"In all these cases, and many others, liberals take positions that make them look good and feel good..."

"... and show very little interest in the actual consequences for others, even when liberal policies are leaving havoc in their wake....

Republicans used to stress "law and order," and Democrats — sounding more educated and compassionate — said we needed to look at the "root causes" of crime.

Back in, say, the Nixon era, we Nixon-hating types used "law-and-order" as an adjective expressing contempt. We might say, for exa...

"'Wanker' is a leftie blog cliché used to describe people who deviate from the left-liberal line but aren’t conservatives. Say, Tom Friedman."

"It has been a long time since I’ve won Wanker of the Day, and the rush of gratitude has me feeling a bit flustered. So many people to ...

"The editors of Esquire have included Chief Justice Roberts in their December 'Americans of the Year' issue, praising his 'nimbleness.'"

"After the Citizens United decision on free speech and political spending, he found a way [in the Obamacare case] 'to save the cou...

"Liberals, you should rein in the triumphalism."

Says the liberal Kevin Drum: Obama won a narrow 51-49 percent victory and the composition of Congress changed only slightly. This was not a ...

As it becomes apparent — is it apparent? — that Obama is likely to lose — going to lose? — the election...

... what should we expect to see? 1. Desperate attacks, material that otherwise would not have been dumped into the public discourse. 2. Lib...

Repeating the old marshmallow test — the one about kids' capacity for delaying gratification.

And changing the results by exposing the kids — pre-temptation — to untrustworthy/trustworthy adults. “Being able to delay gratification — i...

"The right to work for a living in the common occupations of the community is of the very essence of the personal freedom and opportunity that the Constitution was designed to protect."

Wrote the federal judge who struck down Utah's requirement that you need a cosmetology license to work as a hair braider. This is a shar...

"No one pretends that better laws would prevent all tragedies, but if that were the standard, then we wouldn't pass any laws at all."

On NPR last evening, the topic was the Aurora movie-theater murders, and the NPR host, Robert Siegel, invited WaPo's E.J. Dionne to comm...

Why are conservatives so much happier than liberals?

Studies show that they are (or at least think they are or say they are). But why? My first guess, without reading on in the article is that...

"The fact is that conservative constitutional thought is so much more crisply expressed, and so much more broadly accepted, than liberal thought..."

Concedes Dahlia Lithwick , pondering why liberals (supposedly) don't excoriate the Justices who disappoint them. She notes that "th...

Readers of conservative blogs and readers of liberals.

So different in so many ways: (Note: You contributed to this survey if you've been taking the little polls in the sidebar here. My blog ...

When it comes to the Constitution and the Affordable Care Act, one must wonder who is the little lamb brought up as a pet.

"This court, cosseted behind white marble pillars, out of reach of TV, accountable to no one once they give the last word..." That...

Why liberals were complacent and are now panicking.

I'm analyzing the breakup of the major media monopoly and the phony neutrality of liberal voices in the political culture: IN THE COMMEN...

"Even though the percentage of incoming freshmen who identify as conservative has stayed relatively stable..."

".... those students and the rest of their peers are shifting away from hard-line conservative stances on issues such as same-sex marri...

"'[S]arcastic' media-savvy comedies and morally murky antiheroes tend to draw Dems."

"[S]erious work-centered shows (both reality shows and stylized scripted procedurals), along with reality competitions, tend to draw co...

"Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue..."

From a 1951 essay by Bertrand Russell: 1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything. 2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealin...

WaPo's Jonathan Capehart says Gingrich made an "unbelievably disgusting" "blanket condemnation of 'really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods.'"

But what did Newt say? "Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who wo...

When did articles all start to begin "When did...?"?

"When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?" "When Did Liberals Become So Unreasonable?"

"I have to wonder about the perspective of anyone who considers Althouse 'a crazed right-wing blog'..."

"... what with her voting for Obama in 2008 and all. Clearly, she’s extreme !" From a discussion based on a blog post by a lefty l...