Our prisons are failing in all three purposes.

Freedom means the right to make unwise decisions.

Why do we lock people up?

America no longer agrees on what is patriotic.

Yes, Obama can recess-appoint Elizabeth Warren - and he should.

The NY Times wants union workers to ride their gravy train all the way into national bankruptcy.

Wasting highway stimulus funds on the U.S. Bicycle Route System.

Who died and made the judge king?

And other virtual feats of economic daring.

In which Weiner gets the shaft.