Over the past four years, Erick Erickson has won ad revenue, books deals, and a lucrative CNN contract by posing such insightful rhetorical questions as, “Is Obama shagging hookers behind the media’s back?” The...
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. This is a really interesting resource for seeing exactly where we stand 40 years later.
Please don’t make me feel the need to defend Rush Limbaugh. Seriously. It makes me want to shower. (Hat tip to Sully) Update: Mike, not Marc.
… but perhaps worth noting anyway. Authorities say two young men got into a fight at a community college in Texas. Unfortunately, each was carrying a gun. In their attempt to solve their own...
Sitting in a Barnes and Noble cafe at the start of January, I read: What is astonishing is the quantity of books worth reading at college age and later which cannot be bought except...
(Update: The text of this post is a transcript of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.) I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the...
by James Hanley An Essay in Three Parts. Egregiously long, and about financial stuff, so read at your own risk. Somehow, some way, the Head Start thread became a thread about the mortgage crisis,...
If I am notorious for anything in the blogosphere—other than being that guy who won that thing at the Washington Post that one time—it’s probably my persistent (if gentle) criticism of “The Wonky Left.”[1]...
A new ad by Coca-Cola has caused a bit of fuss over the intertubes, including in the threads of a post by Ethan over in Off the Cuff. The debate that’s raging is centered...
So much of modern pluralist politics in the USA boils down to a fight over what America means. That’s as good a cause as any to fight culture wars. As Pat Buchanan once put it,...
I recently wrote a post about the frustration I feel when it seems that Hollywood is only willing to cast young actresses in “sexy roles”. Well, while recently watching “A Very Harold & Kumar...
In Ethan’s review of Zero Dark Thirty, Glyph notes: OK, this is totally irrelevant to the discussion, but I just went to Bigelow’s IMDB page to see if I had seen any of her...
Last week Kazzy wrote a post on the heartwarming story of “the remarkable relationship between an elite college football player and a girl.” And as remarkable as that story was, it wasn’t nearly as...
Huffpo reports: Marijuana Possession Arrests Exceed Violent Crime Arrests.
Here’s a bit about commas. It’s actually difficult to express grammatical rules systematically and in your own words, so I’ve likely made some mistakes along the way. What follows is less “here are the...
Andrew Sullivan rounds up some reactions to a new ad by one largest distributors of beverages in the world:
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