Today is Leap Day, occurring every four years as a corrective measure because the earth does not orbit around the sun in precisely 365 days. The Dimmer Switch has a humorous, yet accurate, portrayal of how the West came to adopt the day.

In the absence of 1) noteworthy election-related events and 2) the initiative to report on less-sexy issues, it looks like the media are pouncing on every non-scandal they creeps across the horizon. The latest seems to be the status of John McCain’s natural-borness. This wafted past me a couple...

More news on the Daylight Saving Time Front: some enterprising economists took a look at energy-usage patterns in southern Indiana from before and after our State’s lamentable switch to DST and found, unsurprisingly, that energy consumption increased. Hoosiers may spend less on lighting but more...

Rest in Peace, William F. Buckley. A giant goes home. Also, thumbs up to John McCain for calling out Bill Cunningham (and, by extension, other conservative talk show hosts) for using “Barack Hussein Obama” when referring to the likely Democratic nominee. There’s no reason to use the...

Any time an editorial begins with a corrigendum, the reader knows he’s in for a real treat. Joe Feuerherd, the National Catholic Reporter’s Washington correspondent, does not disappoint with his recent Washington Post editorial where he asked if he would “go straight to …”...

In an incident that may be indicative, in an extremely exaggerated way, of how bitter and divisive the Democratic primary battle has become, a man stabbed his brother-in-law in the stomach in an argument which broke out while watching last week’s Texas debate. This occurred right in my own backyard,...

Polls about the religious views of Americans are not uncommon. But such polls with a sample size of 35,000 are rarely, if ever, seen. Yet that’s precisely the type of poll which the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has conducted. From my brief search it appears to be the largest of its kind...

OR, The Department of Huh?, Reformation Edition From the inbox: Dear Amazon.com Customer, We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated “Concordia: The Lutheran Confessions–A Readers Edition of the Book of Concord” by Paul T. McCain have also purchased “Catechism...

Here’s a dose of cute to brighten your Monday morning. A three-year-old explains Star Wars (Episode IV):

All day, Indiana basketball fans have been waiting for an announcement on the fate of baksetball head coach Kelvin Sampson. If the NCAA’s allegations of rules violations are accurate, he should definitely go. For decades, Indiana has prided itself on running a clean program as much as its successes...