From Ramesh Ponnuru, writing at the Corner: The National Review Institute and Hillsdale College are throwing a conference devoted to that very topic in Washington a week from today. Confirmed speakers include Rich Lowry, Heather MacDonald, David Brooks, Andrew McCarthy, Frederick Kagan, and Yuval Levin. And if this somehow doesn’t work, the next step will be to dig up William Buckley and hold a seance, with John Derbyshire present to

FOXNews: You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars. Ads proclaiming, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake,” will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday. In lifting lyrics from “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” the Washington-based group is wading into what has

That’s not the Democratic Secretary of State Mark Ritchie I knew! From the WSJ: You’d think Democrats would be content with last week’s electoral rout. But judging from the odd doings in Minnesota, some in their party wouldn’t mind adding to their jackpot by stealing a Senate seat for left-wing joker Al Franken. When Minnesotans woke up last Wednesday, Republican Senator Norm Coleman led Mr. Franken by 725 votes. By

The bottle says not to operate heavy machinery after drinking this stuff, but what the fuck, let’s chance it. Ain’t like healthcare costs anything. And insurance is, like, a fundamental right.

Editor and Publisher: As newspaper Web sites blend in more with blogs that do not hold to the same journalistic rules, there is greater pressure to “write like them” — and sometimes cut corners on the principles of objectivity and balance that have been the oft-stated mainstay, for better or worse, of newspaper news coverage. “I see a lot of cheering in the press box that used to not be

A man of his word. A man of honor. A man to be trusted. A good man: Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim. “Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel,” a top Bush source warned. “BUSH AND OBAMA AT

Really, people. Don’t act like those odious Democrats did. Describing Obama’s attempts to move the country far to the left should be undertaken in the measured and refined tones of a Bill Buckley fart. Because Republicans, why, they have more class. — Oh. And a few million less presidential votes, fewer House and Senate seats, and, soon, a diminished role in the judiciary. But still: they have more class! So,

My thanks and well-wishes to the men and women who have served this country — many of them who engaged in the “air raiding of villages and the killing of civilians,” and “at times [have] personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion