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The First Year

David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute and author of Libertarianism: A Primer and The Politics of Freedom, analyzes Obama’s first year.

Martyrdom

The True Meaning Of Martyrdom. What cause would you be willing to die for? For many of us, that question may seem academic. But in the great wars of values and ideas, there are inflection points at which the course [...]

Buckfast

Buckfast, a fortified wine made by Benedictine monks, is being called the scourge of Scotland.

Everything Wrong

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News & World Report and publisher of the New York Daily News, explains the first year disaster that has been the Obama presidency. He’s misjudged the character of the country [...]

A Cautionary Note

Ed Morrissey offers a cautionary note after the Brown victory. In the wake of an unimaginable political victory in Massachusetts for Republicans, the celebratory mood is understandable. Scott Brown came out of nowhere in a period of three weeks to [...]

Three Reasons

Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch on “what Obama—and the GOP—should learn from the Coakley defeat and slumping polls” here.

All About God

Religion Dispatches reviews It’s Really All About God: Reflections of a Muslim Atheist Jewish Christian by Samir Selmanovic. You can read three excerpts from the book here.