I don’t mean to be unkind, but what on earth is former Utah Governor John Huntsman up to? It’s really beyond time for him to say something interesting — anything interesting — or get out of the race. The former U.S. ambassador to China launched his campaign with a bang before the same Statue-of-Liberty background Ronald […]
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Gratitude in Motion
Anyone who has ever been to Sharon, Connecticut in late afternoon in August knows there is nothing more uncommonly annoying than the common American gnat. The tiny black flies swarm in Sharon Valley by the millions in late summer, appearing ghostlike, halo-like, in their abundance around the heads of every breathing creature. People’s eyes, mouths, […]
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http://youtu.be/HcRfuuSprUI?t=1m40s Most people with good sense were asleep last night when Rick Santorum gave his Iowa Caucus victory remarks (he effectively won). They were extraordinary in their heartfeltedness, to coin a word. Like Rick Santorum or not, it is hard to deny that words like these come from deep within a soul. One can feel […]
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Rick Santorum crept up in the Iowa polls in recent weeks as the last standing social conservative who could challenge Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. As Newt Gingrich’s and Michele Bachmann’s supporters looked for a relevant place to cast their vote, Mr. Santorum, who campaigned endlessly in Iowa, became the latest, and maybe last, “it” […]
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As the results of the Iowa Caucuses trickle in, it is clear that Michelle Bachmann will run a distant fifth sixth place in the state in which she was raised — and the state that made her its August Ames straw poll winner. With funds and little of her organization left, Mrs. Bachmann will likely drop […]
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I was really trying to find something upbeat to write about this morning, something to ring in the new year with a jingle of optimism. But a scan of the news and editorial pages made that tough. The New York Times is calling for more government spending, a day after reporting that President Obama will ask for a […]
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http://youtu.be/IjL3mpmibt4 And, speaking of Iowa… Things are getting pretty low-brow in the Hawkeye state. Here is an example of the type of ad now running, this one from a “progressive” group calling itself Americanlp.org. Its message? If Mitt Romney speaks French, he must be a liberal. (Again, this ad purportedly is coming from a left-wing Super PAC.) […]
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Speaking of Charles Krauthammer, the ubiquitous Washington Post columnist has a far-out piece today that’s worth a read. It argues, disconcertingly, that all intelligent life in the universe, save us, may have annihilated itself. The reason? Reason itself. The neo-conservative Pulitzer Prize winner surmises: …This silent universe is conveying not a flattering lesson about our […]
Read the rest of this entry »An Angry Newt Jumps the Shark
Newt Gingrich has jumped the shark. The man who has had a “bold” new “solution” daily since the 1980’s — in direct contradiction to conservative thought — is now attacking conservative icons like George Will and Charles Krauthammer, and revered conservative publications like National Review, through his super PAC “Winning Our Future.” Their crime is in […]
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