The death of childhood. Just in case you thought you could parent whatever way you see fit in 2014 America: A North Augusta mother is in jail after witnesses say she left her nine-year-old daughter at a nearby park, for hours at a time. Here are the facts: Debra Harrell works at McDonald’s in North Augusta, South Carolina. For most of the summer, her daughter had stayed there with her,

It’s all about the love, you see.   Right, Jeb? Which raises the question:  why do you even want to represent a party whose base (along with most independents and not insubstantial number of Dems) is at odds with both you and the Obama Administration when it comes to all that caring you exhibit about the noble Other?   It’s the same question I asked of Thad Cochran — who is being

Well, that whole history repeating itself thing seems perspicacious right about now, doesn’t it?  I mean, we’re witnessing the return of the Cold War and a return of various forms of socialism and fascism looking to find scapegoats in the Jews in order to press an agenda that can throw the balance of world power over to the side of centralized control and the crushing of individual liberty, presented as

Interestingly — based on a long Twitter exchange I had with a “staunch erstwhile TEA Party supporter” who has since, he bravely exclaims, broken with the TEA Party over its rank “nativism” and “anti-immigrant” bigotry — I now know that the perishing of these poor noble Others is not the fault of, say, the Obama Administration’s signaling to the third world to rush the borders; it is not the fault