Just as a large part of Western culture’s great scientific leap forward during the Renaissance was little more than a relearning of earlier knowledge and theory of mathematics and the physical universe — or at least picking up the baton where it was dropped during the collapse of the Greek and Roman empires — the current revival of conservatives must also reconnect with lost knowledge.

According to early press reports, Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) died Monday afternoon in a Virginia hospital at the age of 77. From Politico.com:
Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania powerhouse for 36 years in Congress …

The White House’s current ad hoc policy is unreliable and defaulting to handling organized enemies of the United States as though they were just like gangsters running booze or drugs across the border is reckless.

For all of the fussmaking over whether the President should credit for being bipartisan because he attended the House Republican’s Baltimore Retreat over the past weekend, his candor about the current health care bills and where they stand on forcing Americans into government-planned care may be the most reasonable offering President Obama has made to the debate in the past year.

Last week’s State of the Union was one to remember, although surely not for the reasons that its drafters intended.
It began as an inspiring little story about The Little Country That Could. In its …

Finally and with climactic energy, Dow’s man crush on the President (Obama was referred to by name during Constantine’s campaign only slightly less often than that of the candidate himself) was revealed for Wednesday night for all of Twitterdom to behold.