Robert Samuelson is an economics columnist who has tended to be sensible over the years. (The Washington Post classifies its columnists online as either “tending left” or “tending right.” Samuelson shows up on neither list.) He makes the case that both liberals and conservatives are
A woman, Sharon Bialek, has come forward with details about how Herman Cain, currently running for president, groped her. She is not even one of the three women who filed sexual harassment claims against him and won settlements from the National Restaurant Association that he
The Washington Post’s Lisa Miller discovered something that really seems to have surprised her, that the leaders of today’s pro-life movement are actually women, and young well-educated women at that. She seems to have assumed that only men would be against abortion, that all women
The president of MTV, Stephen K. Friedman, explains the Millennial generation’s way of protesting, as evident in the Occupy Wall Street movement. That’s interesting in itself, but what struck me was the concept of “peer-ents” as opposed to “parents.” What many believe to be OWS’s
Ruth Marcus (classified as a “left-leaning” columnist on the Washington Post opinion page) looks at the Democratic strategy for re-electing President Obama: Forget hope and change. President Obama’s reelection campaign is going to be based on fear and loathing: fear of what a Republican takeover
Mississippi voters will decide on Tuesday whether or not to amend their state constitution to define human embryos as persons before the law. But some pro-life groups don’t think this is a good idea. An antiabortion movement that is gaining momentum nationwide is hoping for
According to the Washington Post, when Mitt Romney was governor, he reassured pro-abortionists, gay rights activists, and environmentalists that as he rose through the ranks, he would change the Republican party’s hard-line stance on these issues: Mitt Romney was firm and direct with the abortion
To his great credit, Stephen Colbert is an equal opportunity satirist. A tip of the hat to Bruce Gee for alerting me to this interview with two Occupy Wall Street protesters. The thing is, they, being stone-cold serious, are much more funny than Colbert being
The nation of Bhutan has developed an ideology that is being picked up by other countries: The use of government to make sure its citizens are happy. Whether they like it or not. Some fidget, a few eyes wander here and there, but for a
Football has a new wrinkle, thanks in part to the phenomenon of youth soccer programs: NFL place kickers are connecting on their field goal attempts at a higher rate than ever, threatening to make even long-distance kicks nearly as automatic as extra points. . .
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