Tortured Hero Finds Vir...

Jay Kirk, GQ Magazine On his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sam Brown was set on fire by an improvised explosive device. He survived, only to find himself, like thousands of other vets, doomed to a post-traumatic life of unbearable pain. Even hallucinogen-grade drugs offered little...

High-Speed-Rail: Gettin...

Thomas Sowell, IBD California has a huge state debt and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Governor Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a very costly high-speed rail system.Most of us might be a little skittish about spending...

How Team Obama Plans to...

Tory Newmyer, Fortune Go here to see the original: How Team Obama Plans to Win...

The President’s E...

Theodore Olson, Wall Street Journal How would you feel if aides to the president of the United States singled you out by name for attack, and if you were featured prominently in the president's re-election campaign as an enemy of the people?What would you do if the White House...

The New American Divide...

Charles Murray, Wall Street Journal America is coming apart. For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world—for whites, anyway. "The more...

Romney Debates Romney o...

Michael Kinsley, Bloomberg OK, let’s go through this one more time. In 2006, Mitt Romney, as governor of Massachusetts, guided to passage, signed with a flourish and implemented with fanfare a health-care reform law for his state.It was intended to achieve universal health...

South Carolina May Sett...

Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal Newt's a battering ram who'll wind up in splinters, but he can do plenty of damage along the way. The candidate people immediately speak of here when talk turns to the GOP primary is a man named Romneybut. "I like Romney but I could change...

Romney & the Iowa E...

Cillizza & Blake, Washington Post Mitt Romney begins a three-day tour through Iowa today, a trip sure to re-start the conversation about where the former Massachusetts governor will finish in the first-in-the-nation caucuses in a week’s time.The Romney team — as...

House Shows Why U.S. Ne...

Yuval Levin, Weekly Std On the night Republicans won control of the House of Representatives in November 2010, John Boehner laid out the new Congress’s key priorities: to restrain the growth of government, cut spending, reform how Congress works, and end the uncertainty in the...

I Can Has Cheetah Cub?...

The National Zoo is at it again — it needs names for two cheetah cubs, and it has teamed up with the people behind I Can Has Cheezburger to vote on them. [ more › ] View original here:  I Can Has Cheetah...