During the week that ended Sunday, Newt Gingrich held eight
campaign events and Mitt Romney held nine. Rick Santorum held
15 events last week, and that may ultimately explain why
Santorum continues his otherwise inexplicable surge in the
Republican presid...
Toward the end of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee became so worried
about the morale of his troops that he appeared on the battlefield
several times, ready to lead his men into action. How did his
troops react? They surrounded his horse and forced him to the...
I have frequently discussed in this column the concept of
Calculated Deception. That is President Obama's practice of taking
advantage of what he calculates average people don't know, and what
the Democratic Party-controlled media won't tell them, to misl...
Like vampires fleeing a cross, the secular world shudders and
trembles at the sight of Rick Santorum delivering a speech about
good and evil at Ave Maria University in Florida in 2008.
Santorum's statement came 25 years after another much-maligned
social...
Friday
We are still down in the desert. It's still raining and cold, but
we love it anyway. We (wifey and I) got up, had breakfast, I swam,
then we rushed over to our 12-step meeting. As we did, I got a call
from a woman who works for me confirming my wor...
It may seem to both casual and experienced observers that the
Republican primary race has thus far been a rough and tumble blood
sport, with more pints left to be spilled. But compared with the
bone crushing, rugby style of Australia's governing Labor Par...
Today is George Washington's 280th birthday, which (unlike
"Presidents' Day") deserves full celebration. One evening this week
I was one of several invited to give toasts to George Washington
before students and other supporters of Hillsdale College at it...
I'm sorry to disagree with my friend, and sincere Rick Santorum
supporter, Quin Hillyer, who suggests
that Wednesday's Republican debate was "no game changer."
Having heard a little more than an hour of the Republican debate
on Wednesday evening, my gut r...
There has been one common theme in the Republican presidential
debates this year: when a candidate appears to have things well in
hand, they suddenly turn in their worst debate performance. It
happened to Mitt Romney in South Carolina after his New Hampsh...
Here are my final thoughts on tonight's GOP Debate in Mesa,
Arizona which aired on CNN and was moderated by John King.
Newt Gingrich - Now that Newt has again receded
in the polls and he is not expected to win the nomination, he
seemed relaxed and gave a...
I don't think tonight's campaign is going to do much to
radically change te trajectory of this race. Nobody dominated, and
nobody bombed. That said, I thought the following about the
performance of each.
1) Newt Gingrich performed best. He didn't dominate...
Ron Paul (a.k.a. Tehran Ron) is once again apologizing for the
Iranian regime. He insists they don't have a weapon but if they
do obtain a weapon then it's our fault. Tehran Ron claimed
we're "encouraging them to have a weapon."
Given that Iranian ch...
