Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Without adult su….

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to….

Nevertheless, it is probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incrementa….

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it..

Of course, certain religious expressions are fine. If a tribe of Aqualishes wants to boil rhino horns in frog saliva on the National Mall to honor th….

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral trium….

Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the n….

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great..

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests..

If you don't like tomato soup, you don't buy tomato soup..

Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any r….

People in positions of power and privilege have a duty to perform at a higher level. If not them, then who?.

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only ….

Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation..

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon ….

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed..

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me in a dumpster, but since she didn't, I ….