On Tuesday, we learned that Islamic State militants had kidnapped some 220 Assyrian Christians in northeastern Syria. The week before,…

Rick Perry is far better at mornings than I am. Rick Perry might be better at mornings than almost anyone….

There’s some controversy as to whether Ted Cruz’s speech yesterday was great or the greatest speech of all time. But…

Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich died yesterday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 54. A Republican, Schweich had…

As the conference has gone on, the potential candidates have gotten increasingly casual. Thursday morning, they were wearing jackets. Thursday…

Actor/director Leonard Nimoy has passed away of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He was 83. Nimoy is, of course, known the…

News has just reached me that Leonard Nimoy, who played the poker-faced and uber-logical Mr. Spock in Star Trek, the…

They predicted that the crowd would be so fed up with Jeb Bush that they’d exit his question and answer…

There is an episode of the TV show Top Gear involving a Prius hybrid and automatic weapons. Oh, how I…

A good five decades ago, the late David Brower, long-time executive director of the Sierra Club, warned his supporters that…