"By treating any and all social safety nets as irreversible steps on the Road to Serfdom, we allow liberals and progressives to shape those policies in ways that are inefficient, ineffective, and overbroad – even though Adam Smith, Hayek himself, and Friedman each advocated for …

I personally don't care about Sarah Palin's views on social issues, or that she hunted wolves from a helicopter (whether or not I would do the same or share an opinion on said social-issues).

Racist? Funny? Bizarre? All of the above? Does Rich Lowry just not understand the difference between various people with browner skin than his...?

Ross Douthat's first column at the New York Times:

I was out drinking beers with a friend last night, sitting on the patio of a local brewery in the cold April air and waxing poetic about the many pleasures of living in a mid-sized city with lots of good local culture and a downtown that is thriving and healthy and non-corporate.

In these serious times, conservatives need to get serious and ditch the gimmicks and the self-referential credentializing and talk to the entire country.

House Democrats recently unveiled draft legisla­tion for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.[1] Widely touted as an economic stimulus package, the $825 billion draft legislation included as much as $142 billion for education.[2] This includes the creation of a $7 …

When last did you hear a conservative spokesman deplore yet another six-lane highway, yet another fast-food alley, yet another graceless subdivision, yet another Super Wal-Mart or Lowe's that sucks the life out of small village businesses, yet one more onslaught against neighbo …

Iran's active state sponsorship of Middle East terrorist groups is well documented, from terrorist and insurgent groups in Iraq and Afghanistan to Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas and PIJ in the West Bank and Gaza. The Iranian regime has been described by U.S.

The American tradition of public school is almost as old as the Union itself. The first major proponent of a strong public school system was Thomas Jefferson, who believed that in order for a Republic to function its populace must have at least a rudimentary education.

In 1795 President George Washington pardoned members of what came to be known as the Whiskey Rebellion, exercising his right as President to pardon Federal offenders.

The problem now, as in 1929 to 1940, is that the economy is not functioning normally. It is shot through and through with fear, even terror. Worse yet, and unlike the situation in the Depression, government miscues have been only a part of the problem.

I'm not sure about "Last Supper" though. I mean, in that movie, the yuppie liberals are serial killers, and they get what's coming to them in the form of an unexpectedly smart conservative pundit....

Setting aside the overly happy smile that doesn't go with the body and the fact that the body is too chubby for Palin, I blew it up in my graphics program and, yes, the head is pasted on.

Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast -- a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins -- would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials.

"I do not think the president had any knowledge" of the revelation of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity, Scott McClellan said at a House Judiciary committee hearing. "In terms of the vice president, I do not know."