Your Lying Eyes

It is possible, I suppose, that Obama's decision to directly arm the Syrian rebels is just simple realpolitik, a response to Russia...

The worst sin of our age - the display of Hate/Fear/Xenophobia/Racism - will be wiped from our souls with the enactment of Comprehensive Imm...

As tragic as the killing of an eight year old boy, two young women in the prime of their lives, and the horrific maiming of dozens might be,...

These Boston bomber knuckleheads could have been Vladinir's headache, but instead they're ours . He's got too be thinking maybe ...

The plight of the chronically unemployed has been making the rounds these days, with all kinds of deep explanations. A recent study which se...

UPDATE: I guess I was wrong about Part 1 - or at least this specific individual. Part 1: This is the easy part - the Saudi national who i...

Margaret Thatcher was the linchpin among a remarkable troika of leaders who led the West out of the wilderness of the 70's. With Ronald ...

There was a boy playing in the woods outside of town when he saw a wolf. At least he thought it was a wolf. It might have been a wolf. Anywa...

Maybe not. Back when the deep 1981-82 recession along with Reagan's tax cuts combined with increased military led to big budget deficits...

Republicans have been taking advice from Democrats and New-York-Times types on how to improve their electoral prospects by embracing amnesty...

Why would anyone think pre-school is so damn important, anyway? Alright, I confess I know little about the history of education, but as a co...

Lots of folks are debating the merits of President Obama's proposal to build "high quality" universal pre-school programs nat...

Ron Unz has proposed a large increase in the minimum wage, for various reasons, but among them their presumed salutary effect on our illega...

As has been pointed out elsewhere, the worst part about being poor is having to live among other poor people. The obvious concern is that yo...

Obama's second inaugural address was just dreadful - a tacky pastiche of postmodern politics surreally delivered in weighty, florid word...

How is it that creeps look like creeps? Look at these hideous people charged with a bizarre double slaying in Joliet, Il: The victims w...

I rather like Arnold Kling's three-axes ideological model  to rationalize conservative, progressive (liberal), and libertarian positions...

I'm referring to this horrible rape-murder on a bus in India last month that resulted in mass street protests demanding that authorities...

Democrats have successfully raised taxes on those making 400k+. But that's a rather piddling amount - around $60b a year - for 2013 that...

When your back's against the wall, and everyone is prophesying your imminent demise, your enemies crowing about how your days are number...