But what I want for Christmas reminds me of what I discovered when I was around eleven years old and gave to my best friend a model of HMS Dorchester, the ship that finished off the Bismarck with a few well-aimed torpedoes. On Christmas day, when I opened up his present for me, I found he had given me the same thing.
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Amid the new hashtags and declarations of solidarity on Facebook, actor Rob Lowe Tweeted the truth: “Oh, NOW France closes its borders.” Yahoo’s “The Wrap” would have none of it. “Rob Lowe Ripped for Paris Attack Tweets,” the headline shrieked. Rob must mind his manners.
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Sin number 1: Jackson doesn’t know an opportunity when he sees one.
Sin number 2: Jackson possesses no sense of moderation.
And then there was Jeb. One would have to be a hermit to be ignorant of the kind of disastrous week he had.
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Imagine the implications of the proposal: free medical care—perhaps free everything— for anyone who illegally enters the country. Webb’s response, when it did come, reminded me of something generally forgotten, but which, I, being a Texan, recall.
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But, so far as I can determine, no evidence for real doctoring of Nucatola’s words or their context—or, for that matter the words of other Planned Parenthood functionaries in the CMP’s other videos—has been produced.
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Ben Carson’s suspicion of a hypothetical Muslim presidential candidate did no harm to the Constitution as written. Certainly the Founders understood that the preservation of the American order might require prudential—that is to say, practical and political—consideration of who is fit for office as extraordinary times dictate.
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Even for someone who has not carefully followed Bernie’s tenure in office, now going on ten years in the senate preceded by sixteen years in the house, it’s not hard to figure out what his political passions are: abortion, health care, LGBT rights, minimum wage, racism, and so on.
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A little scrutiny of the senator’s record might reveal a tendency—just to take some current examples—to champion big expenditures for military bases in his home state even as he pleads helplessness in challenging government funding of Planned Parenthood or enforcing the laws on illegal immigration. All in all, it’s a pattern that’s too familiar.
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Cost identifies the major phases of corruption: the national banks, the rise of political parties and bosses, Gilded Age capitalist cronyism, and Progressive bureaucratic sprawl.
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