It’s time to stop dog piling on Mitt Romney for what he said about the “47 percent.” Time is better spent dogging him for what his words mean regarding public policy. After all, that’s what elections are supposed to be about. Let’s give the GOP standard-bearer credit for spawning, on tape amid…
I have no other explanation for this except in terms of the petri dish. None but the kind of culture that goes from throat swab to black plague. Take a moderate, statesmanlike, center-right Republican. Expose him constantly to the germs of extreme ideology and backwater stagnation. Watch fever consume him. Watch his…
This is Quebec souring on maple syrup. This is France joining the Coalition of the Willing. This is Alabama lawmakers swearing off public use of Bible verses. This is Texas seeking a waiver from No Child Left Behind. For those current-events challenged, the first three are fanciful,…
Sure, Paul Ryan walked truth off the pier and into Tampa Bay in concrete loafers. Sure, newspapers rushed to press whole special sections cataloging the extent of factual impairment he exhibited, not even having room for that lie about his time running the marathon. I quibble nonetheless with The Washington Post’s Eugene…