Month: February 2015

Back on June 14th, 2005, Diane101 opened the first Froggy Bottom(s) Cafe. There would eventually be 721 versions of the cafe in diary form and over 400 more in story form. The last one is available here. They used to look like...

No, it’s true; I don’t consider it an iron-clad requirement that the president of the United States have a college degree. There could be extenuating circumstances that make a lack of formal education less damning....

I saw something interesting in this National Review piece by Eliana Johnson. It has to do with freshman Senator Ted Cruz of Texas: One of the larger questions looming over Rand Paul’s seemingly inevitable presidential campaign...

The irony of my coming across this opinion piece by Stephen Marche, The Epidemic of Facelessness in the New York Times Sunday Review, so soon after I stopped being anonymous here, is not lost on me. In it, Marche decries the...

Whether or not Congress can find a way to authorize military force against ISIS is actually more interesting than whether they should or not. Because, if Congress is simply incapable of authorizing force, not because they...