As it stands, he's spent $14,000 on flags, forsaking vacations and other luxuries for "red, white and blue cotton". His home, though, isn't what an outsider might expect from a flag fanatic, not at first glance at least.
In a primary in which many of the other candidates have largely forsaken one-on-one campaigning in favor of televised debates and television ad blitzes financed by super-PACs, Paul and his supporters represent a reassertion of old-fashioned shoe-leather politics.
Others consider personal safety when forsaking the on-deck circle.
Their hope is to blackmail the United States into abandoning our war on terror and forsaking our friends and allies in security commitments around the world.
"He is absolutely convinced," Mr. Carr writes, "that if newspapers are to survive, they will all but have to set themselves on fire, eventually forsaking print and becoming digital news operations".
Amazingly, Democrats have cultivated this donor base while trending populist on trade by forsaking much of the Clinton Third Way approach and by vowing to raise taxes on capital gains and the wealthy.
(Chinen) SATHIMA BEA BENJAMIN (Thursday) A supremely underrated jazz vocalist, Ms. Benjamin shines on standards without forsaking her South African heritage; joining her here are the pianist Onaje Allan Gumbs, the bassist Kenny Davis and the drummer Victor Lewis.
A bearded man with a round, friendly face, Mr. Paton does not froth at the mouth or flail his arms when he talks about transforming newspapers, but he is absolutely convinced that if newspapers are to survive, they will all but have to set themselves on fire, eventually forsaking print and becoming digital news operations.
On Thursday night, forsaking all others and dodging the Redneck Zone (though I do have a soft spot for Ice Truckers USA) I watched a splendid documentary on the life of Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, which also chronicled the final descent into physical and mental decay of the FÜhrer and in which it was revealed that Fraulein Braun doted on her two Scots terriers.
In a pointed February column, New York Times writer David Brooks discussed the rise of secularism and questioned the "unprecedented moral burdens" people put on themselves by forsaking religion.
