What’s worse: Leon Panetta spending $860,000 in taxpayer money flying home? Or the GSA spending $823,000 on a conference?

In an epic Internet scandal, Obama strategist David Axelrod has bought an expensive condo.

Fox, Rasmussen, and Gallup show Romney slightly ahead of Obama. I’m willing to call it a trend.

The gang at 22words feature an “Amusingly pissed-off letter to Continental Airlines about a seat by the lavatory” written back in 2005.

Why the Internet is awesome: a Taiwanese animatronic take on the Secret Service hookers scandal.

My latest for The National Interest, “Turkey Cries Wolf,” has been posted.

“President Obama” is the answer to “one of these not like the others” in this world leaders photo taken during his Colombia visit.

Republican Mitt Romney leads President Obama 46-44 in the latest Fox News poll of registered voters.

Further cementing his reputation as a sleaze bag, Newt Gingrich is now renting out the private information of his donors.

Alan Dershowitz says the prosecutor who charged George Zimmerman with second degree murder of Trayvon Martin was “irresponsible and unethical” and politically motivated.

The Secretary of State is ignoring a hold by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman.

William Todd committed at least nine felonies in the span of ten hours in Nashville.

Shockingly, the “Springfield” in the long-running sittcom “The Simpsons” is Springfield, Oregon, near where creator Matt Groening grew up.

The Romney campaign is pushing back on the “Republican War on Women” meme with this infographic on “Women & The Obama Economy.”

Now that Rick Santorum is out of the race, what happens to his delegates?

In case you needed more evidence that Allen West is a batshit crazy, he’s spreading rumors that 80 House Democrats are members of the Communist Party.

Animal’s Joel Johnson declares “Comments are Bad Business for Online Media.”

The Washington Post prematurely posted that Rick Santorum was dropping out of the race on its news wire and Bloomberg made the story viral while the Post was verifying its accuracy.

Jeffrey Brown has a children’s book titled Darth Vader and Son scheduled for release on April 18.

I have just, again, walked out of a doctor’s office after being kept waiting too long for an appointment.

The Obama administration admits its push for the “Buffett Rule” is not about dealing with our budget woes.

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has really good reasons for not wanting to be Vice President.

The body of Corporal Patrick R. Glennon will be returned to his family for burial, 52 years after he was declared missing in action in Korea.

Photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton taken in Fayetteville, Arksansas in 1975, the year they married.

OTB’s comment section as a microcosm of the American political landscape.

At the apex of the last economic boom, we were spending far less as a percentage of our income on food, clothing, and transportation than our predecessors of half a century before, with the surplus going mostly to education and health care.

Should you lie to your kids about holiday fantasy characters?

Aaron Shaw and Yochai Benkler have an article in the current issue of American Behavioral Scientist titled “A Tale of Two Blogospheres : Discursive Practices on the Left and Right.”

Marine Sergeant Gary Stein will soon be free to criticize the commander-in-chief all he wants. As a civilian.

The jobs picture–and thus the overall economic forecast–becomes much gloomier with the release of the March Labor report.

Mitt Romney, who has law and business degrees from Harvard, is criticizing President Obama for having a law degree from Harvard.

Newt Gingrich is morally and intellectually bankrupt, so perhaps it’s no surprise that his health care think tank is now fiscally bankrupt.

The Sky News leadership is taking a novel approach to charges that it illegally hacked emails: Claiming a right to break the law when they think it’s in the public’s interest to do so.

Republican leaders seem resigned to a second Obama term. Here’s why it’s no slam dunk.

Andrew Sullivan wants the Catholic Church to give up its hatred of homosexuals. There’s another alternative.

The 5th Circuit has demanded a report from the president on his views about the power of the courts.

Through a stroke of bad luck, the Atlantic Council server was down during a critical Google update

The US Supreme Court ruled today that police can strip search anyone they decide to arrest for anything for any reason.

A new book would classify most of us who consume alcohol as “almost alcoholics.”

Weeks of bizarre talk about contraception and vaginal ultrasounds has surprisingly alienated women from the Republican Party.

We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.

Reports that Nikki Haley might be indicted stemming from a tax fraud investigation are not true.

The student-athlete fairytale is true. Except where you would reasonably expect it to be a lie.

The wonderfully wry British media strikes again with the BBC headline “Soviet ex-KGB chief Leonid Shebarshin ‘kills himself'”

A Reserve Specialist who endorsed Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy in uniform will only be reprimanded, not court martialed.

Dan Drezner declares that “Policy wonks ignore political science journals at their peril.”

Sometimes, art imitates life rather than the reverse. And sometimes reality seems stranger than fiction.