In early March, Sen. Jim Bunning (R-KY), who is not running for reelection, singlehandedly (by means of a one-man filibuster) stopped an automatic extension of …

In the same week, both Stephen Colbert, on his show, and John Stossel on his, introduced their brothers — their real-life siblings. Colbert’s younger brother …

From The New York Times: “Obama Writes Own Health Bill. Should he have done this months ago? Hoping to revive his healthcare agenda, President Obama …

Feb. 19, 2010: On Fox News, former Attorney General John Ashcroft responds to the question of whether he thinks we are safer now than we …

In the February 23 issue of the Huffington Post is an article by “actress/singer/composer/ activist” Barbra Streisand. It’s called “Elections Should Be Won — Not …

After the Supreme Court decision about corporate contributions in electoral campaigns, many bloggers are speculating that corporations have now been freed to “eliminate the middleman,” …

Heady from Scott Brown’s taking of Ted Kennedy’s (sorry, “the people’s”) seat in Congress, some are already calling for Brown to run for president. I …

I think economists can forget about rational ignorance and rational irrationality and just focus on rational stupidity. Pursuing intelligence has a cost. In many areas …

The Associated Press has reported that Laredo, Texas, “home to nearly a quarter-mil- lion people as well as high rates of illiteracy … will become …

Everyone is in an uproar because the United States Preventive Services Task Force – an “independent” committee of medical experts (with no breast surgeons and …