Iowa Hearts Huckabee

His online presence has the same advantages as his campaign in general:

Huckabee, I would argue, gets so many visits because his site is simply the most interesting, it has the most small-c character. And so my guess is that many of the Huckabee site visits are return visits. Obama’s site–which you would think would consistently have higher traffic than Huckabee’s, given his supporters numbers and passion–has some character, but it tends towards Stepfordness …

Huckabee is now in a statistical dead-heat for first place in Iowa. This campaign has become really fun, hasn’t it?

Face Of The Day

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An Iraqi Christian woman sits for the first church service in months during a Chaldean Catholic mass November 15, 2007 in Bagdhad, Iraq. The service was held at St. John the Baptist, a church in the neighborhood of Dora that closed earlier this year due to Islamist terrorist threats. A recent decrease in violence has allowed the Iraqi Christians to re-open the church for the first time in seven months, and the afternoon mass attracted around a hundred worshippers. By Chris Hondros/Getty Images.

Giuliani: Bush Squared

All the current president’s liabilities and even less experience in foreign policy. Then this dead-on description of his leadership style:

"a monarchy fortified by numerous other devoted courtiers and confidants who share one thing in common: intense loyalty…"

Anyone else, please. He makes Cheney look flexible and open-minded. He makes Clinton look transparent.  And there isn’t a civil liberty he wouldn’t love to take away.

Love and Divorce

A reader writes:

When you follow the link to the Christian post on the merits of divorce, the examples given are extremely black and white. Leaving a sick, abusive, or simply uninterested spouse is a no-brainer.  It takes two people to make a marriage, so logically if one person emotionally opts out, there is no real marriage.

But sometimes marriages just die. In my own situation, my husband and I went through a series of major crises that we simply did not have the resources to recover from as a couple.  We loved each other and wanted to stay together, but ultimately realized that we could not take care of each other.  I fought very hard to keep the marriage together but in the end realized that I could not hold my partner hostage to a failed relationship.  I had to let him go so he could make a new and hopefully better life for himself.  When I explained this to my girlfriend (who happens to be a therapist) she commented, "That’s love."