If there's one thing Americans love, it's food faddism. The history of full of weirdness, from John Harvey Kellogg's yogurt enemas that placed yogurt cultures in our mouths and rectums at the exact same time to Sylvester Graham's graham crackers, created so we wouldn't eat meat...
I'm not much of a fan of Bloomberg's soda ban. But I have to say that I like it being struck down by Lochner-like judicial opinions even less.
Weigel finds neocon uberhack Jennifer Rubin stating the obvious about why the Paul filibuster found plenty of favor among Bush-loving hawks: He wasn’t attacking the war on terror. He wasn’t.
Updated below. Updated again below. Back story can be found here, here and here. (1) On the evening of February 28th, 2013 Prof. Brian Leiter of the University of Chicago Law School sent creepy pseudonymous email messages to at least two people who had criticized him...
No shorter required: In an interview with Jason Mattera which was conducted last month but is just now hitting the news, Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky admitted that the Democrats’ effort.
Three British citizens voted against the following proposition: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?" This against.
Discovered by @megmantis, this Oklahoma law, enacted in 1919 and amended as late as 1999: Any person in this state, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly display any red flag or other emblem or banner, indicating disloyalty to the Government of the...
I give you the "wealthy asshole" we. My favorite bit: Modern life has become a three- and often four- or five-meal-a-day restaurant habit. There is the breakfast meeting. At one.
Congress has been so quiescent on the growth of the national security state that I am inclined to think the it was a net positive, albeit one that is unlikely.
Meet the American Enterprise Institute's hot new hire--Joe Lieberman! [SL]: Nobody could have seen this coming!
There are always plenty of jobs for scrappy kids who network and hustle. . . . speaking of which a correspondent sent me a photo he took this weekend of.
Adele Stan with a serious takedown of the obnoxious, overrated, and generally awful David Sirota, who attacked her with a typically aggressive, sloppy, and falsifying column when she questioned progressives.