Over to Florida
What the Sunshine State Will Illuminate - National Review Online: “Five key factors in what happened this weekend in the South Carolina primary, and five key factors in what will occur eight days from now in the Florida primary”
Good stuff, and all worth keeping in mind.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
The pen is mightier than the sword but I always keep a sword handy in case my enemy can’t read.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
The Other Reason Europe Is Going Broke - NYTimes.com
How can Brussels excite a generation of ambitious young people — the ones who will determine Europe’s future success — when too many of them are offered low-wage, short-term work in stagnant industries to pay for the far more generous benefits their elders receive? How can Europe compete if its youth experience the flexibility while the old get the security?
Why I’d rather be here than there.
Victor Davis Hanson on Obama's rhetorical shifts
What else can a man without an identity do, a president who never really was?
/headshake That’ll leave a mark.
Medved on electability
Finally, a sane discussion of electability and the GOP primaries.
(via Instapaper)
Obama's Choice
The terrible dilemma of the Obama-supporting Catholic blogger, about to be thrown under the bus… Does nobody read Aesop’s fable of the frog and the scorpion?
Sixties Language Made Mass Boring
Fr. Barron hits the spot on how to see the new Mass translation. (via Instapaper)
The Biggest What-If Hovering Over Obama
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” (Whittier)
(via Instapaper)
The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
For everyone heading into finals and the end of the semester! (via Instapaper)
Four Enduring Truths of American Elections
Good things to keep in mind between now and Election Day. (via Instapaper)
Denialism, the comforting belief that all one’s foes are easily dismissed by bluster, is the opiate of the intellectual classes.
