Peter Lawler

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Here is my big thought on the recent noteworthy study that only seems to diss conservatives. I agree with Joe in the thread and others that this election is shaping up to be a lot like 2004, which means the election will be close and decided in Ohio and Florida. It might also mean that the campaign . . . . Continue Reading »

Quick, big thoughts on the mandate and the presumption of liberty. . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve gotten a couple of emails and learned some stuff from reading the open thread over there at THE LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN. So here’s a revised interpretation of the newly happy Don: He now has a satisfying and genuinely personal erotic relationship with his new because he has . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . are being pursued in earnest by the distinguished LEAGUE OF ORDINARY GENTLEMEN—one of the best blogs around. There’s an empty open thread there. Please contribute. The reason for hope we can have for the future of the series is that it might take a show or two to set up the new . . . . Continue Reading »

1. It’s better that that silly and tasteless headline come from a conservative blog. Seriously, though: THE TODAY SHOW had a lot of experts—very tastelessly—wondering whether Cheney should have taken the heart that had become available for him. Should he have been more noble? Did . . . . Continue Reading »

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1. It really is true that the result in Louisiana makes very little practical difference. Most of the state’s delegates aren’t even picked through the primary. And so Santorum picked up maybe two or three on Romney, remaining, of course, hundreds behind. 2. BUT: In this state at least, . . . . Continue Reading »

He’s dropping the name of popular and Tea Party-friendly New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez for VP. I don’t know anything about her. But surely he doesn’t think he needs a “game changer.” And there’s probably no way someone with that little experience could be . . . . Continue Reading »

So I’m in the campus hotel at LSU. There sure are a lot of good graduate students in political theory. They have diverse interests and clearly are being allowed to play to personal strengths they’ve chosen for themselves. In the spirit of the old joke we play both kinds of music here, . . . . Continue Reading »