America has no leadership. One after another, charlatans, quislings, and narcissists have taken their turn upon the national stage, trifling with great issues and taking great issue with trifles. In the absence of principled, strong leadership, anybody with enough money can buy governing policies to suit his interests; lobbyists and...

The Occupy Wall Street movement has demonstrated -- in the most literal sense of the word -- its geometrically growing power. Week by week, the movement is growing in strength. In less than a month, in fact, it has gotten the attention of a profoundly inattentive Washington establishment.

In...

Don't be fooled by the complaints that the Occupy Wall Street movement hasn't got a clear set of demands. Everybody in a position of power knows exactly what the people want. They simply don't want to acknowledge it. Because, one issue at a time, the demands all boil down to...

Dear Tea Party:

You made your point loud and clear. America hears you. You're angry about big government, social programs, incompetent politicians, and freeloaders. You hate taxes more than you love life. That's your privilege. Quite a few of you also hate immigrants, non-Christians, public education, and organized labor. These...

I spray my yard with dinosaur repellent. It must be working -- I've never seen a dinosaur around here. That's an old joke, of course. But it's no joke when it's our system of government. The entire Washington establishment is engaged in a mighty game of "pretend that's the problem."

I'd like to make a proposal, for which I must first set the scene. Bear with me.

It appears Congressional Democrats have unenthusiastically swallowed President Obama's tax deal with the Republicans more or less whole, somewhat as if they were swallowing a hand grenade: it tastes awful going down, and...

I think I now understand why the commercial media has turned out such a unanimous show of support for government secrecy: the so-called Fourth Estate, as the American press is known, has gone from being a notional fourth branch of government to being a literal one. The same corporations that...

The new TSA "peel or feel" passenger security policy has nothing to do with airline safety and everything to do with America's runaway culture of fear.

For those of you just emerging from hibernation, the Transportation Security Agency has upped the ante on its perpetual elevated security crisis stance by...

One of the tragic things about writing horror is you get increasingly hard to scare. I've learned this the hard way. The upside of this: if something scares me, it will scare most people. So come with me, kiddies, down to my dungeon of cinematic despair. There's something here for...

I'm bracing myself for the GOP gains next month. We can argue about whether Obama's incremental, middle-management approach to governance set Democrats up for this situation in the first place. But nobody -- not even the Republicans -- will argue about what's going to happen when the Right is back...

We can call it libertarianism, patriotism, conservatism, or anything we want, but the truth is this: an ideology of selfishness has gripped the nation.

People who have spent their lives supporting politicians hell-bent on destroying the government now complain that "government doesn't work." Of course it doesn't work. You...

People who know me as a humorist have been asking me about my new horror novel, Rise Again, which arrives in bookstores next month. The question is obvious. "Is it funny?"

When a comic writes a serious horror novel about the destruction of the world, you know...

There's a plague on the real estate market that isn't being talked about, but I suspect it's having as big an impact on this ailing industry as foreclosures. It made the news for a while, but the government assures us it's all A-OK now. I beg to differ. Qualified buyers...