"53% of American Adults agree that the United States is a nation with liberty and justice for all..."

Rasmussen learns. Forty percent (40%) disagree and say the United States is not like that.... Still, 79% of Americans say that if they had a...

"The Constitution is the rules; politics is the game."

"The alternatives to organized political contention are anarchy or sheep-like passivity." Richard Brookhiser speaks in one aphoris...

"I’m sorry, your sexual choice is not a God-given right."

"You’re talking about a choice and you’re talking about elevating a choice to an inalienable right, which is impossible, you can’t, not...

"Where is the 9,000-foot cow?"/"What do you think about Satan?"/"What did James Madison think about video games?"

Justice Ginsburg lists the strangest questions asked last term at oral argument. "From the foregoing samples, you may better understand...

Roy Edroso imagines that Leslie Savan had the courage to "dispute Muslim articles of faith."

He's presenting something I wrote to his readers, who follow his direction and call me an idiot, but he's got it wrong. I blogged (...

"The False and 'Seedy' Claim That Obama Is Muslim."

Get it? "Seedy"? The Nation quotes Franklin Graham: “I think the president's problem is that he was born a Muslim. His father ...

The end of those "macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures."

David Levine has died. This beautifully constructed online gallery of his work has over 2,500 items. Here are all the ones of U.S. Preside...

We like our Presidents tall and not too thin.

This chart illustrates the proposition that the more substantial -- physically substantially -- man wins. Think about it: (View that clip...

Scalia on C-Span.

Video accessible from the C-Span front page . He's talking to students at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, VA. ADDED: A littl...

Mitt Romney on "Meet the Press."

I'll write more when I can quote from a transcript, but I wanted to say that I thought Romney was excellent on "Meet the Press...

Has Rudy Giuliani gotten incoherent about abortion?

Here 's a NYT piece about how Rudy Giuliani is reframing his stance on abortion to appeal to conservatives. It contains a quote that I f...