No, literally, according to Sherri Shepherd. And now, there were no religions before Christ.
Bed-Blogging
I guess I am an addict, but I got a brutal head-cold yesterday and have been blogging from under the covers. Sleep; blog; sleep; blog; tea; blog; soup; blog; watch Fox News; sleep. Almost a life-style.
Romney’s Illegal Help
Uh-oh. The Globe piece is brutal:
Standing on stage at a Republican debate on the Gulf Coast of Florida last week, Mitt Romney repeatedly lashed out at rival Rudy Giuliani for providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants in New York City.
Yet, the very next morning, on Thursday, at least two illegal immigrants stepped out of a hulking maroon pickup truck in the driveway of Romney’s Belmont house, then proceeded to spend several hours raking leaves, clearing debris from Romney’s tennis court, and loading the refuse back on to the truck.
Romney has done the right thing, and it will not impact his campaign at all…
But I should point out again, as I did when the first story broke, that the Boston Globe hates Romney and has gone to extraordinary lengths to hurt him, including staking out his house for the past three months to get this story. The Globe didn’t stake out even one of Kerry’s homes. The paper didn’t even press him to release his military records.
If that sounds a little rattled, can you blame him?
Romney Talks Mormonism
My bet is that his speech will be a Neuhaus-ghost-written defense of religion’s centrality to politics. I doubt a great deal that he will address all the conventional LDS-specific issues many evangelicals have. Romney clearly doesn’t want to talk about that at all, and I don’t blame him. But once you make your appeal on the grounds of faith to a religiously-based party, it’s tough to keep to secular reticence and privacy on the subject. Check out this clip: he looks extremely defensive and awkward. If this is how he comes across Thursday he’ll lose Mormon votes as well as evangelical ones.
Tom Barnett On The NIE
A nice summary:
Iran’s choice is reasonably smart: talk big like Libya, stop short of weapons like Japan, but signal willingness to aggressively defend like Israel. I told you these guys are not stupid.
Precocious Obe
A reader writes:
Barack Obama was writing essays in kindergarten? Heck, I am not sure I could even write in kindergarten, let alone an essay. My support of him is only increased by this revelation.
Andrew: I was one of the ones who made fun of your obsession with HRC (you looked insane on Bill Maher) so let me be the first to say it: uh, ok, you were right.
The Real Hamilton
William Hogeland suggests that Alexander Hamilton’s legacy is not as benign as some "new Hamiltonians" seem to think:
Hamilton is routinely credited as favoring a strong executive branch. What he really favored, from Newburgh through the Whiskey Rebellion, from the quasi-war with France through his response to the anti-federalism of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, was an executive branch run by him, strong enough to do anything it deemed in the national interest. For Hamilton, personal and military force, unrestrained by the slightest consideration of law, were joined ineluctably to American wealth, American unity, and America modernity.
When Did Bush First Hear Of The NIE Report?
Sy Hersh says that Bush told Olmert about it before Hadley said the president was first informed. In the end, the bullshit catches up to you.
Sanctuary Mansion Update
A blow for Romney. He didn’t fire that landscaping company after getting razzed about illegals? And he finally fired them after hearing the Boston Globe was doing a story? Good grief. There goes his reputation for competence.
“Just A Joke?”
Even the NYT isn’t buying Clinton’s spin these days.
