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True story. About 8:30 this morning I was checking a number of news sources to get the final tallies in Indiana and North Carolina's Democratic party primaries when I ran across a story entitled, "Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?" In a nutshell, the answer is "yes," according to Janet Rae-Dupree.

Don't expect to kick old habits, she writes; they are there to stay. But creating parallel pathways in your brain--new habits--allows you to bypass the old ruts. In fact, she argues, "the more new things we try -- the more we step outside our comfort zone -- the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives."

Just for the record, there were few signs last night or this morning of either new habits or greater creativity. The same pundits plowed the same ground over and over. If ever crop rotation--new ideas and fresher clichés--was needed, it's now.

Yesterday pro-abortion Senator Barack Obama won decisively in North Carolina and lost by only by a couple of percentage points to pro-abortion Senator Hillary Clinton in Indiana. All we heard was that, on the one hand, Obama had failed to "close the deal," but, on the other hand, that Clinton had failed to provide a "game changer" because she had not carried both states. Thus, potentially, it's on to West Virginia, Oregon, Kentucky, Puerto Rico, Montana, and South Dakota.

The stuck-in-the-same-old-rut narrative was whether the last several weeks--Obama's toughest to date--would be reflected in bad news for him on Tuesday. The consensus was--surprise, surprise--that voters had either put all of the Obama campaign miscues aside or had simply made up their minds prior to all the brouhaha.

My own guess is that a lot of Democratic Party voters have an enormous emotional investment in Obama. Thus, the more his missteps are highlighted, the more protective they become of him.

Not unexpectedly, with Sen. Clinton having not only failed to narrow the gap in delegates and popular vote but fallen further behind, there was lots of buzz about how she ought to bow out, gracefully or otherwise. That surely isn't in the cards now, even if the enormous differential in cash between herself and the flush Obama only grows larger.

But the bottom line remains the same. Ultimately, whether the nominee is Obama or Clinton, the Democrats will put forth a candidate who, were they President, would do everything they could to roll back all the gains we have made in the past eight years and replace aging pro-Roe justices with young pro-Roe justices.