The six-percent solution
According to The Google, it was H. L. Menken who said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” Every four years, the country bends over backwards to prove him...
View ArticleThe Greatest Show On Earth!
Every media outlet is breathlessly demanding to know, “Where was God in Aurora?” He was the same place He is always is. Everywhere and nowhere.He was on an adrenaline high with the shooter, He was...
View ArticleScalia sells books on Fox's Sunday politics show
He’s got a book out and the Fox Sunday morning show got an interview with him. In his first few sentences, he underscored my fundamental disagreement with his judicial philosophy. He said he’s an...
View ArticleIn support of an Originalist interpretation of the Second Amendment
United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was on Fox News’s Sunday morning politics show a couple weeks back, and besides being a great ‘get,’ the man gives good interview. I didn’t agree with...
View ArticleDNC Convention Wrap-up, Night One
Very smooth-running night. Jimmy Carter beamed-in testimonial and Ted Kennedy video eulogy nicely done, the latter without being overwrought.Right off the bat, the difference in tone from the RNC...
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Seriously, though, who is this kid?
I remember when we thought five was the best year ever—and maybe it will turn out to have been—but six has become a formidable contender for the title.I was looking back at photos of him from just last...
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DNC 2012 Wrap-Up
All I remember from the second night was Bill Clinton, flying too close to the sun without even picking up a tan. Spoke for 45+ minutes, it turns out half of them off-script. It must have made the TV...
View ArticleThe ominous undercarriage of the media
I’m watching The 5 on Fox (the show’s title seems to refer to the combined IQ of the panelists, plus former White House press sec’y Dana Perino), and they are frothing with faux fury at live-mic...
View ArticleWhy Conservatives must not vote for Mitt Romney
If we vote for Mitt Romney this year—and he wins—we won’t be able to vote for Paul Ryan for president in 2016. It’s that simple. If Mr. Romney wins in 2012, Paul Ryan’s political goose is cooked. If...
View ArticleMittens pulls off a big win!
Who knew? Put him on stage with a fellow Ivy Leaguer—instead of the traveling clown car that was the GOP primary field, or plopped down in the middle of a rally of Joe Six-packers—and on style and...
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Funnel of Love and Money
The Mormon Temple across the street they’ve been giving the old spit-n-polish to since before we moved here 2.5 years ago is finally finished. But before they officially consecrate it, they’re opening...
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The Right ‘Stuff’
When they write the history books, this year’s Vice Presidential debate will probably be judged a draw. Joe Biden’s supporters will say he won because he called “malarkey” on almost every...
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Atlas Shrugged, checked phone for messages
I saw Atlas Shrugged, Part II last weekend.[pause for howls of derisive laughter]I saw Part I when it came out, and was not impressed. But because of how many times I read the book as a teenager and...
View ArticleIt’s a Grand Old Party… but only if you’re a man
Romney closes the gender gap?Seriously?Besides radical pro-lifers, ‘Job Creators’ and citizens who now believe Obama’s big second-term initiative centers around coming to get their guns, why would any...
View ArticleDATELINE AMERICA—GOP sets own pants on fire, likes it
(Or: Remember when everybody thought the beltway Republicans would engulf and devour the Tea Party freshmen, not the other way around?)A dozen years into the 21st century, when we have tools like video...
View ArticleTaking the guns out of gun violence
It’s past time to look gun violence in this country in the face and concede that ‘guns’ are a big part of ‘gun violence.’I’m not interested in repeating talking points. Everybody already knows their...
View ArticleLet’s talk
The old sodbuster was sitting in the booth next to The Boy and I at Denny’s last night. He was alone, and I had him pegged as a widower. It looked like the seat across from him was still occupied in...
View ArticleWhere the hell have I been?
A friend asked me recently why I haven’t blogged lately and my initial response was, “Somebody reads my blog?”So think of this as less of a blog and more of a note to D-from-A, catching him up on my...
View ArticleFor shame, Zero Dark Thirty
I finally saw both Zero Dark Thirty and The Hobbit yesterday. The Boy and I agreed The Hobbit was too long. Twelve dwarves is about five too many.Saw Zero Dark Thirtyby myself. I’d been wanting to see...
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