Commentary - America's Future

By Sonny Bunch • Sep 11,2009

Are you ready for some football?

I am. America’s long national nightmare is over. I think the Sports Guy’s summary of just how crazy this offseason has been is a fair one; I can’t believe that...

By AF Editors • Sep 10,2009

Obama vs. Joe Wilson on the Truth-o-meter

Joe G. noted earlier that Joe Wilson scored very poorly on Politifact’s Truth-o-meter. Since that post, there have been five more targeting Rep. Wilson, including Kathy’s moderately titled, Is there...

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...