Yep. While this ad probably won't get the base motivated, it will comfort the broad middle. This is ad is restrained, modest, inclusive, and positive. This all contrasts very nicely with O's over-blown, over promised, arrogant, divisive, negative, celebrity campaign and presidency.

 Also, no Greek columns, Brandenburg Gate, minions gazing with worshipful adoration or mindless chanting, and no promises to stop the oceans from rising.

I wonder if the Romney strategy isn't "Quiet Competence" ala Silent Cal?   Sometimes when people speak quietly others quiet down so that they can hear what they might be missing.  If Romney stays positive in the face of nasty shouting, voters may just want to hear him.

No drama Obama has turned into Drama Queen Obama. - All Obama 24/7.

Right.  Who put something in the drinking water? There was the whole Obama eats dogs thing, now there's http://twitchy.com/2012/05/15/all-the-presidents-ego-obamas-inserts-himself-into-other-presidential-biographies-obamainhistory-hilarity-ensues/

Since mainstream press and comedians have determined that Obama is unmockable, those on the right seem to be filling the void with a giddy abandon. 

Christy and Booker are both very popular in Jersey.  I'm glad to see this bi-partisan good humor. 

Is this post by the Rupert Murdoch? Wow. Ricochet is attracting some top shelf contributors.

California reminds me of NYC circa 1975 or so, nearing bankruptcy and ungovernable. Unfortunately, I don't believe Gov. Brown is capable of taking the necessary steps to improve the situation. Increasing sales and income taxes will only quicken the decline.

I hate to be a braggerly bragger but MY Gov., Chris Christy, for all his bigmouthed bravado, has taken small but effective steps to improve Jersey's fiscal health. In his first year he effectively froze spending levels. Last year he capped increases to property taxes to 2% (Jersey has the highest property taxes in the nation). This year he's proposed (and likely to get) a 10% cut in income taxes. He also changed the funding mechanism for charter schools and made it easier to get a charter.

My advice to Gov. Brown is to put a call into the Big Man for a mano e mano chat.

I love Greg Gutfield.  Consider a better time slot for Red Eye.

Bill McGurn has written a piece in the WSJ comparing our Govs.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304371504577404503988018824.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Dcomments

We fortunate few in Jersey are getting a 10% income tax cut thanks to the big man.

I pity conservatives in Cali.

Kudos to Mr. Anyanwu for his heartfelt and relevant editorial, to Mr. Harris for his public service, and Gov. Christie for nominating two highly qualified individuals to serve our state. 

Well, I am disappointed that Saverin has so little love for his adopted home that he would feel comfortable renouncing his citizenship.  I disagree with our current and proposed (Obama) tax policy, but isn't citizenship about more than money?

I don't think he owes the state ala Elizabeth Warren a "hunk", but I do think he owes the culture that created the playing field that encouraged his success  a smiggen of respect and appreciation.

I suspect some day he may regret this decision. 

We should also be concerned about the growth in the "rootless cosmopolitan" class.  As conservatives who value culture, we should view this with a wider frame.  Seeing it as only an ecomonic issue is not entirely health, imo.

Dave, you really do need to self publish a selection of your essays.

Happy trails.

I think he's (Obama) in serious trouble.  His internal polling might be telling him to panic. If he's willing to take this position now (in favor of SSM) then he's given up entirely on white working class men and married women.  He's in big trouble with his Wall Street donors and looking to make up the funds from the gay community.  Really?  That's gonna work?  Color me doubtful.

passionate vs. compassionate is a false choice.  Love in all it's varieties is more complicated.

People from cultures that have arranged marriages are sometimes more satisfied within marriage simple because divorce is not an option.  It's just not possible.  They cultivate more realistic expectations because they have no options.  Westerners have options and those options are always floating around out there whether we choose to acknowledge them or not. 

Boo-friggin-hoo.

My prediction: in addition to the Post, FOX and the WSJ will report on this.  Not so NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, the NYT or the Washington Post.  They'll cover it only superficially and deep within the fold.

We cannot have these types of stories continuing to leak out and damaging the President's re-election chances. <sarcasm>

Dave, You really are Nutra-Sweet. ;-)

The sad truth is the worst parents on T.V. are on reality shows like that Kardashian train-wreck or Real Housewives of blank.

As I mentioned on the prior thread (the Derbyshire thread), I'm white but grow up poor. My oldest brother is currently serving an 8 year sentence in a Washington state prison.

The advice I give my two teen-aged sons is in essence to discriminate based on class. The idea that the US is a classless society is nonsense. Stay away from poor people when you cannot control the environment. In particular, stay away from large groups of poor people when booze and drugs are available. Never, never, never allow yourself to become isolated in an environment where most of the locals are poor.

In some regions of the USA, blacks and Latinos are disproportionately among the poor. It is what it is.  That's not true everywhere. Know your environment.

ETA: Derbyshire's advice will leave his kids vulnerable to violent/criminal elements of the non-black variety. They exist; check the prisons. Also, the black middle-class exists and Derbyshire's advice doesn't acknowledge this. He paints in both too broad and too narrow of strokes.

What you don't touch upon is the corporatism or crony capitalism that supports the system. The European banking system allows leverage several times greater than our own and enjoys Byzantine like opaqueness. It's interrelatedness (borrowing and lending to each other) is increasingly dangerous. It is the very definition of Ponzi.

A EU collapse is inevitable. The only question is whether it will be a spectacle or a Japanese-like slow and painful Seppuku.

I heard an “analyst” on CNBC yesterday tell us that the US will suffer greatly because of the coming EU recession. Really? Our exports to the EU are less than 14% of total. The danger is again the banking sector. How will the unwind of CDS (derivate) happen? We just don't know.