President George W. Bush1600 Pennsylvania Ave.Washington, DC Dear Mr. President: With your permission, I’d like to test out a hypothesis. My theory is that, back in the days of your wild youth, back before Jesus became your favorite philosopher, you must have been a huge Led Zeppelin fan. The lyrics of their classic heavy metal [...]

For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me. Not content to leave the above warning where the Book of Deuteronomy does, certain Roman Catholic clergymen have taken it upon themselves to extend it, [...]

How can social conservatives who yearn for an America where the Ten Commandments are posted on every stationary object across this great nation be so obtuse as to the meaning of those Commandments? I’ve been asking myself that very question after reading the results of a study that found people with conservative ideologies are happier [...]

When it comes to the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover probably gets a bad rap. The fact that he shares a surname with W.H. “Boss” Hoover, whose eponymous firm helped popularize the vacuum cleaner, has only further cemented his reputation as an economic scapegoat. (We had a Hoover in the White House and the economy sucked!) [...]

Several years ago, when I was practicing the craft of journalism in a small town, a co-worker who was disappointed with the community’s exceedingly shallow dating pool planned a trip to Nevada. His primary purpose was the opportunity to patronize one of that state’s legalized brothels. Several of us at the office asked him why [...]

When it comes to the home-lending crisis, I figured that I’d heard it all: People losing their homes, discovering that their homes were not the automatic money-maker that they once were, treasured companion animals abandoned as evicted families leave. But when the loan company foreclosed on Louisville resident Emily Trowel, her problems were only beginning. [...]

When William F. Buckley Jr. died Wednesday at the age of 82, conservatives mourned the loss of an intellectual titan whose life’s work had helped give birth to the modern conservative movement. But seriously, how much brainpower does an individual need to command in order to be considered an intellectual titan in crowds populated by [...]

I’ve never shared Ebenezer Scrooge’s contempt for Christmas. The bustle of the holiday season, the bright lights and the attitude of goodwill toward men affected by even the most avowed secularist all appeal to me. It would never occur to me to extinguish that glow of seasonal joy that is shared by so many. Valentine’s [...]

My fellow progressives: I’m afraid the Republicans have caught on to us. Brett Winterble, a contributor to Human Events, uncovered the bare bones of our plot to take the reins of power from conservatives. Here’s what he’s uncovered so far: What we have is the sick and twisted dreams of Pinch Sulzberger, Don  Imus, Maureen [...]

I was concerned when I saw an online advertisement for Barack Obama Exposed! while surfing the ’Net recently. After all, if a scurrilous, anonymous email that couldn’t even distinguish between the Illinois senator and a lawmaker from Minnesota could cause problems for the campaign, how much damage could be inflicted by a recognizable repository of [...]