“The beauty of America is that a person can come and even make a disruption, and you know what, that person is not going to be taken out and shot.” – Mike Huckabee

Hey, it can’t be all politics all the time around here. We’re pleased to present for your enjoyment a very short story by brief ITA contributor Michael Mattair entitled, “The Secret Sinners’ Society.”

At last night’s Republican debate in California, Amanda Oro from Casey, Illinois asked “if [the candidates] have a plan to help people with bad credit get lower interest rates so they can keep those homes and avoid foreclosure.” John McCain answered this way (emphasis added): …I...

Thousands of pundit hearts quickened at the news that John Edwards is dropping out of the race. Farewell to theories of Edwards and his delegates as king-maker at a brokered convention! His refusal to immediately make an endorsement more than makes up for that. The commentariat who can now exhaust...

Who won in Florida yesterday? The American people! Why? Because Rudolph Giuliani will not be President of these united States. Despite the fact that he was a strong contender in the GOP Macho Primary, to characterize his campaign as full of machismo is to give it an aura of romance it does not deserve....

This guy deserves some kind of an award. His neighbors fellow citizens deserve scorn.

– Sen. John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, upon Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s decision to deliver the State of the Union as an address rather than in writing. The ritual has only grown worse over the years. As always, I did not watch the State of the Union Show last night. It is simply political...

Andrew Sullivan tips his hat to my post here and earlier noted a post by Rod Dreher at beliefnet, who likens Obama to a Democrats’ Reagan: Look, I don’t want a man who believes the things Barack Obama believes to be president. But I’ve got to confess, he makes me proud of my country....

The United States, unlike the United Kingdom, vests the powers of its Head of State and Head of Government in one single position: the President. Whereas the Head of Government concerns himself or herself with policy and government management, the Head of State is the chief public representative of a...

Here’s a clever site that’s been making the rounds: Books That Make You Dumb. The gist is that the creators downloaded the top ten books at every college listed on Facebook, then correlated the books with the average SAT scores at the colleges at which they are popular. The results, sorted...