"How does raking in $100 million petrodollars fit with [Al Gore's] life’s mission?"

"Though the deal’s been widely criticized on the right..." ... most of my progressive friends have a more tolerant attitude toward...

"Gregory had no intent to commit a crime; he was committing journalism instead."

"Gun owners often say they want the government to leave them alone; why then are some clamoring for Gregory to be prosecuted?" Ask...

A "concerned sister" gets press petitioning Hasbro to put boys in commercials for Easy-Bake ovens.

"The toy has long been marketed to girls and made in gender specific colors like pink and purple. The calls for Easy-Bake to take on a ...

Did Chief Justice John Roberts "lose his cool"?

I keep reading about this incident , invariably with the focus on the Chief's demeanor, causing me to suspect that the press is covering...

"[T]he hypocrisy of pillorying a guy for using his employer’s equipment to grow marijuana..."

"... while his employer offers training in how to create a pair of substances — including one with its own mind-altering properties — t...

"It just doesn't make sense to be walking around on your day legs at one height and then you're six inches or so taller on your running prostheses."

"You don't want the sport turning into a circus where, you know, doubles walk in with barely any training under their belt and they...

"When the doper’s code of silence around Lance Armstrong cracked, Sheryl Crow was obliged to sing."

"Crow, who was once engaged to the tarnished cyclist, provided information last year in a far-reaching federal investigation into the d...

"I have to admit that while my politics generally tend to the liberal option, on this one issue of chipmunks, I can see the NRA point of view."

"Part of me wants these suckers to die." Says Mayor Citizen Dave. Also: "I love tomatoes enough to rethink my concerns abou...

"It wasn't very long ago they were trying to tell us that Romney was a bully.... Now he's a wimp?"

Rush Limbaugh riffed on the new Newsweek cover today: Calling Romney a wimp is aimed at suppressing the white blue-collar vote .  Blue-colla...

The grossly underenforced zoning law that preserves loft space in SoHo for artists.

The effort to get the law changed involves revealing how many property owners are in violation of the law. At issue is a 1971 zoning change ...

"Have you noticed that the left’s nightmare is a small town where everybody sees and comments on whatever you do..."

"... but they try to turn every place into a small town where everybody sees and comments on whatever you do?" ADDED: And they lov...

Elizabeth Warren chose not to pay a voluntary higher tax rate, which is an official option in Massachusetts.

No one takes that option, now, do they? But Warren — the Harvard lawprof who's trying to wrest Teddy Kennedy's Senate seat out from ...

"What is the connection between my being pro-life and working at Hooters?"

"Is there a hypocritical angle here that I’m not aware of? Is Hooters performing abortions?" Crazy gender politics at the Wisconsi...

"Why apologize in the first place? She's buckling to pressure. She meant to say it."

"She meant it! Stand by it. She knows damn well she meant it." [That's] the latest trend in apologies, "That's not wh...

The Obama Administration clearly states that the individual mandate is not a tax.

Notes Jonathan Adler , pointing to this video: But of course, the government is arguing in the Supreme Court that the individual mandate is...

"For justices in the center, I don't think they want to be on the wrong side of history" on same-sex marriage.

Says Stanford lawprof Pamela Karlan. "Unless we see a massive about-face (in public attitudes), 25 years from now people will look back...

"I don't really want to get into the sexual assault stuff at all."

"What I'm amazed by is how these alders apparently pack away the booze." So begins a forum, over at Isthmus, about "the S...

Obama administration calls Christmas trees "Christmas trees"... and taxes them.

It sound amusingly Grinch-y , but let's be fair. The 15-cent charge is to support a program to "enhance the image of Christmas tree...

Reporting sex abuse to the police.

Instapundit asks: SO IF IT’S A SCANDAL WHEN PENN STATE OR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH cover up sex abuse, then why isn’t it just as big a scandal w...

"Mic Check! Im Drew from internet. We would like to propose tonight the purchase of occupywallstreet.net for the use of all of us."

"It is time sensitive because the person who owns it desperately wants to sell it and will sell it to anybody but we have put a stop on...