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On her 149th birthday, Kansas returns the easiest guilty verdict ever. The jury deliberated for 37 minutes, probably including potty breaks, in the case against the man who assassinated Dr. George Tiller last summer, a grim, sad present that must not be returned. It ain’t like the old days. Kansas’ 26th year saw the birth [...]

After the earthquake in Haiti, I found myself working a mental exercise, born of the nagging feeling that the sympathy of someone a continent away was somehow offensively insufficient. Play along at home, if you like. There’s only one rule: name a good thing that’s associated with the country of Haiti. Setting the temporal parameters [...]

…[d]on’t pity the dead. They have time on their mouldering hands, and all they do is think of ways to vex us. They watch we living go about our dirty business—lying and cheating; penis-pumping; pirating pop music—and smile, amused, cool, indifferent, they’re like high-functioning heroin addicts, or cats. You want to get their attention, make [...]

Paul Campos, um, dresses down policy-making cowards in this awesome article from the Wall Street Journal. Not to steal his thunder, but the last paragraph is a big, big payoff in the denomination of common sense: “Taking prudent steps to reasonably minimize the tiny threat we face from a few fanatic criminals need not grant [...]

Why do you hate America? I saw your media tour’s stop on this morning’s Today Show, during which you sounded what will no doubt be a talking point: that our civilian justice system is inadequate for terrorism suspects, what with all the presentation of evidence and fairness and that pesky Bill of Rights. The contempt [...]