Working. Tony Blankley RIP

View 708 Thursday, January 12, 2012

I have a lunch appointment regarding a speaking engagement, and I am still going through Lucifer’s Hammer to check the formatting of a new release of the book.

I put up some mail last night, and found I had to do several adjustments this morning. Bad typoes, and I had posted the wrong letter on phonics; I have a new one up that was what I had intended, It’s pretty funny, and there’s an actual lesson in it as well. If you haven’t seen that mail yet it’s fine; if you have and any part puzzled you, it was probably one of the errors I fixed. Apologies. It’s pretty good mail, and the fault was all mine, and it’s fixed now anyway.

Rudy Giuliani has said that Newt Gingrich sounds more like Saul Alinski than Ronald Reagan in his attacks on Romney. I don’t know that I would go that far, but I know that the Reagan I knew wouldn’t have been running those ads.

I note that some Rush Limbaugh callers are saying that Newt has lost their vote due to these attack ads. They seem quite sincere.

I must confess that I am confused to hear Romney being accused of being a capitalist. Yes, I understand, conservative does not mean unrestricted laissez faire capitalism; that left to itself without regulations the maker will sell anything including human flesh (both as slaves and meat); but that is not what happens in America, and has not. I know that Newt has read  Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, but I do wonder if it is not time for him to read it again.

I note that Tony Blankley, Newt’s long time friend and advisor, died recently. Tony was dedicated and devoted, and served Newt well during his days as Minority Whip. He will very much be missed. RIP. http://townhall.com/columnists/tonyblankley/

Back to work. I am also working on Chaos Manor Review and the year end/beginning column. I have neglected all that but I’m back on it. Now off to work.