On the gun question, Rudy said he didn't own one. Why? His business partner and former police commissioner, Bernie Kerik, taught him how to take care of himself with a ball peen hammer and an icepick.

It's hard to apply reason to these cases, but it seems that a person angry with the Catholic Church, might find greater satisfaction targeting a candidate more representative of the Church, like Rudy Giuliani.

Because people don't like being reminded what sorry, sad sacks this government has made of us.

For those who speak of John Paul "the Great," an anti-Catholic is one who condemns the death penalty, does not support the war in Iraq, and who criticizes the Bush tax cuts.

I've never been able to confirm this, however, once John Robert's pictures began appearing in the media during the Senate judiciary nomination hearing, I flashed on images of a man I would frequently notice at Smiths Concerts, that had remained lodged in my memory after nearly twenty years, clearly because the man, with his Wallstreet clothes and tidy haircut, seemed so out of place among the "usual suspects," if you will.

As a learned more about Robert's life, I came to understand the aesthetic appeal the Smiths held for him and having read this quote from Morrissey, I perhaps uncovered an additional philosophical attraction Morrissey might have had for him:

"he described hip-hop's presence in the charts as "a stench," dismissed reggae as "vile" and derided R&B's gross caricature of sexuality --"

I found the answer for this question at the same site which reveals secrets about Mormon underpants. The prophet Joseph Smith was concerned about the physical health of his flock and maintained a codex of apothecary prescriptons for common ailments, which members of the church continue to draw upon.

Zonderavian reports that on the early eve before the day of the speech, Romney suffered abominal pain, for which the Smith codex required the ingestion of 3, seven day old crawdads. The expressions we saw on Romney's face during that last part of the speech, were the crawdads starting to make their journey through Mitt's large colon.

As far as what the two leading Republican candidates are hiding this year, both come from the top drawer: Mitt's underpants are Mormon and Rudy's are crotchless.

@anon (Omaha Mall above)

What happened in Nebraska last week is a 2nd amendment advocate's idea of group therapy.

By the same token, it's my understanding that those forces who are quietly working to position General Petraeus as the Party's White Night, in the event of a deadlocked Republican convention, have suffered a serious reverse with the release of the NIE report. If Huckabees in the end is unable to secure the delegates neccessary for the nomination, but the Party still seeks the genial, domestic oriented model as its model, the ultimate consensus candidate could well prove to Pat Robertson.

At least some pundits, like Bill O'Reilly and Brit Hume, have the grace to stand-up for the right of Freedoms Watch to thank the troops for fighting to make possible the destruction of big labor's radical agenda.

What Miss Dobriansky and the majority of the American people understand is that before we can effectively confront Global Warming, head-on, we need to nip Islamofascism in the bud before the mortal tentacles it uncoils from Mecca to our vital Heartland squeezes the life out of our nation.

I'm into rifts of all kinds, but didn't know a thing about the apocalype so I brought my great aunt Shirl, who had read Tim LaHayes complete series of End of Days books, which she claims to have bought on special at Wal Mar, to watch Southland Tales.

My aunt had no trouble following the plot, but I should mention that she behaves like she's on something, although she says she medicates only for a touch of bursitis she suffers from in her upper back during the worst part of winter. I, on the other hand, found it somewhat confusing. I liked Donnie Darko, though, alot.

If Democrats want the most electable, they better get moving, now. On the DNC's sayso, Bob Strauss and a group of Democratic Wise Men should hightail it to Anbar, where they should convince General Petraeus to stand as the Democratic nominee. Even if he's not too keen on being a Democrat, this sure fire ticket to the White House will overcome his doubts about the occasional wifts of donkey-doo that may blow his way during his eight year term as Commander-in-Chief.

What went down is that Pinch needs to match Krauthammer word for word. Only Kristol can do that. Or Horowitz. But he's not feeling well.

Miller and I are going to let John Breaux take the first shot. Meanwhile, Miller and I are going to keep our powder dry.

John Roberts delicate airs and softer manners might make the punishments he hands down seem more humane than those delivered by Antonin Scalia, but close inspection reveals them to be the same.

The John McCains-- always the kids voted most likely to be accused of fathering an illegitimate black baby in a South Carolina Republican Primary!

Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, Howard Fineman and Cokie Robert are against Hilary and they would much rather see John McCain become President than Obama. So would General Electric and the Washington Post Co.

By the way, was it just me, or did anyone happen to notice that the prediction the press made about John McCain coming from behind and winning in New Hampshire, did come true?

McCain will begin to make a play for Rudy's supply siders within the next couple of days and one way to completely win them over, (and also, by the way emphasize his well known Iraqi War position), would be to re-propose an old Bush administration project to privatize the Iraqi oil industry.