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Paul Surging

From The Atlantic: "Newt Gingrich's campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa. He's at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each for Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry, 4% for Jon Huntsman, and 2% for Gary Johnson." Link.

In response, the MSM Right on Fox News was out in full force last night, based on a three-minute stretch I watched (strictly at random, as I was channel surfing). One commentator said Paul violated the Republican principle laid down by Reagan that you shouldn't smear a fellow Republican candidate. Another said Paul shouldn't criticize others, since he has twenty years of newsletters that appeared under his name that said some whacky stuff. Yet a third said that Paul's followers were the "closest thing to a cult" in the political market today. Again, this was just during a three-minute discussion I stumbled across at random, and it comes on top of another Fox commentator, just two weeks ago, referring to Paul as "a nut."

Paul has books out there. He has articles out there. Read 'em. See what you think. Don't listen to the hatchet jobs from Fox and other MSM outlets.

Paul is outside the mainstream, and that's a big reason I support him. If that makes him a nut, or makes me a cult follower, that's fine. I prefer to swim against today's wicked tide. It was Chesterton, I think, who pointed out that only live things fight the current. Dead things float with it.

Drinking Corner

Everyone will be looking to shed weight in about two weeks. Even though I'm not a fan of jogging, I know it's still the mainstream means of losing weight. And now, some runners are saying that jogging and beer drinking go together. Well, at least competitive runners think the two go together, but that's close enough. What's good for the gazelle is good for the turtle . . . or not. Here's a killjoy article that says beer and running don't mix.

The Time Nears

"When the time is not filled with a meaningful presence, waiting becomes unbearable. When the present moment remains completely empty . . . every second is too long. And waiting is an intolerable burden when it remains completely uncertain whether we actually dare expect anything."

Joseph Ratzinger, The Blessings of Christmas

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