Somehow, we have reached the point where we view democracy and elections as ends in themselves. But they aren't.

A nation has to be unified enough that people want to share a government.

Antiwar movies are all losing money by the truckload.

Never ascribe to hostility what can be explained by stupidity.

Leaders know that there's nothing as disruptive as information.

The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?