The Other McCain

Fair market value? Natalie Dylan, 22, claims her offer of a one-night stand has persuaded 10,000 men to bid for sex with her. Last Septembe...

You remember how Edwardsville, Alabama -- " It ain't even a wide spot in the road " -- decided it needed $375 million in fede...

Melissa Clouthier reports on one positive result of the recession: Perky breasts, like hemlines, are going down--reflecting the economic sl...

The news that Rob Portman is running for the Ohio Senate seat being vacated by Sen. George Voinovich is being celebrated by some Republica...

So they would have us believe : Taking the prize in the indignation derby was British Muslim activist Mohammed Shafiq of the Ramadhan Found...

Even with cancer, he's still funny: Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned dinner, let's get...

You can't make this stuff up : Thus as I realized how the cultural imperative on starting a family was unfair to women and the poor, I f...

Golden Globes for both best supporting actress ("The Reader") and best actress ("Revolutionary Road") go to Kate Winsle...

BUMPED (UPDATE BELOW): The Washington Post today quotes as an "expert" Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- a tauto...

Conor Friedersdorf and I have been going 'round for what seems like forever, and today he jumps on me about Sarah Palin : I don't th...

Bono writes with some eloquence on Frank Sinatra's "My Way." I've never much cared for Bono as a singer, and care even le...

In a previous discussion of elite contempt for Sarah Palin , I derogated President Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative: NCLB was noth...

Six weeks after "Melissa Beech" wrote her Sugar Daddy tell-all at the Daily Beast , and three weeks after my own essay examining t...

BUMPED (UPDATES BELOW) England's Prince Harry has apologized for calling an Army colleague a "Paki" : A statement from St Jam...

Arnold Kling points out an obvious fallacy in Keynesian economic theory. Of course, Keynesians are so thoroughly wrong that debunking their...

This won an Australian film festival:

Sort of by accident : Fallout from the exposure of investment manager Bernard Madoff's massive $50 billion Ponzi scheme threw many indiv...

PJM CEO Roger L. Simon : In the midst of something of a media uproar, Joe Wurzelbacher AKA Joe the Plumber has landed or is about to land (d...

Thursday, I wrote about how liberals were spinning the latest teen pregnancy statistics as an argument against abstinence education. I had ...