Those on the right may have the better arguments, but that doesn't always make them winning arguments. There is a moral case for free enterprise, for example, and that case has to be made before all the facts and figures are thrown around:
The dinner conversation will turn to politics and the economy, and it will be your job to stick up for capitalism and free markets.
The Lugar-Mourdock race is about core principles. Some people get that:
What all of this means is the NRA and other conservative groups don’t agree with former Senator Rick Santorum that “sometimes you take one for the team” by allowing even your principles to be negotiable.
Lugar is kind of confessing to the crime conservatives have been accusing him of, isn't he?
Republican Sen. Richard Lugar lobbied Democrats and independents Friday to cross party lines and save him next week in the political fight of his life.
Awww, shoot, Ange, Goober's gone:
George Lindsey, the Alabama-born actor and comedian best known for playing the good-natured if none-too-bright gas station attendant Goober on three television series, died on Sunday in Nashville. He was 83.
There is the term RINO for "Republican in name only." We need a new term for people like columnist Peggy Noonan, the Conservatives Desperately Seeking Approval from The Other Side. Today, she offers her advice on the Lugar-Mourdock race.
Let's wade into an argument, and on what may well be the losing side.
I suppose the critics are going to say Indiana is out of step, just like they did back during the daylight-saving-time debate:
Lot of people today commenting on Newt Gingrich's lukewarm, damning-with-faint-praise "endorsement" of Mitt Romney as he departed the presidential race:
Despite not endorsing Romney, Gingrich did make clear that his doubts during the primary campaign about Romney’s conservatism are dwarfed by his concerns about President Obama winning another term.
LOL, OMG, WTF -- or, in pre-digital terms, amazed, stunned, stupefied. Those are my reactions to really big numbers. When I was in Michigan City, we had a computer that was in two big cases against the wall -- 40 megabytes of storage, and they ran the whole newspaper operation. I think my first home computer had something like 60 or 80 mb.
From the president's speech in Afghanistan:
My fellow Americans, we have traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. Yet here, in the pre-dawn darkness of Afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the horizon.
And there's this:
Is this supposed to be the flip side of "Obama's cool"?
But taking Mitt playfully by the shoulders, Ann Romney said Tuesday, "I still look at him as the boy that I met in high school when he was playing all the jokes and really just being crazy, pretty crazy. And so there's a wild and crazy man inside of there just waiting to come out!"
You remember that right-to-work law the General Assembly passed. It was going to create a paradise with full employment! It was going to create a hell of exploitation of the downtrodden!
Oh, not so much. Whatever effects there will be are likely to be small and difficult to measure. But don't let that get in the way of the heated rhetoric:
One more Lugar-Mourdock difference:
Senator Dick Lugar still won’t say whether he’ll support state treasurer Richard Mourdock if he wins the Republican primary on May 8. My repeated requests for comment on this topic have been rebuffed or evaded by the Lugar camp.
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Fort Wayne is being recognized for its efforts in making play a priority for the health and well-being of area children. Nationwide, Fort Wayne is one of 213 cities named a 2012 Playful City USA Community by the non-profit organization, KaBOOM!
Dedication to increasing play opportunities for children helped distinguish Fort Wayne as it earned this distinction for the third year.
A very strange column in USA Today defending John Edwards as a "victim of the morality police":
This writer says there are five reasons conservatives should hope Mitt Romney loses the election. Reason No. 4:
Oh, for F@%&'s sake, go ahead and F@%&ing tax Stephen King so maybe he'll stop spouting such F@%&s nonsense and go away:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems like the bigggest killjoy mayor in America. First he wanted to force restaurants to cut down on salt. Now, apparently, he's thinking about ending a cherished tradition:
Happy hour in the city could end if Department of Health policy party-poopers go ahead with a proposal to outlaw beer and booze specials at bars and restaurants, sources told The Post.
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