Political musings for the week ending Mar. 17, on subjects including: Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, the Tea Party, Barack Obama, media bias, interest rates, the economy, the Consumer Price Index, credit, Hillary Clinton, terrorism, international trade, Israel, North Korea and more.
Read more ›Archive for March 17th, 2012
Patrick the Sinner, an Unlearned Man
MARCH 17, around 461 AD, St. Patrick died. As a teenager, Patrick was captured in Britain and sold as a slave in Ireland. For six years Patrick herded animals until he escaped. In his forties he had a dream calling him back to Ireland. Patrick returned to Ireland, confronted the Druids, converted Chieftains, and used the three-leaf clover to teach the Trinity.
Read more ›Republican race is just getting started
After Rick Santorum’s victories in Tuesday’s Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Mitt Romney told Fox News, “We’re not going to go to a brokered convention.” But those who put their money where their mouths are, buying contracts on the Intrade.com online prediction market, assess the picture much differently. The latest Intrade.com probability that the Republican nominee will be selected in a brokered convention is 21.5 percent. This same probability stood at 5 percent in early February.
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