Why Can’t Hollywood?

get DC right?

Because they don’t care, any more than they care about getting science right. And it never occurs to them that maybe this is one of the reasons why they haven’t been doing well in terms of selling movie tickets. The Deer Hunter was ruined for me by shooting what was supposed to be Pennsylvania in the Olympic Mountains, but apparently they don’t realize how stupid that was, or care that it was so grating to some people.

Big-Government Conservative

Here’s why it’s hard to work up much enthusiasm for Rick Santorum. He’d be another George Bush.

From a small-government perspective, we’re doomed to have a dud in the White House regardless of the outcome (barring a brokered convention). So it’s important to try to get as many true classical liberals into the Congress as possible to check the nanny compulsions emanating from the White House.

[Update a while later]

More from David Boaz.

[Late morning update]

Santorum doesn’t think much of the Second Amendment, either.

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