Doublet.

There is a reason for the precipitous decline in the number of Jesuits and CSC priests. When these orders lost their way and spent more time pushing leftwing politics than preaching the Gospel, next to no one was willing to sign up. The same is true in the "liberal" dioceses. Up in the diocese of Portland, Maine, there are ten diocesan priests under the age of fifty. In Lincoln, Nebraska, however, where the Gospel is preached, there is a surplus of priests.

Some years ago, I was a job candidate at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. When I mentioned that I had attended a Jesuit high school and that one of my grandfather's cousins was a Jesuit, the Dean decided to show me the Jesuit presence at Holy Cross. He took me to the graveyard.

As I understand it, the Obama campaign had to edit the video to make it look like a recantation -- which, in fact, it was not.

This whole thing is idiocy on the part Obama's supporters. It makes them look like Stalinists.

I would guess that John Jenkins and his board of trustees have finally figured out which way the wind is blowing. This is very good news. It leaves most of the Jesuit colleges where they belong -- twisting slowly, slowly in the wind. Who knows? Maybe, some of them will decide that they are still Catholic.

There is a less painful way to avoid getting HIV.

If Romney and the Republicans do not repeal Obamacare, there will be hell to pay.

How about Casablanca, Strangers on a Train, The Lady Vanishes, To Have and Have Not, and, of course, The Godfather and Godfather II?

James, there is another problem. The Cherokee never lived in any place near where one could acquire crabs to cook.

This hypothesis wil be tested. I have in mind Iran.

If the election were held today and it depended on enthusiasm for Mitt Romney, he might well lose. If it were held today and it was a referendum on Barack Obama, he would lose. If Romney gives people a reason to vote for him, if he lays out a genuinely conservative program, if he promises to roll back the administrative entitlements state, if he presents himself as a resolute and courageous defender of religious, political, and economic liberty, he will win a landslide. His past performance makes me skeptical, but I would not rule out his rising to the occasion. He may be a chameleon, but he may also recognize what the circumstances demand. Chameleons usually do, and let's face it: Barack Obama is doing everything he can to force Romney to take a firmly conservative line.

If men are more vain now than ever before (a doubtful proposition, at best), it might have to do with the example set by the current President of the United States, a man whose self-regard is legendary.

" . . . the considerable gender gap, which puts [Obama] far ahead of likely GOP rival Mitt Romney among women."

I take it that Dana Milbank has not read the recent polls.

I was and am an unsparing critic of Romney's political record. I was always, however, an admirer of his record as a father, a citizen, a Mormon, and a businessman. Circumstances may conspire to bring his political conduct into line with everything else in his record.

Rob, here is a photo to go with your post. Originally, it, too, appeared from the White House website. To call the man self-regarding would be an understatement.

Obama's attempt to make this election a referendum on the sexual revolution is a sign of desperation. As Haley Barbour observed in a Ricochet podcast, Barack Obama cannot run on his record. My suspicion is that the moves aimed at firing up the Democratic Party's libertine base will alienate -- in many cases, permanently -- those inclined in the past for to vote for the Democrats for other reasons. I doubt that African-Americans will abandon Obama himself, but he may be paving the road for a lot of them to move away from the Democratic Party in the wake of this election.

Thanks. I vaguely knew about this but did not find confirmation -- so I left it out.