President Barack Obama handed his political opponents a bludgeon the size of Thor’s hammer Saturday. In a story played up by the Drudge Report but virtually ignored by the New York Times and Washington Post, C-SPAN’s Steve Scully pointed to the…

“God exists, and he’s American” is the judgment of Dr. Milton Glass, fictional nuclear physicist from the acclaimed Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons comic Watchmen, when he learns that Jon Osterman, has come back from the dead. Osterman disputes Glass’s judgment, but…

This January, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley proposed legislation that he promised would fight climate change and “grow” the economy. This week, the state Senate passed the bill, with one of those “Who could disagree with it?” titles the “Greenhouse Gas…

In his address to the Conservative Political Action Convention this weekend, talk radio veteran Rush Limbaugh offered parents advice. “Don’t be afraid to tell children that they’re wrong,” he said. “They don’t know what you do. They simply haven’t lived…

In his inaugural address, President Barack Obama took a dig at his backward predecessor by promising to “restore science to its rightful place” in America. So why, days before he was sworn in, did Obama choose a failed prophet of…

Wlady Pleszczynski On Tuesday we received word that our beloved columnist, Larry Henry, died on Monday, February 9 — his 61st birthday — at Youville Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, of complications of kidney disease. It was a condition about which he…

George W. Bush’s relationship with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Bandar was a close one. They were sometimes spotted holding hands in public in observance of Saudi custom. So when Bandar came calling at the White House shortly after Baghdad had fallen…