A New Gold Standard?

Here Louis Woodhill, economic writer par excellence and member of the Club for Growth Leadership Council, counters Fed Chairman Ben (The Bernank) Bernanke's recent defense of printable money with a very simple argument.  If, as The Bernank believes and his academic work supports, the Fed caused the Great Depression, why isn't the Fed's monetary tinkering responsible for the crippling Great Recession and the succeeding Runt Recovery?  He's almost certainly right that seven or, in our present case for some reason unknown to me, five economic wizards in charge of the money supply from a Washington conference room must bear a substantial part of the responsibility.

Etch-a-Sketch Indeed

If this Etch-a-Sketch episode turns out to be a Sherman bowtie in the rails down the track in front of the Romney Inevitability Express, I'll be thrilled.  The problem is every bit as bad as described by Paul Gigot -- in a rare signed editorial -- and the establishmentarian Peggy Noonan -- who manages to give good advice to all the candidates.

In fact, it's far, far worse.  Romney simply has no core political beliefs.  If one caricatured him as W. C. Fields' drunk, saying, "A man's gotta believe in something; I believe I'll have another run at the Presidency," no one would be sure it wasn't a direct quote.

From the Tab Bar

No, not the sugar-free Coca Cola substitute, just links open in my browser's tabs from the last few weeks, still all timely presented here in semi-reverse chronological order, with brief comments.  Enjoy!

Here is this morning's post-Illinois delegate count for the Republican primary.  Inevitable Romney has only 10% more than half the first-ballot-bound delegates awarded so far.  Really!  560 vs 453 for all others.  No wonder his supporters are railing at the others to withdraw.  In a related story, here is an analysis from the local New York liberal paper on the possibility of a contested Republican convention wresting away the Inevitable's rightful prize.

The Mainstream Gasps, "Obama's NOT Popular?"

"How," says the mainstream media mouthpiece, "can it be?  How can Obama's numbers have tanked?  Aren't the economy's numbers up, just like Reagan's end-of-first-term economy's numbers were...?

"Oh, me, oh, my," he says, "That tingling in my leg can't just be my sciatica starting to act up again, can it?

"It can't be true.  He's got to be The One, he must be, he has to be."

But wake up and smell the coffee, oh tingly-legged one.  He's not awesome, and you are just his empty-headed, YouTube-cartoon blonde admirer.

Andrew Breitbart: A Great Loss for Our Cause (Part II)

Don't miss Bill Whittle talking about his friend Andrew on Afterburner -- again a tip from my brother Robert.

Breitbart believed that liberals and Democrats weren't his enemy, says Whittle.  Guess who was?

Andrew Breitbart: A Great Loss for Our Cause

Jonah Goldberg was devastated on hearing of Andrew Breitbart's death.

Matt Welch was filled with memories at the loss of his friend.

For those of you who don't remember Breitbart's contributions to the development of the political internet and the outing of political hypocrisy, here is Slate's in-depth bio from a couple years back, not all complimentary.

Thaddeus McCotter's eulogy in the well of the House of Representatives -- thanks to my brother -- says almost all there is to say, but I want to add a personal note.