Andy McNab writes books for people who like video games.

We’re producing more PhDs and JDs than there are full time openings for professors and lawyers.

House Republicans want to do away with the increasing number of “czars” in the White House.

President Obama’s comments about the “relatively modest pay” earned by Robert Gibbs and other high level government workers may be a bit tone deaf. But they’re right.

The American military personnel system works against keeping the best and brightest officers in the service.

Captain Dee Mewbourne, who previously commanded the EISENHOWER, will skipper the ENTERPRISE.

New research shows that “across the world the main social groups which practice polygyny do not consume alcohol” and, conversely, “a positive correlation between monogamy and alcohol consumption (and especially between monogamy and drunkenness) across societies.”

Why is the press gushing over routine movement in White House team?

David Kurtz reports, “House Republicans are about to use “deem and pass” — a.k.a., a self-executing rule — which you may recall was the same legislative mechanism they decried last year during the health care reform debate as a threat to all that is right and good about America.”

President Obama is likely to issue a signing statement in order to keep his Gitmo options open.

Getting an American passport will set you back around $230. Is that reasonable?

John P. Wheeler III, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund during the Ronald Reagan era, has been murdered.

A Michigan man faces five years in prison for reading his wife’s email.

Andrew Sullivan makes a rather bizarre charge offhandedly: “Who among the neocons would have thought that one of George W. Bush’s final legacies would be bringing pogroms, bombings and genocide to Christians in his new zone of freedom?”

Christopher Hitchens explains how to make tea.

Despite federal laws banning even prison officials from bringing phones inside, tens of thousands of inmates have smartphones.

Shania Twain has married Frederic Thiebaud, former husband of Marie-Anne Thiebaud, the woman Twain’s ex-husband Mutt Lange had an affair with.

Wealthy Manhattanites are clamoring for a new status symbol: their own washer and dryer!

Chicago’s next mayor will be either Rahm Emanuel or Carol Moseley Braun.

President Obama and Chief Justice Roberts are calling for bipartisanship in the New Year.

Aaron Tobey stripped to his underdrawers in a Richmond, Virginia airport in support of the 4th Amendment.

President Obama likes to go back to his Hawaii home town and live like a regular guy for a few days.

Congrats to Gary Farber, who is starting his 10th year of blogging.

Like it or not, the U.S. Constitution has always been a political document, evolving depending on the players on the stage.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton top Gallup’s lists of Most Admired Americans.

What is the proper conservative response to Santa Claus?

Frustrated that it couldn’t achieve desired environmental legislation despite huge majorities in both Houses of Congress, the Obama administration has decided to govern by executive fiat.

A Christmas tree tweets.

Republicans are renaming three House committees, including bring back Ethics and taking out Labor.

If Democrats had been this effective the previous two years, would they have lost as badly in November?

Is calling Côte d’Ivoire “Ivory Coast” linguistic colonialism? Where do we draw the line when English names for countries go out of vogue?

President Obama is supporting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Is this the end of America?

So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.

Two Ohio congressional districts are taking their talents to South Beach.

Sarah Palin’s reality show as as popular as the critically acclaimed drama everyone’s talking about. And that’s just half the story.

Red States should gain 10 seats while Blue States should lose eight.

New polling shows that Mitt Romney is well behind the Fox News candidates for 2012.

Now that gays will be allowed to serve openly in the military, the command will have some new issues to address.

Geno Auriemma and his UConn Huskies should rightly be enormously proud of their accomplishments. But comparing them to John Wooden’s is embarrassing.

The repeal of DADT may open the doors for ROTC to return to many elite institutions, if cost doesn’t get in the way.

The institutions charged with solving our Information Age social problems are stuck in the Industrial Age.

Do graduates of elite colleges earn more because of where they went to school? Or because of the traits that got them selected?

As the internet becomes more ingrained in our lives, it’s become a tool for parenting. And a break from it.

You can log in any time you like. But can you ever leave?

Fed examiners made a bank take down a “Merry Christmas, God With Us” sign. Then the “system” kicked in.

Is “ObamaCare” a slur or a breezy and descriptive nickname?