The Stopped Clock

Ross Douthat wrote a rather silly column about the movie Avatar, which left me wondering if it was written before he actually saw the film...

Ross Douthat lectures us that, while the U.S. may have had a miserable decade, other nations did okay. A billion-odd Chinese had a pretty go...

A German company offers hardwood flooring based upon the natural grain of the wood. How does it fit together? Like a jigsaw. It's custo...

Kathleen Parker instructs us , If Bush could be blamed for the dot-connecting inadequacies that helped enable the terrorist attacks of Sept....

In what appears to be an unstated expansion of his arguments against the science of climate change, George Will takes a "what, me worry...

Looking back on 2009, the most popular posts for visitors to this blog (excluding people reading through the RSS feed) were: Amendment vs. R...

If you didn't already know that, see the NonSequitur on his latest round of whoppers.

Josh Marshal ponders why people are willing to ethnically profile, do all sorts extra-judicial surveillance, maintain massive databases of h...

Governor Schwarzenegger is threatening the people of his state : If Washington does not provide roughly $8 billion in new aid for the state,...

When you see a really silly editorial published in the New York Times you think... well, at least it's not the Post. But sometimes you r...

Woman knocks down pope at Mass; Christmas celebrations begin .

Josh Marshall opines that "resurgent Republicans could get the chance to repeal [healthcare reform] before the public gets a chance to...

John McCain isn't bothered by Sarah Palin's scribbling his name off of a visor she wore during her Hawaii vacation. Sen. John McCai...

David Broder represents the mindset that got the Democratic Party into its present predicament: I think Obama deserves more help than he is...

The concept of creative destruction is that innovation and entrepreneurship are what drive long-term economic growth, even though the value ...

Dana Milbank warns that imposing any consequence on Joe Lieberman for what Dana describes as a career-long pattern of backstabbing his form...

I appreciate the push-back coming from the left on the gutting of the healthcare reform bill. It's a shame that the bill has been gradua...

Yet another battle between parents who support their tot's freedom of expression and individual style, versus a school board that wants...

Recently, Senator Al Franken was given a rather blunt message that his actions in advocating for his anti-rape bill, he had crossed a line ...