"In an interminable article on the president's fund-raising problems, The New Yorker's Jane Mayer puts it down in part to his aversion to schmoozing."

James Taranto quotes Mayer quoting a "a frustrated Obama fund-raiser": "Unlike Republicans, they have no business interest be...

"A second Obama term could kill the Second Amendment."

Says James Taranto , inviting Obamans to make gun control a big campaign issue. The Supreme Court's recent cases finding an individual r...

Matt Taibbi "wants conservatives to conceal their views for fear of being seen as racist — to act as if they are guilty."

"But that would reinforce, not reduce, racial tension." If white conservatives in the presence of black people act as if their wor...

Hands and heads, positioned by Drudge.

Let's analyze this. (Click to enlarge.) In the first column, we see Barack Obama holding his head, as if he's got a headache. The mi...

Tweeting with Taranto.

@ jamestaranto That was a rounded-off number, kinda like saying you've got 25 more years to do affirmative action. — Ann Althouse (@ann...

Laughing rats.

Via James Taranto, who tweaks the scientists as having "lonely lives" (since they are resorting to tickling rats). But I think it...

White people "are privileged, and that's unfair."

Via James Taranto , who calls it "bizarre" and "reminiscent of that hilarious 'Dear Woman' video we noted last year ...

James Taranto theorizes that Elizabeth Warren "downplayed her alleged Indian roots after coming to Harvard to avoid the stigma of 'affirmative action.'"

Now, he's bouncing off something I said: As Althouse points out, early in her career, "minority status" would have been useful...

"If the packers couldn't beat the lions in 1937, they certainly won't be able to now."

"A Democratic court-packing scheme, whether proffered this summer or in a hypothetical second Obama term, would be laughed right out of...

"The first proposition is that the health care law is constitutional."

"The second is that the court could strike it down anyway.... The law is a completely valid exercise of Congress' Commerce Clause p...

About that Romney line: "He's a nice guy, but he's in over his head."

James Taranto says: "He's a nice guy, but . . ." is exquisitely condescending. It's probably not true: Obama strikes us as...

"An increasing number of affluent women with affluent husbands are casting off the chains of professional work..."

Writes James Taranto , noting a new Federal Reserve study showing a decline in the number of highly educated women with highly educated husb...

James Taranto is "surprised to see @annalthouse sort of defending" Charles Blow.

Taranto's tweeting. Citing 2 of my blog posts — "Mr. Blow may attempt to delete that Tweet..." and "Our reflexive respo...

James Taranto has a question and a prediction about social conservatism.

The question: If liberal baby boomers stubbornly refuse to see the damage that their idea of "progress" has wrought, what about yo...

"Apparently @TPM doesn't expense its employees' salaries."

Pithy takedown.

"Bizarre denial" from the NYT? It depends on what the meaning of "fringe" is.

In the Twittersphere, James Taranto caught Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the NYT, taking a shot at Herman Cain, saying "M...

James Taranto: "Rick Perry was awful in last night's debate. Just awful."

"The swaggering Texas governor kept scrapping with the chipper Mitt Romney, and he kept losing.... The low point came when he seized on...

I'm so sad they let Gary Johnson into the GOP debate but not Thaddeus McCotter.

And now McCotter is withdrawing, saying , "It was sort of death by media." James Taranto comments: [Gary] Johnson, who served as g...

"It's lonely at the top. 'James, can we meet for dinner?' was the subject line of an email we received from none other than Barack Obama."

Hey! I got "Ann, can we meet for dinner?" The President is 2-timing me! I'm giving this post my "metaphor" tag. (Als...

Laughing at Obama's speech was "more insulting than Joe Wilson's 'you lie.'"

More insulting ... and more potent ... "Rules for Radicals": Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to coun...