Lawsuits have become a predictable component of public and private disputes, no matter how large or small. Just watch “Judge Judy” and you’ll find an amazing number of people who…
Mark Steyn explains why a federal government “shutdown” fails to live up to the hype. The so-called shutdown is … mostly baloney: Eighty-three percent of the supposedly defunded government is…
Michael Barone‘s latest column for the Washington Examiner takes both major political parties to task. Important parts of our two great political parties seem bent on demonstrating that their parties…
N.C. House speaker and newly nominated Republican U.S. Senate candidate Thom Tillis shows up in the latest issue of TIME magazine, serving as the lead item in a story touting…
So writes JLF head John Hood in a column last week. John’s article begins: Remember all the brouhaha from last fall’s Washington showdown and government shutdown? The dispute purportedly pitted…
Your faithful commentator was reminded of this October 2013 blog entry as he read Jonathan Rauch’s article in the latest issue of The Atlantic, headlined “The Case for Corruption,” which…
Gallup looked at economic confidence of states. What stands out is the D.C. corridor’s view. The District of Columbia (+19) is the clear outlier in economic confidence, having the only…
View in your browser. Many of us have started getting the 1099s and W-2 forms in the mail. It’s the beginning of tax season, and for those of us with…
Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner looks beyond the standard “fallacies, sophistries, oversimplifications, and utter absurdities” to detail 2013’s worst political arguments. “If we can save only one life…” The…
The latest Public Policy Polling survey includes data that shows how the American public views ObamaCare — and it’s not good. Q11 Which do you think has had a…
Pope Francis is TIME magazine’s person of the year, but freshman U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, made the magazine’s top five list. The young barn burner is convinced that “official…
Charles C.W. Cooke asks in a new National Review Online column why President Obama seems to avoid one particular group when he claims to stand up for the downtrodden. Among…