To its credit, the Obama Administration is putting together policies aimed at reducing abortions. The current plan is to package together contraception with aid to pregnant women. Since they consider contraception immoral, Catholic bishops and...

Dr. Helen posts “A Few Questions About Benie Madoff:” I just read the verdict of 150 years for Bernard Madoff and all I can really think is “Why is it that someone who set up a Ponzi scheme gets more jail time than the majority of murderers?” I...

In a recent bloggingheads diavlog, David Frum expresses notes the level of resentment in conservative talk radio: Maybe part of the explanation can be found in passages like this: Oh, I see, the while middle class has just stubbornly refused to...

Rob Neyer writes of Stephen Strasburg only getting to negotiate with one team that drafts him: Scott Boras wonders what Stephen Strasburg would do, if he had been born in Tibet. Well, that’s a cute little rhetorical trick, but if Strasburg had been...

Instead of the full-court press, the real strategy an insurgent team should pursue is three-point shooting. What three-point shooting does is increase the variance in outcomes for an offensive possession, and, therefore, increase the probablility that...