Tom Cruise: 'My job is as hard as fighting in Afghanistan.' Picked a great week to stick your foot in that one, son. Certain Ma...

A remarkably restrained account of the demise of a Louisiana man who had been holding his kidnapped ex-wife hostage since last Wednesday in...

Normally I'd wait until the actual days to post, but all the active duty folks I know are so involved in the 4-day weekend I figure I...

A comment I admired: The GOP needs to heavily advertise the fact that the only, yes only, reason that people are losing their current poli...

Maybe there is some way to tell a good teacher from an ineffective one: Education Secretary Arne Duncan hailed this year's National A...

Shamelessly cross-posted from tomorrow's edition of my blog. First he lied with his bald, clearly spoken, oft-repeated "Perio...

OK, now that you've stopped laughing, you can treat yourself to more entertaining tidbits from the alarmed president of the Democratic ...

From Michael Barrone : Northern Virginia was perhaps more impacted by the shutdown than any other part of the country.  Yet when the exit ...

I'm liking Sarah Hoyt again this morning.   She argues that sooner or later every government becomes like a monkey with a pistol. In m...

From this morning's Wall Street Journal : Angered consumers are taking legal action over being dropped. On Monday, two California resi...

I like to think about technological advantages, despite their frequent downsides, because they're often the wild card that allows people...

Change it .

My most surprising discovery:  the overwhelming importance in business of an unseen force that we might call "the institutional impera...

Politico is not what you'd call a right-wing site.  At most, it's "centrist," whatever that means, and it's generally ...

A commenter at Megan McArdle's place points out that, by White House standards, Medicare is junk coverage that should be outlawed like m...

It turns out the health insurance agent I talked to earlier this week probably was mistaken.  It seems that, as of January 1, 2015, no one w...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the federal district court ruling requiring Catholic business-owners to offer health coverage ...

Awesome.  Who would have guessed that the insurance jammed down our throats by the compassionate new law would keep its costs down by elimin...

But sometimes the Bill of Rights wins anyway.  If you're a public school that wants to ban a t-shirt message, don't pick one that c...

And may many more do so.  While there is still some freedom to make business decisions rather than comply with central diktats, it's go...