This story is the most hopeful I've heard out of Northeast Asia in a while. I'd say this is the case for optimism: that US power ...

From The Agonist : "2:25 CST A report from a journalist embedded within the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division indicates that the division has ...

Vandenberg Air Force Base: For a while now we've been hearing about anti-war protestors who want to infiltrate the Vandenburg Air Force ...

On France & French: Le Figaro discusses the recent find of Ricin poison in the Paris subway system. The amounts were not sufficient, a...

On North Korea: Today's news is that the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea--usually, "North Korea") has postpone...

Pope: War "threatens fate of Humanity." And to think I'd always thought the Catholic Church had a pretty fixed idea about th...

Stanley Kurtz on North Korea in National Review Online. Kurtz is being sloppy, with a large number of qualifiers and a number of bald asse...

The Agonist is reporting "unconfirmed" Israeli reports that the 3rd Infantry is bypassing the sites of resistance. The 3rd Infant...

On the War: The best site I've found for following war developments, with the understanding that he's printing rumors as well as con...

War clarifies: Many wished to believe that there was no evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorist networks. Hours into ...

More on idealism: "Some readers will say that this is a mere fantasy. I answer that it is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fac...

More on chivalry: This is an article from the Chronicle Review on teaching the ethic of honor at the Naval Academy. The most relevant p...

Why I love the United States Marine Corps: "When I give you the word, together we will cross the Line of Departure, close with those fo...

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110003213 This is an interesting bit of speculation from the Wall St. Journal that touches on a q...

I hear the Shetlands are considering printing roadsigns both in English and Old Norse. Does anyone there actually speak Old Norse? I might...

Let's start with an article from the London Spectator . This is on the subject of one of the more famous jihadis, Abu Hamza. Hamza,...

Extract from State v. Patterson , 45 Vt. 308 (Vermont Supreme Court, January Term 1873) It is not deemed needful for the purposes of this ca...