Rep. Todd Akin, for now the Missouri GOP’s nominee to take on Sen. Claire McCaskill in November, set off a Twitter firestorm Sunday…

An astroturf Tea Party group — one of dozens trying to cash in — is running this ad on the Drudge Report. Notice anyone missing?

What would C.S. Peirce say about Ron Unz’s IQ essay? Gene Callahan notes that IQ exams are more apt to test familiarity…

I wonder whether Mitt Romney has failed to learn Karl Rove’s lesson. Rove ascribed George W. Bush’s defeat in the 2000 popular vote…

High ideals have a place in politics, but not at the cost of "domestic tranquility."

Wartime passion is no substitute for the soberly considered Constitution.