Of course, I am happy about it and hope that Pete’s warnings are not spot-on for a change, or else that whatever Paul Ryan’s flaws are, they are outweighed by his positive aspects. Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard had a nice laudatory article about him recently , but we will . . . . Continue Reading »
The news has come out that Romney is announcing his running mate later today. The speculation (for what it is worth) is focusing on Paul Ryan. So let me tell you a quick story. I was watching Ryan on television one day and he talked about some great advice he got. Barney Frank . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Wall Street Journal, ” The Postmodern President “, wherein our president’s postmodernism is defined thus, “he’s running the first postmodern Presidential campaign, now organized almost exclusively around allegations about his opponent that bear no relation to . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I guess it depends on the alternative. I agree that Romney would be better off with a positive, reformist message. One of the reasons that the campaign has revolved so much around the latest Obama smears is that there is a hole where Romney’s positive message should . . . . Continue Reading »
The WSJ heads an editorial this morning with “Why Not Paul Ryan?Romney can win a big election over big issues. He’ll lose a small one.” Too risky, goes the Beltway chorus. His selection would make Medicare and the House budget the issue, not the economy. The 42-year-old is too . . . . Continue Reading »
America often claims to be the cornerstone of global order. Much of its foreign policy, argues George Friedman ( The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century , 46), is about creating disorder in order to prevent another power from imposing order and gaining power. If you think order was the . . . . Continue Reading »
Some thoughts, 1. Do we have any idea what he thinks about any domestic policy matter? 2. The norms of campaigns have developed in such a way that national candidates have to comment on a wide variety of issues and have a finely tuned sense of the dynamics of national-level popular and . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning brought polling about the possibility of Gen. David Petraeus as VP. Now I see a story on Drudge Report that tells us the president is predicting the pick. I’m a fan, but hate to see what the press would do the man and his family for pity’s sake. . . . . Continue Reading »
How do I know? Facebook told me. This is my opportunity to pay a little tribute to my fellow blogger. Below, Pete writes a post that he begins with “I don’t have the mental energy . . . ” and then he proceeds to prove that even when he doesn’t have his . . . . Continue Reading »
William T. Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Hardback, 285 pp, $49.95. In the beginning was religion, and only religion. Now religion was irrational, absolutist, and divisive, and so chaos was . . . . Continue Reading »
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