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I sometimes get the sense that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign is one big exercise in gaslighting the country. If you’re not familiar with the term, it comes from the 1944 Ingrid Bergman film “Gaslight,” in which a man tries to convince his wife that she’s imagining things and going insane when in fact he is an evil creep. For the record, I am not calling Mitt Romney an evil creep. READ MORE >>
Pas Devant Les Enfants, Tampa: Puerto Rico Out Of U.S.?
“We support the right of the United States citizens of Puerto Rico to be admitted to the Union as a fully sovereign state if they freely so determine. We recognize that Congress has the final authority to define the constitutionally valid options for Puerto Ricoto to achieve a permanent non-territorial status with government by consent and full enfranchisement. As long as Puerto Rico is not a State, however, the will of its people regarding their political status should be ascertained by means of a general right of referendum or specific referenda sponsored by the U.S. READ MORE >>
Pas Devant Les Enfants, Tampa: UN Out of Lubbock!
“The current Administration's most recent National Security Strategy.... relies on the good intentions and capabilities of international organizations to justify constraining American military readiness.” —GOP draft platform, “A Failed National Security Strategy.” READ MORE >>
Why Mitt Romney Wants to Be Like James K. Polk
Karl Rove and George W. Bush looked at William McKinley as a model; Barack Obama at Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy. According to Huffington Post reporter Jon Ward, Mitt Romney and his advisors also have a favorite president: James K. Polk, who served one term from 1845 to 1849. Romney’s campaign manager Matt “Rhoades and the rest of the members of Romney’s inner circle think a Romney presidency could look much like the White House tenure of the 11th U.S. president,” Ward writes. READ MORE >>
Isaac's New Threat To The RNC
The Origins of Foreigners
Rethinking the Other in AntiquityBy Erich S. Gruen (Princeton University Press, 415 pp., $39.50) READ MORE >>
Mitt Romney, Latter-Day Neocon
A Close Look at How Evangelicals Communicate With God
When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with GodBy T.M. Luhrmann (Knopf, 434 pp., $28.95) READ MORE >>
