State.

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2007 was a good year, economically. If you only watched the television business reporters, you probably wouldn’t know that, though. “War on the middle class,” bursting bubbles, hollow growth, etc.

… expectations that the housing crisis would trigger a collapse of US consumption and employment have, so far, proved wide of the mark. Second, and [...]

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Sad news from Ghana today. Two sailors from the USS Fort McHenry on leave in Ghana were found dead in their hotel.

The cause of death was unknown and was being investigated by Ghanaian authorities in cooperation with U.S. Navy officials, the Navy said in a statement.
“Currently there is no suggestion of foul play,” Lieutenant Patrick [...]

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Watching the Rose Bowl Parade on Discovery HD, I made a couple of observations. One, the picture quality is, as you’d expect with High Def, wonderful. Two, the overall coverage of the parade is miles above that of the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade as shown on the broadcast networks. The commentators briefly and unobtrusively describe each [...]

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