Honest to God, I don’t understand what Rick Santorum is thinking. I understand that he has an ego the size of the Atlantic Ocean, but really, does he truly believe he can still win? He’ll make a miracle for that to happen.
And even if there’s a miracle – meaning that Romney won’t get to 1,144 delegates – Santorum will likely not come out the winner of a brokered convention.| MORE ›
The time is now.
Listen folks, the infighting has carried on for too long already. If you’ve got a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, you know that Team Obama is coming up with a strategy to use this fall, based on the smears Republicans use against each other. Every Republican candidate has been labeled a flipflopper, an extremist, and a fake.| MORE ›
I’m so terribly sorry to read about the death of Andrew Breitbart, one of my heroes and (Internet) friends.
I met Andrew in Azerbaijan. We were part of a team of western bloggers and columnists, who were invited into the country for a congress about that country and the US – and the relationship between them.
He was a great guy; extremely energetic and very, very funny.| MORE ›
Bad news for Newt Gingrich: he isn’t going to win the Republican nomination. He’s still in the race and, yes, he’ll be able to continue for a while longer, but he’s as good as finished nonetheless.
You see, February will without a doubt be Romney’s month. It’s likely that he will win every caucus / primary in it.| MORE ›
Dan Balz wrote a rather fascinating column for the Washington Post today:
What is fascinating about the Republican race is that, in a matter of days and weeks, it has turned from the question of whether a stop-Romney movement would materialize to the reality that a stop-Gingrich movement now has taken shape.
That’s certainly true.| MORE ›
I do not, for one second, believe that Rick Santorum can defeat Mitt Romney (and, let’s be honest, nobody does except, apparently, for his own staff).
As such, Romney’s victory in Iowa is very important indeed. It means that he’s now the true frontrunner, the guy to beat.
But who can defeat him?
Rick Perry will probably get out of the race after his abysmal showing yesterday.| MORE ›
And to free fellow Muslims from the heavy burden of fatwas.
A group of Dutch Muslim politicians have launched a movement to free Muslims from religious fatwas. It is a great initiative, and it is very meaningful that they launch it one day before the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
If you support the petition, please sign it. You can read it in English and Dutch here.
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Muammer Gaddafi once again succeeded in making a complete and utter fool of himself.
The powerless ‘dictator’ of Libya told his people in an audio recording released today to “prepare for a guerilla war” against the “imperial forces” that destroyed his regime. He added that the international forces want to occupy Libya for its resources (read: oil).| MORE ›
Brussels, Brussels, Brussels.
What in the world are you doing nowadays?
It all started so nice, a couple of years after World War II. Everybody ‘understood’ that European states had to learn to work together, to respect each other, and to become interconnected. If we didn’t, a third world war might not be far off.
Making continental free trade a top priority was, indeed, a great idea.| MORE ›
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