Maggie's Farm

Why are barns painted red?

Gerson: Charles Colson found freedom in prison

Rick Moran: Who Cares About Race?

I’ve never had the pleasure of having a black person as a best friend, or anything beyond a casual acquaintance. I’ve never dated a black woman, nor have I ever asked one out. I grew up in the ’50s and ’60s in an all-white suburb of Chicago. I went to an all-white Catholic boys high school and a nearly all-white private college.

I’ve never lived in a town that is more than 10% black, nor have I ever lived in a city run by blacks. I’ve never had a black next-door neighbor, nor have I lived in a neighborhood where blacks were more than a scattered presence. I have never had occasion to visit an all-black neighborhood or attend an event where a majority of the crowd is black. And I’ve never been approached by a black man while walking down a dark street at night, wondering if I should cross the street or not.

I suppose this makes me sheltered, naive, even ignorant of the way the world works and the how the racial divide colors our attitudes in our everyday lives. Frankly, I don’t care.

SCOTUS: Rent Control Is Forever

A darn shame. Gummint programs, enacted to deal with a crisis, develop constituencies, expand, and become eternal - but strangle change.

Punished for Not Being a Victim

The Obama Administration's 15+ Scandalous "Achievements"

"Abolish the Department of Homeland Security. If they’ve got time for this crap, we don’t have a terrorist problem anymore."

Eat what we want you to eat: The Progressive impulse to totalitarianism

You are not my Mommy, jerks

Cameron Should Scrap His Tired Old Script

Scott Walker to Newsmax: Obama's Machine Spending $60 Million to Defeat Me

President Obama's campaign whisperer: Bill Clinton

Mead: The Health Care Disaster and the Miseries of Blue

U.S.-Based Mayo Clinic Offers Three Medical Insurance Programs for Canadian Patients

Capretta: The President’s Incoherent Economic ‘Philosophy’:

When you strip out all of the excessive and grandiose rhetoric, what the president is attempting to argue in these speeches is that the keys to higher economic growth in the United States are higher marginal tax rates on the successful, no reforms to entitlement programs, and more government spending on selected “investments.” To say that this is a pathetic plan for growth would be to give it too much credit.

Arab Spring 3.0 What’s more revolutionary in the Middle East: Facebook or porn?

Obama on Education: Bully Pulpit at Its Best … and Not Much Else

Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Middle East.

'Osama bin Laden Made Me Famous' - Bernard Lewis Looks Back

The draft is stupid.

Will the GOP stop playing Charlie Brown to the media's Lucy?

BREAKING: James Lovelock backs down on climate alarm:"

"The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.

That's a big deal. He's the guy who thought up the Gaia Hypothesis, or religion, or whatever. Humility can arrive at any age.