Ross Douthat thinks he’s found the secret to the President’s eventual success: What Obama does have, though, is an atmosphere of crisis and a massively-unpopular opposition party, which grants him an unparalleled political opportunity to pass whatever spending the Democratic Party likes,...

March is Women's History Month , and a good time to recognize the libertarian chick triumvirate of Isabel Patterson, Ayn Rand and Rose Wilder Lane . Yes, that Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of the author of the Little House on the Prairie series— Laura Ingalls Wilder . Miss Lane has been called the Gh...

For those who joined today, I hope you got something out of the interview with Bart. We had a technical glitch and I was unable to see who had called in, but it will be smooth sailing next time. If you missed it, you should be able to listen to the archived show here. We can continue the conversatio...

Taxpayer asks: I want to ask if scans of receipts are acceptable as proof for the IRS. I’ve got receipts that are only one year old and they are already unable to be read due to fading. If we are somehow able to scan the receipt and save a digital copy of the information, do we still need the ...

Radley Balko has been on Mississippi state medical examiner Steven Hayne’s case for years.  He has gathered a fair bit of evidence that Hayne is not only an unqualified hack, but that he has a history of saying anything and everything, no matter how bizarre, that a prosecutor wants to hear in...

The American Princess has a fantastically funny, yet incredibly insightful, post up.  With all the talk about how Southern states are out of step with the rest of the country and how we view things so very differently, perhaps the rest of the country ought to consider adopting our views and not the...

A few weeks ago, the Governor of Utah came out in favor of civil unions for gays and lesbians. One might have expected that he would pay a tremendous political price for that in a state as conservative as Utah, but that doesn’t appear to be the case: Gov. Jon Huntsman stirred fresh debate when...

In hard times it's more important than ever to ensure that you pay no more than necessary for the essentials of life. In our list of 50 ways to get the most from your money here are six tips on savings....

Hugh Macleod posted an interesting video to his blog. He does marketing for Stormhoek wine, from South Africa, and they recently did a release party for a new wine in the small town of Alpine, Texas, where Hugh now lives. Specifically, they did it at Harry's Tinaja, and the video is an interview wit...

Words matter and statistics don’t lie, says the managing editor of Political Base. Then I ran Word’s readability tool. Guess what? Bush’s answers were spoken at 7th grade level. Obama’s at a 10th grade level. He’s got charts too, go see! This seems to bear out in cold h...