Memento Mori My heart is heavy for some college-era friends who have just lost their 18-year-old son. I just stumbled on this commencement s...

Straw Poll: Results are in, and Rep. Bachmann won narrowly . Hot Air, whose reporting places it clearly in the Romney camp, downplays: Bach...

The Thinking Man's Spelling Rhyme Those of you with aspiring spelling- bee contestants in the house might want to upgrade your pre-schoo...

Individual Mandate Struck Down The 11th Circuit refused to follow the Florida lower court's lead in striking down the entire Obamacare a...

Things You Won't Hear from the British Authorities From a speech by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, on the city's plan to deal wi...

The Republicans: I missed the debate last night, having just finished a thirteen-hour ride through the searing heat of August; but it sounds...

They're Coming for Us out of Perseus Although this year's Perseid meteor shower won't peak until Saturday night, the best viewin...

Wisconsin: It looks like the voters narrowly endorsed the death of public sector unions . This has been one of the nation's early attem...

The Non-Agitated: A headline that Rep. Bachmann surely wants to see often during the early days of her run at winning the Republican Nominat...

Walking the Edge: London's mobs seem to be using social media to organize themselves. There's no reason this can't be done...

PRESIDENT DUNNING-KRUGER One of the more entertaining of Obama's campaign promises was his oft-repeated vow to "Restore Science...

Instrumental: Ya'll are cheating yourselves if you don't watch the last few minutes of the last one, at least.

Rasmussen: 17% Say the US Gov't Has Consent of Governed That's the top line finding , in any case. Daniel W. Drezner asks if he...

Retrospection: As my time at the undisclosed location comes to a close -- I'll go so far as to name it the Tampa region -- I'd like ...

The Story of a Truck Driver: The personal part of this story is tragic, but the basic facts of truck-driving are universal. His truck is go...

The Invisible Hand is Writing: Walter Russell Mead has been producing a lot of interesting stuff lately. I think I almost wholly agree wit...

Hostage-Taking In the recent blanket coverage of the debt crisis, the ongoing story about Congress's failure to extend funding for the F...

The New Civil Discourse "If the budget is balanced, the terrorists will have won." I need that on a T-shirt.

"8 Things You Should Never Say to Your Husband" This is one of those pointless humanizing pieces that news agencies run more for ...

Italy: Home of the Coolest Sports This seems like it would be fun. What strikes me about a lot of these sports is that they've been re...