This deserves at least partial credit.

Yesterday I received in the mail my copy of Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes by Gerard N. Magliocca. At various periods spanning two years I served as a research assistant to Prof. Magliocca on this project. He is, without reservation, the finest professor...

I love Fred Thompson and hope he decides to seek the presidency. But beyond his public life I did not know much about his personal one. Yet thanks in part to a slew of posts here regarding the former Senator I recently became aware of his wife, the former Jeri Kehn. To put it simply, she is a bombshell...

As noted below, James Dobson doesn’t think Fred Thompson is a Christian. This seems like an extraordinary pronouncement, so perhaps, thought I, that Thompson had gone all Hollywood and adopted Kabbalah or Buddhism. You know how those actors are. A followup comment from Dr. Dobson’s spokesman...

Some additional thoughts about Fred Thompson. I couldn’t find space for it in my last post, but I really like this Matt Yglesias article from American Prospect. While writing on the other side of the aisle, I think Yglesias puts his finger on why conservatives are waiting for a white knight like...

And I thought the “mark of the beast,” as described in Revelation 13, would consist of a tattoo. Then again, we were raised on A Thief in the Night in Sunday School. Not so for a former Hertz employee, who has filed a Title VII (42 U.S.C. 2000e) suit against the company for not allowing...

If you prefer plastic at the end of the line and live in San Francisco, your days are numbered. It appears that the city may be the first to pass a plastic bag ban; after a 10-1 vote it is poised to become law when Mayor Here’s Your License Newsom signs it into law. Not surprisingly, a number...

What are we to make of the Fred Thompson boomlet that is going on among the Republican Party regulars these days? A recent USA Today/Gallup poll shows Thompson, who first mentioned he’s considering running two weeks ago, pulling in 12 percent of those polled, a solid third behind Giuliani (31...

Don’t tell me you’ve never imagined doing something like this. (Or is that just me?)

This sounds like something straight out of South Park, but according to reports, Michael Jackson is in discussions to have a 50-foot robotic likeness of himself roam the desert near Las Vegas, shooting laser beams. Feel free to leave your related jokes in the comments.