Peter Lawler

Here’s a tough email I got from a respected expert: I know it’s not good to be all publicly gloom and doom. But your speculations on the Romney v. Obama race are totally pie in the sky. In my professional opinion, this race is already over, with Romney going down in Bob Dole fashion. . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Santorum dropped out at exactly the right time. The race was clearly over. People had stopped paying attention. And Romney was getting more and more ahead in the daily polls. Rick had to wait until after Wisconsin, just to be sure it would be a repeat of Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois. Pete is . . . . Continue Reading »

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1. So I enjoyed the comments about ME in the thread below, but I don’t know what to do with them. 2. I, in fact, don’t agree that the big American choice is Locke vs. Tocqueville or how to mix the two appropriately. Neither is an American, to begin with. 3. What Americans need is a . . . . Continue Reading »

even if he didn’t quite mean it: In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president’s bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether the Obama Administration believes that the . . . . Continue Reading »

1. So of course the headline of my previous post was unfair. Every single Republican from Hatch to Romney, though, has interpreted the president’s comments the same way. Call it the rhetorical exploitation of his rhetorical etch-a-sketchy moment. 2. I don’t have time to be linking but: . . . . Continue Reading »

Our good friend CJ Wolfe in the thread notes that we postmodern conservatives were prophetic when we pronounced that it won’t be long before liberals become born-again defenders of judicial restraint. But as Pete noticed, the president actually went further, suggesting that judicial review of . . . . Continue Reading »

MAD MEN is turning into a hyper-conservative display of the joys of highly erotic and totally fulfilling marital life. The headlines refer to a rather stupid and, of course, failed attempt to contact the Rolling Stones’ manager at a concert during the height of their teeny popularity to do a . . . . Continue Reading »

by the (scary) NEW NOBLEWOMAN . . . . . Continue Reading »

They showed up by email and are obviously some gentle criticism of ME: Re the ObamaCare case: 1. Spot on - Kennedy seems to be stringing together for himself an increasingly consistent “presumption of liberty” jurisprudence. Frankly, in a lot of ways, I would consider that a relief. . . . . Continue Reading »