Monastic Life At The Top Of The Charts

How Iowa Flattened Literature - With CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers.

Treasury: Employers must “self-attest” that ObamaCare not behind staffing decisions – under penalty of perjury

I'm gonna make all of my help part-time. Sue me.

The State, It Is I’ - Obama’s answer to the political fallout from Obamacare is to try to make the law disappear.

Illinois Taps The Onion To Sell Obamacare

Europe Clashes Over Immigration - Switzerland’s Primal Scream

Sowell: Random Thoughts - The government all but owns us now.

Blue Island on the Brink -  How Low Can Puerto Rico Go?

Here's  a new vocab word for ya - "kludge." No one can make ObamaCare work

Thanks to a reader for that pic of Massachusetts this weekend.

Shirley Temple Black, iconic child star, dies at 85

The U.N. Assault on the Catholic Church

NYT Bombshell: Women Prefer Manly Men

The End of Sex -  The “Porn Oscars” and the pornification of America

New Yorker: Hey, If Only We Could Change The Way The Media Talks About Cold Weather

Utah Polygamists Relieved after Judge Strikes Down Anti-Polygamy Law

Europeans beginning to tell the EU to F itself

Swiss vote down EU immigration

Turkey’s AKP Should Be Diplomatic
Pariahs

NYC Update: State of the City speech delivers a goody bag for criminals, illegal aliens and welfare voters.

Where -- and who -- are all those uninsured Americans?

Dead Souls In the Republican Leadership

Laura Ingraham and George Will at Loggerheads Over Immigration Reform

Will Nicotine Make You Smarter?

Duh.

My son after one pianny lesson

Sheesh

Is Atheism Irrational?

Can Marriage Cure Poverty?

If you keep the American Express card away from the wife

The Bible has disappeared from our children's lives

What the critics wrote about the Beatles in 1964

Low-Wage Hours At New Low As Obamacare Fines Loom

AOL says Obamacare is forcing it to cut back on 401(k) plan benefits

The Hillary Papers - Archive of 'closest friend' paints portrait of ruthless First Lady

Obama, suffering from his own hubris, blames everyone else

The prideful require self-flattering blame and excuses for psychic survival

I'm looking forward to visiting there this Spring.

Sicily has had its native tribes, then the Greeks, the Phoenecians/Carthaginians, the Romans, the Muslims, the Normans, and is currently occupied by European powers. What next?

Hoffman’s Heroin Points to Surge in Grim Trade

P.J. O’Rourke talks Baby Boom, Gen Y, & what (maybe) lies ahead

Bad hair, 1970s

About a book:  The Perv in Us All

An interesting admission of error by J. K. Rowling

Real men know how to shuck oysters

Neanderthal-Human Breeding Was Hard, But Yielded Benefits

Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural”

Louisiana Continues Education Hot Streak

A Gang Disappears. The LA Times Frets

CT Collectivist Gun Grabber Ruthlessly Exposed By Sipsey Street Irregulars

Most Midwestern Businesses Want Amnesty, Know It Will Hurt U.S. Workers

Re-breaking the Windows - Mayor de Blasio’s decision to settle the NYPD lawsuit threatens the city’s triumph over crime.

What Is Liberalism and Where Did It Come From?

Team Obama: Hillary’s making her 2008 mistakes all over again

 The message here will be what it was in 2008 and to a lesser extent in 2012 — a chance to make history, this time by electing the first female US president. In fact, that’s all Hillary has. She has no track record of significant accomplishment in her eight years as a US Senator, and nothing at all to recommend her from her four years as Secretary of State. Even a Clinton ally like Lanny Davis couldn’t come up with a single data point in a tenure bookended by the “reset button” embarrassment and the debacle in Benghazi. Despite her outsize power in the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton is simply a weak candidate and a mediocre-at-best campaigner — and that’s why Democrats should be hitting the panic button.

Amanda Knox And Extradition: More Likely Than You Might Think

Sports Scandal: What Did UNC Leaders Know, and When Did They Know It?

CBO says Obamacare will add to deficit, create reluctant work force

UK Update:  Six-Year-Old Suspended for Four Days for Possessing Mini-Cheddars

How to convince your friends to believe in climate change. It’s not as hard as you think.

‘Rich America’ is not the ‘idle rich,’ but rather a working America, an educated America and a married America:

... if the poor pay attention, they can learn from the rich and become better off themselves by investing in education, getting and staying married, and working full-time.

Do most Americans energetically pursue wealth? I don't think they do. People have other desires besides wealth, fortunately. Of course, few would refuse a windfall. Even Bill Ayers lives high on the hog, on his family fortune.

Ruth Wisse: The Dark Side of the War on 'the One Percent' - Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process.

She says it's about Jews. Is it?

"A critical mass may be welling up against the tyranny of modern liberalism" - Seinfeld, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times: Scenes from the Culture War

Femen: Abortion is sacred

Students Sign Petition To Have Gun Owners Executed In Concentration Camps

Laugh or cry?

Sexual Revolution Tackles Virginity: Coming To A Campus Near You

Football Is Top Sport in U.S.: 1,088,158 High School Players

Every last one of them tackling virginity

Another obit for Barry Rubin

Nurse Practitioners Treat Patients Well, Cheaply. So Doctors Want to Stop Them.

Government:  Infinite Arrogance, Infinite Incompetence

Panelist at Podesta's Think Tank on Common Core: 'The Children Belong to All of Us'

Charter High Schools Increase Earnings and Educational Achievement

Charity: You Can’t Save the World

8 Reasons You Should Turn Down That Job Offer - Just Because You Were Offered the Job Doesn't Mean You Should Take It

So What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

ABC’s Slime-Time News - Did flashy reporting go too far when it stirred up hysteria over a common beef product?

Michael Barone: How ObamaCare Misreads America - The Washington elites who designed the law must be bewildered: Why doesn't everyone behave as they do?

Will The Overselling Of Global Warming Lead To A New Scientific Dark Age?

 Science changed dramatically in the 1970s, when the reward structure in the profession began to revolve around the acquisition of massive amounts of taxpayer funding that was external to the normal budgets of the universities and federal laboratories. In climate science, this meant portraying the issue in dire terms, often in alliance with environmental advocacy organizations. Predictably, scientists (and their institutions) became addicted to the wealth, fame, and travel in the front of the airplane...

Comedians Make Weird, Horrifying ‘Stay in School’ PSA, Media Thinks It’s The Real Deal

New York Times: Is waxing your pubic hair déclassé?

Sippican's Greatest Hits: Hostile Workplace

Feminism’s Insane Leftist Race War

White House: Not So Fast On that Keystone XL Pipeline, Cause “Climate Change”

An Impasse on Climate Change - International efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions will continue to fail until the science is better.

Dino:

Just this morning we were thinking about the former Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. He’s written books, has a heck of a CV, and has received oodles of honors from very prestigious institutions. And yet there’s something missing from the résumé of the Job Czar: he’s never had a job in the private sector. It’s a remarkable thing, and atypical of US history, though quite typical of today’s utopians.

Nanny State, via No Pasaran:

New York’s failed expedition into governmental nannying is symptomatic of its class structure. Rich people’s scolding is really a form of snobbery masquerading as concern for poor people’s well-being. Rather than admit that the underclass repulses them, wealthy New Yorkers try to strip away their repulsive behavior by force of law. Expect the trend to continue through the de Blasio years.

Top Democrat On Senate Health Committee Hails Cuban Health Care System

The House GOP's incredible, amazing discovery: Most Americans aren't entrepreneurs

Why Not 1,358 States in the United States?

How Central Banks Cause Income Inequality

Pensions:  The Regulatory Reform Urban Democrats Hate

Senator Rand Paul Reaches Out to College Students

Curl: What has happened to The New York Times?

Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson's opposition to SodaStream boycott

No bond for elderly Sebring woman who repeatedly fed bears

Regardless of the law, the lady is stupid to do this. Nothing good comes from it.

The Lowdown on Low-Cut: Salary's Dress Code Survey - Find Out the Revealing Results of Our Office Dress Code Survey

Feminist gal on the right meets my personal dress code.

In praise of gossip

Negroes and the Gun: The early NAACP championed armed self-defense

International Test-score champs don’t have much to teach U.S.

Big Government’s Fist Crushes Tech Training Outfits

Feds regulate pizza

Pizza requires government rules: I want a hard, thin, half-burnt crust and hate the soft soggy crap, and I demand government action now. It should be free, too. The People need good pizza.

Massachusetts Opening 20 Marijuana Dispensaries

Groovy.

Who Should Pay for the Arts? Private support beats public subsidies

Why should taxpayers subsidize my elitist tastes? Why should taxpayers support sports stadiums either?

The Neoreactionary Movement

New to me, interesting, but the name is confusing. I consider Libs to be reactionaries, pining for the 1930s.

Harvey Silverglate: Justice Goes After the GOP

Count me a Harvey fan. Antiquated Lefty though he is, he has intellectual integrity and does not aspire to run the world or to control me.

Nearly Half of America Lives Paycheck-to-Paycheck

Save the Owls and Shoot the Owls!

Proof that the guy is racist - he's obviously trying to hide it

Racism is becoming extremely subtle. The real racists hide behind color-blindness which exposes their true racism.

Disability: Welfare State Madness

IEA: Energy Woes Will Hobble Europe for 20 Years

Buchanan:  How the GOP lost Middle America - Pat Buchanan explains impact of Republican Party 'selling its soul to the multinationals'