Some people carry pens or Kleenex or Altoids on their person. Not me.

Via Michele Malkin, here’s one candidate scorecard. I like both Bachmann and Cain, and it’s no surprise, really, that they score best. But to show how non-absolutist I am, I’d happily support Palin for President, as well. Perry I’m still a bit nervous about (sorry, Bill): I will say that I’m happy with his answers on border enforcement; I just need to be convinced he isn’t just throwing out red-meat

Besides, like, you know, nobody? Washington Examiner, “Here comes more failed stimulus spending”: President Obama will deliver yet another “major speech” after he returns from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation. Among other things, he promises the speech will contain details of a new “stimulus plan” for getting America’s stagflating economy back on the right track. According to the Washington Post, “Obama also plans to announce a major push for new deficit

Here’s the thing about progressive media “truths”: seldom they can withstand direct confrontation with aggregated and rigorously parsed fact, properly and unapologetically presented. And that’s because to the left, “truths” are the product of perception and consensus — what they can create, by convincing reasonable people of the viability of their constructed claims — and this kind of will to power only works if you’re able to marginalize reason and

National Journal: “I wouldn’t necessarily trust any of my opponents right now, who were on a recent debate stage with me, when every single one of them would have allowed this country to default,” Huntsman told Jake Tapper on ABC News’s This Week. “You can imagine, even given the uncertainty of the marketplace the last several days and the last couple of weeks, if we had defaulted for the first