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Are you following the mayoral election in Chicago?  It's a crazy scenario, with 14 candidates,...

What, you ask, is the "third sex" or "third gender"? It depends. In Oregon, it's...

Hey, readers! I just linked to my most recently published Federalist article, and have also,...

In 1982, a child was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with a condition called a tracheoesophageal...

Let me start with a story or two about World War II. One visit home,...

Yes, I know, the Ben Shapiro meme is "facts don't care about your feelings."  But...

This post has been updated since its original publication to reflect analysis of the Pastoral...

To recap:  in my prior post, I wrote about the new New York law, and...

Meanwhile, while we've been arguing about whether or not the Covington kids were innocent, or...

Subtitled The Marshall Plan & America's Coming of Age as a Superpower. Folks, I had...

Readers, I typed this up back just before Christmas, but didn't publish it.  Seems even...

That's the way this works, isn't it? After all, on Saturday afternoon and evening, twitter...

Reports are swirling that Trump is planning on proposing a DACA/TPS extension in exchange for...

Readers, sometimes I write because I think I have something that's worth sharing.  This isn't...

Here's an Eric Zorn column from a couple days ago, partially reprinted in Sunday's Trib: ...

  Oh, man, I started the day with the firm resolve to figure out the...

So we are now actually arriving at that point at which government workers are about...

In the Atlantic the other day (well, actually two weeks ago or thereabouts), "Five Ways...

It would seem that I have not, despite multiple years of blogging, blogged about her,...

I should clarify that I probably would not, but that's largely because (a) I'm an...

Here's something from twitter: and And I don't want to get into a dispute...

I admit to having disengaged somewhat from the reports on the abuse crisis in the...

Let's start with the fact that I am not a fan of the near-constant drumbeat...

What's the True Meaning of Christmas? Seems like, lately, it's about bickering about said True...

The "right" lesson is, of course, that in order to ensure one's signature reform is...

You know, if I looked around in my blog archives, I'd probably find a post...

That's what I've been writing about at Forbes. I had planned to do a couple...

OK, now I've seen it all from twitter. As Campus Reform (and other sources) reported,...

Did you watch the Bush funeral yesterday?  I didn't in real time, but thanks to...

The above is not my photo; it's just an image pulled from Wikimedia Commons but...