The man-on-the-street (as opposed to Washington elite) conventional wisdom is pretty clear: Taxpayers shouldn't have to pay $700 billion for a no-strings-attached plan to bail out people who got themselves into a disastrous mess through their own damn fault -- people who should have known that everything was bound to...

Glenn Greenwald is understandably apoplectic that the chattering classes are wasting any of our precious time talking about whether Obama was making a sexist remark about Sarah Palin when he used a phrase no one has ever heard before, "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's...

"Trig's Creator, Your Heavenly Father."

That's how Sarah Palin signed an e-mail announcing her son's birth. She wrote it to help her friends make sense of "this mixed-up world you live in down there on Earth."

In case your brain is having trouble processing this before your morning...

Not long ago, a team of entrepreneurs proposed building a Christian theme park outside of Nashville. If you were thinking of investing any money in the scheme, might I propose something less risky, like sub-prime mortgages.

According the web site, Bible Park USA will be "a one-of-a-kind, unlike-anywhere-else-in-the-world 'edutainment'...

After endorsing John McCain, Texas pastor John Hagee has come under a bit of criticism for some of his comments about Catholics (and for generally being a dangerous war-whooping nutjob). But among some fundamentalist Christians, the real problem with Hagee is comments he may have...

Dickson is not the first Idol figure to run on an...

Huckabee plays bass...

Last week, action star Chuck Norris sued the publisher and author of a new book based on the popular Internet meme Chuck Norris Facts. You know, like, "Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer. Too bad Chuck Norris has never cried."

Many of Norris's ironic fans were perplexed....

Among the casualties of the Jamie Lynn Spears pregnancy -- alongside Jamie Lynn's career, Nickelodeon's cash cow, and the last remaining shred of 2007's dignity -- is Lynne Spears' memoir, Pop Culture Mom: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World.

Maybe any publisher would have...

Having made his point in the most weasely possible way -- "I'm not saying Mormonism is a Satanic cult, just asking" -- Mike Huckabee is now trying to ease away from his "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?" remark with an equally weasely apology. His...

Tragic shootings can happen anywhere -- a school, a mall, Phil Spector's house -- but when the site of the carnage is New Life Church in Colorado Springs, the response is likely to be somewhat different. When it comes to violent crime and other societal ills, many evangelical Christians are...

After a while, tipping them just isn't exciting enough

This photo of a police officer shooting a cow triggered a reader outcry when it was published with a story in the Sanbury (Penn) Daily Item about two cows that "darted" onto the grounds of a...

Christopher Hitchens spreads a little holiday cheer today with an essay denouncing Hanukkah. Like all Hitchens' work on religion, it's smart, witty and totally frustrating. Hitchens, you see, is at heart a fundamentalist. I don't mean that in the way people usually do: that he is so dogmatic and...

The final battle is upon us. Not that final battle, for which you'll still have to wait until midnight (or risk permanent eyestrain from reading poorly photographed pages), but rather the battle between healthy adult fans of Harry Potter who can handle the fact that the some newspapers have published...

Certain Huffington Post bloggers Who Will Not Be Named have been shrieking and wailing like angry Howlers over the fact that some newspapers, including the The New York Times, dared to review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows before Her Majesty J.K. Rowling gave...