Birther Speaker Takes Heat at Tea Party Convention  —  NASHVILLE — During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah's Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama's citizenship, Andrew Brietbart was among the conservatives …

Snowstorm puts W.H. press corps in danger  —  Photographers in the White House press corps experienced two dangerous moments on Saturday while covering President Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Committee's Winter Meeting.  —  Reporters ventured out to cover the speech amid …

Blame the childish, ignorant American public—not politicians—for our political and economic crisis.  —  In trying to explain why our political paralysis seems to have gotten so much worse over the past year, analysts have rounded up a plausible collection of reasons including …

RESPONDING TO ‘ANY CONFUSION OUT THERE’.... Well, he certainly sounds serious about getting health care reform done.  —  Speaking at a winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee, President Obama covered some familiar ground, but tackled health care reform in a rather straightforward way.

The New Math on Campus  —  CHAPEL HILL, N.C.  —  ANOTHER ladies' night, not by choice.  —  After midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorority women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into the corner booth of a gritty basement bar.

Eulogy To The Unknown Campaign Volunteer; Obama Misstates Facts  —  Obama is getting a bit of a bum rap for eulogizing a campaign volunteer (Melanie Shouse, per this, or this) who Obama claims, incorrectly, died without health insurance but insisted on being buried in an Obama t-shirt.

Democrats Ask, Can Health Care Bill Be Saved?  —  WASHINGTON — For a moment, President Obama's pledge to keep fighting for major health care legislation got personal on Thursday night as he told supporters at a fund-raiser about a former campaign worker in St. Louis without health insurance who had died of breast cancer.

Key Dem senator: Implementing 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal could last into 2011  —  A key Democratic senator on Saturday said that implementing the repeal of the military's “Don't ask, don't tell” policy against openly gay service members could last into next year.

18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas  —  It's true that the old Polish system of government, requiring unanimity from an assembly of nobles, seems like a bad way to run a country.  But I think the theory that this bad procedural rule was responsible for Poland's elimination as a country isn't all that well-supported by the evidence.

Farmer Knows Best  —  The dark side of going green.  —  Kathleen Merrigan, deputy secretary of agriculture and an organic and sustainable food expert, has announced an initiative entitled “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food.”  Sixty-five million dollars will be spent “to begin a national conversation …

How Can Securitization Lending Be Made Safer ? … In his column today, Floyd Norris asks “Can the world be made safe for the return of securitizations?”  —  To a degree, that is the wrong question.  —  While some people have become focused on securitization, what we should really be looking …