Is liberalism dying?
Canaries are not very formidable birds, but they have their uses. For instance, coal miners learned over a century ago that when canaries gag and drop dead at the bottom...
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The problem with Romney nostalgia
In 2007, when President Barack Obama announced that he was running for president, he did it in Springfield, Ill., to highlight his supposed connection to Abraham Lincoln. He brought in...
When madmen kill, the blame game goes into overdrive
Going by objective standards of reason and fairness, Al Sharpton is not to blame for the assassination of two New York City cops over the weekend. Nor are New York...
King Obama’s edict is a mess
Maybe President Barack Obama is just trolling? For those who don't know, in Internet parlance, trolling is an effort to elicit outrage from a specific group or the public generally....
The lesson from feminist outrage over Shirtgate
Scientists in the European Space Agency's Rosetta project accomplished one of the most impressive scientific feats in our lifetime. They essentially moved a clunky machine from one speeding bullet onto...
How Harry Reid doomed Democratic senators
"What day is it?" "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. As a proud member of the "don't just do something, sit there" school of politics, I don't...
In politics, stories trump ideas
There is an enormous amount of whining these days about our ideological debates. This gets the problem wrong. Ideological debates are fought over ideas, but politics is more often about...
Obama throws liberalism under the bus
President Barack Obama had a choice between liberalism and the Democratic Party. He chose the latter and it cost him dearly. Liberalism, as an ideology, insists that government can do...
A Foreign Legion for losers
On the Internet, you're never really alone. Name any fad, any cause, any hobby or passion — Shaker furniture? Dungeons and Dragons? Bolivian tree frogs? — and you're only a...
Hollywood, where liberal values reign — except at the box office
In the film "Obvious Child," Jenny Slate plays Donna Stern, a stand-up comedian who specializes in making jokes about her private parts, with the occasional foray into fart humor. She...