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Reading through a great list of " The Most Terrible Things Rick Santorum Has Ever Said " on TNR, I came across this gem- Santorum,...

Slate's David Weigel, in NH, talking to a NH voter : Over 24 hours, I watched Santorum, Huntsman, and Gingrich sell themselves to New Ha...

Somalia's new ban on samosas because the triangle shape is "too Christian" and hence incompatible with their strict version o...

As has been widely reported already today, in a video posted to her facebook page, Sarah Palin used the term "blood libel" to refe...

Charles Murray writes a piece this weekend in the Washington Post that, pushes the Tea Party line that modern elites are totally out of tou...

I'm on vacation in the Sonoma Valley and did some wine tasting and vineyard touring yesterday. One of the interesting things we learned...

A group opposing the Cordoba House just won permission from the New York MTA to place ads opposing the project on busses citywide. The ads —...

I just got a new droid x and installed the mobile blogging software and I'm trying it out. Hopefully it will make it easier to post mor...

I have not yet read the whole of Judge Walker's decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger , but the concluding paragraph is pretty powerful: P...

Further to my earlier post on Atul Gawande's article about the fraught nature of end-of-life decisions and the importance of thinking a...

If you follow Glenn's advice and buy gold from Goldline, you're getting so badly ripped off that gold would have to nearly triple in...

The New York Times reports that : four senators this spring refused to approve a $425 million package of federal grants for the Boys & G...

A heartbreaking, long, but incredibly important piece by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker ( here ) on how our current medical system excels at...

Economist Tyler Cowen, writing about the US national debt, makes the following point - At some sufficiently high debt-gdp ratio, it becomes ...