It's rare that I read a review that very much makes me more (or less) inclined to read a book than I would have been just from knowing t...

How we get from here to there:   France is toying with Step 3 now. (1) We want to spend more than we have. (2) People who will get the ...

Terrific, if horrifying, analysis from Megan McArdle of how tax policy bankrupted a lot of pensions. We just love using tax deductions to...

More sequester fun:  the BLM cancels auctions of more than 3,000 acres of oil & gas leases on public land.  As the Wall Street Journal ...

Apparently the French have picked up on Hank Williams III, without quite getting the culture that underlies the music. H/t: Our brother...

On the plus side, the New York Times is actually covering this story.  On the other hand, is anybody really buying this explanation? Lois...

The IRS issues an apology . UPDATE: Powerline says of the story : This is a shocking news story–one that would be a major scandal in a Re...

In an essay called "How Government Wrecked the Gas Can," writer Jeffrey Tucker describes the frustration of just trying to pour g...

One of those things that gets passed around: Ought nature to be illegal? It might be a reasonable argument against the illegal status o...

Apropos of recent discussions about both the NRA and state nullification, the Texas legislature is considering the following bill: House B...

The president has been doing some repair work on the fuzzy pink boundary-like area that his political enemies have unfairly read into his o...

Apparently some of our own fellow citizens are not as taken with the NRA . I have seen the light. After all these years, I now agree that it...

For a long time we've heard it said that the Tory party in the UK is just the Labor party in slow motion. That is, there's been a c...

The state legislature has passed a bill that would make it a crime for any person to attempt to implement the PP-ACA -- which is to say tha...

Mother Jones is subtly mocking him for his suggestion to new college graduates that they should begin having children as soon as is feasibl...

It's in the passive voice, but the percentages are about equal to those who felt the same way in, say, 1775 .

The joys of spring and the greenwood to you, as we enter the cathedral of May .

It's rare to see our justice system produce so poetic a result . “Your statement that I have disgraced my judgeship is true. My actions ...

At AVI .

So argues a hero of the academy , in his final hour. Democracy, wrote Mr. Kagan in "Pericles of Athens" (1991), is "one of th...