In Court filings the Obama Administration is arguing that the health insurance mandate is a tax, and if they’re right the legal challenges to ObamaCare are dead.
Biden got hammered by the FEC for violating campaign finance rules. A big fining deal?
Some Republicans seem to think they don’t need to put forward any actual ideas in order to win November.
Too many conservatives forget Ronald Reagan’s dictum that “somebody who agrees with you 80% of the time is an 80% friend not a 20% enemy.”
A bizarre rant in American Spectator contains some interesting thoughts about the nature of America’s political elite.
Unpaid internships aren’t education and give kids of wealthy, well connected parents even more advantages. Should we get rid of them?
Reports of Barack Obama’s political death are greatly exaggerated and wildly premature.
Most academic journal articles are unreadable dreck. So, why are we demanding that more of them be produced?
When it comes to opinions about Sarah Palin, there is a striking difference between Republicans and Americans in general.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the CPI declined 0.1% last month. This makes for the third straight month that the CPI has declined. Is there reason to think that there is widespread deflation in the economy?
Think Progress incorporated clips of a Tea Party video of an impostor who pretended to be a member in order to discredit the movement as a racist into a video of their own to show that the movement is racist.
How do President Obama’s accomplishments stack up from a liberal standpoint?
The Palin and Romney camps have already started trading barbs in what could be a preview of the race for the GOP nomination in 2012.
Is Google manipulating its search results to keep competitors down? And does its market dominance mean the government should step in?
Nobody can really say whether the stimulus worked — or even define “worked” — but that doesn’t stop them from issuing pronouncements.
The results of a new poll may have President Obama worrying about 2012 already.
As if the Gulf Oil Spill weren’t enough, there are now allegations that BP played a role in the release of the only man convicted in the murder of 190 Americans.
American businesses are sitting on a big pile of cash, and giving no indication that they have any intention of spending it any time soon.
Former Vice-President Cheney has apparently entered a far grimmer phase of his chronic heart problems than many realized.
You’ve probably seen a lot of these signs popping up lately.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s approval numbers are now exactly the same as Gray Davis’ numbers in August 2003, two months before he was recalled by California voters.
What can you learn about a blogger’s personality from his word choice?
Should outrageous people like Pamela Gellar be invited to spread their message on national television?
Topics include the state of the social contract, the terrorist attack by an al Qaeda affiliate in Uganda, claims al Qaeda is racist, and the new Black Panther Party.
Matt Yglesias argues that “Northern Europe is Egalitarian Because of High Taxes.” I would argue that he has his causality backwards.
Over at The Daily Dish, Dave Weigel hit the nail on the head in his criticism of Andrew Sullivan’s bizarre obsession with a two year-old infant.
Pakistan is the world-wide leader in internet porn searches. And they have some strange tastes over there.
One conservative argues that the “scandal” over the New Black Panther Party’s alleged voter intimidation is a tempest in a teapot.