Up from the Slime

(with apologies to Maroon 5) [Barack:] They all liked my smile Praised my big brain I won by a mile Over McCain In every debate Two thousand...

I was struck by this passage in Thomas Edsall's New York Times piece on the "Obama Coalition" : As a practical matter, the Oba...

James Taranto in Best of the Web notes : Drew Westen is back. He's the psychologist and political consultant who wrote a ridiculous but ...

In Best of the Web today, James Taranto notes the cartoonish silliness of the latest (third? fourth?) incarnation of "anti-anti-Obama ...

The floodgates have opened, and there's a torrent of opinion speculating on Barack Obama's intelligence. A recent example is Noemie...

The story goes that in WWII, a machinist's mate on a battleship fended off any work details by keeping constantly busy making a very imp...

The standing joke among Jews is, "If we're the Chosen People, why didn't God promise us some land with OIL under it?" As ...

One of the strangest legends of Jewish mystical folklore is the story of the Golem. The best-known example is the story of the Golem of P...

Yes, the "hard pivot to jobs" is back, for the umpteenth time. The RNC notes that this is the 15th time that the Administration ...

Isn't this a strange juxtaposition of news stories? It was on the World News page of the Daily Telegraph (UK) online edition. So on the...

From Fast Company, a report on SODIS: solar disinfection of water . Today, at least 5 million people in about 30 countries disinfect their d...

I guess they finally got around to watching The Dark Knight : WASHINGTON – The U.S. government has warned domestic and international airline...

The Pew Hispanic Center has studied the impact of the recession and recovery on foreign-born workers in the USA (presumably including legal...

It's swell how the Obama Administration's crack economic team is remaking work in America : • Lower-wage industries -- things like r...