The Exquisite Contrarian

• Until recently, Heritage was quite willing to associate itself with Romneycare, but that appears to have changed. The words Romney and Massachusetts appear nowhere in Moffits op-ed, probably because the Conintern has lately concluded that Obamacare renders Romney damaged goods. See this withering Fox News interview with Chris Wallace, this dismissal from the libertarian Club For Growth, this video from David Boaz and Michael F. Cannon of Cato, and this editorial from the Wall Street Journal, which called Obamacare and Romneycare “fraternal policy twins.” Ouch!

We’ve generally taken the ‘trust no one’ stance, particularly when there’s a massive backlog of self interest involved.  This example just further reiterates the axiom.

Shocker: the rest of the world also knows W isn’t all that bright.  Thought we’d been able to hide that one.

Another ‘birther’ appears, in an interesting place and with impressive decoration.

Drones are effective. Should we be centering our strategy around them?  Are we already?

• When patriots are being taught that the president is a religiously suspect traitor ready to hand the country over to some sinister international cabal, its hardly surprising they feel entitled to hurl hateful words at him or his presumed allies.

Cose: Hate Is Drowning Our Politics.

We’re wondering if this assessment by commanding General McChrystal will result in backlash at home or abroad.

“Amazing” is to us an amazing choice of adjectives when referring to civilian casualties.

The President marked his Census form.

Viral. An enjoyable link from the Frank Rich article, and Rep Boehner at his best: