The Country Thinker

This fea­ture is intended to pro­vide a lit­tle lev­ity at the end of the work week.

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From William McGurn in his Wall Street Jour­nal edi­to­r­ial here:

For those who have dealt with him, Mr. Gin­grich presents an oddly cap­ti­vat­ing fig­ure. Where Ronald Rea­gan was the Teflon pres­i­dent for the way that attacks never seemed to stick to him, Mr. Gin­grich is like the blob from some hor­ror movie, absorb­ing every­thing shot at him with­out stopping.

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Adapt­ing an old lawyer joke …

Q: Why do they bury mem­bers of the Repub­li­can estab­lish­ment 12 feet underground?

A: Because down deep they’re really good!

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A let­ter to the Wall Street Jour­nal from Wayne West­brook of Sims­bury, CT:

Regard­ing your edi­to­r­ial “The Solyn­dra Rule” (Jan. 30): Pres­i­dent Obama says of his tax­payer invest­ments, “some tech­nolo­gies don’t pan out, some com­pa­nies fail.” Sounds like he’s run­ning a private-​​equity firm with gov­ern­ment money. Oops, make that a public-​​equity firm.

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I’ve got to tip my hat to Amer­i­cans elect for this funny video:

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Have a nice week­end if you so choose!