Why limit it to polygamy? Why not go the Full Monty and embrace bestiality? That community's right to a civil union may be perceived in the nimbus of rights afforded in a generous reading of the Constitution.

Ted Cruz is the natural successor to Newt on the national stage. That's why the left is already engaged with him, hoping to defang him before he gets better known. Imagine the opposition research they're doing right now. Rand Paul also shows potential, but I don't think he likes to mix it up as much as Cruz or Gingrich. Rubio has to please too many constituencies to carry the standard, Christie can't win any primaries thanks to his need to curry favor with Democratic voters in the Garden State. I'm disgusted with myself for writing so soon about the next election. Didn't I learn anything from the last one?

I think this optimism about the state media awakening from its willed sleep is unwarranted. They were for Obama before he was elected, during the four years of his first term, before he was re-elected, and now that he is in his second term. They are for him. They may shake their head now and then over some perceived tactical misstep on the part of the administration -- it's just giving the wingnuts ammunition, they will say -- but their support is steady, unwavering, unapologetic.  It will stay that way for the rest of the second term and then after Obama leaves office. If he turns on them from time to time, fine; they're okay with that because he knows better than them. He is hip and cool. He knows best.

Perry lost all of his gravitas when he said "Oops." Once it's gone it doesn't come back.

". . . it's only reasonable to assume the Joint Chiefs will come out and publicly condem Weinstein's beliefs."

If you are an officer who rises to that level, you are a political general or admiral with antenna keenly tuned to civilian superiors who decide whether you rise to the chairmanship or are shunted to the sidelines. Given the secularizing nature of this administration, I doubt we'll see the Joint Chiefs condemning Weinstein's beliefs. Perhaps you recall the commanding general at Fort Hood who said that bad as the massacre was, the greater tragedy would be if there was a backlash against Islam. That is the kind of general who can look forward to promotion in the Obama regime.

This is judgementalism as its worst. Next you will be questioning a man's right to take four wives, beat them when they need it,  and put them in burkas so as not to awaken desire in other men.

RWGIII has made himself a target of the left, and they will take their revenge over the years unless he eats humble pie. I got a subscription to
Sports Illustrated for a free shirt. I hadn't read it for many years, and I was surprised to see what a captive of the left it has become. A sports magazine! It is just soaked in political correctness. Sports writers in general throb with inferiority complexes and yearn to be taken seriously. They've become so serious in a humorless lefty sense that SI reads like the publishing arm of MSNBC. Needless to say, I'm not  renewing.

Dubya used the veto only 12 times in eight years. Ronald Reagan used it 77 times. Even the RINO older Bush used it 44 times.  George could have shaped a better course for the country if he had used it more. His club-footed tongue didn't help matters either. People were so sick of his inarticulateness they went for the first smooth talker to come along.

Jim Carrey. He's proved he's dumb and dumber, but dumbest has proved a bridge too far.  Michael Moore is looking over his shoulder though.

What do the proponents of gay marriage think about polygamy? Are they in favor because it is nobody's business but the participants? Is it a question of equality? Is there another argument they like better?

Really? I've never seen it spelled out so clearly.  I reckon it will be some years, perhaps a decade, before this understanding trickles down to the low-information voter who decides who gets elected. By then the common man and woman will be so indoctrinated I wouldn't be surprised if there was a bounty on people intransigent enough to disagree with the gay agenda.

I hadn't realized that Dina Temple-Reston co-wrote a book with Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU. What does that tell you about the political leanings of this "counter-terrorism correspondent"?

Dianne Feinstein was on Fox today with Chris Wallace. When he suggested some people in Watertown may have wanted a semi-automatic weapon for defense with the jihadis on the loose, she said a shotgun was sufficient. Feinstein (and Joe Biden and the rest of the left) have to put up with shotguns for the time being, but, really, they'd like them in more responsible hands than the people who own them. They want semi-automatics out of circulation today, and the government can get around to the other firearms later with the help of low-information voters. One day you might be able to keep a blowgun if it's registered and you can prove the darts are in a lockbox. Then Feinstein objected to talking about the terrorists as Muslims. Wallace didn't point out that not all Muslims are terrorists but all terrorists lately are Muslims. That's  the sort of thing Feinstein and the rest of the left don't want to hear.

Tolstoy wrote a short story about a campaign against the Chechens which he participated in. It laid the foundation for War and Peace. So that unpleasantness has been going on for a long time.

If CAIR wasn't continually raising the specter of a Muslim backlash, it would be the ACLU. Funny the partnership between the two. But the history of the left is full of tactical alliances against a common enemy, in this case American values. The left figures in time it will gain the upper hand because it is so much smarter than the knuckle-dragging right. Once conservatives are vanquished, its former Muslim allies will become the enemy because of their resistance to secular values, and the stage will be set for the showdown. People will be given the choice, an ever more powerful and intrusive state or a society mired in the Seventh Century. Split your earnings equally with the state because it is your employer or simply knows best or roll out the prayer rug five times a day?

The differences between right and left are now so profound that I am afraid there is no bridging the chasm. It is as if their brains are wired differently.