James Taranto makes an argument that has become increasingly common as opponents of legal abortion try the essentially impossible task of making supporters of legal abortion responsible for Kermit Gosnell's illegal abortion clinic. His strategy is to try to make the disgraceful regulatory neglect shown by...
We don't hear too many stories anymore like last week's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, where the death toll has now risen to 15. This is because we have.
Lame ducks don't get much lamer than Rex Ryan. If you're going to tank, you should tank right -- MORE TEBOW. I think this year they should really try to.
Quickie review of "Django Unchained..." (Please bear in mind that I watch all movies nowadays with one eye on a toddler, so everything I write should be taken with a 33-lb. grain of bouncing salt.) I'm not sure I like the trajectory of Quentin Tarantino's latest...
Rick argues that today, the idea that the hero could attack the bag guy without cutting corners is hard to imagine: Andrew Sullivan has recently pointed out the absurdity of.
Quiet evening here, seems like a good time to embed a Dave Flesicher cartoon. From 1939, this is The Barnyard Brat. This is part of his Hunky and Spunky series,.
Potential spoiler alerts ahead. Let me more or less agree with Coates' view on season 6 of Mad Men, or at least the first few episodes, which can be summed up by the fact that Draper's latest affair is not very interesting. Except he's lost something....
The sad thing is that, on health care, while Baucus wasn't good he was a little better than the generic conservative Democrat, and that little bit allowed the PPACA to.
A few key pieces as the West, Texas disaster settles down. Mike Elk has an editorial at the Post really getting after the media for its nonexistent coverage of the.
The following is a long discussion between myself and Ted McClelland, spurred by his Slate article on baseball player salaries and social cohesion. Mr. McClelland graciously offered to conduct an e-mail debate on the question, and to allow me to post the results of this debate...
Shorter Designated Republican Stenographer Jennifer Rubin: "George Bush was the greatest. With notably rare exceptions, there were no terrorist attacks on the American homeland when George W. Bush was president. .
Max Baucus, the Democratic Party's most annoying senator, is retiring at the end of his term. While like any Democrat, I worry about holding the seat, if Brian Schweitzer runs,.