Who Was Really "Disgusting" in Terri Schiavo Case
Jeb Bush’s PAC has put out an ad that quickly references the Terri Schiavo case, including her photo. Readers will recall Bush worked very hard to try and save her life.Terri’s widower, Michael...
View ArticleMarco Rubio: ‘There Is Only One Savior and It’s Not Me’
Marco Rubio packed a number of memorable lines into his response to a question about his mediocre polling. When Fox News’s Bret Baier asked how he had gone from being — in the words of Time Magazine –...
View ArticleRand Paul: 'We Must Have a Religious Bearing as a Nation'
Sen. Rand Paul, in response to a question about how the federal government should treat abortion, said the country can’t survive without a religious foundation. Quoting the British theologian Os...
View ArticleTrump Avoids the Immigration Flip-Flopping Bloodbath
In the middle of tonight’s debate, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Jeb Bush and Rand Paul spent about ten minutes trading accusations of inconsistency on immigration reform. It felt like the last ten minutes of...
View ArticleRand Paul's Best Debate
Senator Paul, I thought, had his debate so far, getting a chance to make his distinctive points. I especially liked his point (from the WaPo transcript) about Ferguson: One thing I discovered in...
View ArticleJeb Won, Rubio Helped Himself the Most, and Thoughts on What Might Have Been
Tonight’s debate featured by far the best Jeb Bush performance to date. He was funny, quick on his feet, and his policy answers (with the exception of immigration) were spot on. I wanted to cheer when...
View ArticleNR Tweets the GOP Debates
Tweets from https://twitter.com/NRO/lists/nr-debate-tweets NR Tweets the GOP Debates
View ArticleWaiting for the Barbarians
The older I get, the more temperamentally conservative I become and the less hope I have for politics. The ideological conservatives who support Donald Trump are the exact opposite: They are so angry...
View ArticleWhy the Iowa Caucus (Probably) Won't Alter the Fundamentals of the GOP Race
In the frantic lead-up to the caucus, politicians and the media are playing an expectations game. But a closer look at the final Des Moines Register poll suggests that in terms of the fundamental...
View ArticleHappy February (and Groundhog) Links
Groundhog (because of the badger shortage) Day, Candlemas and weather predictions. Related: Where Did Groundhog Day Come From? February links - pagan Roman purification (februa = purify) and Mary’s...
View ArticleGiving Everyone a Reason to Believe on Iowa Caucus Night
From the Morning Jolt for Iowa Caucus Monday:Giving Everyone a Reason to Believe on Iowa Caucus NightReasons to think Donald Trump will win or beat expectations:1. Trump’s led the last nine polls in...
View ArticleA Churchillian Phrase and Today’s World
Lately, I’ve been thinking about Taiwan — first, because that’s always a good thing to do; second, because they’ve just had an election. A woman, Tsai Ing-wen, was elected president. She is a member of...
View ArticleHow Will the Donald Perform Tonight?
We’ll find out tonight if Donald Trump was right when in December 2013 when he told a disbelieving group of political professionals that he would win the presidency while breaking all the rules.“You...
View ArticleFinal Iowa Poll Shows Race a Three-Way Tossup
This news is only hours away from complete irrelevance, but the latest Iowa poll — taken entirely after the last GOP debate — shows that the race is now a three-way tossup between Donald Trump, Ted...
View ArticleThe Washington Post Really Buries the Lede
The Washington Post had a long article yesterday headlined in the hard copy, “Why do poor boys become jobless men?” (the headline on the jump-page was “Study: Poverty especially harmful to job...
View ArticleTen Things that Caught My Eye Today (Feb. 1, 2016)
1. Boko Haram burns kids alive in Nigeria, 86 dead: officials2.One more reminder to pray and to work for the imperiled Syrian Christians. https://t.co/XtAwSdunRU— Russell Moore (@drmoore) January 31,...
View ArticleThe Iowa Caucus Expectations Game: What Do the Republican Candidates Need?
The Iowa Caucuses award 27 of the 1,237 delegates needed to win the Republican presidential nomination, they are awarded proportionally, and nobody is likely to get much more than a third of the vote,...
View ArticleIowa Man Among Many Claiming Trump Swindled Him
It has long been my contention, and in recent weeks backed by focus groups and polling data, that Donald Trump’s support starts to erode when it becomes evident just how often and how severely Trump...
View ArticleDonald Trump, the John Scott of Politics
The big news in hockey over the weekend was about John Scott. Scott, a journeyman enforcer and the very antithesis of a star, had been elected by fans to the NHL All-Star Game as a joke candidate, and...
View ArticleShould Britain Stay in the EU for Europe’s Good?
Writing in the FT, Gideon Rachman argues that the EU is in such a state of crisis that Brexit “could . . . be a major step along the road to its collapse,” something, he argues, that would not be in...
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