Thus spake Will: Although they have become prone to apocalyptic forebodings about the fragility of the nation’s institutions and traditions under the current President, conservatives should stride confidently into 2012. This is not because they are certain, or even likely, to defeat Barack Obama this year. Rather, it is because, if they emancipate themselves from their unconservative fixation on the presidency, they will see events unfolding in their favour. And

A: I don’t know, and yes, it will matter, provided Mitt Romney wins — because he’s the only really electable candidate, and we need to start getting behind him. Otherwise, no, it won’t matter, and we’ll see lots of columns from establishment GOP opinion leaders in the next few days explaining to us how Iowa is hardly a decent predictor of a candidate’s viability in the long term — and

Everything old is new again. And again.

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Marc Thiessen: Rep. Ron Paul is in a dead heat with Mitt Romney for first place in the Iowa caucuses. If he does pull out a win on Tuesday, Iowa Republicans will have chosen as their commander in chief a man who says it was wrong to kill Osama bin Laden. In a recent interview with a Des Moines radio station, Paul not only came out against killing bin Laden

What? You got a problem with that, Hobbits? Amid this month’s payroll tax fracas, few noticed that Congress passed a 1,200-page, $1 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2012. Maybe no one in Washington boasted because it’s a victory for spending as usual. Republicans—in the House and Senate—need a better strategy. The news is that after accounting for last-minute unemployment insurance extensions, “emergency” spending and higher Medicare physician payments, total

“The kinds of people who think Lindsay Lohan is a Hollywood ‘bad girl’ evidently weren’t paying attention when me, Barry Williams, and Mike Lookinland would snort coke off of Rob Reed’s bare chest, then use the set of the Brady kitchen to run trains on Florence Henderson and, if we could loosen her up with enough tequila, a suddenly very adventurous Eve Plum.”

How many lies can you fit into a single NY Times lead sentence?. Europe’s leaders braced their nations for a turbulent year, with their beleaguered economies facing a threat on two fronts: widening deficits that force more borrowing but increasing austerity measures that put growth further out of reach. Note the martial language, economies are beleaguered, they are facing a threat. Threats. The problem is that deficits are widening you

Kyle Orton returns to Denver a Chief hoping to keep the Broncos out of the playoffs / no more “snacking” after 10 pm on bags of Poppycock or entire summer sausages sliced into half moons and dipped in honey mustard. Go!