I happened to ride through Commerce, Georgia today. It's a simple town, with a main street full of law firms and banks or credit agenc...

This is courage , if you like.  A South Korean man soaks up Marxist fantasies to the point that he defects to North Korea with his wife and ...

Via HotAir , an excellent summary of what regulations might help in the financial market, vs. what regulations actually will be pushed by t...

It's a little surprising when a mass shooting gets a lot of attention these days; we've seen so many of them over the years that the...

What if a major reason for the income inequality that concerns many on the Left was anti-Sprawl aesthetics ? Economists have long taught t...

My series on country music is over, but I wanted to provide a response to a comment.  Raven expressed an opinion that modern, pop country mu...

I had much the same sentiment when I saw this list .  Naturally, the presumptive explanation is that these organizations are, well, you know...

From the American Enterprise Institute , an essay speaking exactly to what's been troubling me lately about the argument that we have to...

Dr. Mercury at Maggie's Farm has been discussing the current proposals to tax Internet sales nationwide.  Some states are already doing...

James O'Keefe always uses the same trick to get people to admit what they're doing.  He pretends to be a guy with a scam to bilk mon...

The Post Office defaults on nearly eleven billion dollars in benefit payments for 'future retirees.'  That's not a state or a c...

It looks like bad things can happen when you jam an unpopular law through Congress using a tricky parliamentary procedure.  For one thing, s...

It's fun watching a meme take root.  This week, President Obama put his finger on the sore point that divides individualists from ...

Now that I've spoken to the things that seem to me to really matter, I want to just give the singers a chance to relax and have some fun...

When I was in the second grade, our teacher offered us special credit if we could learn to spell "encyclopedia."  We all did:  e-...

Bloomberg is looking more at the Bain Capital issue . What’s clear from a review of the public record during his management of the private...

. . . Or, what can happen when popular science writers get hold of almost any story about non-human biology.  It seems that bees stay vigoro...

Animal-rights activists in California attempted to block not only the in-state production of foie gras but also its importation.  The Fren...

He's a potent anti-Orwellian force: Let us begin with the word "spend."  Is the government "spending" money on pe...