There was a rule in college football called the Halo Rule that protected punt returners from getting killed. It requires defensive players to allow a punt returner to actually catch the ball before creaming him. It didn’t just protect lives, it was considered good sportsmanship. The New York Times writes today about the Democratic […]
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Campaign Ad, Reagan ’84
http://youtu.be/EU-IBF8nwSY This is the best campaign ad I’ve ever seen. It was pitch-perfect when released. “Morning in America” was written by ad man Hal Riney, who also did the voice-over for the spot. I remember exactly where I was sitting when I first saw it. It actually choked me up. My then girlfriend made fun of me for […]
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Canada created 10,000 more jobs than the U.S. did in June, according to jobs reports released today. The nation of under 34 million people reported 28,400 new jobs in June, while the 312 million person U.S. created just 18,000. That is a striking statistic. Canada’s unemployment rate is now almost two full percentage points lower than ours, 7.4% compared with […]
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Rick Perry cometh. The brash Texan – who ignored President Obama and his old boss, George W. Bush, in executing a Mexican national last night for rape and murder – just filed a federal campaign committee, or at least his supporters did, National Journal reports this morning. Last night’s execution is ironic, as then Governor Bush […]
Read the rest of this entry »Ames Straw Poll Ads Begin
http://youtu.be/3Cc5q8PKk8c Michele Bachmann went up on the air today in Iowa with an ad aimed at August Ames Straw Poll voters. The message is that Bachmann is Iowan through and through — and that she won’t compromise on the debt ceiling. It will be interesting to see if Mitt Romney goes up with ads in Iowa, too. He is not competing […]
Read the rest of this entry »For the Love of a Little Girl
This may be the saddest story I have ever read. If you cannot bear sadness, do not read it. I mean it. Do not. If you can, please read it and pass it around. This 12-year-old girl’s sacrifice cannot go for naught. The story is getting plenty of pick-up – it’s on Drudge today – […]
Read the rest of this entry »UN Jumps the Shark
The League of Nations and then the United Nations was a noble idea. But the entity that exists today off Dag Hammarskjold Plaza is a cruel joke on anyone subscribing to a one-world, kumbaya vision. There have been 1,000 instances demonstrating the UN’s fecklessness and downright idiocy, but none more jarring than North Korea assuming the chairmanship […]
Read the rest of this entry »Obama Could Lose in 36 States
There isn’t a single state that John McCain won in 2008 in serious jeopardy of voting for President Obama in 2012. But 10 or more states that the President won in the last election conceivably could move over to the GOP column. Six – Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, New Hampshire, and Indiana are likely […]
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Dumb question. Who the heck is KC Casey Anthony? I know I’m supposed to know that, but I really don’t care to. For a solid month I’ve been seeing her and her father on a witness stand on cable news channels, and each time I have, I’ve flipped the channel as fast as humanly possible. […]
Read the rest of this entry »David Brooks Deconstructed
I generally like David Brooks. He is an independent thinker. But occasionally one gets the feeling he has been hanging out too much with his newspaper’s editorial board. His perspective swings suddenly and wildly. He stops trying to persuade his New York Times audience and throws himself into its arms instead, saying: “You see. I’m not one of those crazy right-wingers. I’m […]
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