In an extended essay in this month’s New Criterion , Charles Murray examines the growing divide in American society. The emerging rift, he contends, isn’t between a cabal of greedy bankers and disenfranchised students, nor really between “constitutionalists” and collectivists, . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I think Newt’s fake indignation at the beginning and standing ovation set-up might didn’t help him. Not his best night. He admitted he’s going to look bad on NIGHTLINE. He used the word ex-wife too disparagingly, and I think he called a show starring her trash. He turned . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m out of town the next couple of days, so I’m getting it out now. More considered opinions later. 1. Are the moderators insane? Do they even think of how to get revealing responses out of Gingrich? Second debate in a row when they set up Gingrich with a . . . . Continue Reading »
Santorum: I beat Gingrich in Iowa and New Hampshire. Newt is grandiose and unstable. Gingrich: You know all that stuff from the last thirty two years you liked. That was me. Also Kemp and Reagan some. Santourm: I helped break the House of Reps. bank . . . . Continue Reading »
Santorum lays into Gingrich and Romney but good on health care policy. He finally articulated an almost comprehensive indictment of Romneycare and hit Gingrich carefully and powerfully on supporting mandates in the recent past. Gingrich’s response was: Look how arrogant I . . . . Continue Reading »
In the debate, Romney leads with: I love my many children and my one wife. Gingrich: How dare the evil news media start a presidential debate asking me about the national story about my second ex-wife telling a plausible story that I asked her for an open marriage. I am so angry, . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I don’t think the ABC story on Gingrich’s second ex-wife hurts him. No one on Earth is voting for Gingrich because they think he is a good husband (with the possible exception of the most recent Mrs. Gingrich.) 2. Gingrich’s current line is that people . . . . Continue Reading »
For future planning, Fordham’s Natural Law Colloquium will be offering a lecture on The Natural Law Origins of the American Right to Privacy by Anita L. Allen of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It will be held on Wednesday, March 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the McNally . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an all-American story. A baby has been caught ” tebowing ” in the womb, reports a Denver station: I see two possible readings of young Champ’s actions. He is either a hero sent to confound and dismay blue America by doing the most wildly red-state things . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I’m obviously not talking about a song here, but rather, about a high-school play that no-one not connected to the San Diego area Mt. Carmel High School during the 1980s has any reason to know about. (Nor am I talking about the musical that features hard rock songs.) I’ll say more . . . . Continue Reading »
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