No Straw Men

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If the political press corps were honest, they'd start every convention story with the finding that nothing important happened that day and that your attention is not needed.

Sites aimed primarily at women, from “mommy blogs” to makeup and fashion sites, grew 35 percent last year—faster than every other category on the Web except politics.

Nearly every state now has laws that encourage prosecutors to try minors as adults. The recent studies of this approach should lead legislatures to abandon these counterproductive policies.

Last week saw the release of an iPhone application called “I Am Rich.” The program promised to do nothing except signal to the world that its buyer was wealthy enough to have spent $1,000 to download an image of a multifaceted ruby.

John McCain has made a fateful decision: He has personally impugned Obama's patriotism and allows his surrogates to continue to do that. By doing so, he has allied himself with those who smeared him, his wife, his daughter Bridget, in 2000.