OK, how about a Romney-Perry ticket? Or Romney-Santorum ticket? Or Romney-Cain? Romney-Gingrich? To pick up on a theme by Vassar Bushmills yesterday: Conventional wisdom says Romney is in. Conventional wisdom also says Romney needs to bring in the conservative tea…
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Wasteful Spending, A Catechism for Candidates
There is wasteful spending, the sinful fact, and wasteful spending the political crime. I’ll show you what I mean: Private Company 1, the Responsible Path: When revenues start to fall the good business owner will quickly re-evaluate his on-going expenses,…
There is No Bill to Pass, Mr Obama
Maybe I’d never made a good politician, for I just don’t understand why Republicans in both houses aren’t running, knocking over people, just to get to the microphone. Every day, not just sometimes, every day for weeks now, I’ve had…
I Think I May Say, Without Fear of Contradiction…
The New Yorker, 1938 News Item: ABC cuts Hank Williams, Jr for comparing Obama to Hitler. Of course he didn’t compare any such thing, as any 9th grade English student would know. But in the zeitgeist of the times,…
AP Manipulates Good News out of Afghanistan Into Bad
Photo: Emil Emric/AP Deb Reichman, of AP posted this headline on 29 Sept: Afghanistan violence up 39% over 2010 She goes onto say: The statistics show that the intensity of the nearly decade-old war is growing, not abating, as…