"If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?"

Justice Scalia is out and about, antagonizing — antoninonizing — students, this time at Princeton, with "a form of argument that I tho...

Top 5 Wisconsin Protests That In Retrospect Sound Like Pro-Walker Protests Against the Protests.

5. "Shame!" 4. "Recall Walker." (Yes, we recall him very well... and like him.) 3. "What's Disgusting? 2. ...

"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...

"Walkergate."

"The Democratic Party of Wisconsin released the first of what will likely be a barrage of recall-themed advertisements Monday, as the a...

Romney ad uses archival news footage and Tom Brokaw is not pleased.

Brokaw — who wants the ad withdrawn — says: "I am extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political...

Herman Cain "made it very intriguing," says Ginger White.

"It was fun. It was something that took me away from my humdrum life at the time. And it was exciting." I don't know if it hap...

Would you like a giant painting of a woman in full radiant bride mode?

The woman, who was 19 when she posed, died last January at 80. Nobody in her family wants it, they say because it's just way too big. I...

Wisconsin "Singalong" Protesters Confront Workers and Chant About Boycotting Their Employer.

Meade recorded this video at the 8/26/11 anti-Scott Walker singalong at the Wisconsin Capitol. Toward the end of what is their regular hour-...

In the violent video games case, Scalia notes the irony of Alito's strenuous effort to describe the "astounding" violence.

From the majority opinion in the just-decided case of Brown, Governor of California v. Entertainment Merchants Association: JUSTICE ALITO ha...

"Remember, you were young once and you had a heart and you loved everybody."

A young man's oration after the Budget Repair vote in the state senate last night, juxtaposed with a chant from the young, heart-full-of...

Will the "lamestream" journalists now look straight into the camera and proclaim Sarah Palin a media genius?

"The Daily Show" had a great montage of the idiotic media excitement over Sarah Palin's email. A few thoughts: 1. This intense...

In the future, all the therapists will be women. And then what?

As the NYT presents the problem: Some college psychology programs cannot even attract male applicants, much less students. And at many thera...

"Illinois Workers Find That a Death Penalty Ban Abolishes Their Jobs, Too."

Says the NYT. [S]ome of the very people who pushed and prayed most fervently to end capital punishment in the state found that the triumph ...

Neil Young's hybrid car emits some serious carbon.

It bursts into flames and destroys a million dollars worth of his memorabilia. This is like that story about the reusable shopping bags that...

"Bummer! We’re still not doing the right thing."

The trouble with trying to get everything right is that you'll never get everything right. UPDATE: But that one thing might be right .

"Obama’s go-slow 'don't ask, don't tell' plan backfires."

The headline in Politico. In 1993, President Bill Clinton nearly derailed his presidency with an early move to end the military’s ban on gay...

Irony pursues Barack Obama.

"President Obama, who took a plunge in the Gulf last week to show Americans it was safe to swim the oil spill-plagued area, arrived on ...

The unnatural complexities of marriage and motherhood.

A new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex" is reviewed by Francine du Plessix Gray. Here's a paragraph about ...

"I don’t want to put you on the spot, but you sure deliver that song like a true believer."

"Well, I am a true believer." Bob Dylan answers a question that was inspired by his singing of "O Little Town of Bethlehem...