The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.

With fifty states in the union, we have fifty different laboratories in which to test different approaches to a problem.

Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.

Can we have a little dignity please?

Who owns your mortgage? It might just be...nobody.

Having been put on the scent, the blogosphere discovered that this was only the tip of the iceberg.

Not only don't we need one, we're better off without one.

Can you really put a price on a lifetime of voting?

Why "Hillary"? In 1980, did we have a race between Ronald and Jimmy?

We are beginning to see an unholy alliance forming between libel law and a desire to make unpleasant people be quiet.