Michael Gerson on Rick Santorum’s brand of conservatism: Perhaps the most surprising result of the Iowa caucuses was the return of compassionate conservatism from the margins of the Republican stage to its center. Rick Santorum is not just an outspoken social conservative; he is the
Factoid buried in a Washington Post graph caption: The federal debt of the United States — including debt owed to the public and to parts of the government itself, such as the Social Security Fund — climbed to $15.22 trillion on Dec. 30. That marked
Charles Krauthammer takes the prize for the best literary allusion in election analysis so far: Gingrich is staying in. This should be good news for Romney. It’s not. In his Iowa non-concession speech, Gingrich was seething. He could not conceal his fury with Paul and
Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese on why, according to the Constitution, pro forma sessions in the Senate do not allow for recess appointments: As a former U.S. attorney general and a former Office of Legal Counsel lawyer who provided advice to presidents on recess
“Epiphany. 3 a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure b :
Jerry Salyer at Front Porch Republic has written a stunning essay on “conservative liberalism”; that is, people who are conservatives while still embracing the assumptions of liberalism (for example, commercialism, progressivism, radical individualism). Think of a church that claims conservative theology and values while throwing
Libertarian Steve Horwitz explains the context of those Ron Paul newsletters with a fascinating survey of the history and the varying strategies of that movement: The attempt to court the right through appeals to the most unsavory sorts of arguments was a conscious part of
The President is not only planning to campaign against Congress. He is evidently going to govern against Congress as well. He has said that he is going to start implementing his programs by executive order. Now he has pulled something that seems to me to
Michele Bachmann Drops Out of Presidential Race – ABC News. If her 6% were to go to Santorum, he’d be a big winner in the Iowa caucus. Won’t her fans go to him rather than to Romney? Rick Perry will stay in the race for
The prospects for more Narnia movies in the near future are not good, as Walden Media, which produced the first three, has lost the rights to the novels. Fans of popular book series The Chronicles of Narnia have been left in limbo over when, or
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