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There are at least three options in how conservatives respond to the election results

According to government mythology, the world owes the existence of the internet to the government, and computer communications would not exist today without the government thinking up the idea of computer networks.

If Vladimir Putin would really like to recast Russia as open to and welcoming of Jews, he might consider acknowledging and denouncing Russia’s role in starting the lie that fomented vicious anti-Jewish persecution around the world.

The Palestinian emigration solution is not perfect. Nor is it wholly just. But Bismarck noted that “politics is the art of the possible;” for justice we will have to wait for the return of the Messiah.

If you think the next generation of American conservatives has given up the culture war, think again.

It’s the end as we know it. The end of an era for the Republican Party. But with every end, there comes a new beginning.

Some people refuse to acknowledge the inherent good of business — to a point that puts it on the same level as charity. Yet the evidence is plain for all of us to see.

You have cold, rational economic reality on your side, but people have the warm pleasure principle inside them. That need for pleasure may explain, in a big way, why Republicans lost seats in the Senate and the House.

In 2008 Obama said in his campaign that Afghanistan was the “good war,” but his actions have made it clear that it is now the “complicated war.”

There are no market-takers for defamatory stories on Greeks; there are for defamation by Israelis upon the Israelis. It’s a product for which international demand is guaranteed, so much so that the apartheid smear commands a premium.

During an interview with Liz Cheney on Fox yesterday, Charles Krauthammer reiterated his view that Republicans need much more effectively to court the Hispanic vote, and should do so by supporting amnesty for illegal aliens. The approach Krauthammer r…

The NYT reports that “began with a complaint several months ago about ‘harassing’ e-mails sent by Paula Broadwell, Mr. Petraeus’s biographer, to an unidentified third person” (“not a family member or a government official”). Checking Broadwell’s emai…

To those of us who follow the news closely, four years seems like forever. But for most Americans, it seems that four years isn’t enough for a political party to wear out its welcome. In a post yesterday, Paul noted that defeating an incumbent presid…

An old David Mamet quote, deployed in the second-to-last sentence in an article titled “Campaign Sources: The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job.”

… you can talk about anything you like. (This photo makes today look bleak, but it was midday, sunny, and warm out on the bike trail south of Madison.)

“Do you admire this man so much that you haven’t asked your wife why she keeps having sex with him? I halfway suspect you’re writing this letter because you want specific people to read this column and deduce who is involved and what’s really goi…

**Written by Doug Powers Yesterday, news of the resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus caught almost everyone by surprise, if not for the resignation itself, for the reason. The CIA reportedly said that as a result, Petraeus wouldn’t be testifyin…

President Obama speaks to the nation from the Oval Office. The robocalls have stopped. Television ads have gone from attacks on candidates to the usual pitches for medications and exercises that will enable you to live forever. Political post-mortems…

President Barack Obama is spending his first Saturday after winning reelection on the golf course. Today’s outing is to the course on Andrews Air Force Base. “Motorcade arrived at Andrews Air Force Base at 11:01 am after an uneventful ride,” the pool r…