Opinion: Top ten time: Candidates, aliens and the president’s brain
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Brain scans, Mormonism, the end times, UFOs and the return of Stonehenge. There’s a theme to this week’s top 10 stories, though it’s not clear what it is...
Candidate mental health was the week’s big winner, with distant but strong place and show taken by, respectively, the Joel Kottkin/Fred Siegel team and Bruce Ackerman. Hugo’s gone, Stonehenge is back, and the rest is silence:
1. Getting inside their heads ... really inside by Daniel G. Amen 2. The gentry liberals by Joel Kotkin and Fred Siegel 3. Bush isn’t the only decider by Bruce Ackerman 4. We’re on the brink of apocalypse! Again! by Gregory Rodriguez 5. Romney’s JFK moment by Jonah Goldberg 6. Kucinich’s close encounter by the editorial board 7. Stonehenges all around us by Craig Childs 8. Romney better pray he can be Jimmy Carter by Kenneth S. Baer 9. The 9th Circuit’s new No. 1 by Carl Tobias 10. GOP’s compassionless conservatism by the editorial board