http://youtu.be/5Aohgrn1peA A candidate I once worked for launched a political campaign on a television program, pledging to stay positive throughout the race. The interviewer burst out laughing on the set –genuinely. I remember thinking at the time, “We’ll show him.” A month later, we were in the thick of one of the nastiest campaigns in memory. The Ron […]
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Quote of the Day, Newt Gingrich
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal employees delivering the right services in a highly sufficient way and then wants to get rid of those folks that are, in fact wasteful, or those folks who are ideologically so far to the left…”–Newt Gingrich, 01-16-12 Not for nothing, but isn’t that how dictatorships begin?
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U.S. education bureaucrats have gone mad. And parents like me are letting them get away with it. The New York Post reports today that school officials on Long Island and elsewhere are now placing electronic devices on children they deem “overweight” to monitor the children’s physical activities. They are doing it without even asking the permission of parents. If I wasn’t so busy watching […]
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One hopes the Obama Administration is paired with Israel in a game of good-cop-bad-cop against Iran. That’s the only thing that would make sense after reading of the latest Administration admonitions to Israel on that nation’s plans to take out Iranian nuclear-weapon facilities. Iran has not only promised to develop a weapon as soon as possible, it has vowed to […]
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The U.S. D-Day Museum estimates the total economic cost of WWII — all nations combined — at $1.6 trillion. One could spend two lifetimes itemizing the destruction wrought during that war on Europe and Asia, and the staggering amount of war materials used therein by the Allied and Axis powers. Many, many cities were flattened to […]
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Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have given Mitt Romney an extraordinary gift. Their anti-free-market rants against Mr. Romney and his former firm Bain Capital have made the ex Massachusetts governor a cause célèbre among conservative talk show hosts like Sean Hannity. These were the exact hosts who have been wary of Mr. Romney’s conservative bona fides for […]
Read the rest of this entry »NYC Health Police Gone Wild, Part 923 (Update)
An observation from the 19th Century German poet Heinrich Heine came to mind this morning upon cracking the pages of The New York Post. The prescient lyricists, 100 years before the rise of Adolf Hitler, wrote, “Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people.” In other words, those who attempt to eradicate free will and free ideas — those […]
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Is there any end to the love being showered on Mitt Romney from former Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich? The Earl of Pomposity generously assumed frontrunner status in the final weeks of the Iowa Caucuses, freezing the rest of the GOP field in place before predictably collapsing. Now Mr. Gingrich and his casino magnate backer are unleashing the […]
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Nothing like a trip to a West Side children’s theater to make one feel normal – and lacking. I was one of a handful of fathers at the 11:00 performance today of “Pinkalicious” on West 60th Street, and it was like wandering into a super-mom convention. The lady on my left was speaking French to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Can Perry Claw Back?
Rick Perry’s decision to stay in the GOP presidential primary until at least South Carolina is a good one. Mr. Perry, who entered the race from a cannon before falling to earth like, well, a cannonball at the end of its arc, was just beginning to get the feel of things at the close of […]
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