James V.

The political world is on fire! Doctored talking points, seized phone records, reporters labeled as co-conspirators against the government, and now a massive database tracking the phone calls, emails, and all other digitized data stuffs that the…

As we all must know by now, "government" is just a nice word that we use to talk about all of the fine and lovely things that Americans decide to do together. It's what the Founders would have wanted, after all: "They left us the keys to a system of…

Is the National Rifle Association “un-American”? New York Times contributor Stanley Fish seems to think so. But while his headline aims to unsettle, the article itself immediately takes a few steps back by giving some NRA members a pass.  “I don’t…

"Among the relatively few cases that could be specifically documented, one was Baby Boy A. His 17-year-old mother was almost 30 weeks pregnant – seven and a half months – when labor was induced. An employee estimated his birth weight as approaching…

Any millennial who saw the 20,000 pages of Obamacare being piled high in Senator Mitch McConnell’s office should have asked themselves a single question: Does it really have to be this way? Young people have grown to expect certain things of the…

Rush Limbaugh recently published a piece here on PolicyMic titled, “Pandering to Milliennials Will Ruin the GOP.” For many of us, especially those who know something of his public character, it seems safe to say that the worst was expected.  What a…

Soda-lovers of New York City, celebrate!  With only a day to go before Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on oversized "sugary drinks" went into effect, State Supreme Court Justice Milton A. Tingling has laid down the gavel. Concerned over the "virtually…

If we leave aside the policy issues, we can at least admit that the private departure from marriage has been going on for some time. Consider the number of children being born to married parents: a remarkable decline from the 1950s, with a decided…

Winston Churchill wrote, in something of advice to young undergraduates, that a “man’s life must be nailed to the cross either of Thought or Action. Without work,” he explained, “there is no play.” What he meant was that the serious person, whether…

Instagram, the popular photo-sharing and social-networking service acquired this year by Facebook, now faces a strong public backlash over a newly proposed terms of service agreement that allows your photos to be sold to outside businesses without…

Nobody does prejudice better than a leftist. There is a certain tact to it – a soft, pandering, almost embarrassing benevolence. It is the caring sexism of President Obama’s Life of Julia, or the liberating reassurance that voting for them is a way…

Sometimes, the words just don’t come out right. It’s what the Obama administration is dealing with now in their cover-up of a botched Libya policy that resulted in the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others diplomats. It’s what…

Refresh throughout the debate for up-to-the-minute coverage of Obama v. Romney 2012! PolicyMic will be covering the presidential debate live. For live updates bookmark and refresh this page. UPDATE:  10:29 PM Closing statements: Obama wins the…

Whether or not you believe in the polls, few would say that challenger Mitt Romney's campaign had been a success up until Wednesday night. Against a president who has run record deficits, pushed a blatantly unconstitutional health care law,…

The New York Times keeps columnist David Brooks on hand to provide readers with occasional insights into the “conservative mind.” For the paper’s readers, conservatives are apparently a far-away people of whom they know comparatively little. “When I…

“I want us to take up the unfinished business of perfecting our union and building a better America,” declared a young senator from Illinois in February of 2007. “Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a…

A good story is nothing if it doesn’t leave you with some kind of moral – some sort of lesson to walk away with as a reward for one’s journey. And, after reading Bob Woodward’s newest book, The Price of Politics, I can happily report that its…

Bob Woodward, one of the chief journalists in the breaking of Nixon’s Watergate scandal, prolific author, and current associate editor of the Washington Post, will be releasing his newest work, The Price of Politics, on Tuesday. The book deals with…

“Women are not an interest group,” said President Obama in a video aired on television Tuesday. “Women shouldn’t be treated that way.” Fair enough. But in a campaign where “women’s rights” are supposedly front and center in the national debate, the…