What is it about moving pictures, music, and voice-over that takes a charming idea straight to hell?

I've blogged the "Yes We Carve" Obama pumpkin before, but that was at the still photography stage. Here's the video: Poss...

A legislative scheme to overcome the Supreme Court's ban on the death penalty for child rape.

Jac thinks he may have discovered one: So, the Kennedy decision was based on various factors, but the main one was "evolving standards...

Some celebrities figure out how to do the celebrities-in-politics thing exactly right.

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People are waiting in line for hours to vote in Florida.

Where voting started today. *** And Obama's not coming to Madison. Yeah, I didn't see much point to it. He's already got Madis...

Nebraska backtracks from its "safe haven" law that had parent abandoning not just babies, but older kids.

You'll have to drop off the kid in its first 3 days. The government is happy to accept your cute little adoptable babies, but you'r...

Did Sarah Palin just come out in support of the federal marriage amendment?

She says: "[I]n my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Cons...

"While we Brits slumped, hung-over, on benches with coffee and Sunday papers, US mothers were getting down and dirty in the sandpit."

"'Good job!' they cried at each misshapen mud pie." Janice Turner does not like American-style alpha-momism. Lisa Belkin ...