Peter Lawler

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I too can’t believe that Romney is describing VAGUELY the parts of ObamaCare he would keep without launching into an attack in terms of both LIBERTY and SUSTAINABILITY of ObamaCare as a whole. Mrs. Romney, meanwhile, is asked why she wouldn’t let two lesbians marry in the name of . . . . Continue Reading »

The reviews of the Obama speech are getting more negative from both the right and the left. The president is all defensive, the claim is, in the Carter mode, and he was darn close to playing the hope-being-replaced-by-malaise card. And the whining! Nothing Obama faces is anything like the bloody . . . . Continue Reading »

So these were the main points made by Biden in a very effective speech. He was all about workers and warriors. And, of course, the Democrats have suddenly noticed that Romney and Ryan neglected the warriors. I was right that Biden was worth keeping as the closest thing to a real guy on either . . . . Continue Reading »

So I dosed off during Bill Clinton’s speech and woke up in the middle of Piers Morgan. So I got to see the rest of Clinton’s speech. AND: Piers incredibly effusive about the Democratic speeches. It was explained that the platform unpleasantness didn’t occur on “center . . . . Continue Reading »

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1. Spam has been infecting our comments section. One result is that some real comments have been getting lost. The authorities have been alerted and don’t think we hate you if something you said never appeared in the thread. Keep threading, of course! 2. Circulating among PORCHERS and . . . . Continue Reading »

This, of ourse, is the title of the instant classic of an exchange between Nick Eberstadt and Bill Galston in Saturday’s WALL STREET JOURNAL . Here are the summaries given of each position: Eberstadt: “With a treasure chest of government-supplied benefits readily available, a taker . . . . Continue Reading »

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