Numerous left-leaning friends, associates, and relatives have argued that when religious people legislate or vote from their convictions, it "violates...
Steven Lubet in Salon apparently slept through the Bush years: American political discourse has gotten increasingly nasty over the past...
Via Instapundit, another mall vendor selling anti-Obama items has been evicted: Marsha Hammond, the mall's marketing director, has a different...
Is it important to embrace policies which help, rather than harm people? Is it at all important to tell the...
... over Palin, apparently: ... I'm not saying Sarah Palin did that. I'm just saying that there's this subliminal level,...
I've been hearing this narrative a lot: "President Obama is the real target of health care protesters, not policy." Yup:...
When "Jane Galt" first appeared in the wake of 9/11, I found her a refreshing and interesting libertarian voice. But,...
We're used hearing progressives and liberals claim they are motivated by generosity and caring, while their opponents are cold-hearted and...
Politico: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is taking heat from Johnson & Johnson, Nike and other corporate members over its...
One of the stranger characteristics I've observed in the left is the need to project or find all of one's...
"Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value." So said a Canadian Human Rights...
Dr. Paul Krugman is a respected professor of economics -- one who has a column my country's most prestigious newspaper....
I was talking to a friend a work recently, and he implied that southern racists all switched parties and became...
If you have any friends, relatives, or co-workers who have a strong affinity for, shall we say, left-leaning politics, one...
Cox & Forkum have produced some of the most powerful right-leaning political cartoons of the last seven years. Their art...
Sometimes, I get tired of the echo chamber blogs have become, and feel the need to attempt to engage in...
In wake of the Kerry-related "tasing" incident, Steve Graham ruminates about Andrew Meyers' prospects for future fame. I took a...
There are many Democrats who hold strong personally-conservative values. They work hard, are frugal, contribute to society, have raised their...
Here's an interesting study write-up in the L.A. Times which seems to indicate political orientation is hard-wired into the brain....
Today's topic is patriotic Democrats. I know there absolutely are patriotic Democrats. But what are they patriotic about? For example:...
If you're looking for a philosophy which will impress a lot of the "cool" people out there, conservatism is not...
One of the tactics I've noticed over and over among the left is something I'm calling the commit/accuse pattern, in...
One of the odd phenomena I've noticed is that a large percentage of those who would be externally identifiable as...
Just a final follow-up on my last post, where I pointed out that I'm opposed to liberal-ism, and don't harbor...
During the last election, we remember how Dick Cheney was lambasted for a not-very-public use of the F-word to a...
Where have I seen this behavior before? Chaing Kai-shek was on the verge of defeating Mao Tse-Tung's Red Army, which...
This is the kind of thing which currently makes it onto Google's "News" page. Apparently, in "Progressive U", we can...
KC Johnson, "a 38-year-old bowtie-wearing Brooklyn College professor", who operates the "Durham Wonderland" blog, which covers the Duke (non-)rape case:...
In the conservative world, the oft-repeated belief is that liberals hate and fear us more than Islamic terrorists. After a...
This isn't the kind of thing I normally pay much attention to here, and never planned to write about it:...
If somebody says they want a banana, and then suggests it's because they're hungry, and like bananas -- the charitable...
Readers: This article is part of an apparently-ongoing correspondence. If you want brevity, you can skip the greetings below and...
There's been an ongoing discussion on several posts regarding my contention there is no conservative equivalent of the tendancy among...
It's been common, in recent years, to hear defensive-sounding complaints from "the left", protesting loudly that, yes, they love their...