You only have to scratch the debate to see the degree to which legal technicalities are orthogonal to the main issue.
If Democrats are right, then it is not just the Blunt Amendment that allows employers to deny any health benefit to any individual for any reason.
Like all good satire, a group seeking a $250 deduction for mustachioed men makes a serious comment.
State Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel admitted she had "no concept" about the true extent of her personhood bill.
Abdulmutallab's sentencing makes the frenzied panic of three years ago look rather silly.
Since the first casualty in war is the truth, it is no surprise to see a great deal of deceit in the culture clash over abortion and contraception.
Food police are prone to exaggeration.
Half of all college students make no learning gains in their first two years, and 36 percent show no significant intellectual growth even after four years.
Barack Obama says faith drives much of his domestic agenda-and no one even blinks.
All patriotic Americans ought to stand up and say enough is enough. We need a law to put a stop to this literally-abuse.
From snack foods to office supplies, the free market delivers a dazzling bounty.
If Washington is going to dictate the terms, why should the states foot the bill?
Virginia's hypocrisy on gun rights versus abortion rights
Most people don't overindulge. Some do. Let's help the ones who need it, and leave the rest alone.
The GOP campaign really does present voters with sharp contrasts.
If people can be totally convinced by a few campaign ads, then the real objection is not advertising-but democracy itself.
The political dispute is not whether to regulate, but how much.
In the aggregate, sports cost society a tremendous lot of money.
Give the gift of forgiveness this holiday season.
No one, no matter how bright, can possibly know what is in the best interest of everybody.
Even people who benefit from big government love it less when they have to live under it.
State government as a whole just keeps getting bigger.
The nation's drug warriors fret that hemp cultivation would make pot prohibition harder.
Terrorists, conservatives say, hate us for our freedom, so they must be stopped-even if that means sacrificing our freedom in the process.
Needless to say, 2011 was a very big year for Barack, even though he did not win another Nobel Prize like he should have.
Nancy Pelosi once had trouble finding a babysitter, so her aspiration these days is "doing for child care what we did for health care reform."
Eminent domain laws are bad for property rights and social justice alike
Democrats might have good arguments for insisting that the Senate GOP share power, but "the will of the people" is not one of them
Liberal and conservative elites agree on one thing: Americans are too free for their own good.
Crony capitalism, big government boondoggles, and other GOP failures
Mississippi's proposed "personhood" amendment extends progressivism to the uterus.
Why the protestors are wrong to favor forced equality over liberty
When it comes to immigration, the Republicans love big government.
