Robert Weissberg, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, at The University of Illinois-Urbana, outlines a  cure for what ails the Americ...

We rely on Amazon out here for a great many things, from tablecloths to appliances to whatever food our (single) local grocery store doesn...

Columbus Day may be right out, and anyway it was one of those days that chases a Friday or Monday in the hope of making a day off for peo...

A Slate contributor takes the ever-popular pop-psy author Malcolm Gladwell to task: Accessorizing your otherwise inconsistent or incohere...

And yet, the Senate Majority Leader employed words adapted to the meanest understanding: "Don't screw this up." He was resp...

It's Friday, and that means it's Quiz Time!  For once, I've found a quiz where I score right smack in the middle of the road.  ...

I love recalls .  Legislators are way too complacent without them.  Legislators should live in either constant fear of their constituents, o...

I encourage donations to Fisher House .

I would like to thank Tex especially, and the rest of you also, for carrying on so well in my absence. I will continue to be mostly not aro...

Gov. Christie often alienates me with his statism, but I have to admit it's an unusually sensible and honest brand of statism.  He also ...

Our rulers are as clueless on this subject as Freud about women.  From Kevin D. Williamson this morning: But our so-called liberals are c...

Thomas Sowell sums up our frustration with conservative leaders who can't communicate a simple point to save their lives: When the go...

If you know anyone who was caught outside the country on 9/11 and unable to fly back home for several days, you know what it's like to b...

A thoroughly enjoyable "Great Courses" lecture got me interested in John McWhorter's many books on liguistics.  This week I...

Sarah Hoyt asks today, if women marry the government, from whom will they sue for divorce?

New York Magazine is running an interview with Antonin Scalia.  The interviewer's not bad, though a bit callow.  She is unused to talki...

An article on HotAir mentioned a constititional wrinkle I was not familiar with: There is lingering confusion over the limits on the Sena...

Some California supporters of Obamacare are getting a rude shock . Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual poli...

We take these humble guardians of civilization for granted.  Now an organization has sprung up to correct that injustice: Until the late ...

Snopes is all sniffy about the silly story that's circulating claiming that the National Park Service is blocking views of Mt. Rushmore...