A lot of wrongheaded people with an irrational fetish for holy symbols think their hurt feelings justify censorship.
Going to the bus stop used to be a stoic ordeal, not a festive occasion.
The Senate battle between Tim Kaine and George Allen might as well be a battle for town council.
Corporate welfare has all of the disadvantages of social-welfare spending with none of the benefits.
Attacks by dogs are vanishingly rare. Attacks on dogs? All too common.
Political enthusiasts are by turns infuriated and delighted by the church.
Soon, Obamacare II could limit how much you spend on health care.
The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Our country faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins.
It's a little rich to hear conservative Republicans treat national security as if it were a federal jobs program
It's not entirely clear why so many people feel the need to explain what America was built on.
Nobody, Leonard Read once explained, can make a pencil by himself.
In addition to terminating pregnancies, abortion can inflict considerable collateral damage by puncturing the pieties of contemporary liberalism.
Four years later, they have decided he was right all along.
Romney is making flip-floppers of the entire conservative movement.
The FDA is trying to give food stamps to people who do not want or need them.
A dog walks into a bar...
If Obama and Romney really want to create jobs, then they should propose a ban on interstate trucking
Politicians on the both left and right want to restrict your freedom.
For all the distinction-drawing, the candidates' visions often sound strikingly similar
Yes, Mitt Romney has shown incorrigible inconsistency on the mandate. Question is: Why should he be any different?
The police state's mission creep has spread to our primary schools.
Uranium mining and nuclear power are not perfectly safe. But when you compare them to the alternatives, they look pretty good.
Uranium mining is touted as both a godsend and a one-way to ticket to hell on Earth. Which is it?
Most of the time, the media are more than happy to play up stories of minority victimhood.
The Clean Water Act gives way to another round of mission creep.
The third richest professional sports team in the world will receive nearly $7 million in subsidies to train in Virginia.
We Mustn't Let America Be Buffaloed
Domestic shock-and-awe is now becoming par for the course.
Two Virginia physicians are challenging Virginia's Certificate of Need process, which restricts who can deliver health care services.
The notion that world oil production had reached its summit and would soon begin a decline was in great vogue not so long ago.
The U.S. government created the obesity epidemic that it's now trying to fix.
Discriminating in favor of members of a certain class is only slightly superior to discriminating against them.
Gary Johnson is not viewed with gravity by a great many people these days. This is too bad, because he should be.
Paul's presence would give the ticket something it has lacked up to this point: spine.
Few safety standards exist to protect jihadi recruits
It is now illegal to "watch something in order to cultivate your desire, your ideology."
Progressives do not get worked up about property rights the way conservatives do. This is a mistake-as a case out of Norfolk shows.
After the ouster of Richard Grennell, a gay Republican decides not to vote in the coming election.
What the United States can learn from Venezuela's political and economic failures
If states don't create an exchange, then the federal government will step in and do it for them.
Public radio pledge drive season has begun.
Any discussion of women's "place in society" surely ought to touch on the two places in society where women remain distinctly unequal.
Neither side is really looking for the truth. What they're looking for is ammunition.
That's one hopeful takeaway from three recent polls on issues related to health care.
On the off chance that Mitt Romney prevails, the public will expect very little.
Nobody on the left really believes what they always say about campaign contributions and spending.
The IRS has taken upon itself a task no one asked it to do: regulate small, independent tax preparers.
It's more than a little ironic that conservatives think the first order of business when fighting terror is to sacrifice freedom.
