We get transfixed on the oddest things. Last week, Obama, unwisely, interjected himself into the Gates Arrest controversy. He then comes out the next day, and says that he called the police officer, apologized for implying that the officer or the Cambridge PD was stupid, and then invited the Officer to the White [...]

What is the number one watched program on cable news? If you guessed The O’Reily Factor, as I’m sure most of you did, you’d be correct. Bill is averaging these days close to three million viewers on any given weekday. In case you were curious, that’s about twice as many people as [...]

There is a lot of talk about the future of the GOP, so I thought I would look at it from a different perspective. Let’s ask the question: who will be the next few GOP presidential candidates? So I thought I would create a list of the potential contenders.
I tried to limit the [...]

Politicians are strategic actors. They plan. They scheme. They compromise when they think it will get them what they want, and they hold out for a better deal when they think it won’t. When legislators can’t reach a compromise position (on a budget, or on health care, or on immigration, or [...]

Sit down in a circle everybody, because Uncle Mike is going to tell the story of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., with editorial comments injected. (I’ve been taking care of a two year old all week, sorry.)
Our story begins with Professor Gates returning from a trip to find himself locked out of [...]

An interesting Op-Ed on why the current health care reform proposal is a bad idea. Its remarkably short on details and evidence, and long on polemic, but at the same time it does manage to reflect a number of my concerns with the reform. I know that there is a sense of urgency, [...]

An atheist group is suing to keep the words “in G-d we trust” off the new capital building visitors center. They claim that it alienates atheists, and is offensive and discriminatory against non-believers. As an atheist, I don’t necessarily agree with that.
However, being swept under the rug is the fact that [...]

This is why special interest groups get such a bad reputation. It’s rather sickening.

“In Ricci, Judge Sotomayor’s empathy for one group of firefighters turned out to be prejudice against another.” — Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL, Ranking GOP Senator on the Judicial Committee
Let’s look at that statement closely.

Why are abortion protesters disrupting the hearings and protesting outside? Sotomayor has basically no abortion record, so far as I can find. Her only ruling on the topic that I’m aware of involved reducing abortion rights. The anti-abortion crowd has no cause for protesting this pick; why are they making a fuss [...]