Obama famously claimed that "you didn't build that" when talking about how no one creates success in isolation from the commun...

In the following speech, Condoleezza Rice calls for America to lead the world into democracy. Even while she acknowledges that since 9-11 th...

Mitt Romney is not the first Mormon to run for president. Towards the end of his life, Joseph Smith, founder of the LDS church, declared his...

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson. What do they have in common? They were all worse presidents than George W. Bu...

It wasn't the speed of her texting that revealed her age. Her speed was impressive. Instead it was her tendency to start texts with phr...

This is how you do loss and longing ... the under-reported side of love songs and reason enough to treasure country music.

We've always had some form of education, even if it was just mothers trying to explain the world to bewildered children. But about a cen...

Pew has a fascinating new report about the middle class . The middle class is shrinking, and more are defecting into the lower income grou...

Twice now I've heard news reports that mention, in rapid succession, two awful things.  One, the deficit is once again over $1 trilli...

Senate candidate Aiken created a fire storm by talking about how women who have been legitimately raped don't get pregnant. Everyone - i...

The difference between liberals and communists is that liberals hang paintings whereas communists actually hang painters. The difference be...

Most people claim that lobbyists control candidates. I'm not here to argue that the financial industry - candidates biggest contributors...

Richard Nixon, tired of all the criticism from the media, called a press conference in an unusual location: the Potomac river. Once everyone...

Note how much higher the unemployment rate is for people who don't have degrees in this graph : Would unemployment rates be lower f...

Abraham Lincoln was subject to depression. Winston Churchill regularly began drinking before noon. FDR was in a wheelchair. Countless leader...

Among the largest countries in the world, Great Britain seems to have won the medals count, or at least tied with Russia, the next country t...

Bernard is my octogenarian, invisible friend but I can never convince him of that. I’ve tried but it’s best just to go along with his exis...

Grover Norquist may have killed the Republican Party. That's unfortunate because every country needs a good, conservative option. With...

Most place post the total Olympic medal count. I think it's more interesting to see that total adjusted by population. India got 6 medal...