Because it's based on normal-people economic principles

400 independent economists have endorsed Romney's plan for turning the economy around - including three Nobel laureates.

Nailing opponents to trees in front of the presidential palace

Per Sky News, Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Egypt are crucifying opponents of President Morsi.

What an administrative change in Egypt will do for its foreign policy

The Mubarak regime and the Sadat regime before it had no use for the Islamic regime in Iran.  It's going to be a little different now.  Morsi is headed to Tehran later this month for a state visit to "strengthen ties."  The announcement comes on the heels of Ahmadinejad's Israel-is-a-cancer-on-humanity-that-will-soon-be-removed remark.

Making our case for us

Former Harvard president and MEC economic advisor Larry Summers has a column in the Washington Post today that takes a statist position regarding the size of government - that its continued growth is inevitable.  He outlines five reasons why he asserts this is so.  When one reads through them, the thought occurs that if we just either privatized those matters or quit undertaking them altogether, shrinking the federal government would be no problem at all.

He tosses out the idea that defense would be an area to cut, but he never gets to the specific reality that defense spending only accounts for 16 percent of the budget.  Rather, to back away from it nearly as soon as he offers it, he relies on the idea's likely unpopularity in a dangerous world and time.

His argument is predicated on the assumption that the American people assume the Big Three Entitlements to be a given in their lives, but the surge of interest in what Paul Ryan has to say would indicate otherwise.

It looks from here like he needs to go

I'm not the most inside-baseball guy in the world, so I wasn't up to speed with who Todd Akin was.  It seems he beat somebody far more suitable in the GOP primary for a Missouri Senate seat.  And now it appears he's got Joe Biden's disease, the latest manifestation of which is this doozy.  Given the moment in this election cycle, the fierceness with which our enemy is waging war against us, and the bias of the MSM, the guy needs to be convinced to do the right thing for freedom and America and step down.

A development with a rather big wow factor

The cover story in the latest issue of Newsweek is called "Hit The Road, Barack: Why America Needs A New President."  It's cool, clearly, that the magazine is giving top visibility to the argument a blog such as this would make for bringing the MEC's grim reign to an end.  That argument is well-articulated by Niall Ferguson.  A couple of thoughts: It gives the editorial staff cover as an even'handed periodical for the rest of the campaign season, but it also confirms that it is now an opinion magazine, and therefore due for a name change.

Reason to feel like there's a future for this world

A piece at The American Thinker today by Jay Schalin entitled "Political Fog Finally Lifts" really lifted my spirits. 
So much understanding among the American people has coalesced in the last week.  The Left is clearly flailing.  The rest of this campaign season will not be about tax returns or subsidized contraception or Mormonism or neo-deconstructionist interpretations of what it means to be black or "queer."  It will be about the reasons why we are headed full-tilt toward the cliff's edge.  And Paul Ryan will clearly show that it is because we have promised a cornucopia of goodies to various Americans that we could never have made good on.
People of all demographic groups will readily understand this and get behind the team that made it so clear.
It's already having an effect and will continue to do so.  What we have to do is be relentless about continuing to get out the message.

The main way in which Joe Biden's crude goofiness endangers our nation

Yes, Joe Biden's runaway mouth seems to be a worsening problem.  No doubt even the MEC recognizes that.  But while that coarsens our national discourse even more, if such a thing is possible, there are certain kinds of countermeasures the MEC could take that would finish off the United States of America once and for all, and do so in the immediate term.

Let us pray fervently that that is not something to be read into the president's schedule of appointments for today.

Eric Holder will have to find some other rationale for opposing voter ID than public opinion

Per a Washington Post poll, an overwhelming majority of Americans - male, female, young, old, black, white, Pub, Dem - support a requirement that people photographically verify who they are when they show up to vote.

I'll see your work authorization and raise you an executive order

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signs an executive order denying driver's licenses to those illegal aliens who were granted amnesty by the MEC's unconstitutional flipping off of federal immigration law.

Erskine Bowles tells it like it is

Says it wasn't Paul Ryan who scuttled the deficit commission's recommendations, it was the MEC.

Leaders of the intelligence and special-operations communities to the MEC: quit running off your mouth about bin Laden and special ops generally

Leaders of the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, a group of retired intelligence and special-ops folks, are set to launch a series of ads expressing their displeasure at the MEC and his regime for their braggadocio and national-security leaks.

Looks like this one did have an ideological angle

Sociologists, historians and cultural observers will be busy for years examining the underlying reasons for the rise in occurrences of public places getting shot up in the past few years.  Of course, the unhinged left has rushed forward after each one with shrill pronouncements of a "climate of hate" supposedly fostered by right-of-center opinion outlets.  And, of course, they've been proven wrong, every time.

This afternoon's mayhem at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. appears to actually have an ideological angle, but it would be the reverse of the one the Left tried to get us to buy before.  Obviously, we need to know a lot more details, but it seems the gunman shouted something about the FRC having hateful policies before he let loose.

John Boehner spooks me with his occasional exhibiting of symptoms of Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome

Holds a conference call with Pub candidates for the House to discuss their concerns about how Ryan's forthrightness about entitlement reform might subject them to attacks from the Left.

Deal with it.  As Dan Riehl says, man up.  If this isn't a war to you, get out of the way.

Just wow

Day-um, Mitt Romney's giving some good speeches these days.

Those meds for Reasonable Gentleman Syndrome seem to be working.

There's more to it than just trying to institute a civilian republic

Morsi found generally much approval in the West for sacking those top generals.  Many interpreted the move as bringing the military under the control of civilian government, end of story.  But when one considers the more sinister way he has dealt with Egypt's news media so far, a different picture emerges.