A judge has just ruled that North Carolina's legislature is so gerrymandered that it may not place constitutional amendments on the bal...

In all but six states, conservatives outnumber liberals . California is not one of those states: it has fewer conservatives than average, ...

You can read about it here .

Having had so much success with the Green New Deal's plausibility, two of the Democratic candidates for President -- both of whom endors...

I'm writing this less to draw attention to the activist getting punched , than to make a point about language and the culture of risk av...

We've discussed the huge problem of the national debt here many times. The issue is that, right now, there is no alternative . Presiden...

And by " reasonable " we mean "someone we can reason out of it."

Feminists in Sweden want a ban on sex robots, although the language they're using suggests to me that it would be a much bigger ban tha...

A Quillette article examines why technological and other progress is so often seen as stalling. My first thought was "risk"--we...

A few weeks ago we discussed a Houston police raid in which the police killed two fellow citizens, with five police officers shot. The desc...

Willie Nelson this time. I always think of The Quiet Man when sleeping bags come up.

Arizona would like its citizens to be forced to give up their DNA for a massive state database, and pay $250 for the privilege. America...

It's a cry you hear from union workers, civil servants, and people with ironclad employment contracts.  Usually not so much from restaur...

It's perfectly understandable self-defense given such a provocation . Police in Bowling Green, Kentucky, say James Phillips was arrested...

At Powerline , a refreshing look at when the concept of personal responsibility is allowed to intrude on policy discussions, and when it can...

A too-infrequent guest from Houston arrived this year with a bowl turned from a downed oak trunk that he took home with him last year.  I...

Perhaps we should consider stripping voting rights from anyone who can't pass the test? I am saddened to see that the South does parti...

Or is it pouncing and then seizing?  Let's go to the video: Whatever it is, I'm sure it's very unfair to tasty Democrats.

Apparently we're really letting some people down by not being out there beating and harassing our opponents. I blame myself; I haven...