I watched the final debate between Britain’s current and two contending Prime Ministers this evening. They represented the Conservative Part...

For some reason I find this little tidbit fascinating: if Supreme Court John Paul Stevens is replaced by someone who is not a Protestant, fo...

Curiously, very little seems to have been made of Obama's recent attempts to secure and reduce the number of nuclear weapons. As with so...

Apparently it is as hard to predict history as it is to predict the future. History is a story we tell about the past to make sense of it to...

A recent poll suggests that nearly one-in-four Republicans believe that Obama is the anti-Christ. Next time you're with four or five of ...

Team uniforms are ... well, so uniform. I wonder how long before we'll have a professional team named, say, The Las Vegas Rebels, or the...

Republicans felt that health care reform ought not to focus on expanding the insured but, rather, on limiting lawsuits. Within hours of Obam...

It was hard to know exactly when futures markets had begun to drive commodities prices. Oil, obviously, was one place where speculations on ...

My plan for financial reform is simple. Bankers get two kinds of bonuses: positive and negative. Let me elaborate. If a bank makes a billion...

We can adopt this plan for education.

Texas is changing textbooks, putting more emphasis on the influence of Phyllis Schlafly and less on Thomas Jefferson. “By getting married, t...

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. - John F. Ken...

Newsweek's cover article argues for firing bad teachers. I'm sure that will change everything. Just like voting out all the bad pol...

From yahoo : One year ago, the economic crisis dragged stocks to their lowest in more than 12 years. The S&P 500 is up 68.5 percent sinc...

George Will writes about boys who won't become men in this week's Newsweek. George decries the fact that the median age at which boy...

Rumors are, health care is about 16% of our total GDP. One of the few things that politicians and their constituents seem to agree on is tha...

The popularity of shopping depended on the ancient urge for the modern, that old wish for something new. No one had considered the possibili...

I watched about ten minutes of today's bipartisan health care summit, catching some of Lamar Alexander and Nancy Pelosi. Two things stru...

I've never seen anyone suggest that growth in productivity might be the fuel for a growth in debt. The rate of productivity growth has b...

Anything you are not free to say "no" to, you are unable to say "yes" to. You can't really choose what you are not f...