David Wayne is a Presbyterian minister in Maryland who blogs here as the JollyBlogger. The name comes from a C.S. Lewis passage which reads, “Grace substitutes a full, childlike, and delighted acceptance of our Need, a joy in total dependence. We become ‘Jolly Beggers.’” I met...

Kudos to National Review’s editors for calling out the Obama birth certificate stuff for the nonsense that it is. This is the key quote: “The myth that Barack Obama is ineligible to be president represents the hunt for a magic bullet that will make all the unpleasant complications of his...

Tweeting Too Hard is a website right up my alley. It’s a website “[w]here self-important tweets get the recognition they deserve.” Mmmm, nothing helps gets the morning jump-started like self-important, narcissistic, vacuous tweets. Previously on ITA: I Hate Twitter by J. Claybourn Twitter-ific!...

There have been several replies to my post titled “‘Stupid’ Disorderly Conduct Laws” which are worth highlighting here. Reason editor Jacob Sollum offers his take here, though fellow Reason editor and ITA friend Radley Balko arguably offers the best and most comprehensive take...

Matt Drudge’s latest fascination concerns a dust-up between the Cambridge Police Department and one of Harvard’s preeminent black scholars, Henry Louis Gates, after he was seen forcing his way into his own house. A neighbor notified police of a possible break-in, and after being questioned...

While promoting his health care reform plan yesterday, President Obama emphasized that he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for his plan. This is consistent with his campaign promise to not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year. When politicians concede that tax hikes...

During last year’s campaign, Barack Obama lashed out at the Bush administration’s secrecy and promised to clean things up. Here’s some language straight off the Obama Organizing for America website: The Problem Lobbyists Write National Policies: For example, Vice President Dick Cheney’s...

When Megan McArdle calls landing on the moon, “the most magnificent single feat our little tribe of East African Plains Apes has ever managed,” it’s hard to find the hyperbole. And if McArdle’s libertarianism is too squishy for you to give such high praise any merit, consider...