Maggie's Farm

One Cosmos: Second Thoughts About John Paul II

Let's medicate all those kids

Kay Hymowitz: Anthony Weiner and the National Adultery Ritual. A quote:

What is unusual in the human record is not men stepping out on their wives. What is unusual is the model of faithful monogamy, a model that takes for granted the importance of women’s experience, not just men’s. Before the 18th century and outside of Western Europe, marriage was a social and economic as well as sexual arrangement; it had little to do with love and companionship, and no one much cared about whether women were fulfilled or not. But with the emergence of what sociologists and historians refer to as companionate marriage, intimacy became the marital ideal. Instead of arranged unions, the young made their own choice of mate based on shared interests and deep affection rather than on social requirements. Fidelity followed naturally, or so it was hoped, and it meant that, yes, people gave a merde.

More EU Follies: Running Out of Options, Portugal Turns Right - Can voters escape a crushing legacy of debt and bureaucracy? A quote:

While giving all your power to unelected and unaccountable leaders is one of those ideas so profoundly stupid that only the very well educated and conventionally intelligent could believe in it, many accepted the root idea that all which stood between Portugal and competitiveness was its lack of size. If Portugal joined with the other countries of Europe, all of Europe would show America a thing or two.

Rove: Why Obama Is Likely to Lose in 2012

"DRAWS ATTENTION TO" - the NY Times' new shtick 

Drafting Rubio

Norm: A right to be left alone? Here's a moral and philosophical conundrum for you.

If my family and friends became a stone-age tribe, would the government leave us alone? I'd be willing to grow my hair down to my knees so strange, I'd look like a walking mountain range...

Big Government Vastly Expands Food Stamps, Prevents Prevention of Fraud

Details of McKinsey study expose Obamacare flimflam

Steyn: Geert Wilders Acquitted

The O always raises the most money from Wall St. - and Hollywood.

Back to the well, so soon? Wall St. is always Liberal. It's Main St. which is not.

Am Thinker: More B.O. Than Anyone Can Stand

A fickle nation? Love 'em and leave 'em?

Military leaders know Obama’s decision is a disaster

Today's Pirates Have Their Own Stock Exchange

The Hill: It's time for the Election Assistance Commission to go

Geithner: Taxes on ‘Small Business’ Must Rise So Government Doesn’t ‘Shrink’

Remember when Hillary said that the government shouldn't be concerned with
"every undercapitalized business"? These people are not aware that the majority of Americans work in or for small businesses, and that, in this economy, they are all undercapitalized to the point that higher taxes can destroy them.