God bless America, indeed. Yet 75% is no doubt where our redistributionist, Class Warrior in Chief would take Mr. Smith taxes if he could.

The once proud Indianapolis Star is now owned by Gannett. Nothing Gannett says or does should be surprising.

I'm at Lugar Ground Zero here in Indianapolis. I know from personal conversations that the reason the rout isn't even worse is that many Dems asked for an R ballot today so they could support Lugar.  My sense is that they did this not out of sentimentality and respect for Indiana's senior senator, but because they viewed Lugar as eminently more beatable in November than Mourdock.

I love Dick Lugar. I wished he had chosen to leave the public stage with grace and dignity, rather than being cast off of it. But I had no remorse at all when I voted for Mourdock today. We have to fight fire with fire. And Dick Lugar is simply not up to the task of taking on the viciousness of the Schumers, Boxers, Frankens, Leahys, etc. etc. and so forth.

Something to do with obscurantism? What that has to do with texting while driving I have no idea.

Republicans: I'm right; you're wrong.

Democrats: I'm right because you're evil.

The New York Times shall henceforth know you as "Mark Hemingway, a white Native American."

I wrote a letter to my son when he departed for college. It was way too long, but here are a couple of its admonitions:

1. Be kind to people. You will never regret when you are.

2. Work at being happy.

2. Be true to your faith in God (or, to secularize it a little, Seek the truth in all things).

You might note also that this last piece of advice is particularly important because it essentially contradicts the most proffered piece of advice imparted to college graduates today -- the one that encourages young men and women to “be true to yourself." This is the stupidest and most pernicious piece of rubbish posing as wisdom ever bestowed upon any young person.

Why? Because the “self” that we are encouraged to be true to can so often be a nasty, brutish, brooding, procrastinating, equivocating, justifying, hypocritical, whining, clueless, confused, selfish and sinful sort of being.

Or, as the great G.K. Chesterton more elegantly put it, “A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.”

Or, you could simply read what EJ wrote: it's damned near perfect.

Could we say that the Barack Obama Show is the converse phenomenon?

An actor he may have been, but he delivered Peter's perfect lines with dramatic flare and precision. Mr. Gorbachev might not have been impressed, but apparently the rest of the world was, given the events that quickly unfolded thereafter.

Even the stumble bum moment on the last quotation got repeated. Impressive.

You make an excellent point. The president's comments are particularly obnoxious vis-a-vis his two appointees. 

I've long worried -- due to the divisiveness of Bush v. Gore and now the health care issue -- that CJ Roberts would not want his court to strike down this law unless he had something approaching unanimity (a 7-2 decision at worst). 

Maybe the president is worried that this will be an 8-1 decision against Obamacare (Ginsburg being a reliable vote for anything with the feel of Euro-Leftism), and he wanted to remind Sotomayor and Kagan that this needs to be at least 6-3 so as not to be massively humiliating to the Administration.

Good point, but probably a tough organization to start with in our quest to eliminate the no longer useful. Now the American Psychological Association....

EJ and Mrs. EJ on their anniversary??

Okay, Photoshop specialist I ain't, but it's the thought that counts.

Great piece, EJ. Thanks for sharing.

"Stability begets stability." How else to explain the fact that my parents, who have been married for 64 years this June, gave birth to eight children, seven of whom are still married and whose anniversaries range from 25 years to 42 years?

The Lovely Mrs. Lane and I celebrated 30 years of marriage last December, and 39 years of going together last month (since the 8th grade!).

Now if we could only get our kids to embrace this marriage thing. For some reason, the next generation seems to think marriage anytime before age 30 is way too early. T'is odd.

I used to believe in Carter's essential decency too, Peter. But then came his malicious attacks on the only decent country in the entire Middle East; his pathetic delusions about Kim Jong-Il; and worst of all, his allowing Michael Moore to sit in his box at the Democratic National Convention at the same time Moore was promoting his HateBush piece of garbage, Fahrenheit 9/11.

I'm glad Carter has spoken up for the rights of the unborn, but as they used to say about old Uncle Joe Stalin, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

This is hilarious. 

And what do each of these clips have in common -- in addition to the empty and truly pathetic repetition of praise?? 

Anyone, anyone . . .

Yes that's right: No teleprompter! Our most brilliant president ever always seems to underwhelm when  the remarks aren't scrolling in front of him and he actually has to think about what he wants to say.