If you think that's a bizarre question, hang on a minute. The U.S. has, once again, formally stated it's position that it has the perfect right to go to a foreign country and kidnap one of its citizens to be taken back to the U.S. for trial on criminal charges.

John Hinderaker runs the Powerline blog, and adopts the name "Hindrocket." And he has news for you and me and all those of us who are Democrats or liberals (he doesn't seem to see any difference): we're probably not as sane, healthy, and happy as he and his fellow conservatives are, which is why "if you're a Republican, the message is mixed: you're probably happier and healthier than your Democratic neighbors, but you're also less likely to be passionate about imposing your political views on others."

Right-wingers have gone ballistic since Wednesday's Republican YouTube debate because four of the questioners appear to be Democrats, including the retired "do ask, do tell" soldier who hogged not one but two microphones, and it's apparently GOP policy to avoid speaking to outsiders until the general election. But when Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan went hunting for Democrats today in that debate's target-rich environment, she still came up empty-handed.

So today's NY Times section on Business carries a lengthy story by David Leonhardt headlined "A Slowdown in Jobs Lost, and Created." The gist is that in the past "few years" the rates of both new job creation and old job loss have been slowing. Why?

What else would you expect from our current administration, renowned for its incompetence and its corruption, but a strange Executive Order creating a broad "Performance Improvement Council," along with a "Performance Improvement Officer" for every federal agency?

At last night's Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer spoke for more time than five of the seven candidates, repeatedly getting in the way of substantive discussion by reducing issues to yes/no options. But it wasn't until the audience got its chance to ask questions that the CNN team demonstrated how inflated in self-importance our leading broadcast journalists have become during presidential campaigns.

You've got me. This is such a ridiculous procurement story that it's 50-50 whether you laugh or cry.

Of all the presidential candidates to make their feelings known about symbolic expressions of patriotism like flag lapel pins and the National Anthem, none has been more candid than Sen. Barack Obama -- hands down.

I gave $25 to Ron Paul Monday because I couldn't resist being part of the largest grass-roots fundraising day in the history of American politics. The libertarian Republican raised $4.2 million from 37,000 contributors, according to a final tally provided to USA Today, from an effort that wasn't even organized by the campaign.

I caught the last 90 minutes of the Democratic presidential debate at Drexel University Tuesday night, which told me that Hillary Clinton thinks she can win the nomination without telling anyone what she'll do if elected.

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