The Constitution authorizes the U.S. Congress to exercise its limited powers -- including the disposition of federal tax dollars -- to promote "the general welfare." It doesn't say "someone's welfare.

Back on 2003, there was a great story in The Onion: I thought of that when I read the knickers-knotting hysteria over my comparing the boring life that the other guy from Wham! went on to lead after ...

Remember Mr. Creosote? If you don’t, he’s worth getting to know — but only if you have a very strong stomach. Mr. Creosote was the colossally obese character in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life who ...

Erika Kirk Takes On the Podcast Conspiracy-Mongers with Grace Congress Gets Something Right It’s the Incentives, Stupid On Obamacare, Trump Already Showed Republicans the Way China’s Threat to the ...

With its shelves packed to bursting, Kinokuniya is like the Mr. Creosote of bookstores: Just one more Haruki Murakami, you think, one more pink-covered tween fashion mag, and the place might explode.

In Monty Python’s comedy, The Meaning of Life, there is a character called Mr Creosote. Mr Creosote is monstrously obese, to the point where he is unable to move unaided. Towards the end of the movie, ...

A four-hanky codgerfest that’s supposedly about the ennobling gravitas of impending mortality, “The Bucket List” put me in mind of a bucket, all right: the one in “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.” ...