A point to remember here is that in 2010, when the rest of the country finally lurched rightward, California went further left.  The state is completely run by the D's.  At the time Dennis Prager rightly pointed out that California had become a petri dish for leftist governance.  We are already seeing the results, and it will get much worse before it gets better.

The un-habited pantsuited feminuns of the 60s/70s generation are dying out.

"Feminuns"! I love it!

The same is true of parishes, as George Weigel pointed out in his book, "Letters to a Young Catholic."  I visited the parish in Greenville, SC, that Weigel described and found it bursting at the seams, despite (because of) long challenging homilies, Gregorian chant music, and several of the rote prayers in Latin. To borrow from katievs, "it was heavenly."

Why not also send an email (digest could be fine, too) indicating when someone has responded to or quoted you, or a new post has appeared in a "liked" post?  Facebook has been doing this for years.  Honestly, I don't bother "follow"ing posts anymore because this feature does not exist.

I don't get it.  This moron "artist" says he's bringing awareness to the awful practice of clitorectomies, and to do that he bakes a cake that looks like a woman and encourages people to perform said act on the "woman".  And then for good measure he even cries out in faux pain whenever some idiot guest, laughing, cuts the cake/woman.  Even if you believe this is art, and you don't care that it's in extremely bad taste, it makes no logical sense.

Good grief, Christo being a Jew may not have added anything to the movie's story, but figuring the worst and getting upset about it seems over-the-top to me.  When you make an argument that the same movie portrays the Filipino's as basically slaves of the white bad guys, you cross over into ridiculous.

The movie was heart-pounding and portrayed the SEALs as the heroes that we know they are.  Period.  It celebrates their professionalism and the sacrifices they and their families make on our behalf.  I heartily recommend the film.

I read Cavett's whole piece, what a windbag.  He slams Santorum for not "looking presidential" and spends several paragraphs mocking his sex life with his wife, besides knocking the home-schooling decision.  Most of his commenters did similarly.  Is Ad Hominem all the left knows how to do?

The point, it seems to me, isn't really even about home schooling.  It's about liberal tolerance (lack of) to others' opinions on these subjects.  They always crow about tolerance, yet they display zero. 

The problem is that the Supreme Court took that ability away from us 30 years ago.  This is absolutely the sort of thing that should be left to the citizenry, state by state.  The fact that it's still one of the most divisive issues in the country 3 decades later is a testament to just how wrong that decision was.

I agree with you in principle, however you haven't demonstrated that Romney would govern liberally anyway.  Isn't it possible he will wind up being more conservative than you think?  You can't govern Massachusetts as a strong conservative, so that's not a fair barometer.  Given the chance, it's quite possible he could turn out to be plenty conservative.

Read about Christie's poor decisions on judicial appointments and you may not have that fear anymore.

I have a formal dinner event to attend in Anaheim at 7, dang it!.  Maybe I can do both?

I have always loved Governor Brewer, and I hope one day she will run for the Big Chair.

But this photograph bothers me.  As much as I like seeing someone dress down and not be intimidated by a petulant Barack Obama.......I am very troubled by the lack of respect for the POTUS that the photograph seems to illustrate.

I think she owes the POTUS a public apology.  Talk me down from the ledge.

I had the same thought as Rob when I read the story, but then I said, "ah, it's still a nice idea and so why not?"  Later in the day I needed to run down to K-Mart to try to find some shoes for a gift, and I saw a gigantic "LAYAWAY" banner stretched across the roof of the building, over the doors.  I've never seen that banner in 13 years of living here.  So now I'm a cynic like Rob again.

I don't think the 999 plan is politically viable, since way too many people in this country pay no federal income tax at all and thus would pay more under Cain's program.

But to me, 999 is a side-show.  The real interesting point here is that Cain has had the stones to propose something this radical, and defend it in all venues.  Cain is showing that he is the true conservative in the primary race, the one everyone says they're searching for. 

Why are so many of us lukewarm on the current crop of candidates?  Because none of the "legitimate" contenders have seemed to be true conservatives, the way Reagan was.  Well Cain is showing that he is one, and he's got the numbers now that he has to be taken seriously.  Put that all together with the fact that he is black and would thus remove that argument from the Dem playbook in the General, and what do you have?  Something great.

I like that Cain is thinking outside the box, but the 999 plan is a political non-starter, IMHO.  I'm already charged over 9% sales tax here in L.A., and about the same for state income tax, and neither of those is going away.  It might conceivably lower my overall burden, but I'd have to really digest the numbers.  And giving Congress a new VAT to play with for the first time ever, that strikes me as a seriously bad idea.

I really like his bio and qualifications, and obviously his energy and can-do attitude; but I think the nomination is still Romney's to lose, and he's looking pretty Teflon-like at the moment.  How about Romney / Cain 2012?

Where was Lech (a man I greatly admire) when the Tea Party was (is) under assault??  The OWS crowd openly advocates Communist doctrine.  Lech has it backwards.

The guy was killed on the battlefield during a war.  No due process necessary, AFAIC. 

What always occurs to me in situations like these is what Marc Thiessen predicted in "Courting Disaster:" That Obama's pullback of FBI involvement and enhanced interrogations with cretins like Al-Awlaki would lead to a big increase in targeted killings, as we stop trying to capture and interrogate them.  This seems good at first glance (who doesn't want them dead?), but when you consider that we are now losing out on all that great intelligence that has been proven to have FAR reaching effects on our ability to prosecute this war, you have to wonder if we're not hurting ourselves in the process.