It never ceases to amaze me how many smart people manage to believe, against all evidence to the contrary, that their political philosophy has massive support.

Workers account for 80% of the Postal Service budget vs. 53% at UPS and 32% at FedEx.

The idea that students raised in the Information Age are therefore savvy about information is a dangerous but pervasive myth.

Contrary to myth, the college classroom is a rapidly evolving place.

The Western fetish for turning cheap, efficient food into expensive, inefficient fuel is threatening the food supply–as is the European superstition against genetically modified foods.

Many Americans die from preventable dental disease because they can’t afford care.

Steve Clemons highlights former first lady Laura Bush’s continuing work in promoting education and international engagement.

The last time black unemployment was this high Barack Obama was fresh out of college. Now, he’s in the White House.

WaPo humor columnist Gene Weingarten doesn’t think DC’s speed cameras are funny.

Did Speaker Boehner insult President Obama by snubbing his speech request? If so, so what?

Raw Story tweeted “Republicans in Rep. Giffords’ district plan to raffle off the same type of gun Jared Loughner used. ” This links to their own story demonstrating that they’re doing no such thing.

The debt ceiling debate may turn out to be Obama’s Katrina.

America’s journalists are far more liberal than America.

Excluding all moral concepts and language from my thinking, feeling and actions has proved so workable and attractive, I am convinced that anyone who gives it a fair shot would likely find it to his liking.

Arthur C. Clarke predicts the future on a 1964 BBC Horizon program.

How hard is it to schedule one measly jobs speech?

How would a Democrat-equivalent of Rick Perry be received?

Supreme Court nominees were confirmed quite easily within recent memory. What’s changed?

A political scientist whose formula has correctly picked every presidential winner since 1984 says Barack Obama will be re-elected.

Romney’s VFW speech was filled with tropes and bromides but nothing that should raise eyebrows.

Government workers are among society’s favorite whipping boys. Why?

No Cell Phones In Class!! Breaks it…

The very question is rather dubious.

Dirk Benedict, who played Lt. Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop.

What are the contours of “mainstream” religious thought in today’s America?

Hurricane Irene has been much, much less severe than heralded.

Political journalists aren’t like you and me. Well, you, anyway.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

It’s a shame that Duverger’s Law doesn’t come with criminal penalties.

Why Big Army has trouble with small wars.

My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”

Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.

A Navy board of inquiry consisting of three admirals has voted to keep Captain Owen Honors, who was relieved as captain of the Enterprise, on active duty.

Either a bunch of bloggers or one of the world’s smartest economists doesn’t understand economics.

When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.

Money isn’t the only benefit some receive for their work.

There are 164 technically acceptable transliterations of the name of Libya’s soon-to-be-former dictator.

The Atlantic has published an essay I wrote yesterday morning titled “Libya After Qaddafi: Lessons from Iraq 2003.”

Steve Benen has coined the phrase “Thank America Last” to describe those avoiding praise of President Obama for success in Libya.

Well, let’s not start sucking each other’s dicks quite yet.

After months of fits and starts, it appears anti-Gaddafi forces are on the verge of victory.

Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center and founder of CNS News, calls Christine O’Donnell’s walking off the set of Piers Morgan was “beyond indefensible. It was downright bizarre.”

How did we survive without all the molly-codding kids today get?

Schools of education attract the weakest students and give out the highest grades on campus.