The Daily Gouge

It’s Monday, March 19th, 2012….Lehigh sent Duke home for a well-deserved sabbatical from the Big Dance, all’s right with the world….and here’s The Gouge! First, up, Roger Hedgecock, writing at HumanEvents.com, details what we’ve been saying for years: California’s Not Dreamin’: This Is the Nightmare of an Obama Second Term   I live in California.  […]

Sometimes you come across stories you simply cannot wait to publish; these are two of those stories: Marines told to disarm before Panetta’s speech in Afghanistan   More than 200 Marines were told to take their weapons outside and leave them there before Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke to them Wednesday at Camp Leatherneck in […]

It’s Thursday, March 15th, 2012….and here’s The Gouge! First up, James Pethokoukis, courtesy of Conn Carroll and writing in The American, summarizes…. The entire Obama presidency, in one anecdote   One of my favorite moments from the new book The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery: Energy was a particular obsession of the president-elect’s, […]

It’s Wednesday, March 14th, 2012….but before we begin, regardless of the support shown Rick Santorum by the voters of Alabama and Mississippi think, absent his unflinching opposition to gay marriage and abortion, he’s about as Conservative as George W. Bush….and has as much chance beating Obama as Fritz Mondale unseating Ronald Reagan. Now, here’s The […]

It’s Tuesday, March 13th, 2012….but before we begin, some words of warning from a civilian, the WSJ‘s Bret Stephens in this case, that don’t seem to register with ears of a Navy Brass long-since deafened by the noise of political-correctness and deliberately destructive Liberal policies: In the Persian Gulf, A Vulnerable Fleet The Navy’s capabilities […]

It’s Thursday, March 8th, 2012….and as we’ll be taking Friday off, we’ll catch you all on Monday. Now, here’s The Gouge! First up, writing in Political Diary, Paul Gigot gives Mitt Romney all he needs to away from Super Tuesday: Exit Poll Statistic of the Year An exit poll in Massachusetts about health care shed’s […]

It’s Wednesday, March 7th, 2012….and before we begin, a brief bit of commentary is in order. We recently enjoyed an email discussion regarding a looming “what if”; what to do should the SCOTUS uphold ObamaScare’s individual insurance mandate, thereby expanding the powers of the legislative and executive branches of government literally beyond any limit….in effect, […]

It’s Tuesday, March 6th, 2012….and before we begin, two connected commentaries on the deliberately distorted contraceptive clash, both courtesy of the WSJ: First,…. Bishop Dolan’s Liberty Letter The Catholic Cardinal describes a chilling visit to the White House.   The debate over the Obama Administration’s birth control mandate has been ingloriously fact-free, even more than […]

It’s Monday, March 5th, 2012….and before we begin, we offer two seemingly unrelated articles which are in fact symptoms of a much larger national malaise; first, the WSJ details: The 60th ObamaCare Vote A soon-to-be released report shows how rogue prosecutors defeated Ted Stevens.   Mitt Romney recently argued that campaign rival Rick Santorum was […]

It’s Friday, March 2nd, 2012….and before we begin, we take a moment to mark the passing of a man we greatly admired: In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)   And marking his passing, we can think of no better epitaph than Breitbart’s own words, courtesy of the WSJ; they need no emphasis from us: Make no […]