Never ascribe to hostility what can be explained by stupidity.

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?

These bridges have needed fixing for 25 years and they're still operating?

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.

A chain of progression - one leads to the next, then the next...

In recent years, the dream of home ownership has gotten farther and farther out of reach, as house prices have escalated. According to a recent study, the primary cause is excessive zoning laws - that is, government over-regulation.