Obama Is a Lock
The American public loves recession, war, tyranny.
The near-certainty that Mitt Romney will be defeated by Barack
Obama in November is both intuitive and
numerical.
Following his important if unspectacular victories in six out of 10 state primaries on Tuesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney is now on a slow but secure track to be the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States.
There is no evidence that Romney can unseat
President Obama in November. A recent NBC/Wall Street
Journal poll has
Obama beating Romney handily in a one-to-one contest, with
Obama drawing 50 percent support to Romney’s 44 percent.
Following his important if unspectacular victories in six out of 10 state primaries on Tuesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney is now on a slow but secure track to be the Republican Party’s nominee for president of the United States.
There is no evidence that Romney can unseat
President Obama in November. A recent NBC/Wall Street
Journal poll has
Obama beating Romney handily in a one-to-one contest, with
Obama drawing 50 percent support to Romney’s 44 percent.Ron Paul Revolution: What Now?
The Paul campaign definitely isn’t winning first ballot. But there's still much to win.
After Super Tuesday, it’s officially official: Ron Paul
won’t go into Tampa with enough delegates to win the
presidential nomination.
Still, because of the unbound nature of 197 extant delegates from caucus states, and his campaign’s diligent efforts to ensure that their people rise through the convoluted GOP state convention process, it’s likely that he has many more committed delegates in hand than the media counts.
And as still-excited Paul partisans will tell you: Paul can’t go into Tampa with enough to win on first ballot. As The Daily Beast points out, it seems unlikely that Mitt Romney, clearly in the lead now, can do so either.
This raises speculations about a brokered convention, and Paul’s campaign chair Jesse Benton sees that as hopeful for Ron Paul—in fact, it’s the only hope he’s got to actually get the nomination.
Anything can happen at a brokered
convention—in our imaginations at least. Given the general
attitudes of the average GOP stalwart, though, it’s hard to imagine
Ron Paul coming out of one a winner. Ronald Reagan in 1976 made
quite the push to deny leader Gerald Ford the nomination when Ford
lacked
a clear majority going into the convention, and even Reagan,
god-saint of modern Republicanism, failed. Former GOP
superstrategist Roger Stone, who lived through those days, reminded
me that Reagan actually represented the views and enthusiasms of
the mass of GOP activists in his day in a way Ron Paul does not
now. This makes it even less likely Paul will succeed with any
last-minute Tampa coup.
Still, because of the unbound nature of 197 extant delegates from caucus states, and his campaign’s diligent efforts to ensure that their people rise through the convoluted GOP state convention process, it’s likely that he has many more committed delegates in hand than the media counts.
And as still-excited Paul partisans will tell you: Paul can’t go into Tampa with enough to win on first ballot. As The Daily Beast points out, it seems unlikely that Mitt Romney, clearly in the lead now, can do so either.
This raises speculations about a brokered convention, and Paul’s campaign chair Jesse Benton sees that as hopeful for Ron Paul—in fact, it’s the only hope he’s got to actually get the nomination.
Anything can happen at a brokered
convention—in our imaginations at least. Given the general
attitudes of the average GOP stalwart, though, it’s hard to imagine
Ron Paul coming out of one a winner. Ronald Reagan in 1976 made
quite the push to deny leader Gerald Ford the nomination when Ford
lacked
a clear majority going into the convention, and even Reagan,
god-saint of modern Republicanism, failed. Former GOP
superstrategist Roger Stone, who lived through those days, reminded
me that Reagan actually represented the views and enthusiasms of
the mass of GOP activists in his day in a way Ron Paul does not
now. This makes it even less likely Paul will succeed with any
last-minute Tampa coup.The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Now Writing About Pickup Artists as Hate Groups
Mike Riggs |
The
Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971 as a civil rights law
firm, has released its latest "Intelligence Report" on hate groups
in the United States. This year's report contains a new category:
the Manosphere.
From the SPLC's introduction to the misogyny report:
The
Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971 as a civil rights law
firm, has released its latest "Intelligence Report" on hate groups
in the United States. This year's report contains a new category:
the Manosphere.From the SPLC's introduction to the misogyny report:
Remy: Cough Drops-The Mandate (featuring Sandra Fluke)
Remy crashes Sandra Fluke's Congressional testimony to demand a mandate for his cough drop addiction.
"Remy: Cough Drops-The Mandate" is one of a series of collaborations between Remy and Reason.tv. To watch Remy's other videos, go to youtube.com/goremy.
Adam Smith vs. Crony Capitalism
The Scottish philosopher's suspicions about business people were well-founded.
One thing I find refreshing in Smith is his wariness of business people. This is something we ought to frequently remind market skeptics. Smith knew the difference between being sympathetic to the competitive economy—which he called the “system of natural liberty”—and being sympathetic to owners of capital (who might well have acquired it by less-than-kosher means, that is, through political privilege). He knew something about business lobbies.
The How Andrew Breitbart Changed the News
Love him or hate him, he demonstrated how to build your own media outlet.
Note: This piece originally ran at CNN.com on
March 2, 2012.
Read it there.
(CNN) -- To get a sense of just how polarizing a figure new media innovator Andrew Breitbart was, get a load of this tweet from Slate's Matt Yglesias that went out mere hours after the news of Breitbart's unexpected death at age 43 broke: "The world outlook is slightly improved with @AndrewBrietbart dead."
10 Reasons Obama Will Not Be Re-Elected
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- None
of the four GOP contenders has emerged as a star candidate yet. But it
won't take a star to defeat President Obama. His record over the last
four years will be reason enough to vote him out of office.
1. The economy is struggling. Since 2008 the U.S. economic clock has been turned back 10 years. If congressional gridlock continues The Economist reckons it will continue declining. The only country that slid more than the U.S. is Greece.
>>Also see: 10 Reasons Obama Will Be Re-Elected
2. Gas is more and more expensive. Obama said, "There is no silver bullet" to temporary rising gas prices. Temporary? On Obama's watch gas has risen from an average of $1.85 a gallon to near $4 today. He does have a solution: Americans will drive cars that get 55 mpg. In the small print, there's a warning: These cars are small. They have a clutch and roll-down windows.
3. The war in Afghanistan is a fiasco. Obama's good war has turned into a mess. We are eyeing a second Vietnam.
1. The economy is struggling. Since 2008 the U.S. economic clock has been turned back 10 years. If congressional gridlock continues The Economist reckons it will continue declining. The only country that slid more than the U.S. is Greece.
>>Also see: 10 Reasons Obama Will Be Re-Elected
2. Gas is more and more expensive. Obama said, "There is no silver bullet" to temporary rising gas prices. Temporary? On Obama's watch gas has risen from an average of $1.85 a gallon to near $4 today. He does have a solution: Americans will drive cars that get 55 mpg. In the small print, there's a warning: These cars are small. They have a clutch and roll-down windows.
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Voters won’t always obsess on GOP mess
Voters won’t always obsess on GOP mess
John PodhoretzThe Republican Party has not conducted itself well over the past few months, to put it mildly. Andthe conservative movement has been far too easily diverted into unserious nonsense and pointless controversies. That may have helped the fund-raising pitches of some activist groups, but it has set back the overall cause of articulating the core conservative ideas in a manner that will win over people not already sitting in the pews.
AP
What’s he got? Obama’s recent record only looks good in comparison to his first three years.
Dershowitz to Newsmax: Obama Could Be ‘Chamberlain of 21st Century’
By Martin Gould and Ashley Martell
Voters won’t always obsess on GOP mess
Voters won’t always obsess on GOP mess
John PodhoretzThe Republican Party has not conducted itself well over the past few months, to put it mildly. Andthe conservative movement has been far too easily diverted into unserious nonsense and pointless controversies. That may have helped the fund-raising pitches of some activist groups, but it has set back the overall cause of articulating the core conservative ideas in a manner that will win over people not already sitting in the pews.
AP
What’s he got? Obama’s recent record only looks good in comparison to his first three years.
Innovation in China
From brawn to brain
If China is to excel at innovation, the state must give entrepreneurs more freedom
Auschwitz complex
Israel, Iran and America
by M.S.
DURING his meeting with Barack Obama on Monday, Bibi Netanyahu said Israel "must have the ability always to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.""I believe that's why you appreciate, Mr. President, that Israel must reserve the right to defend itself," Netanyahu said. "After all, that's the very purpose of the Jewish state, to restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny. That's why my supreme responsibility as prime minister of Israel is to ensure that Israel remains master of its fate."
News
flash: Israel is not master of its fate. It's not terribly surprising
that a country with less than 8m inhabitants is not master of its fate.
Switzerland, Sweden, Serbia and Portugal are not masters of their fates.
These days, many countries with populations of 100m or more can hardly
be said to be masters of their fates. Britain and China aren't masters
of their fates, and even the world's overwhelmingly largest economy, the
United States, isn't really master of its fate.But Israel has even less control over its own destiny than Portugal or Britain do. The main reason is that, unlike those countries, Israel refuses to give up its empire. Israel is unable to sustain its imperial ambitions in the West Bank, or even to articulate them coherently. Having allowed its founding ideology to carry it relentlessly and unthinkingly into what Gershom Gorenburg calls an "Accidental Empire" of radical religious-nationalist settlements that openly defy its own courts, Israel is politically incapable of extricating itself. The partisan battles engendered by its occupation of Palestinian territory render it less and less able to pull itself free. It is immobilised, pinned down, in a conflict that is gradually killing it. Countries facing imperial twilight, like Britain in the late 1940s, are often seized by a sense of desperate paralysis. For over a decade, the tone of Israeli politics has been a mix of panic, despair, hysteria and resignation.
Morning in America?
America's economy
by R.A. | WASHINGTON
Creative Californians Redefine Rahm’s ‘Rule One’
Across the Golden State the relationship between government and citizens is changing for the better.
Obama’s part-time job recovery
The economy is adding jobs, though not enough to bring down the sky-high unemployment rate. But it’s not just the quantity of jobs that’s a problem, it’s the quality, too.
How to Beat ObamaCare in Court
Somehow, the leading litigators contesting the Obama healthcare law have missed the elephant in the room.
How Obama’s Energy Policy Will Kill Jobs
President Obama is once again
proposing selectively punitive treatment of the oil and natural gas
industry, one of the strongest job-creating sectors of the U.S. economy.
Teaching Tomorrow's Economists
by Robert P. Murphy
I am happy to announce that the Teacher's Manual is now available for my introductory textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist.
For those readers who are unfamiliar with it, let me explain that the
student text was designed with junior-high students in mind, but it is
applicable for younger, precocious students, and also even for adults
who never got a solid grounding in free-market economic principles.
The newly available manual is intended to guide the teacher through the course, giving the broader context of the material in the student text, as well as offering suggested test questions and further activities. It can be used by classroom teachers, but is also ideally suited to homeschooling instruction by parents who may not be confident in their own economics knowledge.
The newly available manual is intended to guide the teacher through the course, giving the broader context of the material in the student text, as well as offering suggested test questions and further activities. It can be used by classroom teachers, but is also ideally suited to homeschooling instruction by parents who may not be confident in their own economics knowledge.
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