Vote for Reagan

If you’re in Brooklyn this Saturday night, check out a reading by Matthew Lysiak. He’ll be reading from his new book “The Choice, Ronald Reagan versus Barack Obama and the Campaign of 2012.” followed by a discussion on Reagan’s influence in today’s election this Saturday at 7 pm at BookMark 8415 Third Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

“We may be fat and emotional — but bad parents we are not.”

I’ve got a piece in the New York Post today on that French parenting book everyone has been talking about.

The book is a good read but ultimately it’s a self-help book about not needing self-help books

Bang bang

I was on NRA News with Cam Edwards from CPAC. Check it out here.

And I praise Bush for good measure

I compare Giselle Bundchen, and her comments about her Superbowl-losing husband Tom Brady, to Obama’s supporters whining about Republican obstructionism. The comment section at the link is a must-read. Oh the rage.

Divorce, inc.

My latest piece in the NY Post judges the whole Divorce Expo idea.

Will Obama endorse gay marriage before the election?

Wanna bet?

Me, TV, tonight

It’s a two-channel night for me tonight talking about that little primary in Florida.

I’ll be on the World Channel (ch.13 in NY, you can find you local channel at this link) from 8-9pm and then on NY1 from 10-11pm.

Not so funny

In my NY Post column today I explain why Mitt Romney’s funny-sounding self-deport immigration policy is actually pretty serious.

Not Newt

Why I’m anti-Newt, without using the word “electability”, my latest for WNYC’s A Free Country.

We love love

In my latest column for the NY Post I wonder if Americans will overlook Newt Gingrich’s multiple marriages and romantic destruction. Conclude, no.

Why I don’t want the U.S. to be a little bit Europe

Stop what you’re doing and go read this article (in the NY Times!! By an NPR reporter!!) on why Europe is failing.

Via Ken Wheaton.

(On a totally different note, I don’t know the linking hat-tip/via rules anymore. It used to be that you read something on someone’s blog, wrote about it on your own blog and linked back to their blog with a hat-tip. Now, I don’t know how it works. I saw Ken’s link on Facebook but no one links to Facebook, as most people have private pages, so I chose to link his blog. But I also saw the link in the post below on Facebook and chose to link James Taranto’s twitter instead of his Best of the Web column. It’s so complicated in 2012!)

I make the rules, I don’t follow them

This is hilarious:

Via James Taranto.

Class-less in America

I have a piece in the New York Post today on what class means in America.

Me on TV

I was on NY1 yesterday doing a political rundown opposite Civil Rights attorney Ron Kuby. The video is here.

I asked Kuby for a picture to show my pothead friends (he was famously mentioned in Big Lebowski). I am cracking up in the shot (but hey, my hair looks good):

Candidate Mitt Romney

I wrote yesterday, before the NH primary, that the only chance of any kind of upset is someone other than Mitt winning first place in New Hampshire.

I was on my way to a results-watching party at the other end of the city last night and at 8:01pm, a minute after polls closed, every station called it for Mitt. I was still in the cab.

So, it’s probably over.

I guess Rick Perry can make his last stand in South Carolina but like other obvious winners before him, like Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson last time around, the problem for Perry is that his campaign has been so terrible that I don’t expect it to magically get better in time to put up a real challenge.

But hey, it’s not the campaign season if we don’t have a lot of pointless speculation. Give me yours, if you’ve got any, in the comment section.

A senator, his gay lover, and a garish mansion owned by the gay lover’s mother

A state senator in New York pleads guilty to corruption. Yawn, right? Read the story and decide.

Listen

Conservative band Madison Rising denied performing permit at…Zuccotti Park. Yes, the park that was “occupied” for over two months with no permits at all. Read Todd Seavey’s article about the situation and the predictable tolerant reaction they’re getting here.

And check their music out here.