The Ninth Circuit is on to you. Your atavistic views, redolent of the last century, clearly have no place in our Constitution. Which sprung full-grown out of Lady Gaga’s head in the year 2020.

His Hehness does not think this is a winning slogan.

Neither do I, but it’s certainly a highly entertaining slogan. I can come up with some more:

Obama 2012: No Longer Lacking Executive Experience

Obama 2012: Everyone Deserves a Second Chance

Obama 2012: Purely By the Law of Averages, He’s Bound to Do Better

Add your own in the comments.

I think it’s now time to play the “Mitt Romney would/should/could appoint (insert well-known Mormon here) as _____” game.

GA’s and famous Mormons are fair game.    Creating a new position is also allowed.

As in:  Romney would appoint Deiter F. Uchtdorf as head of the FAA, Jeffrey Holland as head of Dept of Education.

What should be a pet-cause for Ann Romney?  (Michelle Obama’s is diet/weight-loss, Laura Bush’s was education, Nancy Reagan’s was Say No to Drugs.)

I nominate Family Home Evening to be Ann Romney’s cause.

(Various ideas can be found/stolen from a “Mitt Romney is so Mormon…” meme at various places on the net. A list of the best is here.)

Their reckless frenetic conspiracy-mindedness gives me the only chance I’ll ever have to use the phrase “hell on wheels within wheels.” (more…)

In a single snarky run-on sentence. Which doesn’t mean it isn’t spot-on.

State of the Union speech assessed as being at eighth-grade level.

His Majesty: “Lord Vader, which audience do you mean? The American public, or Congress?”

Yes.

Gingrich’s space ideas, some of ‘em, make me want to hoot ‘n’ holler. But his other notions plumb make me want to shoot the cheatin’ varmint. Them thar fancifal decoctions of what he is pleased to call his headpiece are dumber than a steer in a dairy.

Wow.  Watch the video embedded in this article:

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/15/romney-gives-unemployed-woman-cash/

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The Supreme Court just rejected, 9-0, the Obama Administration’s attempt to abolish the ministerial exception. This is a good day for religious liberty. This is a very good day for religious liberty. (more…)

I tooled up in the roadster to New Hampshire yesterday to take in the hustings. After the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, one rather enjoys these quaint American customs. A good time was had by all. (more…)

Justice requires social reform as well as economic reform. Individuals cannot flourish, indeed they cannot hope to survive in any meaningful way, apart from the rich lattice of relationships, families, and associations commonly known as civil society. This is a realm that exists apart from the state and independent of its authority. Here, in families and churches, schools and clubs, individuals make something of their lives and truly exercise their capacity to govern.

Yet government has been consuming civil society for years. Like their leftist counterparts around the world, American liberals distrust the social sector as moralistic, unequal, and hidebound. The “little platoons” of family and neighborhood too often stand in the way of making citizens truly equal. Churches and local communities too often impose obligations on individuals that keep them from pursuing happiness. Consequently, since the early part of the last century, Progressives have sought to replace society with government by absorbing the social sector’s teeming variety of voluntary associations into the state.

Thus Joshua D. Hawley

Almost thou persuadest me to be a Romneyite.

As has been evident all along, the debate over gay marriage and special protections for homosexuality in law wasn’t really a debate about equality. It’s about gay privilege at the expense of religious freedom. (more…)

The New York Times has an article up on Mitt Romney’s campaign style when out meeting voters. I couldn’t see anything odd about it. Maybe because the kinds of questions he asks are exactly the kind of thing I ask and am asked whenever I meet new people at church. What are your family connections to the folks with you? What are your genealogical roots? (more…)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2074994/Plans-floating-city-California-coast-house-entrepreneurs-visas.html

In a previous life, I spent part of a year in college on an ocean-going tanker.  It does take a couple weeks to get your sea-legs, and not everyone can adapt.

But this is a very creative solution to the problem of high-tech entrepreneurs not being able to get the necessary types of visas.

It also illustrates that the United States culture/families/education system is not creating sufficient home-grown talent.