Monster Mash (Redux)

This time the original with Bobby "Boris" Pickett.

Misdirection and Bullshit

The Obama administration tries to explain away the president's promise that you could keep your insurance if you wanted.

Out of the Frying Pan

Insurers say that health insurance rates will go up (even more) if Obamacare's enrollment period is extended.

Monster Mash

Boris Karloff on "Shindig."

Joe Wilson Was Right

The Obama knew three years ago that millions of Americans would lose their health insurance because of Obamacare.

State-of-the-Art Policing

The Baltimore Police Department takes some steps that should reduce wrongful arrests and convictions.

Study on Media Bias

Is biased.

The Union's Most Undervalued General

George H. Thomas.

A Front Yard Burial

. If a man promises his wife he will bury her in the front yard, then he should just do so.

Media Accountability

The media took up Jamie Leigh Jones' claim rape by American contractors in Iraq. Now, that she has gone trial, lost her case and had her claims disputed by everyone who was there, no one wants to talk about her.

RIP Anthony Hinds

One of the keys to the success of Hammer horror.

Math Proves It

Everything tastes better with bacon.

Skuttle Buttin'

Who Is Afraid of Default?

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Garrett Reisman Reviews "Gravity"

Pretty interesting.

We're in the Best of Hands

The Obama administration didn't know when Obamacare's mandate penalty deadline was until a tax prep firm told them.

The Boot on Our Neck

John Derbyshire looks at the cruelty of the overclass.

The Salute Seen Round the World

Here.

Economists Talk About Breaching the Debt Ceiling

Will it really mean the end of the world.

Headline of the Day

Ouch.

Republicans Need an Exit Strategy

Megan McArdle lays out the predicament they have gotten themselves into.

Voodoo Chile

What Would a Federal Default Look Like?

Tyler Cowen says it could be very ugly.

Country Music Died a Long Time Ago

Some people are just realizing that.

We Are Doomed

The Congressional Budget Office crunches the numbers.

Arrest the Priests

If they do do their jobs.

The Milennial Male

Marketers try to figure him out.

An Astronaut's Worst Fear?

Floating off into space.

How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers

With some help from elected officials.

Buzz Aldrin, Movie Critic

He reviews Gravity.

Senor Coconut: Smoke on the Water

What Shutdown?

Eighty percent of federal employees are still at work.