Month: May 2012

Are we getting stupider or are our politicians getting stupider. Or, maybe, we’re both getting stupider. Could it be that we’re not getting stupider, but our politicians are treating us as if we were? Why are less...

Joshua Green takes a crack at imagining what Obama’s presidency would look like right now if there had been no filibuster in the U.S. Senate. It’s actually a very difficult thing to do. Let me explain why. The most...

There’s a saying in Washington DC that they think is very clever but it’s mostly just annoying. Anytime someone says something outrageous that also happens to contradict their party’s official line, they are...

Ann Althouse really has a bee in her bonnet. She’s so mad about a New York Times piece on Mitt and Ann Romney that she’s sputtering about the president being a “Muslim by inheritance through his father.”...

I’m sure the president will be attacked for making it our policy to get the hell out of Afghanistan, but the only way I could be happier about it would be if he had made the decision sooner and it was implemented faster....