Ah, yes, California: The Golden State screws us again: Shorn of LaLaLand [that is, California], in May America would actually have seen a n...

Ah, the Turks: On April 24th, US forces captured a dozen Turkish commandos who had come to Iraq to cause mayhem: The Turkish Special Forces...

I've Seen This Movie: Send in the Marines ? I can't think why, when we will surely need them elsewhere soon enough. The threat of ...

Our Predecessors: Many of our Islamist enemies have come to consider "Crusaders" to be just another word for "American" ...

A Bolt from Heaven: An evangelist calls upon God for a sign, and God delivers : A member of the First Baptist Church said a guest evangelist...

All hat, no... Cowboy hats on the runway in Milan. It's supposed to be a 'virile' symbole of an 'American tough-guy image....

Dirty Bombs: Dirty bombs are the terror weapon that provides the greatest danger to the U.S. economy: On 13 June, a Thai national was arres...

DPRK Nuke Test: This page has been arguing for months that a nuclear weapon test by the DPRK was coming. Once they've tested a nuclear ...

A brilliant letter: From Mark Steyn's mailbag. Steyn himself is all too frequently praised on this page for me to pretend to evenhande...

Pravda is of two minds: Today's analysis of the Iraq situation (emphasis added): The war against the occupation force is turning into ...

Outstanding! This story from Utah shows what happens when legislators get sensible about gun control : The Jordan School Board gave prelimin...

Texas Terrorism: There is a report on the wires today that terrorists are targeting Texas . The FBI is being cagey, as usual, as to what th...

Things to remember: When reading news stories from certain foreign countries that purport to tell you how "the man in the street" ...

Update to Special Operations piece: Strategypage is reporting that there will soon be a new commando unit in the US Military, drawn exclusi...

Mercenaries for Peace: This is an excellent idea . Mercenary peacekeepers: I like it.

Pay in Iraq: Students of history will recall that one of the early troubles for the American republic was occasioned by the nonpayment of ve...

Mark Steyn: "Damn, Mark," I keep saying as I read his stuff. If there is a more insightful man than Mark Steyn writing today, I ...

Straight talk on WMD and Iraq: Here it is, courtesy of the good lads at the Star Tribune : Does the failure to find WMD mean we were handed ...

Revolutionary Ideal: Democracy according to the classical liberal tradition is the last true revolutionary ideology in the world. It is al...

PBR Watch: My grandfather's beer , at $4 a bottle.