Where has this Newt Gingrich been?
Newt’s been pretty good in these debates. Last night he turned transcendent: If he’d been this guy since September, where would he be now? I can’t recall ever seeing a standing ovation at a debate.
Politics
Responding to four peeing Marines
It appears very much as if several soldiers recently urinated on some bodies, and video-recorded themselves doing so. It also appears very much as if this occurred in Afghanistan, these soldiers are U.S. Marines, and the bodies are Taliban. “It was inhuman and despicable, an unforgivable act,” said Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. (Good to … Read more
Rick Santorum’s moment
All right, I guess the primary season has started in earnest. Guess I better write about it. (When no one running for the Republican nomination makes you do back flips, yet you know you’ll vote for the winner, the whole exercise becomes one of grim resignation.) Congratulations to Rick Santorum for winning Iowa. Yes, I … Read more