Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Aug 20,2009

New ideas on healthcare reform

Well, they’re not exactly new ideas. They’re new to me. More importantly, they’re ideas that didn’t seem to make the cut for either Democratic or Republican talking points. Which doesn’t...

By AF Editors • Aug 20,2009

Obama fights the GOP’s war in Afghanistan

Jazz linked earlier to the new ABC-WaPo poll results on Afghanistan. I’d like to take a closer look at the data. The Post’s headline reports, Public Opinion in US Turns...

By AF Editors • Aug 20,2009

Afghanistan: The fundamentals of counterinsurgency

This is a response to Jazz’s post from earlier today. Like Jazz, I am disheartened by the carnage in Afghanistan and the lack of progress we’ve made over the past...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 20,2009

The department of double standards, ctd

Megan McArdle has a nice roundup of Reason’s latest string of posts about the hypocrisy of the left. And John McCormack points to an excellent post rounding up the double...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 20,2009

Just tell your kids no

There’s a relatively absurd New York Times piece about a bunch of whiny parents who can’t control their whiny kids (wonder where they get it from) when the ice cream...

By Sonny Bunch • Aug 20,2009

Half-Life with real guns? Awesome! Lack of awareness of irony? Even awesomer!

Via Peter Suderman, I saw this awesome video where a bunch of science/gaming geeks got together and rigged up a system where they could play Half-Life with a real gun....