Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Sep 10,2009

Obama: Ignore (other people’s) scare tactics

Those talk show hosts are awful. They say the most awful things. But it’s the President who runs the country, so I’m much more concerned with his disingenuity. From last...

By AF Editors • Sep 10,2009

Dem corruption

The editors of the New Republic have some harsh words[subscription only] for House Democrats, who toppled a GOP majority in 2006 by promising to clean up Washington. Charlie Rangel and...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 10,2009

Markets in Everything: Endangered Species Edition

Ronald Bailey highlights a new Scientific American article exploring the unintended consequences of endangered species lists: Many conservationists around the world favor enacting and enforcing laws to prohibit capturing or...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 10,2009

And they laughed at the phrase “liberal fascism”

The lede of Thomas Friedman’s 9/8 column: Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one...

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 08,2009

People confuse me

I honestly don’t understand why some on the right were freaking out last week about Obama’s speech to school children. What’s the problem? I agree that the lesson plans that...

By AF Editors • Sep 04,2009

I feel an addiction coming on

Just watched the first episode of (the new) Battlestar Galactica. I wanted to try it, but assumed it would keep my interest for only a few episodes. My wife only...