Commentary

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 22,2010

Telling stories: "Extraordinary Measures" and health care reform

In my review of the new CBS Films docudrama Extraordinary Measures for The Weekly Standard, I mention that the film (perhaps inadvertently) makes a powerful case for one of the...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 22,2010

Citizens United

I haven’t blogged at all about the Citizens United ruling because I literally cannot fathom people defending a law that bans groups of people who have banded together from uttering...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 21,2010

GASP! John Edwards, how dare you!

I believed in you, sir. I believed in you, and you rip my heart out like this? You went on television and *shudder* lied to the American people? How dare...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 21,2010

The New Yorker on Neil Gaiman

For some reason I’m kind of fascinated by Neil Gaiman. I can’t really point to why — I was never a fan of Sandman and only relatively recently read Good...

By Sonny Bunch • Jan 20,2010

From the department of "Who cares what you think?"

Andrew posted a few emails he received re: Coakley’s choke-job* and amongst the usual whinging — “Oh no, the democratic process might stop something I want done!” and “She lost...

By AF Editors • Jan 20,2010

Liberal Dems: Where's our spine?

Congressional Democrats are abandoning ObamaCare like passengers on a sinking Titanic. Liberal writers are deeply ashamed. Kevin Drum writes: I and my readers are mostly the sober, pragmatic sorts. Willing...