Put a sock in it
COMMENTARY
No logos. No untucked shirts. No distracting haircuts. Are you of the generation that endured the hair wars? No hair over the ears used to be the common rule for schoolboys 40 or 45 years ago, and a lot of adult energy went into enforcing it. Full Story
Last gasp for limited government?
OPINION
Republicans fought an inspired battle against the stimulus bill, holding all but three of their 219 senators and congressmen. And they still lost. Some of the almost $500 billion in stimulus spending will enter the permanent "baseline" of the federal budget, the starting point for all future budgets that, in the immutable law of Washington, always grow and never shrink. Full Story
The births of the modern
GUEST OPINION
Coincidences of the calendar don't have much real significance, but they do play a role in our national mythology. The most prominent of these, known to students of history, are the deaths within hours of one another of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — the lead author and advocate, respectively, of the Declaration of Independence. The date they died? Full Story
Reveal and conceal
MUSINGS
Not all journalists are the same. H. L. Mencken, journalist extraordinaire, lived in the America of the first half of the 20th century. Our current politics of huge economic bail out packages and debate over American involvement in war bring Mencken to mind. He did not support the New Deal, nor American involvement in World War II. Full Story
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