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Politics and other nightmares

Moral imperative

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.

Deal or no deal

Half-baked

Desperation time

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.

Keep your grown-ups

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.

Sober Sundays

I suppose the critics are going to say Indiana is out of step, just like they did back during the daylight-saving-time debate:

Choices

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.

Bigger and bigger

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.

The light touch

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:

Coming-out party

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!"

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