I normally hold to a strict policy of “if everyone else is saying it [or will be saying it], don’t add to the cacophony.” However, today I am making an exception.
This is Sonia Sotomayor’s now well-known comment that appellate courts are “where policy is made:”

Apologists for the Honorable Justice insist that the full clip shows [...]

Michael Jackson, that is. At least, I find it unlikely.
Nevertheless, New York Representative Peter King wants to know if I would let my (hypothetical) child spend time in a room alone with Jackson. The answer is certainly no, but that is due to a general policy I have about not allowing my future progeny to [...]

I support same-sex marriage.
Actually, I would be even happier to see the government abandon recognition of marriage as a specific legal status, and simply recognize contractual obligations between individuals, regardless of their sex. But I’m a realist, and am not holding out for my libertarian utopia to come to fruition.
However, the tactics devised by advocates [...]

Everyone is talking about the undecided voter. As I write this, I’m watching a line graph on CNN track the impressions of “uncommitted Ohio voters.”
I’m pretty sure my father has already made this point, but I’ll reiterate: if you don’t know who you’re going to vote for by now, you don’t possess enough philosophical sophistication [...]

FrontPage Magazine has just run an article about ETSU’s Society for Intellectual Diversity. Yours truly features prominantly. Check it out.

[9:57] Obama is talking about my “right” to health care (McCain may have referred to it that way as well – I can’t remember). I want someone to provide for me the philosophical basis of that assertion. Tell me why we ought to tack “health care” on to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness [...]

SNL lampoons the mortgage crisis:

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Among the many virtues of Governor Palin is her willingness – if not eagerness – to self-identify as a feminist.
I realize that the term causes no small amount of discomfort for most conservatives, and many libertarians; this is understandable, as feminism’s extreme genera are responsible for more intellectual atrocities than I can count (here’s a [...]

While I’m almost certain this point has been made elsewhere, having failed to hear it in the general press, I am compelled to make it here: the only reason anybody has taken notice of Sarah Palin’s daughter, her husband’s tryst with the Alaskan Independence Party, or her dismissal of Walter Monegan is because no one [...]