1. The turnout was down from last time and almost half the votes were cast by independents. 2. Romney won but nobody thought he really did well. I thought his speech was vacuous and inauthentic. 3. Most of the rest of the vote went to guys who aren’t really challengers to him for the . . . . Continue Reading »
It was better delivered than usual. It had real focus as a defense of free enterprise against its enemies (including some “Republicans”.) Romney still isn’t there and he isn’t close to getting there. He needs to explain how his agenda will lead to higher . . . . Continue Reading »
Wow. The center-right media environment has turned toxic for Gingrich really quick. Rush Limbaugh and National Review hit him hard on the same say. I saw some of the 5:00 PM and 6:00 PM FOX News shows and both contained unfavorable references to Gingrich’s Bain Capital . . . . Continue Reading »
Man’s greatness comes from knowing he is wretched. Pascal This entry will wrap up the Songbook’s oft-interrupted series of “loneliness and individualism songs,” all from 1965-1967, which by way of review, began with The Beach Boys’ “That’s Not Me,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Love this Ramesh Ponnuru tweet about Gingrich’s attacks on Bain Capital and Romney “Gingrich’s behavior is frankly so outside the norm for a Republican, only a Kenyan anti-colonial mindset can explain it.” Sweet. . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide proposals are almost always profoundly disingenuous, as I have been illustrating for years. For example, in Washington, doctors who assist suicides are currently legally required to lie on death certificates. Rather than list the actual cause of death—assisted . . . . Continue Reading »
In a piece that begins, “For God so loved Barack Obama, that he sent his servant, Rick Santorum, to ensure his re-election,” Noah Feldman at Bloomberg speculates about the Catholic nominee’s growing popularity with Evangelicals, claiming that it is perhaps an unexpected fruit of the . . . . Continue Reading »
This piece suggests that Rick Santorum would “reverse” JFK’s views about religion in public life. This essay , by frequent FT contributor Michael McConnell, suggests that that would be a very good thing. [C]onsider what Senator Kennedy’s absolute separation between . . . . Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Scalia on bringing death into the light : Death, for the people of that era, and every era before, was no stranger and brought no squeamishness. There was nothing mysterious about death beyond those questions we still ask—will we see them again in the next life, and why, so often, do . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that they’re paying attention to him, some observers kinda sorta like what they see. Michael Gerson regards him as the second coming of compassionate conservatism, something about which he knows a thing or two. The Catholic (and increasingly Protestant) approach to social ethics asserts . . . . Continue Reading »
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