Fun link for Friday: campaign logos from 1960-2008. Lots of red, white, and blue, as you’d expect. Some you can date just by looking at them. It’s also interesting to note how, until Fred Thompson this year, candidate photos basically disappeared from logos. A few notable ones: Tom Vilsack...

Scanning through Zach’s shared items on the right, I came across (via Kevin Drum) George Packer’s long article on the fall of conservatism from the most recent New Yorker. The really short version is that having achieved the majority of its policy goals, and no longer possessing a Soviet...

About a week ago John McCain appeared on the daytime talk show of Ellen Degeneres. Ellen brought up “the elephant in the room” of gay marriage which led to an interesting exchange between the two: The important thing I took away from the exchange was not the positions of Ellen and McCain;...

It’s that time of the year again. All interested IU alumni can find my analysis and endorsement below the fold.

At their convention over the weekend, the Libertarian Party nominated former Republican congressman Bob Barr to be its standard bearer in the 2008 presidential race. Barr is probably best known for his role in the Clinton impeachment, but in recent years has become a vocal critic of the Bush Administration...

So to the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer, it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiasm and faith is the condition of acting greatly....

Prayers would be appreciated for Grammy-winning Christian county star Steven Curtis Chapman, whose youngest daughter was killed in a tragic accident on Wednesday. 5-year-old Maria Sue was struck by an SUV being driven by one of her teenage brothers in the driveway of the Chapman home in Franklin, Tennessee....

While Indy might not be a great movie, as Josh reports below (I haven’t seen it yet), it is still upsetting some of the right people. The Communist Party in Russia has denounced the film for being anti-Communist propoganda. They say it distorts history and, true to form, have called for banning...

I went to see the new feature this evening. I had read the negative reviews, and had heard that it just wasn’t up to par. But I believed, and hoped, that the impetus for these reviews were over-inflated expectations and movie snobs looking to bring down a likely box office success. And so I went...