As Isaac headed into the gulf, the Republicans were talking up a storm. Not about elixirs for the economy their policies helped wreck, but about a subject that is a certain loser in November: How best for government to dictate the result of a woman’s unwanted pregnancy. Mitt Romney says he would…
DetailsWhen a Russian court sentenced lyrical outrage mavens Pussy Riot last week to two years in prison for “hooliganism,” American indignation swelled, and not just among punk rockers. The crime: In protest against Vladimir Putin and the powerful Russian Orthodox Church, the group performed a disrespectful publicity stunt in a Moscow cathedral. …
DetailsPoints to Mitt Romney. Paul Ryan, unlike the last Republican nominee for vice president, is not a toy surprise from the bottom of a cereal box. What we have in Ryan is the box — the package — for the flakes Romney sells. Now to see if America is buying. Unlike…
DetailsDon’t you hate freeloaders? Those who won’t carry their weight? Those who cost others because they don’t use common sense and available resources to best possible uses? Me, too. That’s why I was bothered recently to hear from people incensed by the prospect of having to have health insurance under…
DetailsCongressman Louie Gohmert has it figured out. A mass murder in Colorado. Mass suicides by Iraqi and Afghan veterans. Blame them on one thing: Godlessness. “What really gets me as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs and then a senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place,”…
DetailsIf the gun lobby is to be our guide, he exercised his Second Amendment rights in ways our founders intended — using arms to keep an invasive government at bay. His weapons did just that, until law enforcement disarmed or removed all the explosive devices James Holmes rigged up in his Aurora, Colo.,…
DetailsJerry Seinfeld was gold — gold, I tell ya — when he said, in effect, all sports fans do is root for laundry. Whatever the sport: We may hardly know the players, but what stirs us to song is the colors they wear. So, what song emanates when the laundry is Chinese, yet…
DetailsAlyssa Sturgeon had me at “metaphors.” I teach college students to appreciate analogy. Sometimes it’s like yanking out a molar with rubber hose. Alyssa gets analogy. She’s in fourth grade. She wrote a letter to thet editor of the Vero Beach Press Journal to wonder how the state could have flunked…
DetailsTwo disasters blackened the blast-furnace summer of 2011 in Texas. Against one, man was defenseless: the duo of drought and fire. The first took almost half a billion trees. The later, nearly 4,000 homes. It was horrific, but only marginally worse than what the Legislature did to Texas schools. That disaster was…
DetailsThese days you just don’t know what story line to believe. Take the box-office hit that portrays Abraham Lincoln’s role as a vampire killer. I don’t know. That doesn’t match any of my previous reading. Then we have the narrative from Mitt Romney — job creator, economic prince on a white steed. It…
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