The climate religion fades in spasms of anger and twitches of boredom. Nov 29, 2011 WSJ By BRET STEPHENS How do religions die? Generally they don’t, which probably explains why there’s so little literature on the subject. Zoroastrianism, for instance, lost many of its sacred texts when Alexander sacked Persepolis in 330 B.C., and most [...]

An opening for Romney, if he’s smart enough. Nov 29, 2011 WSJ By WILLIAM MCGURN When President Obama visits Scranton Wednesday, he will speak at the same high school gym where Hillary Clinton kicked off her Pennsylvania campaign in March 2008. We forget it now, but even then Scranton folks were skeptical about the guy [...]

One of them quotes deceptively. The other is a politician. Nov 29, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO Mitt Romney has stirred a bit of a kerfuffle with a new ad that critics say, not without justification, is misleading. As new New York Times columnist Frank Bruni notes, the ad includes a clip of Barack Obama [...]

Nov 29, 2011 Guy Benson Another fun Tapper/Carney tilt in the White House press room yesterday: Vid Carney can “reject the premise” of the question all he wants; as Hot Air’s Tina Korbe writes, the ABC Newsman has the facts on his side:   When President Barack Obama jets to Scranton, Pa., Wednesday to promote [...]

Nov 29, 2011 Mike Shedlock A couple of readers asked me to comment on the Sun Sentinel article Are loss-share lenders gouging us? November 27, 2011 In the wake of the recent real-estate meltdown, the borrower of a nonperforming loan called his lender with promising news: “I have a buyer looking to make an all-cash [...]

Nov 29, 2011 Chuck Norris In Part 1, I discussed how the mainstream media, billionaire progressives such as George Soros, the White House and even the Occupy movement are in cahoots with one another. In Part 2, I discussed the MSM’s maneuvering to coronate their choice for the GOP presidential nomination, Soros’ covert investments in [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, November 29, 2011 During the presidential campaign of 2000, George W. Bush was criticized by some conservatives for calling himself a “compassionate conservative.” Some believed the term to be redundant. Now we’re in the middle of the 2012 presidential campaign and candidate Newt Gingrich has called for a “humane” [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Now that Newt Gingrich has become the latest in a series of Republican front-runners, he is getting the kinds of scrutiny and attacks that have done in other front-runners. One of the issues that have aroused concern among conservative Republicans is that of amnesty for illegal [...]

By Mona Charen (Archive) · Tuesday, November 29, 2011 While the nation was digesting its turkey dinner, Rep. Michelle Bachmann was seizing an opportunity to score points at Newt Gingrich’s expense. Suggesting that his position on illegal immigration amounts to “amnesty,” Bachmann predicted that the GOP electorate would “come home” to the person who has [...]

By David Limbaugh (Archive) · Tuesday, November 29, 2011 The GOP presidential nomination process is a roller-coaster ride — sometimes uplifting, other times discouraging, but we press forward. President Obama and his agenda are unspeakably disastrous for the nation, so this election matters more than any in my lifetime. The national debt clock is ticking [...]