Tim Kane continues his campaign against the US military’s antiquated personnel system.

A Tel Aviv woman found her car towed and a handicapped parking space painted around where she’d left it.

Ramesh Ponnuru considers “The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans.”

Americans waste $121 billion a year because of traffic congestion.

In “Managing Mom’s Money,” J.D. Roth relates various credit card scams that are difficult to avoid and impossible to get out of once in.

I joined the Army so I could travel, fight, and go on adventures. Just like Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.

A 5-year-old Alabama boy is safe after authorities killed his kidnapper.

Samantha Power is leaving the Obama administration to spend more time with her family. No, really.

Conservatives complaining about biased coverage from the liberal media should instead look in the mirror.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called a controversial NRA claim “ridiculous.”

Christina Hoff Summers argues that America needs to fix the way we educate boys.

Andrew Bacevich bemoans the social impact of the all-volunteer force.

Is America’s focus on defense weakening the country?

Auburn’s famed Toomer’s Corner Oaks will be cut down, an acknowledgment that they’ll never be healthy again after an idiot Alabama fan poisoned them.

Ross Wilson, former US ambassador to Turkey, says yesterday’s suicide attack on our embassy in Ankara “was no Benghazi.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

The “I” in DIA apparently does not stand for Intelligence.

When someone kills himself after being bullied, we rightly condemn the bully. Should we condemn his victim, too?

Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City and one of America’s most colorful politicians, has died at 88.

I have over the years been both editor and edited; currently, I’m both, often in the same day. Some thoughts on the relationship.

A retired Marine gunny argues that women should not be in the infantry since they’re not in the National Football League.

Virginia has decisively killed a bill that would have awarded the Commonwealth’s electoral votes to the winner of gerrymandered congressional districts rather than the statewide winner.

The New York Times breaks the shocking story (“That Cuddly Kitty Is Deadlier Than You Think”) that cats kill birds and small mammals.

The office working to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba has been closed.

David Brooks has an idea that only David Brooks could love.

Since 1877, it has been illegal for unmarried Virginia couples to cohabitate. That may soon change.

Obama’s fundraising team helped raise half a million dollars for Hillary Clinton.

Katherine Applegate, long suffering spouse of frequent OTB commenter Michael Reynolds, has been awarded the Newbery Medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children for The One and Only Ivan.

The Boy Scouts is strongly reconsidering its ban on gays.

Greg Jaffe has an outstanding feature titled “In one Army family, women in combat evokes two different perspectives.”

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta ordered a lifting of the ban on women in ground combat.

Government-mandated paid sick leave might improve both public health and the American economy.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

The Weekly Standard is proud that Mitt Romney’s intentionally false Jeep ad was technically true.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine,” is out.

A company’s best programmer was a Chinese man working for a fifth of what lesser employees earned. Alas, one of those employees was getting paid the other four-fifths.

President Obama has unveiled a set of restrictions that wouldn’t have stopped the Sandy Hook Massacre. Some are nonetheless be good policy.

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

Monday, The Atlantic published and took down a sponsored article from the church of Scientology. Yesterday, it admitted it had “screwed up.”

It turns out, the NRA behind the game is not the National Rifle Association.

New rules mandating full-time benefits for instructors teaching 30 hours predictably led to their hours being cut.

Amusing in light of the birther nonsense:Obama half brother Malik seeks Kenya governor’s office.

For its 60th anniversary, Chevrolet has redesigned the Corvette for 2014. It looks surprisingly like a Corvette.

In news you’ve known for years, Jodie Foster has announced that she’s a lesbian.

No Labels is attempting to relaunch itself after amounting to exactly nothing in the 2012 cycle. Let me save you the trouble: They won’t matter in 2014 or 2016, either.

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party’s thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

In “Veterans and Senate Buddies, Until Another War Split Them,” Elisabeth Bumiller profiles the relationship between Chuck Hagel and John McCain:

David Gregory committed a technical violation of DC’s gun law to make a point on a national news show. Conservative gun control opponents are angry.