Yet another study shows that people who drink diet soda actually gain weight. But it probably doesn’t matter, since that’s not why people drink them.

While his best-known solo effort was “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, [and] anti-capitalistic,” John Lennon became a Reagan Republican a few years later, his assistant claims.

When Tom Petty found out Michele Bachmann was using his “American Girl” to introduce campaign events, he issued a letter saying, in essence, “Don’t do me like that.”

The draft ended in 1973. It’s effects still linger today.

Sure, Radley Balko has apologized to John Cole. But I don’t think he means it.

Some people have no sense of humor.

The Senate Republican leader is running a shrewd political game. But what’s good for the GOP is bad for America.

The selective application of international law is here to stay.

Rock Diaz likes to wear Army cammies and “Marine Corp” dog tags when he flies. The portly Long Island man has never served in the military.

What if in 1861 a cable news network existed to broadcast the events of the day?

160 million girls are “missing” owing to selective abortion and cultural preferences for male children.

Jack Kirby’s heir are trying to posthumously renegotiate half-century old deals with Marvel.

The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.

Australia’s ABC News has video smuggled out by an activist showing widespread famine in North Korea, including filthy children begging in the streets and evidence that even soldiers are not getting enough to eat.

Should President Obama do whatever General Petraeus wants in Afghanistan?

If someone had given me ten guesses as to the biggest electricity hog in my house, I’d have never guessed it: The set-top box that houses my DirecTV signal and DVR.

While the Constitutionality of the War Powers Act is indeed dubious, the fact that it was passed over Nixon’s veto isn’t the reason.

We got out of the hospital yesterday afternoon and are resuming something approaching our new normal now.

Ppartisan politics no longer stops at the water’s edge. This is a bad sign for the Republic.

Gene Weingarten is not a fan of journalists building a brand.

Florida Today’s Jeff Parker offers this take on President Obama’s Afghanistan “drawdown,” which will culminate in getting American forces down to Bush era levels by the end of 2012.

Our second girl, Elizabeth Webb Joyner,was delivered at 8:35 pm Eastern Tuesday evening.

US News editor-in-chief Mort Zuckerman explains “Why the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks.”

Paul Krugman thinks liberals understand conservatives but not vice versa. He’s half right.

President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of the 30,000 Surge troops.

When everyone can record video at any time and post it for all the world to see, is there such a thing as privacy anymore?

As of June 17, Sarah Palin is a registered US trademark, serial number 85-170,226.

Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton: “I will say this, unequivocally: I would not work in Barack Obama’s administration.”

Daily Show host Jon Stewart spent 15 minutes on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace trying to explain why he thinks Fox is a propaganda machine.

C. Boyden Gray, former White House Counsel and EU Ambassador, has signed on as the chair of the Jon Huntsman policy team, Mark Halperin reports.

States are racing to put obstacles in front of voters in the name of fraud prevention.

The Internet’s dot.com period may be under assault, as brand-specific domains become available.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission, says fundamentalist Christians are a far bigger problem than Muslims. And, no, he’s not anti-religion.

I’ve been arguing for years that what the Republican Party needs is to embrace its crazies and play more to racist elements in its base. It looks like someone’s listening.

President Obama overruled his top legal advisors in deciding that the Libya operation does not amount to “hostilities” under the War Powers Act.

A distinguished linguist is quite impressed with Sarah Palin’s facility with the written word.

The Netherlands is considering a new animal cruelty law that would effectively ban kosher and halal slaughter practices.

Mitt Romney told a group of unemployed Florida voters that he was unemployed, too! It’s being touted as a gaffe on Twitter but appears to be a joke.

Nate Beeler titles his latest cartoon “The Duffer.”

A retiree with some rather strange views hosted a Tim Pawlenty event.

Good riddance to Anthony Weiner. But what makes him so special?

Michele Bachmann is not Sarah Palin.

Despite one headline to the contrary, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger did not endorse Jon Huntsman as our next president today.

Ousting evil dictators is harder than it looks.

David Rittgers, a legal policy analyst at the Cato Institute who served three tours in Afghanistan as a special forces officer, laments the militarization of police in America.

The modern equivalent of selling ice to Eskimos.