Jeff Westover

Recent Articles

• South Carolina Changes Everything

  Looks like I was really wrong about Romney in my last post. South Carolina turned on him as fast as a Newt Gingrich debate snarl. In fact, it appears the debates in South Caroli...

• Why Can’t People Hate Romney?

  The Republican battle in South Carolina has indeed been Armageddon. Newt Gingrich promised it would be and the slimeball politics has not disappointed. Gingrich previewed the 28...

• Why I Can’t Vote for Ron Paul

  Ron Paul is and has been a real curiosity to me. I've had neighbors and friends passionately embrace Paul and I've seen the Ron Paul Revolution signs just about everywhere. But ...

• Romney Wins and Takes It From All Sides

  As expected, Mitt Romney won New Hampshire. Unfortunately for just about everyone (except Mitt Romney), Romney won New Hampshire as expected. They knew he was going to win -...

• Hall of Sh…Fame

  Barry Larkin was voted into the Hall of Fame today. Good for him, I guess. I'm less than enthused bacuse I'm not of fan. I'm not a fan of Barry Larkin and, come to think of it, ...

• If I Were a Rich Man

  So here we are a day before New Hampshire and just because the lame debates over the weekend didn't make a dent in the polls both the media and the opponents of Mitt Romney now ...

• These Dreams

  Over the course of the past several months I've been suffering from very vivid and sometimes tragic dreams. I had been thinking that perhaps it was being driven by some heal...

• Jobs First, Idealogy Later

  I watched a bit of the Republican debates this weekend -- a replay of Saturday night's yawner and a bit of the live action on Sunday morning. I find it odd, interesting and just...

• Jobs Report: Who do they think they’re kidding?

  President Obama breathlessly declared today that unemployment is down to 8.5%, the lowest level in 3 years. Or, in other words, the same lousy rate it was his first quarter in o...

• Making Prayer Political

  Here's an interesting little piece about Romney and prayer. It is from HuffPost, of all places, and it is linked almost nowhere. I guess it just isn't that big of a story compar...

• Conspiring Dark Forces in GOP to Derail Paul and Romney

  Dual stories today from two dubious sources about plans to thwart the presidential election ambitions of Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. Let's start with the least likely to be true (...

• Dead and Dying in American Business

  I read with interest tonight this piece at Forbes about Best Buy. Long story short: Best Buy is on the rocks. The rush to blame the death of many names in American business ...

• Dogpile on Romney

  The day after Iowa wasn't supposed to be a focus on Mitt Romney. He didn't expect and, for whatever reason, none of the media types did either. And, I guess, the "conservative" ...

• What is Newsmax.com All About?

  I can't figure these guys out. Here's a post made just before midnight of the Iowa caucus results, touting Gingrich of all people: Newt Gingrich came in fourth place in the h...

• Political Debates in the Great and Spacious Website

  I've been lurking in the Great and Spacious Website again. Sorry, I can't help myself. It is 2012, an election year, and the loons are there in full force. It is a home for ...

• Romney Wins and Doesn’t Win Iowa

  Republicans did their level best to screw up a sure thing by doing what was entirely predictable in Iowa -- they give the Obama campaiign hope at the same time. Mitt Romney wins...

• Conservative Blood Bath if Romney Wins Iowa and New Hampshire

  MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough says there will be a conservative blood bath if Romney wins both Iowa and New Hampshire. I would like to see that, frankly. After all, just who ...

• Dead Babies in the Politics of 2012

  In a little watched exchange between liberal pundit Alan Colmes and National Review Editor Rich Lowry on FoxNews there was an exchange about the surge Rick Santorum is enjoying ...

• Democrats Meddling in Republican Politics

  All the news outlets indicate that Mitt Romney is poised to win Iowa by default. I'm still not convinced. The weasel factor is so high in Iowa Republican cirlces that I believe ...

• Celebrity Dead Pool 2012

  It's morbid! It's tasteless! And it's back! Time once again for our New Year tradition of accounting for my who-kicked-the-bucket predictions from last year and who we predict w...

• Here I Raise My Ebenezer

  Amidst the ruins of another holiday season I was able to create, yet again, our annual family video. With Christmas we have traditions galore, almost too many to fit into the se...

• Who is wackier: Ron Paul or Iowa Republicans?

  We're less than a week away now from the Iowa Republican caucuses. Gingrich has now had his day in the sun and like the others before him has seen his front-runner status fall a...

• Lessons from Facial Hair

  I've let the facial hair go since around Halloween. Years ago I had a beard. Some called it a phase and indeed I guess it was because I found that if I wanted to remain employab...

• Archuleta to Serve a Mission

  At a Christmas concert in front of his hometown crowd in Salt Lake City the too-famous David Archuleta announced that he was giving up his singing career for two years to serve ...

• Protesting Protesters

  When was the last time Time magazine was relevant about anything? I'm just saying.... Every year around this time they publish their person of the year. I have long wonder...

• Who Gets Cain’s Voters?

  Herman Cain, the would-be outsider to politics, appears to be finished. This week another woman came forward claiming she had a 13 year relationship with Cain. For years Cain ha...

• My Kingdom for a Decent Toaster

  So here I sit, dead of night while four of my teenagers head out for Black Friday. My kids are pretty disappointed in what Black Friday has become. The economy is ruining things...

• Fearing Romney

  CNN reports today that Newt Gingrich has taken the lead in polls in the Republican race for the White House. Mitt Romney is a close 2nd. Gingrich is the fourth the lead the ...

• Kindle Fire: I Want to Ride My Bike

  So the new Kindle arrived yesterday. Merry Christmas to me. Almost immediately after making a quick post to Facebook about it I was asked how it compared to the iPad2. I can...

• Book Review: Killing Lincoln

  For my birthday I received the book Killing Lincoln, written by Fox News' Bill O'Rielly and Martin Dugard. I hadn't heard of the book because we don't have cable and I don't wat...

• Qualified to Teach

  For years we have had to endure the blank stares of folks who were stunned we chose to homeschool our children. Actually, it is a bit of a stretch to say we chose to homeschool....

• Why Men Shouldn’t Review Chick Flicks

  We watched Julie & Julia tonight. Yeah, I know. We're not exactly up on the latest and the greatest. I got the movie from the $5 bin at WalMart months ago. It was still in the w...

• Christians are Not Christians

  The neverending debate of whether or not Mormonism is a cult seems to have taken a backseat to Herman Cain's alleged sexual harrassment issues. But have no fear, it will be back...

• 2011: A Study in Failure

  Hearts are merry in St. Louis today. The Cardinals completed an improbable run dating back to the end of August when they were 10.5 games back and hopelessly out of the pennant ...

• Do Teachers Have First Amendment Rights?

  Meet Viki Knox. She is a special education teacher in Union Township, New Jersey and she's in a lot of trouble. A while back it seems she posted on her Facebook page from her pe...