Worthwhile Reading

Guy Benson lists and refutes the arguments being made against Romney. Aside from correcting untruths, Benson makes note of the triviality and irrelevance of most of the claims.

http://townhall.com/columnists/guybenson/2012/08/20/eight_arguments_youve_probably_heard_against_mitt_romney

The always sage and sensible Theodore Dalrymple weighs in on Britain’s NHS.

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_3_otbie-british-health-care.html

Victor Davis Hanson does a good job of summarizing the gravity of the situation we will be facing over the next decade and beyond, emphasizing the difficulty in achieving a political consensus to fix it. VDH doesn’t mention any politician by name, but he implicitly invokes Paul Ryan and his willingness to look for solutions to problems when others won’t.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314484/are-we-doomed-victor-davis-hanson

Holman Jenkins in today’s (8/25) WSJ –

Premium support, the heart of both the Romney and Ryan plans, is as much a Democratic idea as a Republican idea going back decades. Premium support only became “radical” when Mr. Obama - that great healer, that great avatar of partisan transcendence – anathematized the sole bipartisan idea on the table as “radical” to meet his own short-term political needs.

Along the lines of what Jenkins is saying, Deroy Murdock writes about the Ryan-Wyden Medicare plan, Premium Support, and the hypocrisy of the Democrats demagoguing the issue.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314858/virtues-premium-support-deroy-murdock

Abortion and Rape BS

Eight years of Bush-Cheney had no effect on the nation’s abortion and rape laws. Eight years of Romney-Ryan, (if we are so fortunate), will have the same non-impact. This subject shouldn’t even be a campaign issue, but with the media and the Democrats desperate to change the subject from Obama’s failures in office, it will remain in the news. So, just for the record, here are the lies and distortions corrected.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/new-york-times-falsely-reports-ryan-tried-restrict-definition-rape_650625.html

Recent Krauthammer

By the media’s telling, Romney’s recent foreign trip was a gaffe filled disaster. CK shows otherwise.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313046/romney-s-excellent-trip-charles-krauthammer

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/313558/case-against-reelection-charles-krauthammer

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314213/romney-s-present-ryan-s-future-charles-krauthammer

Recent Steyn

On the emptiness of the Obama campaign.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314347/man-no-plan-mark-steyn?pg=1

The Republicans are waging a "War On Women"! What a brilliant political ploy - Alienate half the electorate! Steyn redirects the focus away from this invention of the Democratic Party and towards its ongoing War On Children. That a party would exploit a group too young to vote or not yet born or, honestly, too dense to know what is being done to them, at least makes a lot more sense politically.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314936/war-children-mark-steyn?pg=1

The following appeared on the NRO blogsite, The Corner. I recently wrote about the discrepancy between the public perception of Obama’s “likability” and the reality. Here’s some insight into the latter.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314396/dreams-my-father-calls-my-brother-mark-steyn