Hopeful Romantics

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By now anyone with a heartbeat is aware that the quirky Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford,  enjoyed an extra-marital affair.  I say enjoyed, because anyone who would put his career on the line, especially when the career had presidential aspirations, must have really been in love. Most by now have at least watched soundbites [...]

As I write this Iranian citizens have taken to the streets in protest of what appears to be fixed elections.   I say appears to be in the same way someone lying dead  in the street appears to be dead.   Unfortunately, in the West, to paraphrase one of my favorite political pundits, Ayaan Hirisi Ali, we [...]

Carrie Prejean made her television commentator debut recently on Fox News.   Prejean, otherwise known as Miss California,  graced the airwaves as a host on the Fox News Show, Fox and Friends.    Her two male co-hosts were apparently smitten with her as they heaped so much praise on her as a visionary and in possession of [...]