Stories from Wednesday, December 12, 2012

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN Given the expectations raised by the Republican punditocracy -- that Mitt was headed for a big victory -- the jolt of defeat hit especially hard. Now, what had seemed an orderly retreat has taken on the aspect of a rout, with Beltway Republicans calling for abandonment of fixed positions all along the line...

By MONA CHAREN Discussing the role of single people in the election of 2012 on my weekly podcast with Jay Nordlinger "Need to Know" (available on Ricochet.com or Nationalreview.com), your humble columnist chose the insensitive way to address it. Chatting with Jonathan V. Last of The Weekly Standard about his piece "A Nation of Singles," I popped off that "Single mothers want the state to be their husbands and father to their children."...

Reason for the season I'm gonna speak out about this Black Friday thing. For one thing, why do they call it Black Friday? Why couldn't it be Blue Friday or something different beside Black Friday? Another thing, they jumped it on Thanksgiving. People's eatin' Thanksgiving dinner trying to celebrate Thanksgiving for being thankful for food we got and stuff and other people starving and then they jump this Black Friday in there and people are camped out at K-Mart and Walmart standing in line doing whatever when they should be home thankful for what they got. ...

By REG HENRY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Did you hear the one about the People's Daily in Beijing reprinting a story from The Onion about North Korea's Kim Jong Un being the "Sexiest Man Alive"? Darn, I thought I had that title. But it seems that the Chinese Communist Party's official organ did not realize that The Onion is run by capitalist-running-dog satirists who make up stuff for the amusement of the American masses, such as the following about Kim:...

Robert Joy GREENVILLE, Mo. -- Robert A. Joy, 78, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., formerly of Silva, Mo., died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Funeral arrangements are pending with Morrison-Worley Greenville Chapel in Greenville, Mo...

Teresa Powell PUXICO, Mo. -- Teresa Powell, 52, a lifetime resident of Puxico, Mo., died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. Funeral arrangements are pending with Morgan Sifford Funeral Home in Puxico...