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…
DetailsThis 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,…
DetailsSure, 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…
DetailsAs 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…
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