tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48658597915619358372012-01-27T18:28:00.623-05:00jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04323287550240484182noreply@blogger.comBlogger38371100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865859791561935837.post-44463356074413697142012-01-27T06:06:00.008-05:002012-01-27T09:30:05.071-05:00

Astounding. At 3:00 in, Romney provides indisputable proof that he is the last person we should entrust with an Obamacare repeal:   On Twitter, Campion1581 nailed it:  “First of all, it's not worth getting angry about.” Breathtaking. In a just world, this would finish Mitt's candidacy.Watch the whole clip if you missed it. It's clear that Romney really doesn't have a problem with a government

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I don't much care whether Newt supported or attacked Reagan in the 80's, or what Bob Dole thinks of him. By now, Newt is a known quantity, and even his promise of a moon colony by 2020, or his admission that he made up that self-righteous claim of offering the testimony of friends to ABC to refute the "open marriage" charges, doesn't tell us anything new about him. He can act and talk like a

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As a follow-up to the news that the NEA endorses raising the high school "dropout age" to 21 (h/t to David Freddoso and The Future of Capitalism), thereby holding their failures hostage and keeping them from full-time employment or job training programs for three years beyond the current maximum sentence, I thought I'd post this letter from the advice columns: DEAR AMY: Our son came back to live

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It's a good thing Obama alternates between red and blue ties from year to year. Otherwise it would be almost impossible to distinguish one SOTU from another: He always presents a laundry list of destructive government programs we have no money to pay for and that have little or no chance of coming to fruition; they're designed for the campaign trail. This year was no different. But new this

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Via Ace of Spades, a real live tweet from Team Obama: @BarackObama Barack Obama Are you hosting a #SOTU2012 watch party? Get your cameras ready and send us your best pics—we can’t wait to see them. Linked by Larwin -- thanks! Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Not since his minions handed out lab coats at a White House Obamacare rally has Barack Obama committed such a lame or electorate-insulting act of political theater. But it's just part of the class war he must wage if he's to get re-elected. Code word: fairness. Politico: Billionaire Warren Buffett's longtime secretary will be joining first lady Michelle Obama in her box at tonight's State of the

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I didn't watch it. 9:00 pm is too late a start for this early bird. (Brian Williams would have sent me to dreamland within the first five minutes, anyway.) I gather it wasn't the battle of the titans so many had hoped for. But I think Romney scored a palpable hit here: Santorum's moment here. Of course he's right. Does it matter? But if you want real entertainment, watch Sarah Palin cut Chris

jillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04323287550240484182noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865859791561935837.post-41528230172481240042012-01-24T06:44:00.002-05:002012-01-24T07:09:27.994-05:00

Two clips: On the GOP primary debacle: On 'women and children first': Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Barack Obama on the glorious anniversary of Roe v Wade: And as we remember this historic anniversary, we must also continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams. This Gary Graham column from 2009 will provide a reminder of how abortion has made some men's dreams come true. As for our daughters, Elizabeth

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Philip Klein comments on the sad state of the Republican race: Over the next few weeks, or months, Gingrich will argue that Romney isn't conservative and isn't as electable as the establishment will have you believe, while Romney will argue that Gingrich isn't electable and isn't as conservative as he'd have you believe. And they'll both be right. Rick Santorum, the newly-minted Iowa victor

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Pretty good for a song written in four minutes. Have another: Bonus: Joe Williams, "Thou Swell." Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Everything old is Newt again: Gingrich , Newt GOP 243,153 40% Romney , Mitt GOP 167,279 28% Santorum , Rick GOP 102,055 17% Paul , Ron GOP 77,993 13% I was pleased to see Santorum finish ahead of Ron Paul. And it's nice to see voters reject the RINO default option. But beyond that, we are still in deep, deep trouble. Newt Gingrich's temperament is as

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Make that awkward and defensive. Mitt under fire isn't as smooth as advertized. So if you bought into that narrative it's time to update. For the record, I believe Mitt is still the favorite to win the nomination. (Not my favorite, the favorite.) Which is not to say he'll be a strong candidate against Obama. I think Michael Walsh nailed it a few weeks ago: The Dems have already telegraphed a

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I was hoping Mark Steyn would comment on the Costa Concordia disaster and so he has in his weekend column, No More 'Women and Children First.' Go read it and then come back here. Okay. This part: Whenever I write about these subjects, I receive a lot of mail from men along the lines of this correspondent: "The feminists wanted a gender-neutral society. Now they've got it. So what are you

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Jonah Goldberg on Newt's big offensive against the media last night: Newt’s opening answer was very strong and will be replayed a lot. But I thought it was overstated and, as he kept going, it became clear he was trying to squelch the issue rather than express his true rage. When he was all lovey-dovey with John King after the debate, it underscored that it was as much performance as

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Heaven help me. I didn't think it was possible, but Barack Obama has made me smile: Take it away, Al: Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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I heard ABC's Brian Ross say that the big revelation in the Marianne Gingrich interview to be aired tonight is that Newt asked her for an "open marriage." (Audio here.) Can't he spin that as an extraordinarily bold solution to a fundamentally difficult problem? He was just thinking outside the box. Seriously, Gingrich supporters already knew that his second and third marriages overlapped a bit

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Scroll down for updates. *** My links widget is still broken so here are a few items I would have put there if I could. Today's theme, so far, seems to be civilizational breakdown. Enjoy! Mark Steyn: The Last Laugh We are not yet a totalitarian society, but the touchiness of America’s wretched academy is certainly providing a fine pilot program.Christopher Orlet: Youth or Consequences Last

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For some reason, I can't update my "recommended reads" widget on the right. So here are the items I would have added, so far: Beltway Confidential: Obama's bogus Keystone talking points Telegraph: Costa Concordia: captain ‘says he tripped and fell into lifeboat’ GretaWire: What's the best tuna?  Ed West: 'Women and children first' is the great marker of civilisation (in which Mark Steyn's

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Cathy Cleaver Ruse advises us to just say no to Girl Scout Cookies. There's even more reason to do so now than there was when I said the same thing back in 2009. So what are the Girl Scouts of America up to now? I mean besides last year's GS of Colorado's declaration on what constitutes a "girl": “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of

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I missed the first hour of the Myrtle Beach debate but I gather from the commentary that Gingrich was on his game, Romney was not, Santorum was okay but kind of annoying, Ron Paul was very annoying, and Rick Perry's performance fell somewhere between his best and god-awful. A sampling of the analysis: Charlotte Hays: With conservatives finally moving in his direction, Mitt Romney picked Monday

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From the Daily Mail, some charming scenes of civilizational breakdown from the fatal capsizing of the Costa Concordia: Forget women and children first. Burly crew men led the race for the lifeboats: Men refused to prioritise women, expectant mothers and children as they pushed themselves forward to escape. Crew ignored their passengers – leaving ‘chefs and waiters’ to help out. [. . .] ‘I was

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I thought Huntsman nailed it back in October: Now he's coming to terms with the notion that a PLWV stands the best chance of beating Obama. Really? Related: Embracing Romney, flip-flops and all Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Irving Berlin, 1923 Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Gov. Rick Perry was asked by Candy Crowley to comment on the Marine urination scandal. I liked his response: "Well, obviously, 18, 19-year-old kids make stupid mistakes all too often, and that's what's occurred here." Perry said, reminding viewers that General Patton did "basically the same thing" at the Rhein [sic] river and that Churchhill [sic] did the same thing on the Siegfried Line. "

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Unless it's all tongue in cheek, this explains George Stephanopoulos's curious perseverance in trying to get Mitt Romney to comment on banning contraceptives (not exactly a burning campaign issue) at the debate in New Hampshire. He tells Stephen Colbert that it was done on a bet with Diane Sawyer: COLBERT: OK, OK. Romney’s basically saying you’re a silly little child. And the audience is going,

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Mark Steyn is doing his best to wake us up before it's too late with After America: Get Ready for Armageddon. Now Sen. Jim DeMint gives it a try with Now or Never: Saving American From Economic Collapse. From Quin Hillyer's review: In an extended interview on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart this week, Stewart complained to DeMint that the book contained too much "apocalyptic" rhetoric, and

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Best ad ever: Magnifique! Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Sarah Palin refuses to condemn Gov. Rick Perry's attacks on Romney's "vulture capitalism," adding that "he knows what he's talking about" when it comes to job creation: Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a> Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>

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Peter Ferrara on why RINO Romney is the least electable: Romney the Republican establishment businessman is telling us with his limited, crabbed policy kowtowing to Obama's class warfare rhetoric that he feels, like Bush I and Republican RINO moderates generally, that he cannot explain and defend good supply-side policy to the public. Given his background and who he is as a rich Wall Street

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Stop the presses on all those Super Tuesday ballots: Willard Mitt Romney has sewn up the nomination with his big 7-delegate* New Hampshire win last night. That grand sum, added to his 13 non-binding Iowa delegates, has rendered all the other primaries meaningless. Maybe it is over and all the other primary voters will dutifully fall into line as instructed. But just a reminder: a candidate needs

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A few disordered thoughts on Gingrich's and Perry's attacks on Romney for his career at Bain: This line of attack reeks of the stupidest and most manipulative liberal propaganda and I wish they'd cut it out. It's not like there's nothing else to go after Romney on! Very bad company: The King of Bain trailer is virtually indistinguishable from this video. Check out the sponsor's name at the end.

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Michael Walsh: The Dems have already telegraphed a good deal of their playbook — they’ll paint him as a nervous, grinning, stuttering, heartless capitalist who’s also a “weird” social-issues nut — and hope to scare the hell out of the electorate, which by now has grown used to the dull pain of the Obama administration. Bingo. Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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In fall of '09, as the economy tanked and government spending accelerated, America had its Tea Party . . . . . . and the Obamas had theirs, Hollywood style: Funny we're just hearing about it now. More photos and story from Verum Serum and the Telegraph. Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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This is a blatantly false account of events. Santorum can't believe what he's hearing, nor can Newt, who calls Romney on it: Rich Lowry: But the exchange got to a certain falsity in Romney’s self-presentation that plays into more important doubts about his sincerity.That's rather delicately put, but true: we are justified in questioning Romney's credibility. Also disturbing on the "

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I missed most of last night's debate (which I gather was mostly about . . . banning contraceptives?) and all of this morning's. So I'm playing catch-up here. But it sounds as though my Rick (Perry, the one with the executive experience and the strong record as a limited-government conservative) did well. I don't agree that he can't hold his own in a debate with uh-uh-uh-Obama. Philip Klein: And

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Let's class the joint up a little with this fabulous Handel aria sung by Natalie Dessay: Brava! Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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The Zilla Awards are out and [fanfare please] I've won in three categories: Miss Congeniality! Actually, it's Nicest Bloggers, which I humbly share with Adrienne's Corner, Bread Upon The Waters, DaTechguy's Blog, The Sundries Shack, and The Lonely Conservative I'm also honored to be listed among the following: Best All-Around Blogging: Maggie's Notebook, iOwnTheWorld, The Lonely Conservative,

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Mark Steyn weighs in eloquently on the zombified Left's creepy, soulless attack on Rick Santorum. Just a bit: Two weeks ago I wrote in this space: "A nation, a society, a community is a compact between past, present and future." Whatever my disagreements with Santorum on his "compassionate conservatism," he gets that. He understands that our fiscal bankruptcy is a symptom rather than the

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Well, that was fast. Just two days after his triumph in Iowa and Rick Santorum is already driving the liberal media out of their already unbalanced minds. First up, Chris Matthews. As a rule, I try not to pay attention to his irrelevant, lunatic ravings. But consider this a public service announcement: He's warning us of a scary papist plan to establish a "theocracy" and "trump the Constitution

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John Yoo on Obama's most recent power grab: This, in my view, is not up to the president, but the Senate. It is up to the Senate to decide when it is in session or not, and whether it feels like conducting any real business or just having senators sitting around on the floor reading the papers. The president cannot decide the legitimacy of the activities of the Senate any more than he could

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As a traditional Catholic I got a kick out of these spot-on observations from Conrad Black: For those of us who take an interest in the vagaries of the Roman Church, the virtuoso performances of Ms. Collins and Ms. Dowd as earnest, questing papists, almost heartbroken at the failure of the last two popes to undergo sex-change operations and turn the Church into a polling organization, and at

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All morning, Perry supporters have been begging him to stay in the race. Now Twitter is all, well, a-twitter about this tweet from Gov. Perry: @GovernorPerry Rick Perry And the next leg of the marathon is the Palmetto State...Here we come South Carolina!!! yfrog.com/odz8ujrjJim Geraghty tweets: "Judging from the photo, last night Perry ran from Iowa to South Carolina."

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A very good speech, I think: As I tweeted a bit ago, it's a pleasure to hear a presidential candidate quote CS Lewis. In that spirit, let's call Santorum's Iowa almost-victory "Surprised by Rick." Santorum's speech above was "frank and beguiling" as well. Watch it and pass it on. Also say a prayer for our country if you're so inclined. Because, as the song says, the devil ain't lazy, no

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The road doesn't look much smoother for anyone but Romney, and his win was about as slim as it could be. Final Iowa Caucus results: ROMNEY WINS IOWA BY 8 VOTES - With 100 percent of Iowa precincts reporting just after 2:30 a.m. after a bizarre delay in Clinton County that played out across punch-drunk late night cable (Edith and Caroline live on CNN!) and frazzled Twitter feeds:  Mitt Romney

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H/t: The Right Scoop Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Pat Austin will be providing ongoing and massive coverage, linkage, and aggregation of all things IOWA today. So check her out! She quotes Ed Rollins on Rick Perry: When asked about Rick Perry, Rollins says if Perry comes in 4th, he actually stands the best chance to challenge Romney because of his money and organization.  Perry may come in first or second in South Carolina.  "His campaign

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The Washington Post's Alexandra Petri makes mock of a passel of rubes getting all patriotic at a Rick Perry rally in Perry (that's right), Iowa. I guess I'm not her target audience because it sounds pretty good to me: The Perry rally at the Hotel Pattee was far, far nicer than the Santorum rally. Santorum stood on the stairs and addressed a tepid crowd of people without amplification, only four

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Maybe. That's what I thought until I remembered some of the things the liberal media did to the Palins. So maybe it's just par for the course when the beast is confronted by its natural enemy.  I never liked Rich Lowry more than here in his exchange with Alan Colmes, who went to a very, very wrong place in his attempt to crazify Rick Santorum: Watch the latest video at &

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Heh: Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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The Romney ceiling: Speaking about rival Mitt Romney,  who he described as a “Massachusetts moderate,” Gingrich did not mince words.  “After five years of campaigning and what I think will be something like 20 million dollars plus in total spending, Romney is proving decisively that the moderate vote is about 23 percent,” he said. “People who describe him as the frontrunner have to ask

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Once again, brought to us by the tireless purveyors of "women's reproductive health services," come charges of murder. This time we don't have the ghastly, detailed grand jury testimony of the Gosnell case (not yet, anyway), but we do have dead babies in the freezer, and murder charges: Elkton [Maryland] police said they searched the clinic on East High Street but could not located medical

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Jeffrey Anderson: It’s likely that no candidate will win so much as 30 percent of the votes cast in Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses. Yet you can bet that the press corps will crown as the big winner the candidate who gets perhaps one-quarter of the votes of caucus-goers in a state that’s half the size of the average state. Meanwhile, those who get one-sixth, or one-seventh, or one-eighth, of that

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In a Washington Post article from last week, Juan Forero examines the causes behind Brazil's plummeting birth rate, which has dropped from 6.15 in 1960 to 1.9 in 2010. More from that piece in a bit, but first, in case you missed it from last fall, is National Geographic's Brazil's Girl Power by Cynthia Gorney, who takes a much closer look: And it's not simply wealthy and professional women who

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Suzy style: Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Moe Lane: The Attorney General of Virginia “plans to file emergency legislation to address the inability of most Republican presidential candidates to get their names on the ballot;” as everyone reading this already knows, the recent Virginia primary ratification process ended up with only Mitt Romney and Ron Paul getting on the ballot. Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry had too many of their

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A feast for Steyn fans: some choice excerpts from his posts and columns which, among them, I think, touch on all his main themes: cultural degeneration, life-stunting monster government, demographic suicide, et cetera. Enjoy! Big Government's Back Alley  This is a remarkable moment in American life: A man is killing actual living, gurgling, bouncing babies on an industrial scale - and it

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Today's NBC/Marist poll finds that Santorum has risen 6 points, from 9 to 15%. Perry has risen 4 points, from 10 to 14%. The Washington Post is fairly typical in its coverage, calling the Santorum rise a "surge" but Perry's "a slight boost." The margin of error is 4.8%. Yesterday's Rasmussen survey put Santorum at 16%, Perry at 13%, and Gingrich at 13%. The margin of error is +/- 4. Most

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Way too long and yet not finished. Oh well. I'm tired of looking at it and you probably will be, too, before you get to the end (though I've saved some of the best for last). But anyway, here goes: I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president — with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln — just in terms of what we’

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More to the point, try and stop them. They sure love their perks, eh? ABC's Yunji de Nies keeps tabs on the Obamas' posh vacation: President Obama and the first lady enjoyed a night out with friends, with a leisurely three-hour dinner at Alan Wong’s Restaurant. The upscale eatery specializes in Hawaiian Regional Cuisine and is a favorite of the first couple. Two years ago, Wong

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In my more rational moments I remember that none of these Iowa polls means anything. But this CNN poll is inspiring a lot of alliterative buzz about a Santorum surge. Erick Erickson isn't thrilled: Santorum has no money or organization outside of Iowa and cannot win the nomination, but Iowans love a guy who sucks up to them and makes sure they know he loves the babies. As a pro-lifer myself, I

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Jennifer Rubin's attack on Rick Perry this morning gives me hope that he'll be the big surprise of the Iowa caucus. I don't think she'd go after him like this if she didn't see him as a threat to Romney: If, in fact, his results are poor in Iowa and his days in the race are numbered, he will return to Texas a diminished figure. His immigration policy has incurred the ire of the base. His crony

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A few things: Melissa Clouthier on how our Golfer-in-Chief's me-first attitude affected the Christmases of others: President Obama might be the most selfish president ever. Instead of staying home with his family, President Obama had to go golfing on Christmas day. Big deal, you say? Well, the big deal is that a bunch of Marines had to work–blocking roads and doing other miscellaneous

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Scroll down for update. *** A few facts about the Virginia primary debacle, courtesy of Just a Conservative Girl and BearingDrift: If a candidate submits 15,000 signatures which include 600 from each congressional district, the signatures aren't verified. That means that neither Ron Paul's nor Mitt Romney's petitions have been scrutinized as have Perry's and Gingrich's. That sounds like a

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If you recognize this from last year try to think of it as a tradition instead of a rerun. I've added a few new things and hope you'll find something you like. Charpentier: Kyrie from Messe de Minuit Corelli: Christmas concerto Jessye Norman: Gesu Bambino Vince Guaraldi: O Christmas Tree Oscar Peterson: Jingle Bells Diana Krall: Jingle Bells, Let It Snow Ella Fitzgerald: Sleigh Ride,

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One of the beautiful things about Christmas is that it's all about the birth of a baby. Sassoferrato I wasn't planning to post anything more today (except the traditional Christmas music post, coming soon), but after reading Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak yesterday and Mark Steyn this morning, I had to dash this off. Petula Dvorak specializes in columns about contemporary motherhood.

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All aboard the fail train: A source with knowledge of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPV) petition signature verification process says Rick Perry was ‘dead on arrival’ and had no chance of getting on the ballot, even before the verification process began. The source said more than 1,000 of Perry’s 11,911 signatures were automatically invalid because the sheets they were turned in on had

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Thomas Sowell nailed it in 2008, and three years later Obama is still leading with ego and mouth: Steyn talks about the ad with its creator: More where that came from, indeed. Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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By popular demand, Persimmon Coxcomb has made a reappearance at SteynOnline. I won't excerpt but will tell you that I consider paragraph #4 to be a small masterpiece. Click and enjoy. Also enjoy his special audio Song of the Week, "White Christmas." (There's a musical treat at the end.) Mark also has some interesting Christmas movie suggestions for you sorted by category: best nativity scene,

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Of whom are they speaking? “Why does --------- feel like he can play by a different set of rules? What is it that he doesn’t want the American people to see? ----------, who has favored secrecy over openness time after time, should live up to the same standard of disclosure" set by others.No, that's not a relic from 2008, when candidate Barack Obama refused to reveal his transcripts from

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Someone is benefiting from the push to serve "healthier" food to school children but it's not the kids. Michelle Malkin reminds us of an enduring truth: Big Government programs “for the children” are never about the children. If they were, you wouldn’t see Chicago public school officials banning students from bringing home-packed meals made by their own parents. In April, The Chicago Tribune

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I love it: Bonus: Meet Anita Perry: Don Surber wrote today that Gov. Perry is "the last conservative standing." I agree. Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Who am I to differ with Thomas Sowell? But I see plenty of problems with a Newt Gingrich candidacy in addition to the fact that he is a serial adulterer. But I'm totally with Mr. Sowell here: Can you name one important positive thing that Romney accomplished as governor of Massachusetts? Can anyone? Does a candidate who represents the bland leading the bland increase the chances of victory in

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Our dysfunctional Congress is playing its usual games and each side is hoping to maneuver things so that the blame will fall on the other guy. As of now it appears that the GOP is still willing to deal but the Dems have left town. But the real crisis isn't about unemployment benefits or payroll taxes. It's the vacation, stupid. On Dec. 2 President Obama announced that he and Congress would

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Via the Washington Business Journal: What's wrong with this picture? Tolerance lives in historic Leesburg, Virginia. A closer look: "Tis the season. Open season, that is. It's all about mutual respect of diverse beliefs, right? Click the link above for more photos from Leesburg's "holiday" display, including the crucified skeleton Santa which we wrote about here.

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Politico's MIke Allen and Edward-Isaac Dovere have conducted an extended phone interview with Gov. Rick Perry and broken it down into smaller parts for those who don't want to commit to the entire 18 minutes. Here's the fun part: The WSJ's Danny Yadron also has an article on Perry and an interesting video interview from Iowa in which Perry discusses Obama's penchant for dividing Americans

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From Steyn's NR cover piece: Unlike the niche candidates, he offers all the faults of his predecessors rolled into one: Like Michele Bachmann, his staffers quit; like Herman Cain, he spent the latter decades of the last century making anonymous women uncomfortable, mainly through being married to them; like Mitt Romney, he was a flip-flopper, being in favor of government mandates on health

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That means Perry, Bachmann, or Santorum. Not Mitt, and not Newt. Romney's recent assertion that he's the "ideal" Tea Party candidate was absurd even without this video of him praising the individual mandate in the spring of 2010. Erick Erickson expresses my thoughts exactly: The Republican Party has gone insane. For the better part of the last three years the Republican Party has exercised

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Bet you can't top this one: Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice The threatening pizza slice didn't actually shoot pepperoni bullets, but you can't be too careful! "The kid across the table from him said it looked like a gun so he picked it up and started shooting it in the air," she told Nashville's News 2 Investigates. [. . .] James Evans, spokesperson for the Rutherford County

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Mark Steyn called him a "sad husk of a man" and Mike McQueary's recent statements don't contradict that: “I stepped back and didn’t want to see it anymore. I slammed the locker shut, and when I looked in, they had separated. I know they saw me, they both looked directly into my eyes, and neither said anything to me.”And to this day he has never confronted Sandusky. Another sad husk: Paterno,

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Anyone interested in the ongoing controversy of NRO's stealth endorsement of Mitt Romney and dismissal of Gingrich, Bachmann, and Perry should read Andy McCarthy's piece: Gingrich's Virtues. I have no use whatsoever for Newt (or Mitt) but as with all of McCarthy's writings, this is well worth the time. A few excerpts: In an even worse excess, the Editors shift from skewering Speaker Gingrich to

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Parts of this viral video are funny, I guess, but overall it makes me kinda sick. Here we have parents who deliberately make their kids cry in hopes of getting their lousy videos shown on a lame late night TV show. Some of the children are bewildered and hurt by the gag gifts. Others melt down and freak out when their sense of entitlement is violated by the bad presents. At the end, we're

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Can you stand another Rick Perry comeback post? If so, here's the obligatory Tebow clip and a few reactions to last night's debate. He's looking more like a happy warrior these days. And his answer to Megan Kelly's Fast & Furious question was downright presidential. Jim Geraghty: Rick Perry got to enjoy the much-anticipated question about Fast and Furious, and if it was a softball, he still

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Make that crucified Santa skeleton. Because nothing delights the heart of a child at Christmastime like a message from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monsters, a plethora of atheist propaganda, or a skeleton in a Santa suit, nailed to a cross.  View more videos at: http://nbcwashington.com.The grossly undernourished Santa figure (paging Mrs. Claus) was first vandalized by a naughty

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Badly done, NRO. The editors have "winnowed the field" down to three: Santorum, Huntsman, and (surprise!) Romney. They've advised us to ditch Newt (a no-brainer, in my view, and a strategic move on their part, since Newt poses the greatest immediate threat to Romney). They also urge us to exclude Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry. Wait, what? Perry? Why dismiss him now, when he's just beginning

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Allahpundit: Romney’s steady yet unprincipled and Gingrich is principled yet, er, “zany.” Whose finger do you want on the button? Good lord: Second look at Romney?Ahem. How about a second look at Rick Perry, who is neither unsteady nor unprincipled? Just sayin'. Perry begins his Iowa blitz today, where he may do very well. He seems to be trending up as Gingrich is trending down. Accompanying

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Rush Limbaugh, who until yesterday has been careful not to say anything negative about any of the GOP candidates, touched on the failings of Romney and Gingrich, going so far as to call Romney a hypocrite and reminding his listeners that there are three conservatives still in the race: Meanwhile, folks, while all this is going on, can I give you some names? Santorum, Bachmann, Perry. . . . This

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If I hadn't already, I would officially give up on that august body, the US Senate,  which has failed for almost 1000 days to produce a budget but makes time for a juvenile "secret Santa" gift exchange." (Gee, it almost makes you wonder whether the Senate takes our country's dire problems seriously.) It was apparently the brainchild (if that's possible) of Sen. Al Franken, who recalled

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From Ben Howe via Moe Lane: Long but worth watching. (Thanks to commenter Walt for the heads up.) Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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I appreciated George Will's line that Gingrich "would have made a marvelous Marxist." Turns out Will was too soft on Newt. Here's what he said in NH yesterday: I would just say that if Gov. Romney would like to give back all of the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. Good grief. That sounds exactly

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This is embarrassing, humiliating even. But it's nice to see Americans have retained their sense of humor. Christian Adams: I was travelling in an airport today and watched President Obama bring the house down, causing howls of laughter across the concourse. The ubiquitous CNN Airport showed Obama talking about the disastrous loss of the highly secret spy drone in Iran. Obama’s laugh line: “We

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Ezra Klein concedes the truth of what others, including James Pethokoukis, said when the November unemployment statistics came out:  Remember that the unemployment rate is not "how many people don't have jobs?", but "how many people don't have jobs and are actively looking for them?" Let's say you've been looking fruitlessly for five months and realize you've exhausted every job listing in

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Today's must-read: Alexander Solzhenitsyn on the Culture of Death: Joseph Pearce remembers his weekend with the Russian dissident and discusses his updated biography of him: He certainly was a keen observer of what was going on in society. Thinking about his critiques of Russian society and politics in its various phases — from the Revolution to the fall of Communism and beyond — are there

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In case you're interested, here's the full transcript of the 60 Minutes interview with President Obama that aired last night. (We touched on a previewed excerpt from it the other day.) It's hard for an incumbent president to avoid talking about his record. Obama does so here, but with a couple of caveats. If voters would just forget about the rotten economy and remember that Congress and the

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In spite of the moderators, it wasn't boring. In my view, everyone did well except Romney, who  looked queasy and put-upon. Someone should tell him to ditch the smiling and laughing in the face of attacks. It's awful. One of the best answers of the evening came from Ron Paul talking about taking the oath of office seriously. Too bad he's such a flake on foreign policy. Among the worst, Romney's

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Regardless of your opinion of Perry as a candidate, this is worth watching: Most recent posts here. Twitter feed here. Amazon store here.

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Genius orator dazzles with nautical metaphor: “No matter how well we’re steering the ship, the boat’s rocking back and forth, people are getting sick. They’re being buffeted by the winds and the rain. At a certain point if you ask them are you enjoying the ride right now, folks are going to say no. And are they going to say do you think the captain’s doing a good job? People are going to say

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A lovely story from my alma mater, the University of New Hampshire, which has been prevented by its professors' union from firing German professor Edward Larkin: Larkin admitted he exposed himself to a mother and her daughter in a grocery store parking lot and was convicted of a felony. It happened in Milford, NH in 2009. Many taxpayers told WBZ-TV it doesn’t make sense. “I think it’s

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Rick Santorum has agreed to participate in the so-called Trump debate and has branded his opponents as hypocrites for turning it down: "Many of my opponents jockeyed to be the first to fly up to New York and use Donald Trump for a photo op and no doubt try and secure an endorsement," the former Pennsylvania senator said in a statement. "But when Donald wants to moderate a debate – they refuse

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Stacy McCain isn't ready to settle for Mitt or Newt: Really? Is that it? The only choice is between Mitt RomneyCare and Newt the Scozzafava-Hugger? Maybe. I dunno. I’m not one of those Smart People like Rove and Krauthammer.I've never seen Animal House so some of the references are wasted on me but I get the general idea: None of the developments in this wild and crazy year have so shocked me

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