Month: March 2011

Republicans are so stupid that even when they are trying to be funny they just come off as jerks. John Hawkins wants liberals to answer seven questions about President Obama’s decision to use military force in Libya. He...

Arizona became a state on February 14, 1912, just two years before Franz Ferdinand’s assassination sparked the First World War. It shouldn’t need to be said, but before Arizona was a state it wasn’t a state....

If she was in third grade, this would be cute: During a tour of the Western Wall Palin expressed support for Jews praying openly at the Temple Mount asking her Israeli tour guides, “why are you apologizing all the time?” The...

At least part of the premise of representative democracy is that a majority is probably right about most things. They’re probably right because, hopefully, they have some passing familiarity with the most basic facts, or...

I can’t really disagree with the substance of Ross Douthat’s argument. There are pros and cons to conducting a military intervention in the way that President Obama has chosen to conduct the operations in Libya. I...