My latest for The National Interest, “Ankara Puts NATO on Speed Dial,” has been posted.

How dominant is the Southeastern Conference? It’s won more titles in the big sports since 2005 than all other conferences combined.

Byron York reacts to a CNNMoney story titled “Government wants more people on food stamps” by snarking, “And Democrats reacted angrily when Gingrich called Obama ‘food stamp president.'”

The US Supreme Court has upheld the most controversial provisions of Arizona’s immigration law.

It’s a wonder the Constitution gets followed at all.

Congressmen are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in stock in companies over which they have oversight. And it’s perfectly legal.

Marrying Prince William gave Kate Middleton fame, fortune, and a path to being the queen of England. Also, apparently, constant humiliation.

Following yesterday’s shoot-down of a Turkish F-5 by Syria has once again raised the specter of NATO action under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. It’s not going to happen.

Mary Cheney has married longtime partner Heather Poe.

David Chan has eaten at more than 6000 Chinese restaurants. He says the best are all in California and most opened in the last decade.

Will winning a championship finally overshadown “The Decision” and erase the NBA’s best player’s reputation as a choke artist?

Thomas Friedman continues his quixotic quest for a third party. His candidate: a fantasy Barack Obama.

A grand jury found that beating a child molester to death is an authorized use of deadly force.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels will become president of Purdue University upon completion of his term in January. The faculty is apprehensive because Daniels has not had an academic career.

What hath a fury greater than a woman scorned? Hundreds of scorned women with Twitter accounts.

Jeffrey Goldberg asks, “What if Mitt Romney were Jewish?”

Americans should be thankful when our presidents take time off.

The 1976 Pulitizer prize winner is phoning it in.

The “Mormon Question” that has long plagued Mitt Romney is being raised again by a new study showing the sentiment rising among liberals and non-believers.

Saudi Arabia’s monarchy has suffered the loss of Crown Prince Nayef, the successor 88-year-old King Abdullah.

Few people earn a million dollars in a year. Fewer still do it more than once.

Frustrated by its inability to get laws passed through Congress, the Obama administration has decided to stop following laws already passed by Congress.

A third of Americans under the age of 30 doubt the existence of God, compared to 14 percent 25 years ago.

US Army Special Forces are the best we have at working with far-flung villagers. Are they good enough?

The Republican nominee gets some backhanded praise from an unlikely source, MoJo blogger Kevin Drum.

When I saw the headline “Black Mormons Face Tough Election Choice Between Romney And Obama,” I naturally presumed it would lead to a parody news piece in The Onion.

GQ has a great look back at the 1992 USA Olympic basketball team titled “The Dream Will Never Die: An Oral History of the Dream Team.”

Chuck Shumer wants to force airlines to let families sit together for free.

British Prime Minister David Cameron accidentally left his 8-year-old daughter at a pub.

Physical fitness and weight loss infomercials have gone from promising ease to promising a grueling challenge. What happened?

Jonathan Chait makes an astute observation about the media’s role in meme generation.

Insult comic Don Rickles told a joke about President Obama being a janitor. Like most of Rickles’ material over the last several decades, it wasn’t funny.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi are retiring their “Car Talk” act after 25 years but NPR will keep the show running indefinitely by repackaging old clips.

In March, Janet Wolfenbarger became the first female four-star general in Air Force history. Now, she’s assumed command of all Air Force weapons programs.

The crack investigative team at BuzzFeed is living up to its name with a story headlined “Did President Obama Just Make A Blowjob Joke?”

While the news media is focused on sixteen battleground states, the professionals running the Obama and Romney campaigns are focused on a much narrower list.

A Bill Clinton parody account created by the Romney campaign is both clever and yet another sign of what’s wrong with American politics.

Why isn’t the American middle class and working class angrier at the 1 percent?

Funny or Die gives us “The Wire: The Musical.”

Republicans apparently think that re-running the 2008 campaign, just more efficiently or more ruthlessly, will work this time. Here’s why it won’t.

NASA was in need of new telescopes and got a helping hand from their good pals at the DoD.

Health care is eating up 10 percent of the Pentagon’s budget and rising fast.

Washington has become the first state in decades to privatize its state-run liquor stores. They’ve coupled this with onerous fees on private distributors.

In, “Squeezing out the doctor,” The Economist looks at the future of medicine and sees a declining role for physicians.

87% of those who gave at least $200 to Barack Obama in 2008 have not yet done so in 2012.

The president has come a long way from his days as a “liberal law professor who campaigned against the Iraq war.”