It’s just not fair. Our sassy and vivacious Vice President is about to get smushed by his younger, smarter, wittier, more able, more fit, more handsome, more charismatic, more knowledgeable, more prepared, more everythingish rival for the job. Look away.… Continue Reading
The consensus seems to be that the President underestimated his challenger. CNN’s poll says 67% of registered voters thought Romney won versus 25% for Obama. I watched the debate, took notes during, turned the TV off afterwards and went to dinner.… Continue Reading
As it is the wife-unit’s birthday today, I took her out to a long overdue movie, some recreational shopping at the second-hand store and then to the dollar mart. And as she’s not the political-talk type [too much yelling], I… Continue Reading
Strictly speaking, “conservatism” only plays for a tie. In American conservatism, there’s a bit of revanchism, but only so much of a rollback is even possible: overturn Roe and the question reverts to the states as a matter of policy… Continue Reading
Not if his “pals” in the respectable media can help it. Morning Joe doesn’t care, and apparently neither do mainstream media stalwarts like Nina Totenberg. The perennial Mark Shields and Evan Thomas* were also on the panel: CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I… Continue Reading
…the polls are dirty. Hugh Hewitt cross-examines the pollsters and those who gleefully report them: August 2, 2012 interview of Peter Brown of Quinnipiac, exposing the pollster’s circular reasoning in just two moves: HH: I mean, when does it become… Continue Reading
Via George Anastaplo’s “In Re Antonin Scalia”, wherein we see Scalia as a legal positivist and no natural lawyer, more a “modern” than a Catholic conservative. But first, the great Mortimer Adler on Plato: [In Plato’s Republic, we] find the… Continue Reading
Yo, I’m a Republican. I don’t mind. His Mittness is a sturdy Chevy. Oldsmobile? Make that a Ford, which took no government bailout. But wait, Mitt’s father George Romney ran the late great American Motors, and GM is now owned… Continue Reading
Paul Ryan single-handedly takes on the Democratic ticket. The gloves are off, and Ryan handles the respect-the-office vs. the tear-him-a-new-one equation with aplomb. Joe Biden’s head is spinning like Linda Blair’s, and the president just looks like he wishes he’d… Continue Reading