HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY! - See-Dubya’s New Year’s Resolutions
[via michellemalkin.com]
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s my resolutions:
1. I will find a church that is doctrinally sound and where I feel the Spirit dwells and works.
2. I will stop referring to the President-Elect as “Senator Don No-Soul Simmons“.
3. I will continue to tell military people I meet that I’m grateful for their service. I know Vietnam vets who came home to obscurity and ignominy. I’m not going to let that happen to today’s soldiers, at least the ones I meet. I just sent off a care package to my friend ‘Old Shootin’ Buddy’, deployed overseas in the Middle East–but I’l lbe sending more.
4.. I will support conservative think-tanks and conservative intellectuals. I can’t be George Soros but I can help out and keep some of them in the black, and right now I need to.
My own personal favorite is the Claremont Institute, which is a think-tank devoted to political philosophy and especially to the vision of the Founding Fathers. That might sound a little vague or finky, but I’ve been there and visited with them and these guys are the real thing. If you have a conservative family member with intellectual pretensions, or actual intellectual interests, you can order them a copy of The Claremont Review of Books, the Right’s best rejoinder to the New York Times Book Review. Good reading.
Full disclosure: the Claremont Institute once granted me a minor fellowship and I am grateful to them. Still, if you like what you read here at michellemalkin.com, remember that the Claremonsters are simpatico and worth your time, attention, and (tax-deductible) donations.
5. I will support bloggers who I like by leaving encouraging comments and hitting their tip jars.
Every blogger likes to get a little praise now and then. If you write something that you learn has influenced or affected someone, I don’t care how jaded you are, that makes it all worthwhile. And money? For something you wrote? I guarantee you most bloggers, especially the smaller ones, wi