The mouseover text is the most honest part. "Of these four forces, there's one we don't really understand." "Is...

Headline: "Disclosures of Battle Plan by Pentagon Startle Many." The Obama administration has been eager to show momentum against...

I think we were just discussing this:  (1) What Court Order? and (2) Plurality of Dems believe the President should ignore court rulings i...

After reading Tex's last link, I came across this quote in the next article down. [Jacksonians] have, in historian David Hackett Fische...

From Kevin Williamson on whether President Obama really doesn't much like his country: There is a personality type common among the L...

Spengler on markets, trust, and democracy: Something other than mere trading skills was required for an investment-driven economy, and th...

This piece about life in Mosul under ISIS has been linked all over the place lately.  It's chilling.  There's an interesting discus...

I read the other day about some kind of Mission-Impossible-style self-destruct mechanism, to be triggered by a possible invasion of Tea Part...

One of Cassandra's evergreen complaints is that people on the right complain about certain wicked tactics from the left, but then turn a...

That Atlantic piece on Daesh/ISIS that Mike linked is getting sustained criticism from the academic left. They want you to know that it...

George Monbiot suggests a... well, he himself calls it a "maverick currency scheme," so let's go with that.

Government is the thing we do together when we want to push each other around. I prefer Scott Rasmussen's formulation.

Argued in the expected fashion at Daily Kos. It strikes me that Republicans will only even possibly care about the claims under point two...

Pascal Emmanuel Gobry challenges the assumption that time has a one-way arrow when it comes to revolutionary progress. Now, it's impo...

So we're in one. Let's cut it into the right kind.

A group of Norwegian Muslims will be forming a circle around Oslo synagogue after the celebration of Shabat this Saturday in a solidarity ge...

As incarceration numbers have topped out in recent years thanks to what looks like the beginning of the end of the war on drugs, women have ...

If you ask people, how many of you support raping people who rape, you would find it very hard to find anyone that would support that... The...

Belmont Club author Richard Fernandez: Both the Obama administration and the Franco-Germans are as trapped as the Ukrainians in Debaltseve....

The Washington Post, tortured by a fear of backlash, struggles to find the words to describe today's story of a Detroit muslim who asked...