The DC police are investigating the David Gregory incident "to determine if the magazine was in fact real."

Breitbart.com reports (and quotes the criminal statute). What's to investigate? Here 's the "Meet the Press" transcript. G...

"Concealed carry in a gun free zone really makes it safe."

"What are the odds that two people have a gun in a gun free zone? It's the old bombs on an airplane trick. Always pack a bomb in yo...

"Psy Makes $8.1 Million By Ignoring Copyright Infringements Of Gangnam Style."

Okay , but $8.1 million isn't that much considering the magnitude of the success of the thing. On the other hand, it's the kind of t...

The super-expensive Starbucks coffee from Costa Rica called "Geisha."

"We have loyal reserve customers who are interested in any opportunity to try something as rare and exquisite as the Geisha varietal,...

We called in Language Log — over the Biden gaffe/non-gaffe — and Language Log responded.

"There's never been a day I wasn't happy to oblige either Ann Althouse or Ron Hardin, and especially not both of them." LO...

"There's never been a day in the last four years I've been proud to be his vice president."

The Weekly Standard (linked by Drudge) thinks it has a hilarious Biden gaffe, but they've misheard/mistranscribed it. You have to have a...

Take the actively viral "you didn't build that" meme and cross-pollinate it with the slightly dimmed "Julia" meme and breed a vigorous new small-government/individual responsibility conservatism...

Charles Krauthammer, hammering "you didn't build it": Obama’s infrastructure argument is easily refuted by what is essentially...

Obama's cookie controversy.

Asked by a girl to name his favorite Girl Scout cookie, Obama says "“I’ve gotta say that I’m pretty partial to those mint..." and ...

George Zimmerman is "one-fourth black, four times as black as Warren is Indian, though the New York Times describes him as a 'white Hispanic.'"

Writes Michael Barone , noting that Elizabeth Warren asserts that she is "1-32nd Native American [and] George Zimmerman, the Florida ac...

"Race, Tragedy and Outrage Collide After a Shot in Florida" is a very deliberate effort by the NYT...

... to restore balance and rationality to the story of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. It ends: In the days and weeks to come, Trayvon...

"Slut meant female dog once too."

Comments rhhardin , in the "What exactly did Rush Limbaugh apologize for?" post, below. That made me look up "slut" in ...

"At least bin Laden lived to see the Royal Wedding..."

Oh, yes ... and to hear Obama's marvelous comic routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Obama: "They talk about me like a dog."

"That's not in my prepared remarks." Uh, okay. You just threw that in, then. But why? IN THE COMMENTS: rhhardin said: The Mick...

"There are surprisingly few hours in the middle of the night, if you get up at say 1am and start working on something."

Said rhhardin, in the comments to the last post, the one about stopping at the welcome center in Pennsylvania. It's a sound observation,...

"Sasha undid the object and put it solemnly on the table."

"It was a not very tall candelabra of old bronze and artistic workmanship. It consisted of a group: on the pedestal stood two female fi...

"They became a Wurlitzer for Barack Obama..."

Big Tent Democrat on why the netroots don't get respect. IN THE COMMENTS: rhhardin said: Obama needs the talent to play the Wurlitzer fo...

"What a narrow ridge of normality we all inhabit, with the abysses of mania and depression yawning to either side."

Oliver Sacks on mania. IN THE COMMENTS: rhhardin says: "Yawning'' is boredom. Ha ha. Makes me think of Seinfeld : George: I du...

Guns on campus.

The University of Wisconsin is not a gun-free zone. IN THE COMMENTS: Rhhardin remembers his own high school days, which looked like this: