Unca Darrell

SEPTEMBER 30 / The prophet Samuel on . . .

. . . big government:

SEPTEMBER 29 / Romney v. Biden

[MITT ROMNEY] freely gave away more than $4 million to charity last year (about 30 percent of his income). In comparison, when Joe Biden was first running for vice president, his tax returns showed that he had given away . . .  

SEPTEMBER 29 / On charitable giving . . .

. . . Mitt Romney offers a good model.

[Mitt] Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes on an income of $14 million -- and gave $4 million to charity.

The year before . . .

SEPTEMBER 28 / Most important news yesterday

UNITED NATIONS -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran was on track to build an atomic bomb by summer of 2013 and exhorted the U.S. [read United States] and other global powers to set a strict limit on Tehran's nuclear fuel production as the clear "red line" that would trigger military strikes.

. . . .

But Mr. Netanyahu also implied . . .

SEPTEMBER 28 / Walter Russell Mead on the MSM

THE LEGACY PRESS clearly prefers the liberal establishment to either the hard left or to social conservatives and libertarians. However, the right is correct that once the press ventures out of its center-left, establishment comfort zone it is more sympathetic to the hard left than to the populist right.

SEPTEMBER 27 / Gallup: "U.S. Distrust in Media . . .

. . . Hits New High."

AMERICANS' distruct in the media hit a new high this year, with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. . . .

SEPTEMBER 27 / Samuelson on the American Dream

WHAT ALSO cannot be wished away are on-the-ground realities that impede middle-class status for more Americans. Only one-third of children born to the poorest fifth of Americans . . .

SEPTEMBER 26 / Real Clear Politics just awarded Ohio . . .

. . . to "Leaning Obama," leaving the president only five points shy of the magic 270 electoral votes. Details at "Following the Polls."

SEPTEMBER 25 / What does the Chronicle editorial board . . .

. . . have in common with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

They both . . .

SEPTEMBER 24 / Gelernter on politics and . . .

. . . culture.

Romney will win this election. But . . .