Herman Cain Tops Santorum, Christie, Daniels, Pence, Huckabee in N.H.
OK, that’s not the headline on the Politico story, but the order of finish in the New Hampshire GOP straw poll was lots more interesting than the news that Mitt Romney beat Ron Paul: Romney won with 35 percent, beating second-place finisher Ron Paul by 24 points in the WMUR-ABC News straw poll of members […]
‘Man Was Born Free, And He Is Everywhere In Chains. . .’
by Smitty “. . .especially where the ideas of Rousseau are linked,” to paraphrase ol’ Jean Jacques. If Kabul was a movie, it would be Groundhog Day. I can’t lay any claim to the big picture, but I hope all the blood and treasure invested here amounts to something. The tempermental WiFi service was OK […]
Religious Left Infiltrates Catholic Agency?
Lisa Graas reports: According to a document revealed by Creative Minority Report (CMR), we now have definitive proof that the pro-abortion mindset dwells even at the highest levels of the
Mom’s Boyfriend ‘Person of Interest’ in Texas Cheerleader’s Disappearance
This is one of those missing-girl cases that Nancy Grace is always covering. If you’ve seen enough stories like this, the patterns become familiar, and this one’s starting to look like a murder investigation: Dogs searching a landfill in Abilene, Texas, found evidence in the case of a missing 13-year-old girl from West Texas, a […]
Blame America First!
“Loughner is a pathetic symbol of the ignorance and paranoia eating away at American politics.” — Alice Miles, “How paranoia infected America,” The New Statesman (U.K.) How is it that one psychotic is made a symbol for all the other Americans who haven’t shot their members of Congress? If random criminals are to be said […]
Professor on Aborted Babies: ‘I Look at Them Unflinchingly and See Meat’
“I’ve scooped brains out of buckets, I’ve counted dendrites in slices cut from the brains of dead babies. You want to make me back down by trying to inspire revulsion with dead baby pictures? I look at them unflinchingly and see meat. And meat does not frighten me.” — Paul Z. Myers, University of Minnesota […]
The Governor California Deserves
Wrecking the state in the name of civil rights: Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday called education funding a civil rights issue, defending his plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies as necessary to reduce California’s yawning budget deficit and to push more tax revenue to schools and public safety. “We take from redevelopment and we put $1 […]
Jesse Walker on Loughner and Zeitgeist
In the immediate aftermath of the Tucson massacre, the mainstream media went chasing after “right-wing” phantoms, as the managing editor of Reason magazine explains: In the meantime, people who actually knew the killer were talking to the press, dropping clues about what Loughner really was reading and viewing. Loughner’s friend Zach Osler, for example, told ABC that while […]
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