Good chuckle, but fortunately or not, untrue. That would make Nancy Pelosi 65 and she is clearly well into her 80s.

This is key. That 10 p.m. phone call is the missing piece.

Thank you for putting all this together. Trying to keep track of all the scandals and have a life has been a little taxing and I am glad to have a grip on the chronology and cast of characters here. You make a good case for Hillary as the origin of the video narrative.

Did not hear the podcast, but I agree with you, Bereket. Everyone seemed to understand that character matters until the Clinton episode. And then the fact that a lack of character led the President not only to betray his wife, but to commit perjury, was excused because his politics were good (i.e. liberal).

If it was indeed argued on the podcast that we should focus on Sanford's politics, well, ...doesn't that sound a lot like those who excused Clinton?

Unless the point was that post-election we really have no other choice.

My personal sensor is when I hear the echo of Claude Raines being shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on at Rick´s. I hear it a lot.

How do you think the Obama scandals will play on Doonesbury? Or won't they?

Pat is right--it's all about how angry the press gets.

At least we know the government would never take information confidentially provided to the IRS, for instance, and use it for politi....oh, wait, never mind.

Indeed. It's under the heading "Questions Nobody Is Asking", where it doesn't really fit. Which says to me it was such a great headline they had to use it somewhere.

One of the advantages of a federal system is that we don't need to perform experiments on the entire population of the country. States can and do try things out and the things that work can be and are adopted and adapted by other states. The things that don't work haven't caused nationwide damage.

Also, I suspect that the tendency of CC will be to squelch educational entrepreneurship. We have a governing elite that is not interested in entrepreneurship generally and definitely not in educational entrepreneurship, which threatens the state monopoly.

Glad you brought it up. NRO has this piece by Maggie Gallagher about Common Core and how Indiana is having second thoughts. It begins with some actual observations by a couple of mothers about what their children were or were not learning in school. One of the cases involves a Catholic school. Indeed, one of the results of Common Core will be an erasing of differences between regular public, charter and private schools, including religious schools. I imagine its effect on homeschooling will be chilling also.

I do feel like we just keep discovering new fires we have to try to put out. Like Obamacare, Common Core was foisted upon us in a most undemocratic way and needs to be rolled back. 

It's worth considering circumstances that are no one's fault. Illness or accident can disable a man or kill him, and a woman ought to have a Plan B for those possibilities.

Why, so it has! Maybe it's gremlins with a sense of humor.

But I do hate it when Mr. Somavilla points out that Grandma's cut glass cruet seems to have lost its lustre. ;-)

I have not been getting alerts for a few days. Also, when I go to my profile, it does not show my comments. Anyone else have either of these problems?

Those interested in the subject might like Alejandro Chafuen's Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics. Chafuen shows that Catholic religious thinkers understood the moral superiority of free markets even before Adam Smith wrote about it.

By the time I got to the end of the post, I could actually smell them. Beautiful!