The Stopped Clock

With Obama's criticism of the military coup in Honduras, a public relations wave has been launched to try to reinvent the coup as a prop...

My comments on brinksmanship probably should have been followed by an anecdote. An experienced trial lawyer heard a younger colleague claim...

When heads of state clash over big issues, the question usually becomes "who blinks first?" Jackson Diehl whines that the Obama Ad...

I wish Ross Douthat had taken the time to watch Idiocracy before writing his latest column , a pointless ramble about the sustainability of...

Shorter Glenn Easterbrook : The government's wrong to spend money researching their pie-in-the-sky clean energy schemes that may never ...

The New Yorker provides an interesting essay on the cost of medical care, and how high costs don't necessarily translate into high quali...

A couple of months ago my four-year-old became very interested in Michael Jackson. His "moves". She doesn't have much interest...

Michael Kinsley shares his views on healthcare and health insurance, opining , Here is a handy-dandy way to determine whether the failure to...

Thanks to David Brooks, the secret's finally out. The "conservative" solution to healthcare reform is rationing and a tax incr...

(Appropriately) via lies.com , somebody who's not up for the parent of the year award . Premise: You will be the dog walker hired by dad...

As we have a flame-baiter posting irrelevant comments about North Korea's placement in "The Axis of Evil", it seems appropriat...

In a completely unsurprising 5:4 "bad facts make bad law" case, the Supreme Court denied a defendant the right to obtain DNA evide...

Rhee apparently won't talk to the Washington Post reporter who is primarily responsible for reporting on school issues. It's not un...

It would have made for an interesting entry on the customs declaration form: Japan is investigating reports two of its citizens were detain...

Karl rove shares this anecdote: It was a sobering breakfast with one of the smartest Republicans on Capitol Hill . We can fix a lot of bad ...

Well, at least he's not hankerin' for Hoover, but George Will is apparently smitten with the wit and wisdom of Calvin Coolidge. Wil...

Way back during my high school days, the biology teachers shared a small office between two classrooms. There, they kept a number of old bio...

The Washington Post is concerned about negotiations between D.C. teachers union and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. It asserts, Maybe it...

I thought the days of comparing Obama to starlets were over. Apparently Pat Buchanan didn't get the memo : Obama, however - like some ...

I'm not reassured .... If you're an inspector general, called before Congress to testify, you might do well to understand the scope ...