Some dude named Ed Whelan offers this fantastically inane idea on the National Review’s website:
Barack Obama may actually believe, as he stated yesterday, that Roe v. Wade “was rightly decided.” But it may be very lucky for him, as the son born of that woman, that it hadn’t been decided a dozen or so [...]
When the cupboard is bare, set it on fire and it’ll be full of ash
October 16th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: abortion · republicanism
Lessons of the Bush Era - Ross Douthat
October 15th, 2008 No Comments
Ross Douthat must think there is some award for most damningly ironic counterfactual:
Whereas in a world in which George W. Bush hadn’t invaded Iraq, or a world in which large stockpiles of WMDs had been found after he did invade, or a world in which the occupation of Iraq hadn’t been mismanaged into a bloody [...]
Tags: counterfactuals · Politics · republicanism