1. I didn’t watch the whole debate. It was painful, but the fault wasn’t with the candidates. I liked both Pete’s and John’s comments. 2. The strangest thing is that nobody went after Romney much. Santorum had that monologue near the end, but that’s hardly going after . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Is it just me, or are the debates hosted by ABC more annoying and worthless than those hosted by most other news outlets? Though the CNBC debate was pretty bad too. 2. Romney on Griswold vs. Connecticut: I never saw any of the the National Lampoon’s Vacation . . . . Continue Reading »
At NRO, I just came across this fun game brought to you by John Pitney. It tracks Gingrich’s favorite words and phrases a la Bingo. Try it out with your friends and family. It could even be a drinking game. It’s Saturday night after all! If you take the drinking game seriously, you . . . . Continue Reading »
So my two year old daughter and I watched most of a Santorum town hall event from New Hampshire (start them early I say.) 1. He actually talks to people. I’m sure he falls back on some pat phrases, but there is a sense that he is actually talking to his questioner. 2. . . . . Continue Reading »
Clifford Orwin discusses here how liberal democracy is officially neutral towards all ways of life. Each individual is free to put into practice whatever worldview he subscribes to. Justice Kennedy confirms this view in Casey v. Planned Parenthood when he says an individual is free to . . . . Continue Reading »
Who does the doctor serve? When we lived in a society with common values, the answer was easy—the patient. Today, not so easy.Now, doctors sometimes are asked to take lives, not just save them. And there is a push within organized medicine to create a destructive dual . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Virginia was beautiful yesterday, a sunny day getting things up to perhaps 64 degrees, but man, today I’m feeling it’s got just nothing on California, which my wife and I had just returned from. ALL of our Christmas vacation there was filled with sunny days, and the last one got . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete, watch this therapeutic video! The grumpy, unhappy, “we’re all doomed” Pete is starting to trouble me. Does he need Prozac, a spiritual uplift, or what? Maybe he needs a self-help expert! Who, better, than TV’s Reverend Governor Mike Huckabee? Maybe he can’t make . . . . Continue Reading »
Disgust was widespread in the attacks against Rick Santorum and his wife for taking their dead baby home to allow the family to grieve his death together. Washington Post liberal columnist Eugene Robinson gratuitously brought the issue up on the Rachel Maddow show:“He’s . . . . Continue Reading »
1. We’re probably doomed. Well, not doomed, just looking at some tough probabilities. If the latest employment report sets the pattern for the economy going into the next ten months (or even somewhat less), it would take a good Republican candidate running a good campaign to . . . . Continue Reading »
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