Foolish consistency isn’t a problem for some commentators, as Jon Stewart of The Daily Show recently discovered.

We’d like to offer a few words to the members of Citizens Against Pornography, a group that worries teenagers are visiting the St. Louis County library to access “sexually explicit material:” Internet. Cable television. CD covers. Amazon.com. CD lyrics. Teen…

Whatever else is said or done in the next 18 months about reforming the American health care system, tectonic shifts already are well underway.
The latest evidence comes from a new Census Bureau report released last week. It found that the…

In the first Town and County Deer Debate in 2000, this editorial page was accused of “bubba-ism” for not taking seriously the possibility that an overabundance of white-tailed deer in an affluent suburb could be solved without (eeww!) violence.

We simply…

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Call it a deadline, a horizon, a timeline, a time frame or an “aspirational timetable.” Whatever the label, Iraq and the United States finally have agreed on a date by which the United States will have pulled all of its troops…

From Reason.tv, a video arguing for an end to ethanol subsidies:

On the other hand, the case for ethanol.

This B-17 Flying Fortress, now a flying relic, will be flying around St. Louis on Aug. 23 and 24.

Flights will be pricey, at $430 for a half-hour spin above town.

Of the 12,732 such bombers produced, 4,375 were lost…

Last evening, the subject was election fraud, the locale was Cardwell’s Restaurant in Clayton, the convener was the St. Louis Chapter of the Federalist Society, the atmosphere was convivial, and the talk was … well … fierce.

Featured guests, billed…

In a Washington Times article sure to spark discussion around the blogosphere, conservative pundit Matthew Sheffield has a column today alleging that left-leaning blogs contain far more profanity than their counterparts on the right.

Using George Carlin’s “seven dirty words” as…